The Knights
Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director
Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and Conductor
Wu Man, Pipa
Christina Courtin, Vocals
Magos Herrera, Vocals

Continuing a long-standing relationship with pipa legend Wu Man, this program will feature the world premiere performance of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun’s new work for pipa and orchestra and explore themes of cultural memory, transformation of old into new, and a sense of theatricality within both instrumental and vocal music.

Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin was written in loving memory of friends he lost in World War I and channels the forms and clean lines of the French Baroque style. Du Yun’s piece is inspired by regional Chinese opera styles, which are increasingly in danger of being lost in modern China. The young Kurt Weill’s Weimar-era Symphony No. 1 (‘Berliner”) contains some of the hallmarks of what were to become his operatic, cabaret style in songs like Alabama Song and Pirate Jenny, which in turn went on to influence artists as diverse as American folk icon Bob Dylan, rock-band The Doors, and the beloved Brazilian songwriter Chico Buarque.

Program:

Maurice Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin 

Du Yun Ears of the Book - Concerto for Pipa and Orchestra, featuring Wu Man (World Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) 

Kurt Weill Symphony No. 1, “Berliner Symphonie” 

Bob Dylan, arr. Christina Courtin “When the Ship Comes In”

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, arr. Christina Courtin "Alabama Song"

Chico Buarque, arr. Colin Jacobsen “Geni e o Zepelim” featuring Magos Herrera, vocals

Additional tickets not available online are available over the phone (212-247-7800) and at the Carnegie Hall Box Office.

The Knights thank Gary L. Wasserman and Charles A. Kashner for their generous sponsorship support of the 2023/24 Knights Concert Series at Carnegie Hall.

The Knights join Grammy Award-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and director Zack Winokur for a holiday concert at Perelman Performing Arts Center in Manhattan.

Anthony has performed around the world at venues including Carnegie Hall, Versailles, Madison Square Garden, The Berlin Philharmonic, The London Symphony Orchestra, Teatro Real Madrid, the English National Opera and many others. He was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for his performance in the Merchant-Ivory film A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries and starred in a critically acclaimed live show based on his album, Only an Octave Apart with cabaret legend Justin Vivian Bond in New York and London.

Composer Paula Matthusen and musicians from The Knights unite for this world premiere event that celebrates birds as a timeless source of inspiration for humanity. Bringing together birdsong and music, making the whole world a sky rhapsodically joins these two worlds. Matthusen’s spellbinding new composition draws on recent and historical research from Cornell Ornithology, bringing recordings of birds’ songs and the technologies used to interact with them – including The Knights’ musical instruments – into a shared realm. What starts as a song may emerge as a space to be interrupted, negotiated, and savored.

The program will also feature works from “On Wings of Song,” including works and arrangements by Vivaldi, Dvorak, Jessie Montgomery, and Colin Jacobsen.

In their Ithaca program, the Knights join forces with GRAMMY-winning mandolinist, singer, and songwriter Chris Thile.

J.S. Bach I. Vivace from Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043, featuring Chris Thile, mandolin and Colin Jacobsen, violin (trans. Thile)

Caroline Shaw Is A Rose: No. 2, And So 

with Chris Thile, mandolin and vocals

Antonin Dvorak, arr. Curtis Stewart: "Toward America" (arr. String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96)

Colin Jacobsen Sheriff's Freud

-intermission-

Chris Thile ATTENTION!
(A narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra)

1. Attention
2. Lord Starbucks
3. The Rooftop
4. Carrie Freaking Fisher

Claire Coffee, director

The Knights
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Chris Thile, mandolin & vocals

J.S. Bach I. Vivace from Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043, featuring Chris Thile, mandolin and Colin Jacobsen, violin (trans. Thile)

Caroline Shaw Is A Rose: No. 2, And So 

with Chris Thile, mandolin and vocals

Antonin Dvorak, arr. Curtis Stewart: "Toward America" (arr. String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96)

Colin Jacobsen Sheriff's Freud

-intermission-

Chris Thile ATTENTION!
(A narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra)

