Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 7:30 PM

Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center

Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center

300 South Broad Street Learn More

$30.00 per ticket

About This Performance

The Jerry & Bernice Rubenstein Young Artist Performance

The Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective is a “sparky, shape-shifting ensemble of starry young musicians” (Arts Desk) that serves as the Associate Ensemble of London’s Wigmore Hall. Their PCMS debut features the Philadelphia premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Divertimento and Florence Price’s Piano Quintet in A Minor, a long-overlooked masterwork that celebrates Price’s African American heritage with echoes of spirituals and hymns.

Elena Urioste & Melissa White, violin; Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt & Juan-Miguel Hernandez, viola; Laura Van der Heijden, cello; Joseph Conyers, double bass; Tom Poster, piano

Walker: Lyric for Strings
Price: Piano Quintet in A Minor
Smith: Divertimento Philadelphia Premiere
Mendelssohn: Piano Sextet in D Major, Op. 110

Running time: 1 hour and 40 minutes (including intermission)

The Artist(s)

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective is a flexible ensemble of wonderful, joyful, kind, passionate musicians who can’t wait to share chamber music with you. Like many musicians, they spend a lot of time worrying about the world—about inequality, prejudice, violence, bullying, divisive rhetoric. Chamber music has an extraordinary power to bring people together: it unites musicians as equals,… Read More