Music

The King's Singers return to Hancher to help you and your family celebrate the holidays! Undoubtedly the gold standard in a cappella singing, the ensemble will share a program filled with sounds of the season and other family favorites. 

Presented at the Old Capitol Museum
The JACK Quartet is the perfect ensemble to engage with Zorn's music. San Francisco Classical Voice says, "It's hard to think of another string quartet that plays ... ferociously contemporary repertoire with their impeccable precision." 

Mavis Staples is an R&B singer, a soul singer, a gospel singer, and the very definition of a legend. Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Trotter—the husband-and-wife duo known as The War And Treaty—were named by 2022 Duo/Group of the Year by the Americana Music Association.

Roomful of Teeth—self-described as a "vocal band"—is dedicated to creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music that amplifies voices old and new. Gabriel Kahane, composer and singer-songwriter, will join Roomful of Teeth for the performance of his In the Garden of the Gift.

Midori, recognized as one of the most outstanding violinists of our time, will play alongside the 39 piece Swiss chamber orchestra, Festival Strings Lucerne.

Presented at The Englert Theatre
The Takács Quartet garnered international attention by winning first prize and the critics' prize at the International String Quartet Competition. The Takács is renowned for "marrying aristocratic elegance and red-blooded energy to everything they play."

Coco takes 12-year-old Miguel to the Land of the Dead as he implores his great-great-grandfather to help him reverse his family's ban on music. The full movie will be presented on the big screen at Hancher while the score is performed live by Orquesta Folclórica Nacional de México.

Samara Joy's "buttery vocals melt across the warm grooves of whatever songs she's singing, conjuring the greats of yore while simultaneously forging her own effervescent stye" (The Old Grey Cat blog).

Kurt Vile is an essential American psych-pop songwriter and guitarist. His music, veering between flashes of lightning and hazes of dense fog, captures our emotional and collective landscape like few other artists in the modern era.