1. Attention
2. Lord Starbucks
3. The Rooftop
4. Carrie Freaking Fisher

Claire Coffee, director

The Knights at Carnegie Hall with Chris Thile

The Knights join forces with mandolinist, composer, and singer Chris Thile in an exploration of American music, old and new (and a little Bach). Thile’s new work, a Carnegie Hall co-commission, will feature his brilliant songwriting and storytelling, instrumental virtuosity, and ever-present sense of humor. Thile also joins The Knights to sing a version of Caroline Shaw's exquisite and poetic meditation on the nature of a rose. Dvorak's famed “American” Quartet is re-imagined through the lens of violinist and composer Curtis Stewart as a chamber orchestra, folk-inspired jam session, and Colin Jacobsen's Sheriff's Freud brings together the world of Dvorak - in some ways a founding figure in the development of American music - with bluegrass idioms. And finally, some Bach. Why? Because Bach is always a good idea...

Program:

J.S. Bach I. Vivace from Concerto in D Minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043, featuring Chris Thile, mandolin and Colin Jacobsen, violin (trans. Thile)

Caroline Shaw Is A Rose: No. 2, And So 

with Chris Thile, mandolin and vocals

Antonin Dvorak (arr. by Curtis Stewart) String Quartet in F Major, Op. 96 “American”

Colin Jacobsen Sheriff's Freud

-intermission-

Chris Thile ATTENTION!
(A narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra; NYC Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

1. Attention
2. Lord Starbucks
3. The Rooftop
4. Carrie Freaking Fisher

Claire Coffee, director

The Knights thank Gary L. Wasserman and Charles A. Kashner for their generous sponsorship support of the 2023/24 Knights Concert Series at Carnegie Hall, and James Attwood and Leslie Williams for their generous sponsorship of soloist Chris Thile at Carnegie Hall on October 26th.

Musicians from The Knights are delighted to be performing at WQXR’s Classical Kids Fair at the Queens Theatre @ Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Two short performances will take place at 1pm and 3pm. The Fair, running from 1pm to 4pm, will be a fun-filled day of live performances, an instrument “petting zoo,” dance and songwriting workshops, arts & crafts, and more! Admission is free and open to the public.

THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER!

At the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival, musicians from The Knights will fearlessly explore a vast universe of orchestral music, opening up new and exciting possibilities along the way. The program will include an exciting collaboration with Mark Morris Dance Group featuring Handel’s Water Music. Check back soon for more information.

The Downtown Brooklyn Arts Festival (DBAF) is an annual celebration of Downtown Brooklyn’s cultural community and the artists who inspire the borough’s creative spirit.

Music lovers of all ages will delight in a family-friendly concert that celebrates world-class music and complements the Edvard Munch: Trembling Earthexhibition in an engaging, interactive setting. The Knights perform excerpts from works by Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák, Frederick Delius (a friend of Edvard Munch's), alongside audience participation activities that will highlight musical details and showcase the way instruments can tell a story. In this accessible afternoon performance, children and their parents/grandparents/caregivers discover the limitless imaginative possibilities that exist in classical music. This performance is designed specifically for younger audiences and is intended to provide a fun and engaging introduction to classical music. The family-friendly program follows a large-scale outdoor concert by the Knights on the Clark’s Férnandez Terrace on September 2.

Based in New York City, The Knights are a collective of musicians dedicated to transforming the orchestral experience and eliminating barriers between audience and music. Led by an open-minded spirit of camaraderie and collaboration, they seek to engage with contemporary culture through vibrant performances that honor the classical tradition and their passion for musical discovery. The collective was founded and is directed by violinist Colin Jacobsen and conductor and cellist Eric Jacobsen, who, together, also founded the Brooklyn Rider string quartet. The Knights’ roster boasts musicians of remarkably diverse talents, including composers, arrangers, singer-songwriters, and improvisers, who bring a range of cultural influences to the group, from jazz and klezmer to pop and indie rock music. Since their founding in 2007, The Knights have toured and recorded with prominent soloists including Yo-Yo Ma, Dawn Upshaw, Béla Fleck, Itzhak Perlman, and Gil Shaham, and have performed at Carnegie Hall, Tanglewood, and the Vienna Musikverein.

