65th Street Ensemble

This highly talented group of Juilliard School musicians challenge the so-called “concert hall etiquette” as they collaborate to inspire a new perspective around unconventional chamber music. Audiences in attendance of live classical music often appear to be a sea of statues. Classical music can feel inaccessible to people who have not studied it and the convention of a seemingly required stillness and need to almost meditate in order to truly “understand” the music can exacerbate the disconnect. Not everybody interacts with art the same way. These artists encourage the audience to respond in whatever way they feel is appropriate while listening. Should they feel a natural movement arise in their bodies as they hear the sounds of Vaughan Williams, they are invited to leave their seats and enter the “dance floor”. They hope this project leaves the audience, quite literally, moved by what they witness.
The ensemble will perform Piano Quartet No. 1 by Gabriel Fauré (First Movement) and Piano Quintet in C Minor by Vaughan Williams in addition to more repertoire.

See The Foundry’s website entry for bios of each of the musicians.