DISSONANCE explores our reliance on technology and how it affects the world around us, diving into the dichotomy of our evolving world and the human experience.

Featuring singer/songwriters Sam Cormier & Honin, all music will be originals written and performed by the duo and will include a plant swap event before and after the performance.

WHEN: March 2 - 7pm

WHERE: Artstillery - 723 Fort Worth Ave, Dallas TX

DISSONANCE explores our reliance on technology and how it affects the world around us, diving into the dichotomy of our evolving world and the human experience.

Featuring singer/songwriters Sam Cormier & Honin, all music will be originals written and performed by the duo and will include a plant swap event before and after the performance.

WHEN: February 29th - 7pm

WHERE: Artstillery - 723 Fort Worth Ave, Dallas TX

We are thrilled to present pianist Judith Gordon in a one-night solo recital. Making her EMERGE debut last season, Judith captivated audiences with her expressive musicality, electric energy and warm personality. This program reflects on the passing of time - what happens now, today, tomorrow…

WHEN: Wednesday, January 31st | 7pm

WHERE: Artstillery | 723 Fort Worth Ave; Dallas TX

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influence of the earth”

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The second performance of the OFF the Beaten Path Performance Series reflects on the changing of the seasons, what they mean to us and the symbolism they hold in our passing lives. This contemplative program features the return of pianist Mikhail Berestnev and soprano Ekaterina Kim performing works for solo piano and piano & voice.

WHEN: Thursday, November 11 - 7pm

WHERE: West Plano Presbyterian Church | 2709 Custer Rd, Plano, TX 75075

“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit and resign yourself to the influence of the earth”

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

The second performance of the OFF the Beaten Path Performance Series reflects on the changing of the seasons, what they mean to us and the symbolism they hold in our passing lives. This contemplative program features the return of pianist Mikhail Berestnev and soprano Ekaterina Kim performing works for solo piano and piano & voice.

WHEN: Thursday, November 9 - 7pm

WHERE: Kessler Park United Methodist Church | 1215 Turner Ave, Dallas, TX 75208

The 23/24 OFF the Beaten Path Performance Series begins with a question: how is climate change present in my life? This opening performance serves as an introduction to our season-long reflection of the effects of climate change and both its subtle & unsubtle presence in our daily lives.

Featuring the award-winning Julius Quartet with guest cellist Geoffrey Manyin and guest violist Lila Brown, this program features works from young contemporary composers, including a past-participant of the Virtual Workshop & Performance, culminating in Beethoven’s turbulent masterpiece “The Storm” (String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29).

PROGRAM:

ZhiYong Tan: Retribution (Virtual Workshop & Performance Participant)

Sophia Jani: String Quartet No. 1 - “See the grass is full of stars”

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29 “The Storm“

TIME: October 7 | 7:00pm

LOCATION: Artstillery | 723 Fort Worth Ave, Dallas, TX 75208

The 23/24 OFF the Beaten Path Performance Series begins with a question: how is climate change present in my life? This opening performance serves as an introduction to our season-long reflection of the effects of climate change and both its subtle & unsubtle presence in our daily lives.

Featuring the award-winning Julius Quartet with guest cellist Geoffrey Manyin and guest violist Lila Brown, this program features works from young contemporary composers, including a past-participant of the Virtual Workshop & Performance, culminating in Beethoven’s turbulent masterpiece “The Storm” (String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29).

PROGRAM:

ZhiYong Tan: Retribution (Virtual Workshop & Performance Participant)

Sophia Jani: String Quartet No. 1 - “See the grass is full of stars”

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quintet in C Major, Op. 29 “The Storm“

TIME: October 5 | 7:00pm

LOCATION: West Plano Presbyterian Church | 2709 Custer Rd, Plano, TX 75075

Our 22/23 season closes with a journey between darkness and light. Featuring vocalist, educator and actor Richard Oliver, this experience juxtaposes the recitation of Mark Strand’s Blizzard of One with Franz Schubert’s late String Quartet in G Major. 

