We are thrilled to share that our 2024 recording with Curtis Stewart, American Counterpoints, has been nominated in TWO Grammy® Award categories, for Best Classical Compendium, and for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. We are so honored, and grateful to everyone who helped us make those recordings a reality. We encourage you to join us virtually on February 2^nd starting at 3:30pm EST via livestream to watch the Premiere Ceremony, during which our two categories will be announced. Info here.

Our first concert in 2025 brings EXO back to the gorgeous space of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, in an evening of music reflecting on memory, inviting the audience to lie down immersed in the sound of strings, walk in the space as the music reflects off the stones, or sit in seats surrounding the musicians.

Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings is a kaleidoscopic exploration of harmony and color, deeply infused with memory and loss. Vaughan Williams' Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis is one of the most celebrated works for strings, imbuing Tallis’s 16th century hymn tune with expansive colors and staging the work across three locations in the Cathedral, reflecting the past, present, and future.

We hope you will join us for this reflective and immersive night. Tickets are here.

A highlight of this season was the invitation from the Library of Congress to present a program in December celebrating the 100th Anniversary of that institution. Our performance featured the Washington, D.C. Premiere of American composer Julia Perry’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, performed by four-time Grammy® Nominee Curtis Stewart and played on Fritz Kreisler’s violin; an immersive performance of Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) with newly-written narration by violinist and author Ling Ling Huang. This experiential concept is based on the woman’s confession in the Dehmel poem that originally inspired Schoenberg, incorporating secrets, some shared by audience members, and was conceived and designed by the EXO Creative Team under the direction of Pauline Kim Harris. Compositions by Alan Hovhaness and Irving Fine rounded out the program, reflect music from the archives of the Library of Congress, in celebration of the centenary of the institution. More information here

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