Music at the Institute presents Elegies and Memories. Join us for an evening of music that reflects on love, loss, and the enduring human spirit. Featuring breathtaking performances by world-class musicians, this concert invites you to connect with the beauty found within life’s most poignant moments while showcasing the remarkable works of female composers. Read more about the event here.

Program: 

• Alla Zahaykevych
  Red Flowers (2023) For baritone, oboe, and accordion
  Text by Mykola Vorobiov (translated by Maria Rewakovych)

• Lori Laitman
  Long Pond Revisited (2002)For baritone and cello
  Poetry by C.G.R. Shepard

• Anna Kuzina-Rozhdestvenska
  Monologue of the Soul (2024)For violin solo and tubular bell
  Dedicated to the cherished memory of the victims of the July 8, 2024, tragedy, which took the lives of innocent children in a brutal missile attack on the "Okhmatdyt" Children’s Hospital in Kyiv
  North American Premiere

• Katherine Needleman
  Land Where My Fathers Died (2022–2023)

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  Oboe Quartet in F Major, K. 370 (1781)

Performers: 

• Randall Scarlata, baritone

• Katherine Needleman, oboe

• Hanzhi Wang, accordion

• Solomiya Ivakhiv, violin

• Jessica Thompson, viola

• Marcy Rosen, cello