Franz Schubert: “My Dream” (July 3, 1882)

“For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love…Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.”

Of Blizzard of One (Penguin Random House, Canada):

“Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience - a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit.”

PROGRAM:

Mark Strand: Excerpts from Blizzard of One

Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D.887

ARTISTS:

Richard Oliver - Orator

The Julius Quartet

TIME: Sunday, May 28 | 6:00pm

LOCATION: Artstillery | 723 Fort Worth Ave, Dallas, TX 75208

Our 22/23 season closes with a journey between darkness and light. Featuring vocalist, educator and actor Richard Oliver, this experience juxtaposes the recitation of Mark Strand’s Blizzard of One with Franz Schubert’s late String Quartet in G Major. 

Franz Schubert: “My Dream” (July 3, 1882)

“For long years I felt torn between the greatest grief and the greatest love…Whenever I attempted to sing of love, it turned to pain. And again, when I tried to sing of pain, it turned to love. Thus were love and pain divided in me.”

Of Blizzard of One (Penguin Random House, Canada):

“Strand's poems occupy a place that exists between abstraction and the sensuous particulars of experience - a place created by a voice that moves with unerring ease between the commonplace and the sublime. The erasure of self and the depredations of time are seen as sources of sorrow, but also as grounds for celebration. This is one of the difficult truths these poems dramatize with stoicism and wit.”

PROGRAM:

Mark Strand: Excerpts from Blizzard of One

Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 15 in G Major, D.887

ARTISTS:

Richard Oliver - Orator

The Julius Quartet

TIME: Friday, May 26 | 7:00pm

LOCATION: Interfaith Peace Chapel | 5910 Cedar Springs Rd, Dallas, TX 75235

An informal, interactive performance at The Wild Detectives: a bookstore\bar venue in Oak Cliff

TIME: Thursday, May 18 | 7:00pm

LOCATION: The Wild Detectives | 314 W Eighth St. Oak Cliff; Dallas, TX 75208

“...if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity… if you seek liberalization….tear down this wall!”  Ronald Reagan

Where there are walls - there is separation. In today’s multicultural melting pot, the topic of walls has been a consistent hotpoint of division. This program demonstrates in real time the detrimental effects of walls and the destruction of culture.  

This program has been selected for the 22/23 AT&T Performing Arts Center The Elevator Project. In 2014, the AT&T Performing Arts Center created the Elevator Project to provide small, emerging and historically marginalized arts organizations and artists with a performance platform in the Dallas Arts District. The Elevator Project is made possible by the support and partnership of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. 

PROGRAM:

Scott Wollschleger: String Quartet No. 2, “White Wall” 

Matana Roberts: Borderland

Jesus J. Martinez: Monarch Migration

Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet

TIME: Thursday, February 4 | 7:30pm

LOCATION: Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, AT&T Performing Arts Center | 2400 Flora St, Dallas, TX 75201

“...if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity… if you seek liberalization….tear down this wall!”  Ronald Reagan

Where there are walls - there is separation. In today’s multicultural melting pot, the topic of walls has been a consistent hotpoint of division. This program demonstrates in real time the detrimental effects of walls and the destruction of culture. 

This program has been selected for the 22/23 AT&T Performing Arts Center The Elevator Project. In 2014, the AT&T Performing Arts Center created the Elevator Project to provide small, emerging and historically marginalized arts organizations and artists with a performance platform in the Dallas Arts District. The Elevator Project is made possible by the support and partnership of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture. 

PROGRAM:

Scott Wollschleger: String Quartet No. 2, “White Wall” 

Matana Roberts: Borderland

Jesus J. Martinez: Monarch Migration

Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet

TIME: Thursday, February 3 | 7:30pm

LOCATION: Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, AT&T Performing Arts Center | 2400 Flora St, Dallas, TX 75201

“...if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity… if you seek liberalization….tear down this wall!”  Ronald Reagan

Where there are walls - there is separation. In today’s multicultural melting pot, the topic of walls has been a consistent hotpoint of division. This program demonstrates in real time the detrimental effects of walls and the destruction of culture.  

This program has been selected for the 22/23 AT&T Performing Arts Center The Elevator Project. In 2014, the AT&T Performing Arts Center created the Elevator Project to provide small, emerging and historically marginalized arts organizations and artists with a performance platform in the Dallas Arts District. The Elevator Project is made possible by the support and partnership of the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture.

PROGRAM:

Scott Wollschleger: String Quartet No. 2, “White Wall” 

Matana Roberts: Borderland

Jesus J. Martinez: Monarch Migration

Claude Debussy: String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet

TIME: Thursday, February 2 | 7:30pm

LOCATION: Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, AT&T Performing Arts Center | 2400 Flora St, Dallas, TX 75201

Join EMERGE for this interactive holiday performance!

This second program of the 2022/23 OFF the Beaten Path Performances Series revisits the scenes from our youth: chance encounters, whimsical memories, young love - all through the lens of our adult perspective.

Featuring the pianist Mikhail Berestnev, hailed as “an accomplished pianist in every way…" -Nicolas Blanmont / La Libre (Belgium), this program features a collection of memories, culminating with Robert Schumann’s masterful Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood).

PROGRAM:

Bela Bartok: Selections from 44 Duos for Two Violins & Gyermekekek for solo piano

Elena Ruehr: Prelude Variations for Viola & Cello

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen Op.15, "Scenes from Childhood"

Gabriela Lena Frank: Four Folk Songs for Violin, Cello and Piano

ARTISTS:

Mikhail Berestnev - Piano

Hyun Jeong Lee, David Do - violins

John Batchelder - Viola

Sebastian Kozub - cello

TIME: Saturday, December 10 | 4:00pm

LOCATION: West Plano Presbyterian Church | 2709 Custer Rd, Plano, TX 75075

This second program of the 2022/23 OFF the Beaten Path Performances Series revisits the scenes from our youth: chance encounters, whimsical memories, young love - all through the lens of our adult perspective.

Featuring the pianist Mikhail Berestnev, hailed as “an accomplished pianist in every way…" -Nicolas Blanmont / La Libre (Belgium), this program features a collection of memories, culminating with Robert Schumann’s masterful Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood).

PROGRAM:

Bela Bartok: Selections from 44 Duos for Two Violins & Gyermekekek for solo piano

Elena Ruehr: Prelude Variations for Viola & Cello

Robert Schumann: Kinderszenen Op.15, "Scenes from Childhood"

Gabriela Lena Frank: Four Folk Songs for Violin, Cello and Piano

ARTISTS:

Mikhail Berestnev - Piano

Hyun Jeong Lee, David Do - violins

John Batchelder - Viola

Sebastian Kozub - cello

TIME: Thursday, December 8 | 7:00pm

LOCATION: Oak Lawn United Methodist Church | 3014 Oak Lawn Ave, Dallas, TX 75219

"La vie en rose": to live with an outlook of positivity, viewing each day through a colorful lens. This opening performance of the OFF the Beaten Path Performance series exists as a musical kaleidoscope, highlighting the wide range of sound, timbre and textures captured by both piano and strings.

Featuring the effervescent pianist Judith Gordon, described by The Washington Post as “impressive…her hands danc[ing] across the keyboard…”, this event presents two works of composer Tan Dun, culminating with Gabriel Faure’s Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 - a masterpiece of the genre.

PROGRAM:

Tan Dun: 8 Memories in Watercolor for Solo Piano

Tan Dun: 8 Eight Colors for String Quartet

Gabriel Faure: Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89

ARTISTS:

Judith Gordon - Piano

The Julius Quartet

TIME: Sunday, November 13 | 4:00pm

LOCATION: Bentwood Trail Presbyterian Church | 6000 Bentwood Trail, Dallas, TX 75252

"La vie en rose": to live with an outlook of positivity, viewing each day through a colorful lens. This opening performance of the OFF the Beaten Path Performance series exists as a musical kaleidoscope, highlighting the wide range of sound, timbre and textures captured by both piano and strings.

Featuring the effervescent pianist Judith Gordon, described by The Washington Post as “impressive…her hands danc[ing] across the keyboard…”, this event presents two works of composer Tan Dun, culminating with Gabriel Faure’s Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89 - a masterpiece of the genre.

PROGRAM:

Tan Dun: 8 Memories in Watercolor for Solo Piano

Tan Dun: 8 Eight Colors for String Quartet

Gabriel Faure: Piano Quintet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 89

ARTISTS:

Judith Gordon - Piano

The Julius Quartet

TIME: Friday, November 11 | 7:00pm

LOCATION: Oak Lawn United Methodist Church | 3014 Oak Lawn Ave, Dallas, TX 75219

Join us for a performance, discussion and Q&A regarding our exciting upcoming season “Breaking Boundaries”

Artists:

The Julius Quartet

Time: Thursday, September 29 | 7pm

Location: Bentwood Trail Presbyterian Church | 6000 Bentwood Trail, Dallas, TX 75252

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Cosponsored by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Different Trains serves as both a documentary and a musical reality, exploring the principles of humans rights and some of the greatest challenges it has faced. Ranging from the Civil Rights movement to the Holocaust, this musical program showcases how artistic expression exceeds all boundaries, recognizing each person’s freedom to make choices and develop our potential as human beings.

PROGRAM 

Danielle Bees - Let the Light In

Jessie Montgomery - Source Code

Viktor Ullman - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46

Steve Reich - Different Trains

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet: EMERGE Artists-in-Residence

LOCATION:

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza | 411 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202

Reception - 6:30pm | Concert - 7:00pm

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

Cosponsored by The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza and the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum, Different Trains serves as both a documentary and a musical reality, exploring the principles of humans rights and some of the greatest challenges it has faced. Ranging from the Civil Rights movement to the Holocaust, this musical program showcases how artistic expression exceeds all boundaries, recognizing each person’s freedom to make choices and develop our potential as human beings.

PROGRAM 

Danielle Bees - Let the Light In

Jessie Montgomery - Source Code

Viktor Ullman - String Quartet No. 3, Op. 46

Steve Reich - Different Trains

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet: EMERGE Artists-in-Residence

LOCATION:

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza | 411 Elm St, Dallas, TX 75202

Reception - 6:30pm | Concert - 7:00pm

Cre·​do (“ˈkrē-(ˌ)dō)” : A statement of the beliefs or aims which guide someone's action. This program celebrates the music that has come before us and how it has influenced a new generation of artists.

PROGRAM 

F. J. Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op 20. No 2

F. Schubert: Quartettsatz + P. Glass Quartettsatz

Credo - Kevin Puts

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet: EMERGE Artists-in-Residence

Cre·​do (“ˈkrē-(ˌ)dō)” : A statement of the beliefs or aims which guide someone's action. This program celebrates the music that has come before us and how it has influenced a new generation of artists.

PROGRAM 

F. J. Haydn: String Quartet in C Major, Op 20. No 2

F. Schubert: Quartettsatz + P. Glass Quartettsatz

Credo - Kevin Puts

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet: EMERGE Artists-in-Residence

Mem(ə)rē: What Remains(?)

“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory” - Percy Bysshe Shelley 

This program reflects on that which remains - our perception of experience and its lasting imprint. It explores that which we have lost, that which has changed us and how experiences have affected our sense of living. From Beethoven to Golijov, we explore these ideas transformed into sound, creating our own shared memory together. 

PROGRAM:

Gyorg Kurtag: Officium breve, in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky, Op. 28

Ian Lester: “Memories Lost” from Two Vignettes

Jon Paul Mayse: Three Errors - Three Remembrances

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in Bflat Major, Op. 130; mvt V - Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo

Osvaldo Golijov: Qohelet

ARTISTS: The Julius Quartet - Artists in Residence

*NEW* Time and Location: West Plano Presbyterian Church - 2709 Custer Road, Plano TX | 7pm

Mem(ə)rē: What Remains(?)

“Music, when soft voices die, vibrates in the memory” - Percy Bysshe Shelley 

This program reflects on that which remains - our perception of experience and its lasting imprint. It explores that which we have lost, that which has changed us and how experiences have affected our sense of living. From Beethoven to Golijov, we explore these ideas transformed into sound, creating our own shared memory together. 

PROGRAM:

Gyorg Kurtag: Officium breve, in memoriam Andreae Szervanszky, Op. 28

Ian Lester: “Memories Lost” from Two Vignettes

Jon Paul Mayse: Three Errors - Three Remembrances

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet No. 13 in Bflat Major, Op. 130; mvt V - Cavatina. Adagio molto espressivo

Osvaldo Golijov: Qohelet

ARTISTS: The Julius Quartet - Artists in Residence

Time and Location: Arts Mission Oak Cliff - 410 S Windomere Ave, Dallas, TX 75208 | 7:00pm

The culminating concert of the EMERGE Virtual Workshop & Performance

PROGRAM:

Featuring the works of the 10 participating composers

ARTISTS:

The Julius Quartet -Artists in Residence

TIME & LOCATION: To be streamed virtually via YouTube Live | 7pm (CTZ)

*** Please visit our YouTube Channel for the concert link***

The culminating performance of the EMERGE Virtual Workshop & Performance - featuring the works of 10 composers.

Hosted by The Julius Quartet - EMERGE Artists in Residence

February 24 - 7pm

DESCRIPTION:

Inspired by the emotionally contemplative “Heiliger Dankgesang…” of Ludwig van Beethoven, this program dives into the struggles of the internal vs. the external, culminating in a triumphant expression of the human spirit. Paired with the Beethoven’s masterful Op. 132 string quartet, the program features the stunning string quartet of Steven Mackey - “One Red Rose” - commissioned by the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in honor of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Furthermore, this program will open with the Dallas premiere of Caroline Shaw’s “Schisma”, taking its inspiration from Beethoven’s masterpiece.

PROGRAM:

Caroline Shaw: Schisma (Dallas premiere)

Steven Mackey: One Red Rose

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet no. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132

ARTISTS: The Julius Quartet - EMERGE Artists-in-Residence

LOCATION: Bentwood Trail Presbyterian Church - 6000 Bentwood Trail, Dallas, TX 75252

TIME: 4pm

TICKETS: Adults - $15; Children under the age of 12 - free

DESCRIPTION:

Inspired by the emotionally contemplative “Heiliger Dankgesang…” of Ludwig van Beethoven, this program dives into the struggles of the internal vs. the external, culminating in a triumphant expression of the human spirit. Paired with the Beethoven’s masterful Op. 132 string quartet, the program features the stunning string quartet of Steven Mackey - “One Red Rose” - commissioned by the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in honor of the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Furthermore, this program will open with the Dallas premiere of Caroline Shaw’s “Schisma”, taking its inspiration from Beethoven’s masterpiece.

PROGRAM:

Caroline Shaw: Schisma (Dallas premiere)

Steven Mackey: One Red Rose

Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet no. 15 in A Minor, Op. 132

ARTISTS: The Julius Quartet - EMERGE Artists-in-Residence

LOCATION: The Bath House - 521 E Lawther Dr, Dallas, TX 75218

TIME: 7pm

TICKETS: Adults - $15; Children under the age of 12 - free