BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Acme Widgets\, Inc.//NONSGML ExportToCalendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Groupmuses near X-WR-NAME:Groupmuses near BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261004T220547Z UID:5703eb07-c3cd-46ae-94aa-97980ee03dd4 DTSTART:20270425T210000Z DTEND:20270425T233000Z DESCRIPTION:Hosted by Jonathan D.\nMusicians: Nathan Meltzer\, Laurel Gagno n\, Jordan Bak\, Luosha Fang\, Leland P. Ko\, Josh Halpern\, and Min Young Kang\n\n5 PM Doors & Pre-Reception\n6 PM Performance\n8 PM Post-Reception \n\n_____\n\n**Kallos CMS: Carry Me Forward**\n**[Nathan Meltzer](https:// www.nathanmeltzer.com/)**\, violin\n**[Laurel Gagnon](https://www.laurelga gnon.com/)**\, violin\n**[Jordan Bak](https://jordanbak.com/)\, viola\n**[ Luosha Fang](https://www.luoshafang.com/)\, viola\n**[Leland Ko](https://w ww.lelandko.com/)**\, cello\n**[Josh Halpern](https://www.joshuahalperncel lo.com/)**\, cello\n**Tchaikovsky\, Strauss\, Clarke\, Smith**\n\n[Gotham Arts](https://gothamarts.net) in collaboration with [Groupmuse](https://ww w.groupmuse.com/) is excited to present an intimate chamber music performa nce organized by [Kallos Chamber Music Series](https://www.kalloscms.org/) . **Carry Me Forward** reflects on the enduring echoes of music across tim e. Spanning the intimate lyricism of **Rebecca Clarke** and **Richard Stra uss**\, the inventive voice of **Gabriella Smith**\, and the expansive emo tional landscape of **Tchaikovsky**\, the program illuminates how artistic expression continues to inspire long after its creation. As the final cha pter of the season\, it offers a meditation on memory\, connection\, and t he lasting impressions that remain.\n\nWine will be served.\n\n**Program** \n\nREBECCA CLARKE Two Pieces for Viola and Cello\n\nGABRIELLA SMITH Car rot Revolution for String Quartet\n\nSTRAUSS Sextet from *Capriccio*\, Op . 85\n\nTCHAIKOVSKY Sextet for Strings in d minor\, Op. 70 ("Souvenir de Florence")\n\n_____\n\n**About the Artists**\n\n**Nathan Meltzer**\, violi n\n\nRecipient of a 2026 Avery Fisher Career Grant\, winner of the 2023 Co ncert Artist Guild Competition\, and major prize winner at the 2022 Sibeli us and Singapore International Violin Competitions\, violinist **Nathan Me ltzer** is establishing a holistic and multi-faceted career as both a solo ist and chamber musician\, with passions for both standard and contemporar y repertoire. \n\nNathan has performed as a soloist with major orchestras around the world. He has performed with the Orchestre national d'Île-de- France\, the Philharmonia Orchestra\, the Royal Northern Sinfonia\, the Fi nnish RSO\, the Helsinki Philharmonic\, and the Aalborg\, Charlotte\, Conc epción\, Indianapolis\, Medellín\, Montréal\, North Carolina\, and Pitt sburgh Symphony Orchestras\, among others\, performing across Europe and N orth and South America. \n\nAs a recitalist and chamber musician\, Nathan has performed at celebrated series including the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach\, Dresden Musikfestspiele\, Heidelberger Frühling\, Jupiter Sy mphony Chamber Players\, Kallos Chamber Music Series\, Parlance Chamber Co ncerts\, and Midori’s Partners in Performance\, and at festivals includi ng ChamberFest Cleveland\, IMS Prussia Cove\, Krzyzowa Music\, La Jolla Su mmerFest\, Montreal and Moritzburg Chamber Music Festivals\, Music@Menlo ’s International Program\, Newport Classical\, the Ravinia Festival Inst itute\, the Perlman Music Program\, Verbier Festival Academy\, and Yellow Barn.\n\nHe is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of [The Green Roo m Ensemble](https://www.greenroomensemble.org/)\, a non-profit chamber mus ic organization dedicated to new music and historically unexplored works b y composers from a variety of backgrounds and heritages.\n\nA Juilliard gr aduate and student of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman\, Nathan plays on a 1682 A ndrea Guarneri violin.\n \n**Laurel Gagnon**\, violin\n\nViolinist **Laure l Gagnon**’s interpretations praised for their “naturalness that [is] both disarming and distinctive” (The Straits Times\, Singapore). Perform ing as a soloist and chamber musician\, she is currently based in New York City and is a fellow of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect program for th e 2025–2027 seasons. Equally at home performing traditional repertoire a nd premiering new works\, she especially enjoys exploring works written by women of previous centuries.