Admission is free, but reservations are required. Each ticketed group must include at least one child, age 18 or younger, and one adult. This performance is intended as an introduction to orchestra music to engage younger audiences. To reserve an accessible seat, please call 413 458 0524.

This performance is presented through the generous support of Mela and Paul Haklisch.

The Knights return to the Clark to celebrate the Edvard Munch: Trembling Earth exhibition with a selection of music from Edvard Grieg, Antonín Dvořák, Frederick Delius (a friend of Edvard Munch's), and more. The performance speaks to the layered influence of art and artists.

Program:
Colin Jacobsen: Sheriff's Freud

Edvard Grieg: Excerpt from Two Elegiac Melodies, Op.34

The Last Spring

Traditional (arr. Danish String Quartet) Nordic Folk Songs

Minuet

Dromer

Frederick Delius: Air and Dance

Antonin Dvorak, arr. Curtis Stewart: "Toward America" (arr. String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96)

i. enroute

ii. inlets

iii. the games we play

iv. prayer by train

Program:

Traditional (arr. Danish String Quartet) - Nordic Folk Songs

Minuet (3')

Dromer (4')

Antonin Dvorak, arr. Curtis Stewart: "Toward America" (arr. String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96)

i. enroute

ii. inlets

iii. the games we play

iv. prayer by train

J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043 (16')

Anna Clyne - Shorthand featuring Karen Ouzounian, cello (11')

George Enescu (arr. Ljova) - Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 (11')

Join The Knights at the Ordnance on Fishers Island for a free family concert for audiences of all ages.

Join The Knights at the Ordnance on Fishers Island for a free performance of Wings of Song.

About:
In recent years, the twin pandemics of coronavirus and systemic racism have forced us to confront some of nature and humanity's destructive power, but it has also been an opportunity to slow down and notice natural beauty in many different forms, particularly in the guise of birds and other winged creatures. Birds are the original virtuoso musicians, sending out coded signals through their songs intended to affect a change in behavior of the listener (and perhaps, at times, just for "pleasure"). Recent studies have suggested that hearing "enjoyable music" lights up the same mesolimbic reward pathway for both human beings and birds. Music across cultures has often been inspired by either literal birdsong or the spiritual experience of uplift through sound and birds often symbolically represent guides to freedom. The program features songs and dances from a diverse group of composers and musical genres, much of which either directly or indirectly takes its cue from birds, butterflies and other natural emblems of flight and the yearning for freedom.

Program:

Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G minor, “La Notte”
Lili Boulanger: Nocturne
Heitor Villa Lobos: Song of Black Swan
Jessie Montgomery: Rhapsody No. 2 - solo violin
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Paco De Lucia arr. Jacobsen: Zyryab
Paula Matthusen: New work
Colin Jacobsen: Mirror for a Prince
Antonin Dvorak: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Tommy Potts, arr. Colin Jacobsen: The Butterfly
Colin Jacobsen / Siamak Aghaei: Ascending Bird

Schedule:

7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Pre-concert Talk

8:00 PM Performance 

Program:

Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 10 in B minor

Nico Muhly Shrink, featuring Pekka Kuusisto, violin

Aaron Copland Appalachian Spring (suite for 13 players)

Colin Jacobsen A Shadow Under Every Light

based on traditional folk songs from Slovakia and Moravia collected by Leoš Janáček

This program celebrates musicians of The Knights - with Colin Jacobsen, Alex Gonzalez, and Alex Sopp as featured soloists - and marks the orchestra’s first performance at Newport’s exquisite Breakers Mansion.

