Announcing Dolce Suono Ensemble’s 2025-2026 Season

HIGHLIGHTS:

– Celebrating our 20th anniversary during our 21st season 

– Our acclaimed artist team and distinguished guests

– Celebrating America at 250 with a program of works by American composers 

– World premières, a version première, and Dolce Suono Ensemble commissions

– The Philadelphia première of a work inspired by a famous painting, the composer of which tells the dramatic story connected to his own life.

4 Sundays at 3pm Trinity at 22nd, Spruce & 22nd Streets, Philadelphia

DSE Presents concerts 

October 5, 2025 – A festive program of three Vivaldi flute concertos – Il Cardellino, La notte, La Tempesta di mare – and DSE commissions including Zhou Tian’s Viaje and Benjamin C.S. Boyle’s Sonata-Cantilena [version première] for flute and string quartet

December 14, 2025 – USA at 250 celebration, with the world première of a new work by Jacob Bancks for flute, piano, and percussion exploring the trajectory of the flute in songs and dances from throughout the history of the United States. “Música en tus Manos” project continuation highlighting Latino composers including Tania León, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Rafael Hernández. Other works by Undine Smith Moore, Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, Pixinguinha, Waldir Acevedo

March 15, 2026 – Anniversary concert with works by J.S. Bach, Franz Schubert, Camille Saint-Saëns, Florence Price

June 14, 2026 – Philadelphia première of David Serkin Ludwig’s Woman in Gold for flute and string quartet, inspired by the story of Gustav Klimt’s painting Woman in Gold/Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer, which was stolen from a Jewish family by the Nazis in World War II and appropriated by the Austrian government until it was restored to the rightful owners in 2006. This dramatic story is connected to David Serkin Ludwig’s own life, as his grandfather, the pianist Rudolf Serkin, studied with the composer Arnold Schoenberg, who was in Klimt’s artistic circle in Vienna. Schoenberg’s grandson, E. Randol Schoenberg, was the attorney who led the seven-year legal claim which successfully brought the painting back to Bloch-Bauer’s niece. Additional works by Schoenberg, Paul Ben-Haim, Shulamit Ran

~ OUR 2025-2026 ARTISTS ~

Mimi Stillman, flute – Ricardo Morales, clarinet – Amy Oshiro-Morales, violin – Alexandr Kislitsyn, violin – Celina Velez, vocals/violin – Che-Hung Chen, viola – Gabriel Cabezas, cello – Arlen Hlusko, cello – Mary Javian, bass – Charles Abramovic, piano – Gabriel Globus-Hoenich, percussion

Dolce Suono Trio (Stillman, Cabezas, Abramovic)

Sarah Shafer, soprano

Emma Humann, soprano [DSE Wally Loeb Young Artist]

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