Five-day residency with Ensemble Connect at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. While in residence, Ensemble Connect engages with Skidmore College students as well as the broader Saratoga Springs community — offering master classes, lessons, class demonstrations, and interactive performances, culminating in a performance in Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall in Arthur Zankel Music Center, that has included works commissioned for the ensemble.

Concert- Fri October 25, 2024, 7:30PM
Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, Arthur Zankel Music Center

Ensemble Connect—“the new face of classical music for New York” (The New York Times)—kicks off its 2024–2025 season with a program featured in Carnegie Hall’s spotlight on the music of South Africa. A pair of stunning piano quintets bookend the concert: Bongani Ndodana-Breen’s Safika: Three Tales on African Migration and Dvořák’s Piano Quintet No. 2. Also featured is Andile Khumalo’s Cry Out, a notable work for viola, oboe, marimba, and piano. Together, these pieces suggest echoes of lives, songs, dances, and connections to a land that endure despite the forces of time and change.
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Program

BONGANI NDODANA-BREEN Safika: Three Tales on African Migration
ANDILE KHUMALO  Cry Out
DVOŘÁK  Piano Quintet No. 2
Additional selection featuring a collaboration with Skidmore Students