Program:

Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G minor, Op. 10, No. 2, RV 439 “La Notte,” featuring Alex Sopp, flute

Anna Clyne: Prince of Clouds, featuring Alex Gonzalez and Colin Jacobsen, violins 

Béla Bartók: Romanian Folk Dances

Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring (suite for 13 players)

Colin Jacobsen: A Shadow Under Every Light (based on traditional folk songs from Slovakia and Moravia collected by Leos Janacek)

The Knights are thrilled to join Magos Herrera at Bryant Park for Carnegie Hall Citywide on Friday, July 21 at 7:00 pm for a special performance in celebration of the release of her newest album Aire. Written largely during pandemic isolation and now performed live for audiences in Bryant Park, Aire has become “a way to reach out … to heal each other by coming together and celebrating our humanity with compassion and gratitude.” The Knights are honored to have recorded this album with Magos in May of 2022.

Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director and Violin
Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and Conductor

Magos Herrera, Vocals
Ingrid Jensen, Trumpet
Vinicius Gomes, Guitar
Matt Penman, Bass
Alex Kautz, Drums
Gonzalo Grau, Percussion 

This performance will be live streamed by Bryant Park at the following link: https://fb.me/e/1gpplErcO

The Knights return to Wethersfield Estate and Garden for a second year for a concert for children and families. This concert will call on children to notice the natural beauty of nature – such as birds, the original virtuoso musicians, sending out coded signals through their songs Recent studies have suggested that hearing “enjoyable music” lights up the same mesolimbic reward pathway for both human beings and birds. The program features songs and dances from a diverse group of composers, musical genres, and cultures, much of which either directly or indirectly take their cue from birds, butterflies, and other natural emblems of flight and the yearning for freedom. Children are encouraged to get up and move to the music, to ask questions, and to meet the musicians.

This concert is sold out. Please contact The Knights at info@theknightsnyc.com to be added to the wait list.

The Knights return to Wethersfield Estate and Garden for a second year, sharing a program of music for strings, winds, harp and percussion that takes flight.

Birds are the original virtuoso musicians, sending out coded signals through their songs intended to affect a change in behavior of the listener (and perhaps, at times, just for “pleasure”). Recent studies have suggested that hearing “enjoyable music” lights up the same mesolimbic reward pathway for both human beings and birds. Music across cultures has often been inspired by either literal birdsong or the spiritual experience of uplift through sound and birds often symbolically represent guides to freedom. The program features songs and dances from a diverse group of composers, musical genres, and cultures, much of which either directly or indirectly take their cue from birds, butterflies, and other natural emblems of flight and the yearning for freedom.

The concert program will include:

Antonio Vivaldi: Flute Concerto in G minor, “La Notte”
Lili Boulanger: Nocturne
Jessie Montgomery: Rhapsody No. 2
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Song of the Black Swan
Maurice Ravel: Introduction and Allegro
Colin Jacobsen: Mirror for a Prince
Antonín Dvorák arr. C. Jacobsen: Songs My Mother Taught Me
Tommy Potts arr. C. Jacobsen: The Butterfly
Traditional arr. C. Jacobsen: Little Birdie
João Gilberto arr. C. Jacobsen: Undiu
C. Jacobsen and S. Aghaei: Ascending Bird

The Knights
Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Chris Thile, vocals

Program:

Chris Thile ATTENTION!
A narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra

1. Attention
2. Lord Starbucks
3. The Rooftop
4. Carrie Freaking Fisher

Béla Bartók, arr. Alex Fortes Romanian Folk Dances

Jessie Montgomery Source Code, for strings

George Enescu Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

The Knights are excited to return to the iconic Naumburg Bandshell on Tuesday, June 27, 2023 with violist Masumi Per Rostad. No tickets are required to attend this celebratory outdoor performance with Naumburg Orchestral Concerts, and seating will be offered on a first come first serve basis. The concert will also be broadcast live on WQXR.

