Celebrate the return to live concerts with a program that embraces a diversity of musical styles, traveling across time and across cultures including works in romantic style with Moorish-Andalusian, Roma, and Sephardic influences. Zachary Carettin and Mina Gajić open the program with Joseph Achron’s deeply meditative Hebrew Melody, and Gajić is then joined by Claire McCahan for Manuel de Falla’s poetic song cycle, Siete canciones populares Españolas. Gajić continues with colorful, meditative, and exotic solo piano works from her homeland—Balkan Dances by Marko Tajčević. Next, Carrettin offers us unaccompanied Bach played in his distinctive manner that explores intimacy and a poetic sense of time and pulse.

Following intermission, concert violinist and USC artist faculty Lina Bahn joins Gajić for a seldom-heard work by the French composer Lili Boulanger. Colorado Symphony Orchestra double bassist Nicholas Recuber appears in his own arrangements of music by Telemann, finally joined by the entire ensemble in the Colorado premiere of works by American composer Raymond Granlund. Composed for Carrettin, these highly contrapuntal and rhythmically passionate quartet pieces explore the nature of tango with influences ranging from Bach to Poulenc.

Between selections Carrettin will contextualize the music highlighting stylistic influences and demonstrating examples of particular elements of the compositions.

Two performances: 4pm and 7:30pm