2025-2026 Season

Jennifer Curtis, violin, Grace Lin Anderson, cello

J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations

Ravel - Duo and the blues connection

Grace Anderson, viola da gamba, Vivian Mayers, baroque violin, Dmitri Shteinberg, harpsichord

Bach: Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 3 in G minor BWV 1029

Bach: Violin Sonata No. 2 BWV 1015

Bach: Viola da Gamaba Sonata No. 1 in G major BWV 1027

Interval Space for Art – Opening Reception Mini Concert
Tadeu Coelho, flute & Grace Lin Anderson, cello

Contrapuntal Interplay in Motion

Jennifer Curtis & Jackie Wolborsky, violins, Samuel Gold & Kurt Tseng, violas, Grace Lin Anderson & Nate Leyland, cellos

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht for String Sextet [Transfigured Night]

Peter DeVries, violin, Vasily Gorkavoy, viola, Grace Lin Anderson, cello, Kurt Riecken, bass, Paul Nitsch, piano

Schubert: Trout Quintet

Harbison: November 19, 1828 (an hommage to Schubert, imagining Schubert's transformation in the underworld)

Jennifer Curtis & Jackie Wolborsky, violins, Samuel Gold & Kurt Tseng, violas, Grace Lin Anderson & Nate Leyland, cellos

Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht for for String Sextet [Transfigured Night]

Dvorak: American String Quartet

Grace LIn Anderson, director, Stephanie Vial, co-director

6-day cello workshop consisting of daily technique class, cello ensemble, chamber music and masterclasses.

October 12-17, 2025

Peter DeVries, violin, Vasily Gorkavoy, viola, Grace Lin Anderson, cello, Kurt Riecken, bass, Paul Nitsch, piano

Schubert: Trout Quintet

Harbison: November 19, 1828 (an hommage to Schubert, imagining Schubert's transformation in the underworld)

Book reading by Etam Rum and music by Jennifer Curtis and Grace Lin Anderson, violin-cello duo

Sponsored by Center for Creative and Compassionate Communities LLC

Winston Salem Choral Artists; Chris Gilliam, Director; Grace Lin Anderson, Solo Cello

For SATB Choir, Solo Cello, Piano, the Sacred Veil is a 12-movement work and the most recent collaboration between Eric Whitacre and poet/lyricist Charles Anthony Silvestri telling a story of life, love and loss.

Marlon Daniel, Artistic Director

Novemver 15-23, 2025

Beethoven's Archduke Trio, Fauré Après un Rêve, Handel-Halvorsen Passacaglia, Catalonian and Mexican songs.

With Jennifer Curtis, violin and Katya Kramer, piano

Schubert Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 "Trout" and music of Kreisler and Piazzolla

Queens Chamber Players

In a boundary-crossing performance for violin and cello, Curtis and Anderson offer the folk energy of Kodály and virtuosity of Handel-Halvorsen alongside the iconic melodies of Lebanese legend Fairouz and the Mexican classic Cucurrucuú Paloma.

Handel-Halvorsen - Passacaglia for Violin and Cello (after Handel)

Zoltán Kodály - Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7

Fairouz - Selected Arab Songs (Arr. for Duo)

Tomás Méndez - Cucurrucucú Paloma (Arr. for Duo)

Composers Now Festival Kick-Off Concert

Music of composer/audio-visual artist Pauchi Sasaki

ARTEMIS opera, by Pauchi Sasaki:

ARTEMIS is a multi-platform and multi-year opera (2020 - 2027) that focuses on the relationship
between the female body, metal, technology, future and power. This project is inspired by
NASA's program Artemis, a space mission that will bring the first woman to the moon's surface
in 2026, 56 years later than the first man moon landing. The opera represents an archetype of
the promise of technological gender equality in the 21st century, as the first woman on the moon
would be an act of empowerment, a symbolic validation of the spaces and disciplines in which
women can thrive. This opera aims to celebrate and bring light to this milestone in women's
history in our pursuit of knowledge and new discoveries. ARTEMIS Opera is envisioned as a
transcultural coven, a rite of passage where the voices of women from all cultures and times
resonate and get amplified.

