This Year’s Festival Season at the Park Opens with Baroque and Renaissance Music
This year’s Washington Square Music Festival, its 68th Season, begins Tuesday, June 9th and continues Tuesdays throughout June
Tuesday, June 9, at 8 p.m., Music Director Ahmed Alom has announced a splendid celebration of 16th-18th Century composers in historic Washington Square Park’s Main Stage. It is the Washington Square Music Festival’s 68th season of free concerts, always welcoming and open to everyone. Seating is limited, but many music aficionados bring a picnic, a blanket, and enjoy being outdoors under the stars.
BAROQUE AND RENAISSANCE MUSIC The Festival Chamber Ensemble
Ahmed Alom, conductor
Eriko Sato, concertmaster
Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) Works for String Orchestra
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) Three Pieces for Orchestra
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) Violin Concerto in E minor RV 278
Eriko Sato, violin
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Harpsichord Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 Ahmed Alom, keyboard
Ahmed Alom – the Cuban-born pianist, composer, and conductor moves fluidly between concert halls and jazz clubs, between the music of Bach and Afro-Cuban rhythm, between the stage and the podium — and makes every crossing feel inevitable. As a soloist, Alom has performed with the Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New World Symphony, and orchestras across the US, Spain, Mexico, and Cuba. In the summer of 2024, Alom became the youngest Music Director of The Washington Square Music Festival — one of New York’s most beloved summer institutions and its youngest Music Director in their history. Alom was born and raised in Havana, training at Cuba’s Amadeo Roldan Conservatory in piano and percussion before attending the Manhattan School of Music, earning a degree in piano performance. …
Eriko Sato is a leading violinist on the New York City chamber music scene and a co-concertmaster of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s and the Washington Square Music Festival. She made her solo debut at age 13 and has performed as soloist with orchestras in Louisville, San Francisco and Tokyo. … A regular performer of the David Oei Classical Salon, a monthly chamber music series at St. John’s in the Village, she lives in New York City with her husband, pianist David Oei, and their Shepherd/Husky mix Mama Bear.
Washington Square Music Festival Upcoming Concerts, all Tuesdays in June at 8 p.m.:
June 16 – Kali Rodriguez Peña Quintet.
June 23 – Itai Kriss & Telavana.
June 30 – Festival Chamber Orchestra – Ahmed Alom, conductor, Rosario Armas, mezzo-soprano.
Rain space: New School’s Stiefel Hall, 55 West 13th St, room 1400
Learn more at the Washington Square Music Festival web site.