2026-27 Season Performances

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Known as one of jazz's most vibrant emerging artists, Endea Owens is a Detroit-raised recording artist, bassist and composer. She has been mentored by jazz icons like Marcus Belgrave, Rodney Whitaker and Ron Carter. She has toured and performed with Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Holliday, Diana Ross, Rhonda Ross, Solange, Jon Batiste, Jazzmeia Horn, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Steve Turre, to name a few.

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Las Áñez is a twin-sister duo combining Colombian traditional and folk with pop and electronic music. The music of the Áñez twins is designed to be performed live with a loop pedal and small instruments. The duo's concerts include songs from their four award-winning albums, which have captivated audiences in 10 countries across the Americas and Europe with their unique blend of folklore and the avant-garde.

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Raul Midón is a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist celebrated for his singular fusion of soul, jazz, Latin and acoustic music. Blind since birth, Midón has been hailed by The New York Times as a "one-man band" who transforms his guitar into an orchestra and his voice into a chorus. His breakthrough album State of Mind, produced by Arif Mardin, introduced his borderless sound to the world and marks its 20th anniversary as a modern soul-jazz classic.

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Music has always had a resounding presence in the lives of twin sisters Leanna Price and Lauren Price Napier. Growing up, their parents sang traditional and old-time country and grew up hearing duet harmony, so naturally they became accustomed to singing together. In the spring of 2016, Price and Napier signed to Rebel Records and released an EP, then toured as The Price Sisters. The twins have been Artists in Residence for the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame & Museum in Owensboro, Ky.

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Gravity & Other Myths (GOM) is the "jaw-dropping" circus company from Adelaide, Australia, who are known for its honest approach to performance, creating works that emphasize human connection and acrobatic virtuosity. Since its formation in 2009 by a group of young Adelaide artists passionate about circus and physical theatre, the company has produced six critically acclaimed main stage works.

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Originally from Lancaster, Pa., Maya de Vitry is a Nashville, Tenn.-based artist whose music blurs the lines of folk, indie rock and Americana. An admirer of writers like John Prine, Gillian Welc and Townes Van Zandt — and of the stirring vocals of artists like Bonnie Raitt and Nina Simone — de Vitry's music invites listeners into a space of openness and connection.

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Christian Sands, a Steinway Artist and five-time Grammy nominee, is an emerging jazz force. His abundant piano technique perfectly matches his conception, accomplishing a much deeper musical goal: a fresh look at the entire language of jazz. Whether it's stride, swing, bebop, progressive, fusion, Brazilian or Afro-Cuban, Sands develops the past while providing unusual and stimulating vehicles for the present and the future. He expresses himself through an extensive vocabulary of patterns, textures and structures, all the while maintaining a strong sense of understatement, sensitivity, taste and swing.

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Founded in 1969 by Melanie Russell (Lee) and Rosalind Thompkins (Lynch) and over one hundred courageous students, the Howard Gospel Choir (HGC) of Howard University is the first collegiate musical aggregation of its kind. HGC, a trailblazing institution, has pioneered a local, national and international legacy.

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Praised by the Irish Times as a musician with an "insatiable appetite for adventure," Martin Hayes is regarded as one of the most significant talents to emerge in the world of traditional Irish music. 

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Hailed by The New York Times at its Carnegie Hall debut as "invariably energetic and finely burnished … playing with earthy vigor," the Grammy Award-winning Catalyst Quartet was founded by the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Organization in 2010.

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American Ballet Theatre (ABT) Studio Company, the junior company of ABT, features rising stars of the ballet world between the ages of 16 and 21. ABT Studio Company prepares these outstanding young dancers, who hail from all over the globe, to enter ABT or other leading ballet companies. Nearly 85% of dancers in ABT are alumni of the Studio Company, including most soloists and principal dancers. 

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Antarctica's name alone conjures imagery of the harshest environment on Earth, but the continent is more than its monochromatic color scheme of snow and ice. We go on assignment to the frozen continent with quantitative ecologist and National Geographic Explorer Heather Lynch. Meet the many species of penguins that waddle and swim through the freezing water, along with an abundance of other life, on a journey to the bottom of the world.

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The Swedish phenomenon Symbio, the duo of Johannes Geworkian Hellman (hurdy-gurdy, electronics) and LarsEmil Öjeberget (accordion, stompboxes, electronics), is regarded as one of the most prominent bands from the progressive folk and world music scene.