The Knights
Michael P. Atkinson, conductor
Masumi Per Rostad, viola

Program:

Colin Jacobsen: Bethesda Bliss
Jessie Montgomery: L.E.S. Characters, featuring Masumi Per Rostad, viola
New York Premiere

1. The Can Man

2. The Poet

3. Mosaic Man

4. Garbage Art

5. The Can Man (Reprise)

- intermission -

Béla Bartók, arr. Alex Fortes: Romanian Folk Dances
Jessie Montgomery: Source Code for string orchestra
George Enescu, arr. Ljova: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1

Death of Classical and The Alexander S. Onassis Benefit Foundation present Waiting for the Barbarians, a sprawling, one-night-only exploration of love, loss, lust, and longing centered around the timeless poetry of C.P. Cavafy, set to brand-new music by luminaries like Rufus Wainwright & Missy Mazzoli, Laurie Anderson, Helga Davis & Petros Klampanis, Nico Muhly, Paola Prestini, and more, accompanied by The Knights and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Seated amidst the towering Gothic arches of Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue, this program of entirely new music will take listeners on a musical journey across genres and sound worlds, with each piece sharing the same question: what do we lose – and gain – when we give away a part of ourselves?

The Program:‍

Rufus Wainwright, arr. Missy Mazzoli: Chandelier
Performed by Rufus Wainwright and The Knights

Helga Davis & Petros Klampanis: Cavafy Ghost
Performed by Helga Davis, Petros Klampanis, The Knights, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus - Dianne Berkun Menaker

Dimitris Papadimitriou: The Return
Performed by Eleni Calenos and The Knights

Nico Muhly, arr. Nathan Thatcher: Far Away Songs
Performed by Eleni Calenos and The Knights

Paola Prestini: Voices
Performed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus - Dianne Berkun Menaker

Laurie Anderson: Waiting for the Barbarians
Performed by Laurie Anderson, The Knights, and Brooklyn Youth Chorus - Dianne Berkun Menaker

The concert, and "Archive of Desire": A Festival Inspired by the Poet C.P. Cavafy of which it is a part, is a program developed and funded by the Alexander S. Onassis Benefit Foundation.

Honolulu-born bassist and composer Shawn Conley is returning home to present an innovative program with musicians from The Knights. Artistic Director and violinist Colin Jacobsen, flutist Alex Sopp, and harpist and founder of Ocean Music Action Megan Conley, join Shawn Conley for this concert and residency. The program will feature music inspired by the power and beauty of the ocean.

A Spectacular Chanukah Classical Music Performance

Sponsored by Dr. Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Reserve your free tickets below!

Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo returns to Temple Emanu-El to curate and perform this very special Chanukah celebration featuring soprano Angel Blue and Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

The performance will begin with selections from Handel’s celebrated oratorio on Chanukah themes. It will also feature some of his most exquisite arias, and then offer an exploration of the work of contemporary composers and modern masters, including a work by Carlos Simon written for Costanzo and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and a 20th-century reimagining of traditional folk music.

Featuring:

Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor “brilliant” (New York Times)
Angel Blue, soprano “radiant” (New York Times)
Eric Jacobsen, conductor “an interpretive dynamo” (New York Times)
The Knights
Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Dianne Berkun Menaker, Artistic Director
Shalom Goldman, scholar and religion professor at Middlebury College
Steven Fox, cantorial soloist

The Knights take The Kreutzer Project to Europe for an 11-stop tour from October 24th to November 6th, featuring dynamic violinist Ray Chen. The Kreutzer Project weaves together Knightsian re-imaginings of the “Kreutzer” Sonatas of Beethoven and Janacek with contemporary responses by Colin Jacobsen and Anna Clyne, and a new work drawn from Janacek’s field recordings of folk songs.  

The Knights 

Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and conductor

Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director and concertmaster

Ray Chen, violin 

Karen Ouzounian, cello

Program:

Colin Jacobsen: Kreutzings
Beethoven arr. Colin Jacobsen: “Kreutzer” Concerto featuring Ray Chen, violin (arr. of Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47)
Anna Clyne: Shorthand with cellist Karen Ouzounian
Janacek orch. Michael P. Atkinson: “Kreutzer” Sonata (arr. of String Quartet No. 1; original concept and arr. by Eric Jacobsen)
Colin Jacobsen: A Shadow Under Every Light featuring Ray Chen, violin

The Knights take The Kreutzer Project to Europe for an 11-stop tour from October 24th to November 6th, featuring dynamic violinist Ray Chen. The Kreutzer Project weaves together Knightsian re-imaginings of the “Kreutzer” Sonatas of Beethoven and Janacek with contemporary responses by Colin Jacobsen and Anna Clyne, and a new work drawn from Janacek’s field recordings of folk songs.  

