NEPACMS Presents: Distant Voices

Date and Time

• Saturday, Sep 12, 2026  7pm - 9pm

Location

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Details

Felice Giardini, once the toast of London’s concert halls, turns inward with an intimate duet for two cellos, a voice he would carry farther from home than he ever imagined, all the way to Moscow. Bohuslav Martinů, an expatriate in Paris, laces his Serenade with the wit and folk rhythms of a Czech homeland he can only reach in memory. Franz Schubert, in the last weeks of his life, called his music “the product of my genius and my misery,” and nowhere is that truer than in the String Quintet, written as his health failed and left unheard by the world for twenty-two years.

Program
Felice Giardini: Trois Pièces à deux Violoncelles
Bohuslav Martinů, Serenade No. 2 for Two Violins and Viola, H. 216
Franz Schubert String Quintet in C major, D. 956

Artists
John Vaida, violin
Sofia Kim, violin
Amy Iwazumi, viola
Emilio Colón, cello
Cara Elise Colón, cello