chamber music

Columbus composer Mark Lomax, II’s new work Ubuntu musically embodies the tenets of radical humanity and offers a glimpse of a path to a better world. The Carpe Diem String Quartet performs Mark Lomax’s Ubuntu in WOSU Public Media's Performance Studio.

Jennifer Koh is shaking up the long-established chamber music series at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. An example of that is her collaboration with pianist-composer Missy Mazzoli.

The world premiere of a work by Columbus composer Mark Lomax, the culmination of a major new music commissioning project and a return appearance in one of the world's top concert halls. Find our what Columbus' world-class Carpe Diem String Quartet has in store for the 2024-25 concert season.

However we define it, home is something that lives in us as much as we live in it. In its most recent recording, the Austin-based Miró Quartet showcases beguiling American works that explore the meaning of home.

On July 4, 2022, a shooter opened fire at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Ill., killing seven and injuring 48 others. The incident inspired community leader Joanne Bernstein to commission Chicago-based composer Stacy Garrop to write a piece of music that could bring solace to the community.

The Abeo Quartet is a rising star with a mission to perform the standard string quartet repertoire and works by underrepresented composers, including composers of color and women. Watch as the quartet performs the sublime first movement of Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat in WOSU Public Media’s Performance Studio.

As the VIVO Music Festival’s ninth season unfolds through this Saturday, Sept. 9, friendship and the joy of sharing music with the Columbus community remain the most important things for the festival’s musicians.

The experimental music quintet TAK will perform a concert of cutting-edge musical works with electronics Sunday, June 11 in Columbus, under the auspices of The Fuse Factory

The third volume of the Catalyst Quartet’s groundbreaking Uncovered recording series showcases shimmering performances of string quartets by composers Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, William Grant Still and Pulitzer Prize winner George Walker.

Since 2017 Antoine Clark’s list of guest conducting engagements has grown steadily longer and, this season, will expand coast to coast. But even as Clark's conducting career takes him farther afield, he’s set to remain on the podium of one of central Ohio’s professional orchestras.