\n\nGagnon recently won third prize at the 20 26 Concours internationale musicale de Montréal\, first prize at the 2025 Dallas International Violin Competition\, and was previously awarded top prizes at the Elmar Oliveira and Singapore International Violin Competitio ns. She has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall\, Flagey in Brusse ls\, Singapore’s Victoria Concert Hall\, and the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. \n\nAs a chamber musician\, Laurel is the founding violi nist of Vinola Trio\, a clarinet-violin-piano ensemble with an emphasis on contemporary repertoire. The trio received grand prize at the 2025 Plowma n Chamber Music Competition\; upcoming season engagements include performa nces at Odyssey Chamber Music Series\, Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts in Chicago\, and a residency at the Avaloch Farms Music Institute for an int erdisciplinary project collaborating with digital artist Lee Oliver.\n\nPa ssionate about engaging with local communities\, Laurel worked extensively with Indiana University’s Center for Rural Engagement\, where she colla borated with community partners to present public performances in librarie s\, schools\, and senior care centers. A teaching artist with Yale’s Mus ic in Schools Initiative\, also participated in Indiana University’s Fai rview Violin Project\, introducing violin to elementary students.\n\nA gra duate of the Yale School of Music under the mentorship of Augustin Hadelic h\, she previously studied with Ben Sayevich and Mauricio Fuks.\n\nLaurel performs on an 1809 Lupot violin\, generously on loan from Canimex Inc.\, Drummondville\, Québec\, Canada.\n \n**Jordan Bak**\, viola\n\nAward-winn ing Jamaican-American violist **Jordan Bak** has earned international accl aim for his radiant stage presence\, dynamic interpretations\, and fearles s artistry. Critics have described him as "a powerhouse musician\, with a strong voice and compelling sound" (The Whole Note) and praised his "haunt ing lyrical grace" (Gramophone). A recipient of the London Philharmonic Or chestra's Alexandra Jupin Award and former Young Classical Artists Trust ( YCAT) Robey Artist\, Bak has also been recognized by the Sphinx\, Lionel T ertis\, and Concert Artists Guild Competitions\, as well as Classic FM\, M usical America\, and WQXR.\n\nRecent and upcoming highlights include the N ew York premiere of Michael Frazier's viola concerto Los quetzales with th e American Composers Orchestra at Carnegie Hall\, following a celebrated N orth American tour of Mozart viola quintets with the Takács Quartet. Duri ng the 2026–2027 season\, he also appears in recital at Grace Farms\, se rves as chamber music artist-in-residence at the San Francisco Conservator y of Music\, presents a recital and masterclass at Boston Conservatory at Berklee\, and joins composer-pianist Eleanor Alberga for a North American chamber music tour.\n\nA passionate advocate for contemporary music\, Bak has given numerous world premieres\, including works by Michael Frazier\, Chris Rogerson\, Kaija Saariaho\, Jessica Meyer\, Augusta Read Thomas\, an d Jeffrey Mumford. His acclaimed Delphian recording Cantabile: Anthems for Viola showcases both beloved viola repertoire and contemporary masterwork s.\n\nBak serves on the viola faculties of Manhattan School of Music and N YU Steinhardt and is an Ambassador for UK Music Masters in London. He teac hes each summer at Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival.\n\nOnly the thir d violist to earn the Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School\, Bak also holds degrees from New England Conservatory and The Juilliard School\, whe re he was a Kovner Fellow. He performs on two violas by Jon van Kouwenhove n.\n\n**Luosha Fang**\, viola\n\nViolinist and violist **Luosha Fang** bri ngs an adventurous spirit to repertoire ranging from canonical works to wo rld premieres. As a violin soloist\, she has performed with orchestras inc luding the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra\, the Louisville Orchestra\, the W est Virginia Symphony\, the Bay-Atlantic Symphony\, the Atlantic Symphony\ , and the American Symphony Orchestra\, with whom she gave the U.S. premie re of Grażyna Bacewicz’s Violin Concerto No. 5. With the Albany Symphon y Orchestra\, she recorded George Tsontakis’s double violin concerto Unf orgettable for release on Naxos Records.\n\nA prizewinner in international competitions on both instruments\, Fang won the 2019 Classic Strings Inte rnational Competition in Vienna and the 2018 Tokyo International Viola Com petition. She was also a winner of Astral Artists’ 2013 National Auditio ns and the S&R Foundation’s 2015 Washington Award.\n\nChamber music has been central to Fang’s career since she co-founded the Chimeng Quartet\, which won the Silver Medal at the 2010 Fischoff National Chamber Music Co mpetition. She has appeared at festivals including Marlboro\, Kronberg\, R avinia\, Aspen\, Bard Music Festival\, Caramoor\, and Music from Angel Fir e\, collaborating with artists such as Gidon Kremer\, Christian Tetzlaff\, Steven Isserlis\, Mitsuko Uchida\, and Nobuko Imai. She has performed at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall\, the Kennedy Center\, Wigmore Hal l\, the Konzerthaus Berlin\, the Elbphilharmonie\, the Vienna Musikverein\ , and the Library of Congress. From 2021 to 2022\, she was a member of the Pavel Haas Quartet in Prague.