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• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: The Sphinx Virtuosi with the Catalyst Quartet and Elena Urioste, violin Wed., Oct. 10, 2012, 7:30 PM


• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Amernet String Quartet with James Tocco, piano Fri., Oct. 26, 2012, 7:30 PM

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2012-2013 Season

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: The Sphinx Virtuosi with the Catalyst Quartet and Elena Urioste, violin

  Wed., Oct. 10, 2012, 7:30 PM
  Laureates and top alumni of the acclaimed Sphinx Competition for Young Black and Latino String Players, the Sphinx Virtuosi, Catalyst Quartet, and violinist Elena Urioste present a program of music of the Americas.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Amernet String Quartet with James Tocco, piano

  Fri., Oct. 26, 2012, 7:30 PM
  Performing music of Haydn and Beethoven, the Amernet Quartet is joined by virtuoso pianist James Tocco for Franck's monumental Piano Quintet.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Midori in Recital: 30th Anniversary Concert

  Thu., Nov. 1, 2012, 7:30 PM
  Violinist Midori celebrates 30 years in music with a recital of Beethoven Sonatas interspersed with works by Webern and Kurtag, accompanied by pianist Ozgur Aydin.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Igudesman and Joo

  Thu., Nov. 8, 2012, 7:30 PM
  Violinist Aleksey Igudesman and pianist Hyung-ki Joo have taken the world by storm with their comic performances. In the tradition of Victor Borge and Dudley Moore, they bring A Little Nightmare Music.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Anonymous 4

  Wed., Nov. 28, 2012, 7:30 PM
  Beloved a cappella quartet Anonymous 4 brings "Love Fail," a staged concert collaboration with Pulitzer Prize–winning composer David Lang based in part on the lais (tales of love and chivalry) of medieval author Marie de France.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Fine Arts Quartet

  Tue., Dec. 11, 2012, 7:30 PM
  The Fine Arts Quartet brings Haydn's Quartet in G major, the 1959 Quartet of virtuoso/composer Efrem Zimbalist, and Schubert's awe-inspiring Death and the Maiden Quartet.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Misha Dichter with the Harlem Quartet

  Wed., Feb. 6, 2013, 7:30 PM
  Misha Dichter and the Harlem Quartet bring two iconic Piano Quintets by Schumann and Shostakovich, as well as Chick Corea's Adventures of Hippocrates, a jazzy, Latin-inspired quartet for strings.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano, in recital

  Mon., Mar. 4, 2013, 7:30 PM
  As part of the Kennedy Center's Nordic Cool 2013 festival, Grammy-nominated Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter performs in recital with pianist Bengt Forsberg, also from Sweden.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Juho Pohjonen, piano

  Tue., Mar. 12, 2013, 7:30 PM
  One of the brightest young instrumental talents to emerge from Finland today, pianist Juho Pohjonen plays works by Grieg, Nielsen, and Mozart in his Fortas debut as part of the Nordic Cool 2013 festival.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Trio con Brio Copenhagen

  Wed., Mar. 13, 2013, 7:30 PM
  Denmark's Trio con Brio Copenhagen bring a program of Ravel's luminous Trio and Mendelssohn's brooding and passionate C minor Trio, as well as Sørensen's Phantasmagoria as part of the Nordic Cool 2013 festival.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh with the Curtis Chamber Orchestra

  Thu., Mar. 14, 2013, 7:30 PM
  Violinists Jaime Laredo and Jennifer Koh are joined by the Curtis Chamber Orchestra to perform in Bach's Double Concerto on a program that includes two commissioned double concertos from Anna Clyne and David Ludwig and Philip Glass's Echorus.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio

  Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 7:30 PM
  The Kennedy Center's chamber ensemble-in-residence, the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, makes its annual appearance with the DC premiere of Stanley Silverman's Piano Trio No. 2, composed just last year, framed by works from Brahms and Beethoven.

• Fortas Chamber Music Concert: Dawn Upshaw with Crash Ensemble

  Tue., May 14, 2013, 7:30 PM
  Acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw and Dublin's new music company Crash Ensemble perform a program that includes Dennehy's multimedia song cycle That the Night Come, based on poetry of William Butler Yeats.

All programs are subject to change.