24/25 enSRQ Season Membership
6 Live Concerts + Archival Streaming
Night Reflected / September 23, 2024, 7:30 (FCC)
Ives & Schoenberg at 150 / November 25th, 2024, 7:30 (FCC)
Visions & Miracles / January 13th 2025, 7:30 (FCC)
Truth & Mayhem / February 17th, 2025, 7:30 (FCC)
Critical Moments / March 17th, 2025, 7:30 (FCC)
Jagden und Formen / May 12th, 2025, 7:30 (Sarasota Opera House)
enSRQ Season Nine (24/25 Season)
NIGHT, REFLECTED
Monday, September 23rd 2024
Our Ninth Season opens with a powerful display of today’s most talented and diverse compositional voices, each reflecting upon the great mystery and wonder of our cosmos. Works by Kevin Day, Arlene Sierra, Sofia Gubaidulina and Chris Stark join Ft. Myers local, Shawn Allison, in this varied season opener of chamber music gems.
SCHOENBERG AND IVES AT 150
Monday, November 25th 2024
2024 marks the 150th birthday of Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, whose Pierrot lunaire and Piano Sonata No. 2: Concord, Mass. 1840-1860, make up this celebratory program. Born in 1874, just one month apart, these two iconic composers changed the course of contemporary music history in groundbreaking and genius ways. Stephen Drury, one of the world’s leading pianists and interpreters of the music of Charles Ives, makes his enSRQ debut. Local star, Thea Lobo, brings the half spoken, half sung poetry of Pierrot lunaire to life in a program that is not to be missed.
VISIONS AND MIRACLES
Monday, January 13th 2025
Beginning with Anna Clyne's contemplative 'Rest These Hands' for solo violin, Visions & Miracles highlights five superlative works for strings, flute and clarinet. A commissioned work by rising star, Kitty Xiao, anchors this program of enchanting musical worlds created by Dai Wei, Gabriela Lena Frank, and two composers who have received residencies from The Hermitage Artist Retreat (Clyne and Christopher Theofanidis). In their own way, each of these composers speak to the transient beauty of the things we cannot see.
TRUTH AND MAYHEM
Monday, February 17th 2025
Our annual percussion feature promises to be a thrilling showcase for our artists, led by Co-Artistic Director, George Nickson. Recent works by Ellen Reid, Jon Cziner, Nico Muhly and a World Premiere from the brilliant and creative composer Paul Mortilla preclude Tan Dun’s magnificent Elegy: Snow in June for solo cello and percussion quartet.
CRITICAL MOMENTS
Monday, March 17th 2025
George Perle’s sparkling musical wit and humor are on display in his sextet, Critical Moments, paired alongside three exquisite string and wind works from Carolyn Chen, Han Lash, and Kenji Bunch. Samantha Bennett solos in Marcos Balter’s beguiling Violin Concerto to close this unique program of musical masterpieces, large and small.
JAGDEN UND FORMEN
Monday, May 12th, 2025
Our final program of Season Nine brings enSRQ back to the Sarasota Opera House, filling the large stage to the brim with virtuosity and dramatic rhythmic interplay as we perform Wolfgang Rihm’s singular, tour de force for 25 musicians, Jagden und Formen (Hunts and Forms). George Nickson conducts this evening length masterpiece, joined again by enSRQ favorite Conor Hanick on piano.
