2023-24
Concerts

As a way to reflect on and celebrate our unique history, St. Cecilia Music Center is delighted to host the fifth annual Helen DeVos Legacy Award Gala on Saturday, April 27, 2024. This year, we are thrilled to honor Ellen Arlinsky, Mary Bloom, and Kate McGarry. Join us as we pay tribute to these three women who helped make SCMC the innovative and professional organization it is today!

Enjoy the Kent Philharmonic Orchestra in Royce Auditorium performing N.R. Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnole and Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dance.

Join us for this winter concert featuring SCMC's beginning string ensemble, Sinfonia, and intermediate string ensemble, Concert Orchestra.

Join us for this winter concert featuring SCMC's top youth orchestra ensemble, Philharmonic.

Over the past three decades, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, Joshua Redman has consistently demonstrated how to honor music’s verities while expanding its reach in contemporary settings.

This program spotlights the wealth and variety of chamber music for winds in multiple combinations and introduces the former Principal Horn of the Berlin Philharmonic, Radek Baborák, to American audiences.

Cécile McLorin Salvant, is a composer, singer, and visual artist. The late Jessye Norman described Salvant as “a unique voice supported by an intelligence and full-fledged musicality, which light up every note she sings”.

Hailed as one of the most prodigious guitarists of his generation and “highest category of improvising musicians" (New Yorker), Julian Lage has spent more than a decade searching through the myriad strains of American musical history via impeccable technique, free association and a spirit of infinite possibility.

One of the most beloved chamber music works for strings and piano, Schubert’s “Trout” Quintet not only demonstrates his genius for melody and lyricism, but also features a distinct combination of instruments: only one violin and the addition of double bass.

Christian McBride is an eight-time GRAMMY-winning bassist, composer, and bandleader. He is the Artistic Director of the historic Newport Jazz Festival, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the TD James Moody Jazz Festival, and the National Jazz Museum in Harlem. McBride is also a respected educator and advocate for youth, and serves as Artistic Director of Jazz House KiDS and the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Summer Sessions.

CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel is joined by colleagues from around the world in a program featuring string sextets, an ensemble comprised of pairs of violins, violas, and cellos.