

Welcome to our 2018-2019 season! Join us to listen anew to masterpieces from the Classical and Romantic eras, and discover varied and beautiful music from the creative composers of our time. We’ve spent months researching ensembles and listening to repertoire to bring you the best concert experience possible!
October 12, 13, & 14, 2018
November 9, 10, & 11, 2018

Friday, October 12, 2018 - 7:30 p.m.
Renaissance Square Event Center
6:45 p.m.
Doors open for wine and hors d'oeuvres
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Program
Haydn: Quartet in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 1
Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

Saturday, October 13, 2018 - 7:30 p.m.
Westby Pavilion
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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7:00 p.m.
Doors open for wine and conversation
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Program
Haydn: Quartet in B Minor, Op. 33, No. 1
Prokofiev: Quartet No. 2 in F Major, Op. 92

Sunday, October 14, 2020 - 7:30 p.m.
John H Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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2:15 p.m.
Pre-concert lecture by Jason Heilman
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Program
Shaw: Valencia
Pärt: Fratres
Glass: Quartet No. 5
Villa-Lobos: Quartet No. 17
Ljova: Vjola Suite

Saturday, September 22, 2018 - 7:30 p.m.
Westby Pavilion
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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7:00 p.m.
Doors open for wine and conversation
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Program
Haydn: Trio in C Major, Hob. XV:27
Brahms: Trio in B Major, Op. 8​

Sunday, September 23, 2018 - 3:00 p.m.
John H Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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2:15 p.m.
Pre-concert lecture
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Program
Haydn: Trio in E-flat Major, Hob. XV:29
Mendelssohn: Trio in C Minor, Op. 66
Arensky: Trio in D Minor, Op. 32

Friday, November 9, 2018 - 7:30 p.m.
108 Contemporary
6:45 p.m.
Doors open for wine and hors d'oeuvres
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Program
Purcell: Dido’s Lament
Gesualdo: Madrigals
Shostakovich: Elegy, Op. 36a
Carter: Elegy
Mendelssohn: Quintet in B-flat Major, Op. 87

Saturday, November 10, 2018 - 7:30 p.m.
Westby Pavilion
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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7:00 p.m.
Doors open for wine and conversation
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Program
Mozart: Quintet in C Minor, K. 406
Mendelssohn: Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 44, No. 3

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Sunday, November 11, 2018 - 3:00 p.m.
John H Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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2:15 p.m.
Pre-concert lecture by Noam Faingold, Composer
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Program
Haydn: Quartet in C Major, Op. 20, No. 2
Brahms: Quintet in F Major, Op. 88
Mendelssohn: Quintet in B-flat major, Op. 87
Residency Week
January 22-28, 2019
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The Kenari Saxophone Quartet will perform multiple outreach events across town.

Saturday, January 26, 2019 - 7:30 p.m.
Westby Pavilion
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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7:00 p.m.
Doors open for wine and conversation
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Program
Handel: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Desenclos: Quartet for Saxophones
Dundee: Shifting Gears
Bach: Italian Concerto
Love: In Memoriam
Kapustin: Selections from 24 Preludes
in Jazz Style

Sunday, January 27, 2019 - 3:00 p.m.
John H Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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2:15 p.m.
Pre-concert lecture
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Program
Escaich: Tango Virtuoso
Mellits: Ex Machina
Nagao: Chercher and Aspirer from
Quartet for Saxophones
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Ticheli: Out of the Blue
Piazzolla: Adios Nonino

Friday, March 1, 2019 - 7:30 p.m.
Renaissance Square Event Center
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Moonshine Ballads and Various Charms
with Patricia O'Callighan
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A special cabaret program that evokes open skies, dark tales, and lazy afternoons. From Arlo Guthrie to Aaron Copland, Charles Ives to Randy Newman, these are songs where nostalgia and hardship walk comfortably hand in hand. A southern waltz by Gillian Welch next to a northern ballad by Ron Sexsmith leaves one feeling the vast and beating heart of Americana and beyond.

Saturday, March 2, 2019 - 7:30 p.m.
Westby Pavilion
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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7:00 p.m.
Doors open for wine and conversation
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Mozart: Divertimento in B-flat major, K. 254 (Allegro assai)
Silvestrov: Fugitive Visions of Mozart (Movements I, III, & VI)
Satie: Gymnopédie No. 1
David Braid: el castillo interior
Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel
Lalo: Trio No. 3 in A minor, Op. 26

Sunday, March 3, 2019 - 3:00 p.m.
John H Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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2:15 p.m.
Pre-concert lecture by Jason Heilman
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Program
Clarke: Trio in E-flat Major
Wijeratne: Love Triangle*
Ravel: Trio in A Minor​
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*Composed for the Gryphon Trio in 2013

Friday, April 26, 2019 - 7:30 p.m.
ahha Hardesty Center
101 E Archer St
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6:45 p.m.
Doors open for wine and hors d’oeuvres
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Ljova: Love Potion Expired
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile
Eryilmaz: Dances of the Yogurt Maker
Brubeck: Blue Rondo à la Turk
Gabriela Lena Frank: Coqueteos from Leyendas
Fujiwara: Fiddle Suite Montana

Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 7:30 p.m.
Westby Pavilion
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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7:00 p.m.
Doors open for wine and conversation
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Program
Dvorak: Quartet in G Major, Op. 106
Eryilmaz: Dances of the Yogurt Maker
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Saturday, April 27, 2019 - 7:30 p.m.
John H Williams Theatre
Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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2:15 p.m.
Pre-concert lecture
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Program
Rautavaara: Quartet No. 1, Quartettino
Shostakovich: Quartet in F Minor, No. 11, Op. 122
Nytch: Seize the Sun: Fantasy on Icarus
Frank: Coqueteos from Leyendas
Fujiwara: Fiddle Suite Montana



A Concert of
Extravagant and Virtuosic Music
from 17th-century Germany
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The seventeenth century in Germany was a time of incredible upheaval: wars of religion and politics swept the land, bringing famine and plague in their wake and an ongoing state of crisis. The chamber music of the time reflected this fraught, unpredictable cultural climate. Inspired by the experimental works of Italian composers, the virtuosos working in Germany explored ways to give composers free rein to do whatever their imagination suggested, delighting and astonishing the listener.
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This concert features instruments from the Baroque period we don’t often see in performance. In addition to violins and harpsichord, there will be a sackbut - the precursor of the trombone, a dulcian - an early bassoon, and theorbo/guitar.


Friday, March 1, 2019
Moonshine Ballads &
Various Charms
Moonshine Ballads and Various Charms
Gryphon Trio with Patricia O'Callighan
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A special cabaret program that evokes open skies, dark tales, and lazy afternoons. From Arlo Guthrie to Aaron Copland, Charles Ives to Randy Newman, these are songs where nostalgia and hardship walk comfortably hand in hand. A southern waltz by Gillian Welch next to a northern ballad by Ron Sexsmith leaves one feeling the vast and beating heart of Americana and beyond.