$20 advanced, $25 at the door, $5 student tickets
General Admission (Seated) - Doors open at 3:30PM
Called “a violinist who can do anything” by The Philadelphia Inquirer, Grammy-winning violinist and producer Johnny Gandelsman integrates a wide range of creative sensibilities into a style unique amongst today’s violinists. Richard Brody of The New Yorker has called Johnny Gandelsman “revelatory” in concert, placing him in the company of “radically transformative” performers like Maurizio Pollini, Peter Serkin and Christian Zacharias. He is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow.
As a founding member of Brooklyn Rider and a member of the Silkroad Ensemble, Johnny has closely worked with such luminaries as Bela Fleck, Martin Hayes, Kayhan Kalhor, Yo-Yo Ma, Mark Morris, Anne Sofie von Otter, Alim Qasimov & Fargana Qasimova, Joshua Redman, Suzanne Vega, Abigail Washburn and Damian Woetzel. A passionate advocate for new music, Johnny has premiered over 80 new compositions.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfires in California raged and America reckoned with entrenched systemic racism, police brutality and a deeply polarized presidential election, Johnny created the project This is America as a form of creative documentation and response to a time of disruption and disconnection. Working with twenty presenters across the country, he invited twenty-two US-based composers to reflect on the time they were living in. The resulting anthology was called “profound and engaging” (NPR music), “A new vision for classical music” (Pitchfork) and “potentially one of the important recordings of our time”. (Gramophone)
