June 19-20
Dances of Freedom
Saturday | 6.20.26 | 8:00 PM
The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, 450 West 37th Street
In commemoration of Juneteenth, TCS Conducting Fellow Nicolás Gómez Amín leads two exuberant works that celebrate the Black American experience: Florence Price’s Dances in the Canebrakes and Carlos Simon’s Four Black American Dances. Mark Seto opens each program with a beloved Romantic concerto: Jean Sibelius’s dazzling Violin Concerto with Nicholas Pappone on Friday, and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s monumental Piano Concerto No. 3 with Channing Yu on Saturday.
Program
Concerto for Violin in D minor, op.47
(Friday only)
Concerto for Piano No.3 in D minor, op.30
(Saturday only)
Dances in the Canebrakes
Four Black American Dances
Featured Artists
Lauded as a “first rate” violinist by the late Maestro Lorin Maazel, Nicholas Pappone makes a diverse career as soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and teacher in New York City. Growing up as a professional child actor in Los Angeles, portraying the role of a prodigy violinist in a film inspired his interest in the instrument. Nicholas has performed with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Emerson String Quartet, the New York Philharmonic, Vienna Piano Trio, …
Recognized by Anthony Tommasini of The Boston Globe for his “imaginative piano work,” American pianist Channing Yu has appeared as piano soloist with orchestras including the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchèstra Nova, and Mercury Orchestra. He has been featured in recital as a Pittsburgh Concert Society Young Artist and in broadcast on WQXR-FM (New York). As a chamber music pianist, he has performed with sul ponticello and collaborated with numerous artists in recital. He has …
Conductor
Chilean conductor and violinist Nicolás Gómez Amín has performed in renowned venues across Chile, the United States, and Greece. From 2022 to 2024, he served as the Music Director of the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra. He is also a regular Guest Conductor with the Berks Sinfonietta and has held the position of President and Music Director of the Chamber Players at Kutztown University.
In Chile, Nicolás was the Assistant Conductor at the 2024 Portillo International Music Festival and guest-conducted the …
Mark Seto leads a wide-ranging musical life as a conductor, scholar, teacher, and violinist. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of The Chelsea Symphony in New York City, and Associate Teaching Professor of Music at Brown University, where he directs the Brown University Orchestra and teaches courses in music history, theory, and conducting. Recent highlights include performances with violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Randall Goosby, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Since Mark’s tenure with The Chelsea Symphony …