2024-2025 Concert Season

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American Piano Awards’ Caelan Cardello Trio
May
5

American Piano Awards’ Caelan Cardello Trio

May 5, 2025

Monday, at The Kosciuszko Foundation: 15 E 65th St, NYC

Performing original and jazz standards, American Piano Awards finalist Caelan Cardello began piano at age 5, training in classical and jazz with mentors like Fred Hersch and Dave Kikoski. He developed his skills at Jazz House Kids under Christian McBride, performing with jazz legends such as Jimmy Cobb and Ravi Coltrane. His performances include Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Newport Jazz Festival.

Caelan’s awards include the NJ Governor’s Award, the BMI Future Jazz Master Award. A William Paterson University graduate, he now pursues a master’s at Juilliard and performs regularly in NYC and beyond.

This concert is co-presented by the American Piano Awards. Their annual competition alternates between classical and jazz piano and offers significant opportunities for the country’s young premier pianists, ages 18–30, to advance their careers.

All finalists – chosen from a series of juried performances – receive a cash prize and the competition does not have repertoire requirements. Past laureates from both genres have gone on to mightily successful professional careers with international accolades.

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Fiddling Through Time: Cross-tuning from Baroque to Appalachia
Mar
5

Fiddling Through Time: Cross-tuning from Baroque to Appalachia

Mar 5, 2025

Wednesday, at The Kosciuszko Foundation: 15 E 65th St, NYC

Amelia Sie & Friends take us on an enchanting exploration of scordatura from seventeenth century Italian, German, and Scottish, to the modern fiddle of Appalachia.

Scordatura is a tuning of a string instrument that is different from the normal, standard tuning. It typically attempts to allow special effects or unusual chords or timbre.

Click the links below to discover more about our performers: Amelia Sie (violin), Nathan Whittaker (cello), and Benjamin Katz (harpsichord).

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Duo Karolina & Iwo
Feb
3

Duo Karolina & Iwo

Feb 3, 2025

Monday, at The Kosciuszko Foundation: 15 E 65th St, NYC

Duo Karolina Mikołajczyk (violin) & Iwo Jedynecki (accordion), have enjoyed international recognition as one of the must-see duos of the classical music scene.

Performing exciting transcriptions ofVivaldi, Chopin, and Piazzolla,both artists boldly venture into renowned works of the chamber music literature, giving them new quality and delightfully diverse coloring with unique transcriptions.

The duo also collaborates with contemporary music composers. In 2019 they worked with two-time Grammy winning composer Krzysztof Penderecki arranging his I Violin Sonata for a duo of violin and classical accordion.

The duo has recorded two albums with contemporary music nominated for the Fryderyk Prize - polish Equivalent of Grammy. Their music videos with classical music repertoire have been shared by the famous British platform Classic FM.

Karolina Mikołajczyk plays a Duke London violin from 1776. Iwo Jedynecki plays a Pigini Sirius Millennium accordion. The purchase of both instruments was financed by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.

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Wilson Liu & The Arrow Quartet
Dec
9

Wilson Liu & The Arrow Quartet

Dec 9, 2024

Monday, at The Kosciuszko Foundation: 15 E 65th St, NYC

2024 Bohemians Piano Competition Winner, Wilson Liu, performs Haydn Concerto in D Major, Hob.XVIII/11 with the Arrow Quartet (orchestral reduction for string quartet).

10-year-old pianist Wilson Liu comes from California. At the age of 7, he was admitted to The Juilliard School Pre-College Division. Wilson has won numerous piano competitions, including the Grand Prize in the XIV Chopin Piano Competition, Kaufman Music Center International Youth, 5th Florida Young Artists, Chicago International and others.

The Arrow Quartet is dedicated to creating a joyful and inclusive chamber music experience with an eye towards historically informed performance practice. Wilson Liu and the Arrow Quartet will perform other solo and ensemble pieces complementing the Haydn keyboard concerto.

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Tribute to Gabriel Fauré
Nov
13

Tribute to Gabriel Fauré

Nov 13, 2024

Wednesday, at The Kosciuszko Foundation: 15 E 65th St, NYC

November 4, 2024 marks 100 years since the death of French composer, Gabriel Fauré. The Bohemians have a long tradition of honoring specific composers through special concerts, and this season we are delighted to highlight various genres of Fauré's works.

Solo piano will include three préludes from his late works, op. 103 and one of his most-loved nocturnes, no. 6 in D-flat Major.

Piano four-hands will include the playful Dolly Suite - composed for the daughter of Fauré's mistress, Emma Bardac.

The program will conclude with the epic Violin Sonata No. 1 and a group of songs, including Prison, Adieu, Mandoline, Tristesse, Au Bord De L'eau, and Chanson d'amour .

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