Dear Friends,

We are thrilled to be announcing our 2025-26 season!

Every concert this year invites you to experience sound in unique ways, each in historic and gorgeous venues.

As always, each of our concerts is carefully curated to match the music we play with the particular qualities of sound and space, creating unique listening experiences. For all of you who have been a part of our journey for the past ten years, thank you so much for your support as we create these carefully imagined experiences. Tickets are now officially on sale for all seven of these concerts, and we hope you will be able to join us throughout the season.

Our first concert, Toward the Sea, celebrates the inspiration of the sea, and in particular speaks to the mystery and majesty of whales, with music of George Crumb, Toru Takemitsu, Michelle Ross, and my own songs on texts of Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, at a special co-presentation at the Unitarian Church of All Souls – the same church that Melville attended.

In February, we perform The Music of Arvo Pärt, a composer that has become a specialty of EXO and myself, in the intimate and superb acoustics of St. James Chapel in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Our concert celebrates Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday with pieces for strings, percussion, and solo voice, and includes two US Premieres.

In April, in the rarely-accessed crypt of the largest cathedral in the world, we will perform Music in the Crypt: Out of the Shadows, inviting our audience to listen to a carefully curated program culminating in some of the most sacred music ever composed, from Beethoven’s Opus 132 string quartet in A minor, the Heiliger Dankgesang.
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We conclude the season with a return to Brad Balliett’s delightful and immersive A Field Guide to Imaginary Birds in the Spring of 2026. This immersive scavenger hunt/immersive concert/nature walk was such a delightful experience for all who joined us in Prospect Park last season.

Each of these concerts is carefully curated to match the music we play with the particular qualities of sound and space, creating unique listening experiences. For all of you who have been a part of our journey for the past ten years, thank you so much for your support as we create these carefully imagined experiences.  two Grammy® Award nominations for our recording with Curtis Stewart, American Counterpoints, for Best Classical Compendium, and for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. We are deeply honored, and we are grateful to all of you who helped us make those recordings a reality.‍
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I want to encourage you to join our mailing list, where you will hear more about each concert and special invitations to additional events.
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Yours with thanks and excitement,