**Due to COVID-19, this event will be virtually broadcast online at musicalbridges.org/watch or YouTube** Tribute to the Violinist - Yuri Sheykhet Founder of Musical Bridges Around the World, Anya Grokhovski shares her family's personal archives as they dedicate music for a memorial tribute to their father Yuri Sheykhet. This collection is an homage to Yuri's […]
Join us as we journey across the globe visiting San Antonio Sister and Friendship Cities from Japan to Namibia, Mexico to China, Germany to India and beyond! Our international music ensemble shatters boundaries with a program of hope and resilience.
Watch online at: musicalbridges.org/watch Youtube link The legendary Janoska Ensemble invites you to Vienna to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth in the Austrian city where he spent much of his life composing his most eminent works. Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral merge the historic architecture of the nation's oldest continuously operating Catholic […]
Please Note: This concert has changed to virtual only. Winner of the Audience Favorite Award, Italian virtuoso Leonardo Colafelice returns to San Antonio with a dazzling new program a year after taking the Bronze Medal at The Gurwitz 2020 International Piano Competition. About Leonardo Colafelice (Italy): Leonardo Colafelice is an Italian pianist of international repute and acclaim. Legendary pianist Martha Agerich has remarked of Colafelice as a “fabulous pianist and musician.” Colafelice was born in 1995 in Altamura (Bari), Southern Italy and became a pupil of Pasquale Iannone at Bari’s renowned Niccolò Piccinni...
Two masters of their instruments, Switzerland-born harmonica player Grégorie Maret and Colombian harpist Edmar Castañeda unite for an unprecedented collaboration of traditional Brazilian songs as they take audiences across Latin America. About Edmar Castañeda (Colombia): Since arriving in the United States in 1994, Colombian-born harp virtuoso Edmar Castañeda has forged his own distinctive path in music. He brings not only an unfamiliar instrument but a wholly original voice to jazz, branching out into a world of different styles and genres...
The season finale celebrates the achievements of our three educational programs – Kids to Concerts, Musical Sprouts and Gurwitz Group Ambassadors – and their impact on children as they journeyed to Russia, Japan, Spain and San Antonio’s Sister Cities around the globe. The concert also features highlights from this season's virtual performances.
Native of San Juan, Argentina, JP Jofre is an award-winning bandoneon player and composer that is repeatedly highlighted by the New York Times and praised as one of today’s leading artists by Great Performers at Lincoln Center. Argentinian singer Sofia Tosello and the JP Jofre Hard Tango Chamber Band join him for a dramatic season opener!
Classical music meets jazz with two of MBAW’s founding artists, pianist Valeri Grokhovski and violinist Mark Cheikhet. San Antonio favorites bassist Zlatan Redzic and percussionist Darren Kuper join them to offer a unique interpretation of all-time favorites from Bach to Gershwin.
This concert showcases outstanding musicians featured in Musical Bridges’ upcoming documentary film “The Quilt: A Living History of African American Music”. Performers include Beverly Houston, Veronica Williams, Andrea Vocab Sanderson, Ron Wilkins, Marc “Mockingbird” Smith, and Aaron Prado’s jazz trio with Johnathan Alexander and Brandon Rivas. The program will highlight historical spirituals all the way to music of the present day.
The Julius Quartet and Ukrainian soprano Yelena Dyachek celebrate the 225th birthday of one of the most beloved composers of all time, Franz Schubert.