\n\nLuosha performs on a Gaetano Pollastri v iolin with an 1840 Jacob Eury bow and on the “Josefowitz” 1690 Andrea Guarneri viola with an 1840 Jean Pierre Marie Persoit bow.\n \n**Leland Ko **\, cello\n\nCellist **Leland Philip Ko** (b. 1998) is the kind of person who is always asking “why” — American-born but of Chinese-Canadian descent\, schooled at both university and conservatory\, and extremely tho rough in any number of activities ranging from competitive tennis and dist ance-running to home-baking and origami\, he wants to find the similaritie s between seemingly disparate things\, and in doing so hopefully find some thing human in everything.\n\nNicknamed “the storyteller” and “a dar ing prince” by the media during his time at the Queen Elisabeth Competit ion\, and described as “one of those artists who defy analysis\, because words simply cannot describe the powerful emotions they evoke” (RTBF)\, Leland is a first prize winner of the Walter W. Naumburg International Ce llo Competition\, an Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient\, and a third pri ze winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition.\n\nHighlights for Leland’s 2026-2027 season include concerto appearances at home with the Kendall Sq uare Orchestra and the Apollo Ensemble of Boston\, a recital at the Caramo or Center for Music and the Arts\, and chamber music events at Shriver Hal l in Baltimore\, Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival\, Newport Classical Festival the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston\, and Wigmore Hall in London.\n\nLeland was a long-time student of Kirsten Peltz\, Ronald Low ry\, and Paul Katz before attending Princeton University\, where he gradua ted with an A.B. in German Literature. He went on to complete an M.M. at T he Juilliard School under the teaching of Minhye Clara Kim\, Timothy Eddy\ , and Natasha Brofsky\, and then earned an Artist Diploma from the New Eng land Conservatory under guidance of Laurence Lesser\, Yeesun Kim\, and Don ald Weilerstein. He resides in Boston\, with his 14-year-old cat\, Ham.\n \n**Josh Halpern**\, cello\n\n**Joshua Halpern** has appeared on stages ar ound the world as a soloist\, chamber musician\, and orchestral principal cellist. As a chamber musician\, he has collaborated with artists includin g Jonathan Biss\, Gary Hoffman\, Kim Kashkashian\, Patricia Kopatchinskaja \, Anthony McGill\, and Itzhak Perlman\, and appeared at music festivals i ncluding the Ravinia Steans Institute\, Music@Menlo\, the Perlman Chamber Music Workshop\, La Jolla Summerfest\, and KrzyzowaMusic. \n\nAn eager adv ocate of contemporary music\, he has worked personally with composers incl uding Bruce Adolphe\, Richard Danielpour\, Kevin Puts\, and Kaija Saariaho \, and in 2025 debuted In Real Time\, an expansive a commissioning series in which he spends a year in deep collaboration with a single composer to build a program for live performance and recording from that composer's mu sical world outward. He has served as guest principal cello of the Rotterd am Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonia Orchestra in London\, as ce llist with the Banff Competition-winning Rolston Quartet\, and as guest me mber of the Varian Fry Quartet. \n\nJosh is the founder and Executive & Ar tistic Director of the Cultural Caravan\, a Colorado-based performing arts series operating at the intersection of small businesses\, social-service nonprofits\, municipal organizations\, and diverse world-class artists. T he Cultural Caravan presents 35+ concerts per year in coordination with do zens of local businesses and community organizations\, reinvesting nearly $1 million into the community to date. Learn more at culturalcaravan.org. \n\nJosh completed his Artist Diploma at The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia\, where he studied with Carter Brey and Peter Wiley. As an un dergraduate at the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University\, he studie d with Desmond Hoebig and won the school's concerto competition. From 2021 to 2023\, he was a member of the Karajan Akademie of the Berliner Philhar moniker\, in which he played 60+ concerts with the Berliner Philharmoniker and was mentored by Ludwig Quandt. He lives in New York. \n\nJosh perform s on a cello by Domenico Busan\, c. 1750\, previously owned by his teacher Desmond Hoebig\, provided on a generous long-term loan from a member of t he Stretton Society LOCATION:Flatiron\, New York\, 10011 SUMMARY:Kallos CMS: Carry Me Forward: Tchaikovsky\, Strauss\, Clarke\, Smit h URL:https://www.groupmuse.com/events/17080-kallos-cms-carry-me-forward-tcha ikovsky-strauss-clarke-smith IMAGE;VALUE=URI:https://bunny.groupmuse.com/b3e52a51-8599-4f79-b6fb-1cd8ef0 18cbd/concert%204%20groupmuse.png?aspect_ratio=1%3A1&width=1200 X-PRICE:$65 tickets ($55 for Supermusers) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR