Momenta Festival 2026: Les Voix Humaines

curated by Emilie-Anne Gendron

Program

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: String Quartet in E-flat major (1834)

Claude Baker: Carminis Dissolutio (2026) *world premiere

Claude Vivier: String Quartet No. 1 (1968)

Nicola Matteis the Younger: Alia Fantasia (ca. 1720) for solo violin

Marin Marais: Les Voix Humaines (1701, arr. Mastel for solo violin) 

Thomas Baltzar: Allemande in C Major (ca. 1660) for solo violin 

George Frideric Handel: Allegro in G Major (ca. 1738) for solo violin

All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

Momenta Festival 2026: Sound Garden

curated by Alex Shiozaki with Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi

Program

Marilyn Shrude: A Path Within... (2026) *world premiere

Stephanie Griffin: String Quartet No. 1 "In Peterborough Woods" (2026) *world premiere

Ursula Mamlok: From My Garden (1983) for solo violin

Elizabeth Brown: Mirage (2008) for shakuhachi and string quartet

Marti Epstein: Hidden Flowers (2012)

All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

Kurtág at 100

Repertoire

• Guilliaume Lekeu Sonata in G for violin and piano 

  Mark Steinberg, violin

  Marija Stroke, piano 

• Gjörgy Kurtág Hommage a Robert Schumann for clarinet, viola and piano 

  Anoush Pogossian, clarinet

  Kim Kashkashian, viola 

  Shai Wosner, piano

• Brahms Clarinet Quintet in b minor, opus 115

  Anoush Pogossian, clarinet

  Mark Steinberg, Sammy Andonian, violins

  Kim Kashkashian, viola

  Natasha Brofsky, cello

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

Beethoven In Time: courageous music for a changing world 

Repertoire

• Beethoven Piano Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 1, No.1 

  Hyacinth Trio

  Vibha Janakiraman, violin

  Ben Deighton, cello

  Alex Nam, piano 

• Beethoven String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130 with the Grosse Fugue, Op. 133

  Laurie Smukler and Christina Nam, violins

  Sam Rosenthal, viola

  Natasha Brofsky, cello

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

Mimosa Ensemble & Stephanie Zyzak, violin

Repertoire

• George Walker: Lyric for Strings

• Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and String Orchestra in D minor, Soloist Stephanie Zyzak

• Erwin Schulhoff: Five Pieces for String Quartet arranged for string orchestra

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

Schubert, Adolphe, and Ishizaki

Repertoire

• F. Schubert, String Trio in B flat Major, D471

  Anna Lim, violin

  Hannah Burnett, viola

  Clara Abel, cello

• Bruce Adolphe Einstein’s Light for violin and piano 

  Anna Lim, violin

  Marija Stroke, piano

• Hannah Ishizaki On Learning for cello, piano and electronics (world premiere) 

  Natasha Brofsky, cello 

  Chaeyoung Park, piano

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

Cello Extravaganza: A Tribute to Pablo Casals

Repertoire

• Music of Bach, Monteverdi, Vivaldi and Beethoven played by cellists from the Brofsky studio at Juilliard.

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

​Momenta Quartet presents​

Momenta Festival X

Mozart and Modernism: curated by Michael Haas, cello with guest artist: Pascal Archer, clarinet

PROGRAM
​Stefan Wolpe: Twelve Pieces for string quartet
Dominic Wills: Indris for string trio *US premiere
Stefan Wolpe: String Quartet
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Quintet

Momenta Festival X features four diverse chamber music programs, each curated by a member of the quartet. With programs that blend the old and new, the "intriguing programming" (The New York Times) and "striking originality" (I Care If You Listen) of the Momenta Festival have been acclaimed by critics and fans alike.

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

​Momenta Quartet presents​

Momenta Festival X

Searching: curated by Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin

​PROGRAM
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Motet for four voices
John Cage: String Quartet in Four Parts
Noel Hiyamizu: Human Error! / Dance for solo violin
Maurice Ravel: String Quartet in F Major

Momenta Festival X features four diverse chamber music programs, each curated by a member of the quartet. With programs that blend the old and new, the "intriguing programming" (The New York Times) and "striking originality" (I Care If You Listen) of the Momenta Festival have been acclaimed by critics and fans alike.

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

After 12 years, the GRAMMY®-nominated Aizuri Quartet bids farewell with a special program of works important to their legacy and mission.

PROGRAM

Paul Wiancko (b. 1983): Purple Antelope Sound Squeeze (2021)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828): from String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810, “Death and the Maiden”

II. Andante con moto 

Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962): from Azure Waves (2023)

 … of Light

 … of Wind

 … of Water 

-Intermission-

Franz Schubert: An die Musik, arr. Jannina Norpoth

Silvestre Revueltas (1899-1940): String Quartet No. 4, “Música de feria”

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-1847): Quartet in E-flat Major

I. Adagio ma non troppo

II. Allegretto

III. Romanze

IV. Allegro molto vivace

AIZURI QUARTET

Emma Frucht, violin

Miho Saegusa, violin

Brian Hong, viola

Caleb van der Swaagh, cello

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit Broadway Community, helping the homeless and hungry.

Program
Aus den Visionen von Hildegaard von Bingen, Sofia Gubaidulina 

Sonata for Violin and Continuo in E Major, BWV 1016, JS Bach

Looking at the Moon (For Lucy) (2024), Ana Sokolović

Berio Sequenza III (1965)

Intermission

String Quartet in C sharp minor, Opus 131, L van Beethoven

Lucy Shelton, soprano
Laurie Smukler, Coco Mi, violins
Rosemary Nelis, Sam Rosenthal, violas
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Chaeyoung Park, piano

Admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student); no tickets or RSVPs are necessary. All proceeds will go to Broadway Community.

Program

• Clarinet Concerto, Aaron Copland

  •  Jo-Ann Sternberg, clarinet

• Nocturne, Dorothy Howell

• Concerto Grosso No. 1, Ernest Bloch

Admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student); no tickets or RSVPs are necessary. All proceeds will go to Broadway Community.

Hosted by Brooklyn Youth Arts and Justice, this special afternoon concert will feature students and professionals collaborating to spotlight the works of female composers Amy Beach, Julia Perry, Grazyna Bacewicz, Florence Price, Clara Schumann, and Reena Esmail.

Program

• Serenity for Solo Clarinet (1972), Julia Perry

• Aquatic Park (2024, NY Premier), Ellen Fishman (b. 1961)

• Sonata in A for Clarinet and Piano, Alice Mary Smith

  • Medina-Zimmerman Duo

• Works by Amy Beach, Grazyna Bacewicz, Florence Price, Amanda Ira Aldridge, Estelle Ricketts'

  • BYAJ Student Soloists

• Piano Trio (Mvts III, IV), Reena Esmail (b. 1983)

  • Maestoso Trio

• Selections from Three Lieder, Op. 12, by Clara Schumann

  • Er ist gekommen in Sturm und Regen

  • Liebst du um Schonheit

  • Alexandra Selawsky, Soprano

• The Seal Man, by Rebecca Clarke

  • Alexandra Selawsky, Soprano

This event is free and open to the public with a suggested donation of $40 for adults and $15 for students. All proceeds will benefit the Food Pantry at St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Episcopal Church.

Program

• Sonata  No.1 for Cello and Piano opus 109, Gabriel Fauré

• Fantasy in C Major  for Violin and Piano D 934, Franz Schubert

• Quartet No. 2 “The Spaniard”, Judith Weir

• Five Pieces for String Quartet, Erwin Schulhoff

Artists

• Catherine Cho, violin

• Kevin Jansson, piano 

• Natasha Brofsky, cello

• Marija Stroke, piano

• Katarina Quartet : Jeanel Liang and Jérôme Chiasson, violins; Celia Morin, viola; Maya Enstad, cello 

Admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student); no tickets or RSVPs are necessary. All proceeds will go to Broadway Community.

Come celebrate Black History Month with student members of Brooklyn Youth Arts and Justice as they present works by Florence Price, Estelle Ricketts, Amanda Ira Aldridge, and Scott Joplin.  Special thanks to Emile Blondel, Collaborative Pianist.

The concert is free with suggested donations of $10/students and $20/adults. All donations will go directly to support the Food Pantry at St. Ann and The Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Brooklyn Heights.

The Juilliard cello studio of Natasha Brofsky and Juilliard collaborative pianists present Schubert’s Song Cycle “Winterreise” to benefit Broadway Community.

Program

Winterreise, (A Winter's Journey), D 911 Franz Schubert
Song Cycle arranged for cello and piano

Cellists: Kuan Yu Huang, Amanda Vosburgh, Hayden Idson, Irene Lee, Emil Olejnik, I Cheng Liu, Alice Lee, Colin Guan, Andrew Chun, Noa Mogle, Mary Brook Hartmann, Grace Mockus, Javier Hernandez, Miles Goosby, Jacqueline Hager, Brandon Leonard, Lila Holyoke
Pianists: Fengyi Wang, Jarod Yap, Jiwoo Yun, Mei Yin Grace Wong

Admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student); no tickets or RSVPs are necessary. All proceeds will go to Broadway Community.

Utopia

A concert curated by Emilie-Anne Gendron (violin) of the Momenta Quartet, featuring guest artist Adrian Morejon (bassoon).

Program

Georg Philipp Telemann: selections from Fantasias for violin solo 

Eun Young Lee: Pax Aeterna for bassoon and string quartet (world premiere) 

George Enescu: Ménétrier “Folk Fiddler” for solo violin, from Impressions d’enfance, op. 28 

Charles Ives: String Quartet No. 2

About the Momenta Festival

Momenta Festival IX features four diverse chamber music programs, each curated by a member of the quartet. With programs that blend the old and new, the "intriguing programming" (The New York Times) and "striking originality" (I Care If You Listen) of the Momenta Festival have been acclaimed by critics and fans alike.

The ninth edition of the festival celebrates two anniversaries: 150 years of Charles Ives and 20 years of Momenta Quartet. Each night a work by Ives will be performed by the quartet and special guests.

Admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student); no tickets or RSVPs are necessary. All proceeds will go to Broadway Community.

American Experiments

A concert curated by Michael Haas (cello) of the Momenta Quartet, featuring guest artist Dana Kelley (viola).

Program

Charles Ives: Chorale from String Quartet No. 1 

Ives: Scherzo from a Set of 3 Short Pieces 

Henry Cowell: String Quartet No. 4 “United” 

Timo Andres: Thrive on Routine 

Antonín Dvořák: String Quintet in E-flat major Op. 97 

About the Momenta Festival

Momenta Festival IX features four diverse chamber music programs, each curated by a member of the quartet. With programs that blend the old and new, the "intriguing programming" (The New York Times) and "striking originality" (I Care If You Listen) of the Momenta Festival have been acclaimed by critics and fans alike.

The ninth edition of the festival celebrates two anniversaries: 150 years of Charles Ives and 20 years of Momenta Quartet. Each night a work by Ives will be performed by the quartet and special guests.

Admission is free with a suggested donation ($40/adult, $15/student); no tickets or RSVPs are necessary. All proceeds will go to Broadway Community.

PROGRAM
Bach Prelude from the E Major Partita

Ysaye from Sonata for Solo Violin, Op. 27, No. 2 
Prelude: Obsession 
Lun Li, violin

Brett Dean (b.1961) I Starred Last Night, I Shone (2023)
Rebecca Printz, mezzo-soprano; Rosemary Nelis, viola.

Beethoven Quartet op 132
Laurie Smukler, violin
Lun Li, violin
Rosemary Nelis, viola
Natasha Brofsky, cello 

The Mimosa Chamber Ensemble—an artist-led ensemble of non-professional musicians from all walks of life—performs their annual spring Music for Food concert on March 16th with a program of Mendelssohn, Hindemith, Suk, and Telemann. All concert proceeds benefit the Broadway Community, which has served NYC’s most vulnerable community members since 1982 with a four-star soup kitchen, a food pantry, on-site medical services, showers, shelter, and more.

PROGRAM

Mendelssohn String Symphony #10 in B Minor
Hindemith Trauermusik for viola and orchestra, Soloist Kim Kashkashian
Telemann Concerto for two violas in G Major, Soloists Kim Kashkashian and Zhanbo Zheng
Suk Serenade for strings in E-flat Major, Op. 6

Join MFF NYC for a gorgeous and lively concert of Villa-Lobos, Brahms, Debussy, and Simon—all to benefit the Broadway Community!

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - Il Bove (The Bull)

Lucy Shelton, soprano
Natasha Brofsky, cello
Marija Stroke, piano

J. Brahms (1833-1897) - Sonata in e minor for cello and piano  opus 38

Allegro non troppo
Allegretto quasi menuetto
Allegro

Natasha Brofsky, cello
Marija Stroke, piano

Heitor Villa-Lobos - Suite for Violin and Voice

1.A menina e a canção 
2.Quéro sel alegre: vagoroso e calmo
3.Sertaneja: animado e espiritoso

Lucy Shelton, Soprano
Kobe Malkin, violin

Intermission

Carlos Simon - The Warmth of Other Suns (2019)

Light
Flight 
Settle 

Ivalas Quartet
Reuben Kebede, violin
Tiani Butts, vioin
Marcus Stevenson, viola
Pedro Sanchez, cello

Claude Debussy (1862-1917) - Sonata in g minor for violin and piano

Allegro vivo
Intermède: Fantasque et léger
Finale: Très animé

Kobi Malkin, vioin
Marija Stroke, piano

The outstanding cellists in Natasha Brofsky’s studio fill the resonant sanctuary at Broadway Presbyterian with a concert of Bach suites and Saariaho’s Neiges to benefit the Broadway Community. Note: please make all checks out to Broadway Community.

PROGRAM

Bach - Suite no. 2 in D minor

Alice Lee, Javier Hernandez, Emil Olejnik, Brandon Leonard.

K. Saariaho - Neiges (1998) for cello octet

Natasha Brofsky, Jacqueline Hager, Loa Cho, Lydia Rhea, Dawn Song, Eugene Kim, Miles Goosby, Thomas Lim 

Bach - Suite no. 4 in E-flat major

Lila Holyoke, Colin Guan, Hayden Idson, Andrew Chun, Irene Lee, Sasha Lukashuk

The eighth edition of the Momenta Quartet’s Momenta Festival features four diverse chamber music programs each curated by a member of the quartet. With programs that blend the old and new, the "intriguing programming" (The New York Times) and "striking originality" (I Care If You Listen) of the Momenta Festival have been acclaimed by critics and fans alike. In partnership with Music for Food, the September 30th and October 1st concerts at Broadway Presbyterian will benefit the Broadway Community; the festival continues October 4-5 at the Americas Society. Admission is free and no reservations are needed.

Curated by violinist Emilie-Anne Gendron, Earth and Ether features music that articulates the joy and pain of the human experience while also contemplating what lies beyond. This program includes a world premiere of Elizabeth Brown’s Firmament and a New York premiere of Julian Anderson’s Another Prayer, both for solo violin.

Program:
Elizabeth Brown (b. 1953): Firmament (2023) for solo violin *world premiere, written for Emilie-Anne Gendron

Jeffrey Mumford (b. 1955): …amid still and floating depths (2019) for string quartet

Julian Anderson (b. 1967): Another Prayer (2012) for solo violin *NY premiere

Julián Carrillo (1875-1965): String Quartet No. 2 “à Debussy” (1926)

The eighth edition of the Momenta Quartet’s Momenta Festival features four diverse chamber music programs each curated by a member of the quartet. With programs that blend the old and new, the "intriguing programming" (The New York Times) and "striking originality" (I Care If You Listen) of the Momenta Festival have been acclaimed by critics and fans alike. In partnership with Music for Food, the September 30th and October 1st concerts at Broadway Presbyterian will benefit the Broadway Community; the festival continues October 4-5 at the Americas Society. Admission is free and no reservations are needed.

Momenta cellist Michael Haas’ program Looking Back kicks off the festival with works spanning three centuries in which each composer was inspired by musical traditions of the past. Special guest pianist Amy Yang joins the quartet for this concert.

Program:
Han Lash: Suite Remembered and Imagined
Matthew Greenbaum: More Venerable Canons
Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartet in F minor, Op. 20 No. 5
Robert Schumann: Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 

Tyson Davis String Quartet No. 2 

Dvorak String Quartet in A flat Major, Op. 105

The Juilliard Quartet
Areta Zhulla and Ronald Copes, violins
Molly Carr, viola
Astrid Schween, cello

Roger Tapping Reverberations for string quartet

Sammy Andonian and Valerie Kim, violins
Nicholas Gallitano, viola
Aaron Wolff, cello

Continuing our NYC chapter’s Bay Ridge series at Good Shepherd Lutheran, current Juilliard students, faculty, and alumni perform music of Beethoven, Cassarubios, Kodaly and Tchaikovsky to support Good Shepherd Lutheran’s Food Pantry.

Artists:

Hearing Home
Sam Parrini, violin
Lydia Rhea, cello

Songbook Creative
Yubin Kim, violin
Joshua Kim, viola
Lila Holyoke, cello 

Chamber Music and Community Engagement Seminar Chamber Orchestra 
led by Todd Phillips, violin 
(current students, faculty and alums of the seminar) 

String students of Ruth Klukoff perform a program of duos and other chamber music delights to benefit Camp Friendship Brooklyn, which serves hundreds of families every week with produce, pantry items and prepared meals in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

The Mimosa Chamber Ensemble—an artist-led ensemble of non-professional musicians from all walks of life—performs their annual spring Music for Food concert this March with a program of Gershwin, Shostakovich, and Mozart, featuring clarinetist Romie de Guise-Langlois. All concert proceeds benefit the Broadway Community, which has served NYC’s most vulnerable community members since 1982 with a four-star soup kitchen, a food pantry, on-site medical services, showers, shelter, and more.

PROGRAM
Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A Major, Soloist Romie de Guise-Langlois
Gershwin, Lullaby for String Orchestra
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 for String Orchestra

Bruce Adolphe Elegy for viola and piano (in memory of Roger Tapping)

Misha Amory, viola
Bruce Adolphe, piano

Brahms Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op.100

Laurie Smukler, violin
Marija Stroke, piano

Beethoven String Quartet in B-Flat Major, Op. 130

Laurie Smukler and Rannveig Sarc, violins
Brian Hong, viola
Natasha Brofsky, cello

Our NYC chapter’s cello extravaganza this year will once again feature the cellists in Natasha Brofsky’s studio in a gorgeous concert to benefit the Broadway Community!

PROGRAM:
Luigi Boccherini - Sonata No. 1 in A, G.13 for cello with 2nd cello
Duncan Patton - The Forest Does Not Weep *world premiere
Quinn Mason - Evening Song
J.S. Bach - Cello Suite No 5 in c minor

ARTISTS:
Loa Cho, Roric Cunningham, Ari Freed, Colin Guan, Lila Holyoke, Ayoun Kim, Evan Lee, Irene Lee, Alexandra Lukashuk, Shinae Ra, Lydia Rhea, Dawn Song