"A TRIUMPH OF MUSICIANSHIP AND ADVENTUROUS PROGRAMMING"---CHRIS WADDINGTON, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
"A TRIUMPH OF MUSICIANSHIP AND ADVENTUROUS PROGRAMMING"---CHRIS WADDINGTON, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
"A TRIUMPH OF MUSICIANSHIP AND ADVENTUROUS PROGRAMMING"---CHRIS WADDINGTON, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
"A TRIUMPH OF MUSICIANSHIP AND ADVENTUROUS PROGRAMMING"---CHRIS WADDINGTON, NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE
Musaica returns to perform for live audiences in its 17th season with
“A Musical Family.” This season we are bringing you pieces that explore the relationships composers have with each other and with the musicians and instruments they write for.
Munholland Methodist Church
A program of beautiful pieces from the Mendelssohn siblings, with Fanny Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat major and Felix Mendelssohn's...
Munholland Methodist Church
Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church
A program of beautiful pieces from the Mendelssohn siblings, with Fanny Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E flat major and Felix Mendelssohn's...
Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church
Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church
A concert featuring the works of composers from neighboring countries including Ernő Dohnányi's First Piano Quintet and Dvorak's String Quin...
Saint Charles Avenue Presbyterian Church
UNO Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
A concert featuring the works of composers from neighboring countries including Ernő Dohnányi's First Piano Quintet and Dvorak's String Quin...
UNO Performing Arts Center Recital Hall
Munholland Methodist Church
Our season will conclude with compositions for two big ensembles as the instruments of three musical families reunite for Samuel Coleridge-T...
Munholland Methodist Church
Musaica is a non-profit chamber music ensemble founded in the fall of 2006 by eight devoted professional musicians from the Louisiana Philharmonic, several of whom are also faculty members at Loyola and Tulane Universities and the University of New Orleans.
Our mission is to promote and foster chamber music performance; to encourage the composition of new music; and to increase the awareness and appreciation of chamber music.
Musaica presents a variety of eclectic and entertaining chamber music to audiences throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area. Each year three diverse programs are performed several times in different venues in metropolitan New Orleans, including surrounding parishes. The Musaica concert series presents familiar and accessible works alongside those which are new or less often performed.
For sixteen seasons, this adventuresome chamber group has presented world premiers by bassist and founding member David Anderson, as well as Harold Seletsky, William Horne, Mollie O'Meara, Richard Harrison, William Vollinger, Dan Shore, Tucker Fuller, and Adrienne Elisha. Audiences are treated to performances of great but infrequently heard compositions by Villa-Lobos, Bax, Bartok, Poulenc, Kodaly, and Rebecca Clarke alongside timeless favorites like Copland's Appalachian Spring, and the Schubert Octet. The Musaica Chamber Ensemble has been hailed by the New Orleans Times-Picayune as "a triumph of musicianship and adventurous programming," and has been nominated several times by Gambit's "Tribute to the Classical Arts” for its programs and performances of contemporary chamber music. Last year, Musaica was recognized for its performance in 2019 of Marjan Mozetich's "Angels in Flight" as Best Performance of a New Work. Musaica's fall concert "Création du Monde" won for best Chamber Music Concert of 2018, and Musaica was also the winner of the 2007 award for Best Chamber Music Concert.
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