DACAMERA – Past Concerts
DACAMERA: Aaron Diehl (on-demand until 3/30/2021)
DACAMERA and
Aaron Diehl
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Dick Hyman – Etudes for Jazz Piano (In the Styles of the Great Jazz Pianists)
Aaron Copland – "IV. With Bounce" from Four Piano Blues
Mary Lou Williams – Zodiac Suite
Aaron Copland – "IV. With Bounce" from Four Piano Blues
Mary Lou Williams – Zodiac Suite
Free (Free)
DACAMERA: Weinberg’s Piano Quintet (on-demand until 3/5/2021)
Friday, February 26, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
To commemorate of the 25th anniversary of Polish-Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg's death, pianist Sarah Rothenberg joins the Daedalus String Quartet to perform his intensely powerful 1944 Piano Quintet.
Free (Free (reservation required))
DACAMERA: Solzhenitsyn & Prokofiev – The War Years (on-demand until 2/16/2021)
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
Pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn performs 2 of Sergei Prokofiev’s monumental sonatas, and discusses growing up Russian in Vermont; Prokofiev's life & career; & the life & work of his father, author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Free (Free (reservation required))
DACAMERA: Mendelssohn Portrait (on-demand until 2/5/2021)
Friday, January 29, 2021 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
Felix Mendelssohn – "I. Tema con Variazioni. Andante Sostenuto" & "II. Scherzo. Allegro leggiero" from Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81
Felix Mendelssohn – String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
Felix Mendelssohn – String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20
Free (Free (reservation required))
DACAMERA: Tyshawn Sorey | Perle Noire – A Personal Portrait of Josephine Baker (on-demand until 12/18/2020)
Friday, December 11, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
Soprano Julia Bullock, composer/pianist/percussionist Tyshawn Sorey, & the International Contemporary Ensemble present this tribute to Josephine Baker, with new music & arrangements by Sorey.
Free (Free)
DACAMERA: Cy Twombly & Music (on-demand until 12/15/2020)
Tuesday, December 8, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
Modern flute virtuoso Claire Chase, with violinist Giancarlo Latta, present a program of contemporary music related to the paintings of Cy Twombly. Filmed before a live audience at the Menil Collection’s Cy Twombly Gallery.
Free (Free)
DACAMERA: Anthony McGill & Gloria Chien in Recital [LIVE]
Saturday, November 21, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Sonata No. 2 in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1
Carl Maria von Weber – Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48, J. 204
Johannes Brahms – Clarinet Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 120, No. 1
Carl Maria von Weber – Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48, J. 204
Free (Free (reservation required))
DACAMERA: Sarah Rothenberg | The Departing Landscape (on-demand until 11/24/2020)
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
Film featuring pianist Sarah Rothenberg performing Morton Feldman's Palais de Mari, surrounded by rare Mesopotamian objects in the Menil Collection's ancient art galleries.
Free (Free)
DACAMERA: Conrad Tao in recital
DACAMERA and
Conrad Tao
Tuesday, November 10, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PST)
Online event
Felipe Lara – Injust Intonations (#BlackLivesMatter)
Ruth Crawford Seeger – Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Ossia II)
Conrad Tao – all I had forgotten or tried to
Tania León – Ritual
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest”
Ruth Crawford Seeger – Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Ossia I)
David Lang – wed
Ruth Crawford Seeger – Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Ossia II)
Conrad Tao – all I had forgotten or tried to
Tania León – Ritual
Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31, No. 2 “Tempest”
Ruth Crawford Seeger – Piano Study in Mixed Accents (Ossia I)
David Lang – wed
Free (Free (registration required))
DACAMERA: Steve Reich’s Different Trains
Friday, October 30, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online event
The St. Lawrence Quartet takes on Steve Reich's Different Trains, with visuals by video artist Mihai Cucu.
Free (Free (registration required))
DACAMERA presents Hybrid Vigor: Frankenthaler & Ravel
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Helen Frankenthaler’s 1973 painting Hybrid Vigor becomes the dramatic backdrop for Sarah Rothenberg’s performance of Ravel’s sensuous solo piano work, Une barque sur l’ocean.
Free (Free (registration required))
DACAMERA: Messiaen – Visions de l’Amen [BROADCAST]
Saturday, October 3, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online event
Olivier Messiaen’s 2-piano tour-de-force Visions de l’Amen becomes a stunning visual experience with lighting by Tony Award & MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” winner Jennifer Tipton.
Free (Free (registration required))
DACAMERA: Gala Opening Night Livestream
Friday, October 2, 2020 @ 5:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)
Online event
International lineup including bass-baritone Davóne Tines; guitarist Sharon Isbin; cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton; flutist Claire Chase; & jazz pianist James Francies with Cuban percussionist/singer Pedrito Martinez.
Free (Free (registration required))