The Knights 

Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and conductor

Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director and concertmaster

Ray Chen, violin 

Karen Ouzounian, cello

Program:

Colin Jacobsen: Kreutzings
Beethoven arr. Colin Jacobsen: “Kreutzer” Concerto featuring Ray Chen, violin (arr. of Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47)
Anna Clyne: Shorthand with cellist Karen Ouzounian
Janacek orch. Michael P. Atkinson: “Kreutzer” Sonata (arr. of String Quartet No. 1; original concept and arr. by Eric Jacobsen)
Colin Jacobsen: A Shadow Under Every Light featuring Ray Chen, violin

The Knights take The Kreutzer Project to Europe for an 11-stop tour from October 24th to November 6th, featuring dynamic violinist Ray Chen. The Kreutzer Project weaves together Knightsian re-imaginings of the “Kreutzer” Sonatas of Beethoven and Janacek with contemporary responses by Colin Jacobsen and Anna Clyne, and a new work drawn from Janacek’s field recordings of folk songs.  

The Knights 

Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and conductor

Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director and concertmaster

Ray Chen, violin 

Karen Ouzounian, cello

Program:

Colin Jacobsen: Kreutzings
Beethoven arr. Colin Jacobsen: “Kreutzer” Concerto featuring Ray Chen, violin (arr. of Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47)
Anna Clyne: Shorthand with cellist Karen Ouzounian
Janacek orch. Michael P. Atkinson: “Kreutzer” Sonata (arr. of String Quartet No. 1; original concept and arr. by Eric Jacobsen)
Colin Jacobsen: A Shadow Under Every Light featuring Ray Chen, violin

The Knights take The Kreutzer Project to Europe for an 11-stop tour from October 24th to November 6th, featuring dynamic violinist Ray Chen. The Kreutzer Project weaves together Knightsian re-imaginings of the “Kreutzer” Sonatas of Beethoven and Janacek with contemporary responses by Colin Jacobsen and Anna Clyne, and a new work drawn from Janacek’s field recordings of folk songs.  

The Knights 

Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and conductor

Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director and concertmaster

Ray Chen, violin 

Karen Ouzounian, cello

Program:

Colin Jacobsen: Kreutzings
Beethoven arr. Colin Jacobsen: “Kreutzer” Concerto featuring Ray Chen, violin (arr. of Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47)
Anna Clyne: Shorthand with cellist Karen Ouzounian
Janacek orch. Michael P. Atkinson: “Kreutzer” Sonata (arr. of String Quartet No. 1; original concept and arr. by Eric Jacobsen)
Colin Jacobsen: A Shadow Under Every Light featuring Ray Chen, violin

The Knights take The Kreutzer Project to Europe for an 11-stop tour from October 24th to November 6th, featuring dynamic violinist Ray Chen. The Kreutzer Project weaves together Knightsian re-imaginings of the “Kreutzer” Sonatas of Beethoven and Janacek with contemporary responses by Colin Jacobsen and Anna Clyne, and a new work drawn from Janacek’s field recordings of folk songs.  

The Knights 

Eric Jacobsen, Artistic Director and conductor

Colin Jacobsen, Artistic Director and concertmaster

Ray Chen, violin 

Karen Ouzounian, cello

Program:

Colin Jacobsen: Kreutzings
Beethoven arr. Colin Jacobsen: “Kreutzer” Concerto featuring Ray Chen, violin (arr. of Violin Sonata No. 9, Op. 47)
Anna Clyne: Shorthand with cellist Karen Ouzounian
Janacek orch. Michael P. Atkinson: “Kreutzer” Sonata (arr. of String Quartet No. 1; original concept and arr. by Eric Jacobsen)
Colin Jacobsen: A Shadow Under Every Light featuring Ray Chen, violin