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SUMMARY:MoCACT Presents: The Heida Hermanns International Music Competition — Final Round
DESCRIPTION:The future of classical piano. Live at MoCACT. \nAn electrifying culmination of artistry\, ambition\, and discovery. The Heida Hermanns International Music Competition returns for its final round—an evening where brilliance meets possibility\, and the next generation of pianists steps decisively into the spotlight. \nChosen from a global pool of exceptional talent\, three finalists will each command the stage in a 45-minute program of striking range and virtuosity\, traversing five centuries of piano repertoire. These performances are more than recitals—they are personal statements\, revealing each artist’s voice\, vision\, and interpretive depth at a defining moment in their careers. \nAt the heart of the Heida is a bold commitment to living music. In this rare and compelling tradition\, each finalist will premiere a newly commissioned work\, bringing a world debut to life before a live audience. The 2026 competition features a new commission by acclaimed composer Samuel Adams\, continuing a legacy of premieres by leading voices such as Lowell Liebermann and Timo Andres. \nSet within the vibrant\, contemporary setting of MoCA CT\, this is not simply a competition—it is a high-stakes\, one-night-only encounter with the future of classical music. \nEach ticket includes wine\, cocktails\, and light fare.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/mocact-presents-the-heida-hermanns-international-music-competition-final-round/
LOCATION:MoCA CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:MoCACT Presents: Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
DESCRIPTION:Two living legends. One piano. One unforgettable voice. \nSome pairings are simply historic. When three-time Grammy winner\, Tony Award–winning Broadway star\, and NEA Jazz Master Dee Dee Bridgewater sits down with Grammy-winning pianist Bill Charlap\, four decades of jazz mastery distill into the most intimate format the music offers: a single voice\, a single piano. In the close quarters of MoCACT’s galleries\, you won’t merely watch their rapport — you’ll feel the telepathy between two artists who finish each other’s phrases. \nBridgewater’s fearless artistry has carried her from the Broadway stage to the world’s great concert halls and a Kennedy Center NEA Jazz Masters honor; Charlap earned his Grammy for The Silver Lining\, his radiant album of Jerome Kern songs with Tony Bennett\, and is revered as one of the most lyrical interpreters of the American Songbook alive. Together they tour behind Elemental — their first duo album and a 2026 Grammy nominee for Best Jazz Vocal Album — reimagining standards with the playful\, soul-deep conversation that comes only from total command of the tradition. An evening of pure craft\, stripped to its essentials.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/mocact-presents-dee-dee-bridgewater-bill-charlap/
LOCATION:MoCA CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:MoCACT Presents: Calidore String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:In residence at Lincoln Center. This winter\, in our galleries. \nThe string quartet was written for rooms exactly like ours. In residence with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, the Calidore String Quartet — hailed by The New York Times for its “deep reserves of virtuosity” and praised by The Los Angeles Times for “the kind of sublimity other quartets spend a lifetime searching for” — performs amid the contemporary art of MoCACT’s galleries\, every bow stroke and breath at arm’s length. This is chamber music as it was meant to be heard: four musicians who “speak\, breathe\, think and feel as one” (The Washington Post)\, and an audience close enough to be drawn inside the conversation. \nWinners of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and a BBC Music Magazine Award\, recipients of the $100\,000 M-Prize\, and celebrated for their complete Beethoven cycle at Lincoln Center\, the Calidore spotlight their acclaimed 2026 album American Tapestry — a sweeping survey of the American voice featuring Samuel Barber’s transcendent Adagio\, Wynton Marsalis’s jazz-inflected At the Octoroon Balls\, and the world-premiere quartet version of John Williams’s “With Malice Toward None\,” arranged by the composer himself.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/mocact-presents-calidore-string-quartet/
LOCATION:MoCA CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:MoCACT Presents: Jasper String Quartet
DESCRIPTION:One of America’s most celebrated quartets — and its most imaginative. \nA great quartet doesn’t just play the notes — it makes you hear why they matter. The Jasper String Quartet\, praised by Gramophone as “flawless in ensemble and intonation\, expressively assured and beautifully balanced\,” has built its reputation on programs that connect the great canon to the living composers shaping music right now. In MoCACT’s galleries\, surrounded by contemporary art and seated steps from the players\, you’ll experience that artistry the way it lands best: up close\, where the drama is impossible to miss. \nRecipients of Chamber Music America’s prestigious Cleveland Quartet Award\, the Jasper String Quartet was named CMA’s 2025 Album of the Year for Insects and Machines: Quartets of Vivian Fung — music The Strad called “sonically delightful and expressively compelling.” At this performance\, they preview their 2026 release Lamenting Earth\, a luminous meditation on humanity and the natural world. Expect an evening as intellectually alive as it is profoundly moving — the work of one of the preeminent American quartets of the twenty-first century.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/mocact-presents-jasper-string-quartet/
LOCATION:MoCA CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:MoCACT Presents: Time for Three
DESCRIPTION:“Simply put\, they’re a knockout.” — Sir Simon Rattle \nForget what you expect from a string trio. Grammy- and Emmy-winning Time for Three defies convention\, merging classical virtuosity with Americana and singer-songwriter craft into a sound entirely its own — three classically trained musicians who\, as the Chicago Sun-Times put it\, “look and act more like an indie rock band.” From Carnegie Hall to MoCACT’s galleries\, violinists Nicolas Kendall and Charles Yang and bassist Ranaan Meyer play and sing with an infectious joy that turns a concert into an event — and in a room this intimate\, you’re not so much in the audience as in the band. \nTheir album Letters for the Future\, recorded with The Philadelphia Orchestra\, won the Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo and reached the Billboard classical top 10. Fresh from the world premiere of Emily – No Prisoner Be with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato\, the trio brings its virtuosity\, original songwriting\, and bold reimaginings to Westport for an evening of pure\, exhilarating artistry.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/mocact-presents-time-for-three/
LOCATION:MoCA CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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SUMMARY:MoCACT Presents: Kate Kortum
DESCRIPTION:One of the finest jazz voices of her generation. \nKate Kortum is one of the most acclaimed young vocalists in jazz today. At just 24\, she has already performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra alongside Wynton Marsalis and won the 2025 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition — jazz’s most prestigious vocal prize. MoCACT’s galleries are the ideal place to hear her: an intimate room where Kortum’s warm\, story-driven phrasing and easy swing land with the immediacy of a great late-night set. \nA Juilliard graduate who has also sung at the Newport Jazz Festival and Birdland\, Kortum blends bebop agility\, blues feeling\, and theatrical flair into something entirely her own. With her standout band she performs music from her acclaimed debut Good Woman and her bold 2025 release Wild Woman\, reclaiming and reimagining the Great American Songbook through a distinctly modern\, female lens.
URL:https://westportjournal.com/calendar/mocact-presents-kate-kortum/
LOCATION:MoCA CT\, 19 Newtown Turnpike\, Westport\, Connecticut\, 06880\, United States
CATEGORIES:Music
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