Music

In 2018, the Castalian String Quartet was the recipient of the inaugural Merito String Quartet Award & Valentin Erben Prize and a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship Award. The quartet followed that up by being named the 2019 Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist of the Year.

Unwrap the gift of impeccable a cappella as the men of Straight No Chaser sing not only holiday favorites but their beautifully blended arrangements of popular hits.

Hear Storm Large take on the holidays in her third Hancher performance. An undeniable force of nature, she’ll light up the holidays with a tempest of seasonal favorites.

The Washington Post praises the Hermitage Piano Trio for performing with “…such power and sweeping passion it [leaves] you nearly out of breath.”

This unique blending of musical voices will take the stories and characters that recur throughout the world’s disparate myths and legends as a jumping off point for an expansive musical journey that is at once idiosyncratic and universal.

In this performance created for Hancher, Chaker and her ensemble will perform music from her critically acclaimed Inner Rhyme album as well as new music from the forthcoming Bards project, performed here for the first time.

Renowned for its brilliant combination of virtuosity and exuberance, the Pacifica Quartet has a topflight musician in every chair. Joined by Anthony McGill, principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, the quartet will perform a concert recorded specifically for the Hancher audience.

This free, family-friendly show introduces a wide array of percussion instruments and the sounds they make. Through interactive activities and musical demonstrations, Third Coast Percussion invites everyone to play with the building blocks of music.