Walden’s 14th season is packed with exciting concerts and in-depth educational activities which will take us all across the United States! We are delighted to have been re-engaged by several chamber music series we have performed on in seasons past such as in Syracuse and Utica, NY; Bethlehem, PA; and Newtown, CT. At the same time, we also look forward to bringing Walden’s acclaimed mix of ecclectic programming and top-drawer performances to new destinations such as Sacramento and San Jose, California; Ames, Iowa; Moscow, Idaho, and Corpus Christi and Austin, TX. We look forward to continuing our long-standing association with the eminent composer Augusta Read Thomas during the course of a collaborative residency at Trinity University in San Antonio, TX, in March 2011. We will also be presenting Thomas’s music on several concert-programs across the United States—a welcome occasion to revisit the music of one of our favorite contemporary composers.
Outreach will, as always, occupy an important place in our schedule—next season more so than ever! We are thrilled to continue our residencies at Concord Academy in Concord, MA; Trinity University in San Antonio, TX; and the Massachusetts Academy of Math and Science in Worcester, MA. We also eagerly anticipate the onset of a new and very exciting education initiative in the Albany, NY, Public Schools, scheduled to begin in March 2011. We are particularly pleased that the vast majority of our concerts this season will be followed by outreach in the local communities, from elementary school to college level!
This season also marks the 5th anniversary of our Walden Chamber Players Young Artist Competition, designed to spotlight and foster talented young musicians from the Greater Boston area in performances from the canon of the classical chamber music repertoire with the Walden Chamber Players. In other words, Walden is continuing its journey of excellence - we hope you will join us!
“The ensemble treated the Schoenberg
with riveting intensity as much as with
loving care, outlining Bach's legacy
clothed in Schoenberg's elegantly
neurotic fashion—thrusting counterpoint,
taut textures and sheer insistence.
— The Washington Post