This concert offers a vibrant journey across Chinese and Western musical traditions through solo, concerto, and chamber works. Expressive contemporary pieces, poetic folk influences, and beloved classical repertoire come together to explore color, emotion, and storytelling, celebrating cultural dialogue, musical diversity, and the shared beauty of artistic expression.

Iranian-American composer-pianist Ramin Arjomand presents an evening-length solo performance. Arjomand's work is born of a complex interplay of cross-cultural creative impulses. His long-form improvisations attain extremes of sound intensity, pushing limits of spontaneous thinking while seeking simultaneously, and equally intensely, a compositional unity characteristic of fully-notated music. Their sound structure draws as much on a […]

The Tilted Head Ensemble returns to Benzaquen Hall with music by Karen Tanaka, Aníbal Vidal, Amelia Kaplan, Gabriel Bolaños, Jennifer Jolley, Carl Bettendorf, and Scott D. Miller. Carl Bettendorf, conductor