Wilmington, NC

Brevard, NC

Philadelphia, PA

Sphinx Gala

Join Sphinx for this annual celebration which will include an unforgettable concert featuring our premier ensemble, the Sphinx Virtuosi, featuring cellist Sterling Elliott. After the concert, Gala patrons will have access to a private reception with cocktails and light fare to be enjoyed while mingling with the artists and other distinguished guests.

Sphinx Virtuosi
Sterling Elliott, Cello

CLARICE ASSAD 
Selections from Impressions
IV. Precision, Perpetual Motion

JOSÉ WHITE LAFITTE
La Bella Cubana

SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Op. 83 “Stalingrad”
(Arr. for String Orchestra by Rubén Rengel)(Commissioned by the Sphinx Organization)

QUENTON XAVIER BLACHE
Visions of Peace
(Co-commissioned by the Sphinx Organization, Carnegie Hall, and New World Symphony)

WILLIAM GRANT STILL 
Suite for Violin and Orchestra
(arr. for solo cello by Randall Goosby)(Commissioned with a gift from the Keith and Renata Ward Emerging Composer Fund; co-commissioned by the Sphinx Organization and New World Symphony) Sterling Elliott, Cello

ALBERTO GINASTERA 
Concerto for Strings, Op. 33
IV. Finale

Baltimore, MD

Pittsburgh, PA

Cleveland, OH

Urbana, IL

Minneapolis, MN

Oklahoma City, OK

What does it take to rise to the top? Don’t miss Mozart’s Rivals with the OKC Philharmonic — featuring violinist Hannah White, Canterbury Voices, and a moving performance of Mozart’s Requiem.

Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Hannah White, violin
Canterbury Voices
SALIERI: 26 Variations on La Folia di Spagna
SAINT-GEORGES: Concerto for Violin in D Major, op. 3 no. 1
MOZART: Requiem, K. 626

New York Philharmonic - New York, NY

Pianist Yuja Wang joins forces with conductor and composer Thomas Adès in a dramatic piano concerto by the Finnish luminary Einojuhani Rautavaara. Adès also leads Saariaho’s Oltra mar — an ethereal meditation on love, time, and death — as well as Ives’s Orchestral Set No. 2 and America (A Prophecy), Adès’s own foreboding view of our nation’s fate.

Program
Ives, Orchestral Set No. 2
Rautavaara, Piano Concerto No. 1
Saariaho, Oltra mar
Thomas Adès, America (A Prophecy)
Artists
Thomas Adès, Conductor
Yuja Wang, Piano
Anna Dennis, Soprano
University of Michigan Chamber Choir - Eugene Rogers, director
EXIGENCE - Eugene Rogers, director

New York Philharmonic - New York, NY

Pianist Yuja Wang joins forces with conductor and composer Thomas Adès in a dramatic piano concerto by the Finnish luminary Einojuhani Rautavaara. Adès also leads Saariaho’s Oltra mar — an ethereal meditation on love, time, and death — as well as Ives’s Orchestral Set No. 2 and America (A Prophecy), Adès’s own foreboding view of our nation’s fate.

Program
Ives, Orchestral Set No. 2
Rautavaara, Piano Concerto No. 1
Saariaho, Oltra mar
Thomas Adès, America (A Prophecy)
Artists
Thomas Adès, Conductor
Yuja Wang, Piano
Anna Dennis, Soprano
University of Michigan Chamber Choir - Eugene Rogers, director
EXIGENCE - Eugene Rogers, director

New York Philharmonic - New York, NY

Pianist Yuja Wang joins forces with conductor and composer Thomas Adès in a dramatic piano concerto by the Finnish luminary Einojuhani Rautavaara. Adès also leads Saariaho’s Oltra mar — an ethereal meditation on love, time, and death — as well as Ives’s Orchestral Set No. 2 and America (A Prophecy), Adès’s own foreboding view of our nation’s fate.

Program
Ives, Orchestral Set No. 2
Rautavaara, Piano Concerto No. 1
Saariaho, Oltra mar
Thomas Adès, America (A Prophecy)
Artists
Thomas Adès, Conductor
Yuja Wang, Piano
Anna Dennis, Soprano
University of Michigan Chamber Choir - Eugene Rogers, director
EXIGENCE - Eugene Rogers, director

Atlanta, GA

Athens, GA

Auburn, AL

Tallahassee, FL

Davis, CA

Costa Mesa, CA

Santa Barbara, CA