Derek Bermel with Ying Quartet
Thursday | March 13 2025 | 7:30 pm
ARTIST AS CURATOR
Curated by Derek Bermel
DEREK BERMEL – String Quartet No. 2: Songs of Nameless Ancestors New York Premiere
LEONARD BERNSTEIN – Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
DAI WEI – World Premiere of a New Work
ANDREIA PINTO CORREIA – Cantos e Danças New York Premiere
THELONIOUS MONK – Round Midnight, Ask Me Now
Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel brings together an extraordinary group of artists for an eclectic night of music of his own music – including the New York premiere of his String Quartet No. 2 – as well as works that have influenced him. Internationally recognized for his creativity, theatricality and virtuosity, Bermel is acclaimed for his “unambiguously luscious” music (The New York Times) that is “intricate, witty, clear-spoken, tender and extraordinarily beautiful (San Francisco Chronicle).
The Ying Quartet comes “as close to the ideal as possible, delivering chamber music of astonishing, refreshing exaltation and exhilaration” (The Los Angeles Times), combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today's world.