Bach Cantata Nach dir Herr verlanget mich, BWV 150

Bach Cantata Nach dir Herr verlanget mich, BWV 150

& others tba

Bach Cantata Nach dir Herr verlanget mich, BWV 150

Duke University | Guest Cello Masterclass

Invited by the Department of Music to lead a masterclass for the university’s cello studio.

Mozart, Vaughan Williams, Saint-Saens, Mendez

Private concert by invitation only. Use contact form to inquire availability.

Bach Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 1, Tcherepnin Songs and Dances, Brahms B Trio

House Concert at Brookberry Manor

Recital

FEATURING

Grace Anderson, cello
Helene Jeanney, piano
Jennifer Curtis, violin

PROGRAM

Jean-Philippe Rameau Gavotte Varié
Claude Debussy Cello Sonata (1915)
Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, op. 78, transcribed for cello "Regensonate"
Alexander Tcherepnin Songs and Dances for cello and piano
Johannes Brahms Piano Trio in B major, op. 8 - Allegro con brio

Private concert by invitation only.

J.S. Bach - Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 1

Tcherepnin - Songs and Dances

Rameau - Gavotte Varies

Debussy - Cello Sonata in D minor (1915)

Mallarmé Music | Beyond the Canon

Contemporary Chamber Music for Harpsichord, Strings, Flute and Guitar

FEATURING

Elaine Funaro, harpsichord
Kelariz Keshavarz, flute
Jeffrey Rossman, guitar

Gabriel Richard, violin
Suzanne Rousso, viola
Grace Anderson, cello

PROGRAM
Mark Janello – Quartet for Harpsichord and Strings
Albert Glinsky – Tapestry Concerto for harpsichord, violin, cello and flute
Manuel Ponce – Excerpts from Sonata for harpsichord and guitar/ Duo for violin and viola
Solo harpsichord works TBA

Chapel Hill House Concert at Golestan, Chapel Hill

Recital

FEATURING

Grace Anderson, cello
Helene Jeanney, piano
Jennifer Curtis, violin

PROGRAM

Jean-Philippe Rameau Gavotte Varié
Claude Debussy Cello Sonata (1915)
Johannes Brahms Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, op. 78, transcribed for cello "Regensonate"
Arvo Pärt Fratres
Johannes Brahms Piano Trio in B major, op. 8 - Allegro con brio

Private concert by invitation only.

Festival on the Hill

Presented by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Music

Late Night: Mystical Voices

FEATURING

Grace Anderson, cello
Nicholas DiEugenio, violin
Kelariz Keshavarz, flute
Teddy Robie, piano

PROGRAM

Ignaz Franz von Biber Passacaglia for solo violin
George Crumb Vox Balanae
Missy Mazzoli Vespers for Violin

Literary exploration of Etaf Rum's novels Evil Eye and A Woman is No Man through the music of Kodaly, Umm Kulthum, Fairouz and original composition by Jennifer Curtis.

Eric Whitacre - The Sacred Veil

Cello soloist with the Winston Salem Choral Artists, directed by Chris Gilliam

Cello and chamber music classes at the Professional School of Arts, National University San Agustín, Arequipa, Peru.

Vivaldi Concertoes

Soloist in Vivaldi Cello Concerto in G major, RV 413

Schumann, Cello Concerto

Cello soloist with Orquesta Sinfónica de Arequipa

J.S. Bach: Suite No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1009

Cassadó: Suite for Solo Cello

Grace Lin Anderson and Pauchi Sasaki join for a Concierto Didáctico at the Británico Cultural in Lima, Peru — an educational concert exploring three centuries of solo cello, and featuring the Peruvian national premiere of ARTEMIS: Unus Versus by Pauchi Sasaki.

Program

J.S. Bach — Suite No. 3 in C Major for Solo Cello
Gaspar Cassadó — Suite for Solo Cello
Pauchi Sasaki — ARTEMIS: Unus Versus (national premiere)