Clarinetist Chen Halevi and the Arethusa Quartet bring together two towering works of contemporary chamber music from profoundly different traditions: Osvaldo Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind and Pēteris Vasks’ String Quartet No. 6. Golijov’s ecstatic, ritual-like score finds the composer returning to Jewish mysticism, while Vasks’ Sixth Quartet references Baltic spirituality, tracing a life’s arc from …

The United Strings of Europe and artistic director Julian Azkoul are devoted to developing engaging programs that blend the familiar with the new and encourage the discovery of new repertoire. On Hommages, the ensemble presents a program featuring the world premiere recordings of Dobrinka Tabakova’s Organum Light, inspired by Einstein’s quantum theory of light, Olli Mustonen’s Apotheosis – In memoriam …