Watch & Listen

“Cloud Variations feels emblematic of a broader shift in contemporary performance—one in which language, sound, and technology are increasingly intertwined. Though staged only once, its debut offers a glimpse into where hybrid classical work is headed.”

— Public Seminar (December 2025)

J. Mae Barizo, Poet & Performer
Sayuri Ishida, Actor
George R. Miller, Stage Director
Yuchang Xiao, Wearable Art/Costume Design
Jessie Char & Maxwell Neely-Cohen, Sound Design

“A musical roller coaster of a journey bursting with drama, detail and invention…With pianist [Jeffrey] Kahane in top form, and conductor Eric Jacobsen and The Knights’ orchestral collective alive to the concerto’s every twist and turn, here is a dazzling concerto du jour that glows with an echilarating sense of its own clear purpose and inevitability.”

— Gramophone Magazine (November 2025)