Music Middays is a program of Music Mondays, featuring emerging musicians performing one-hour programs at noon on select Tuesdays. Admission is FREE.

Presented by Serena Canin

October 20, 2026
Lucas Amory, Piano

Award-winning pianist and conductor Lucas Amory is quickly establishing himself  in New York City as a versatile and multi-talented performer.  Today’s eclectic program contrasts the atmospheric Etudes of Debussy and the ecstatic “Traced Overhead” by British composer Thomas Adès, with the rigorous structures of Bach. It concludes with the first of Beethoven’s late period piano sonatas, Op. 101, a deeply personal work  which the composer himself described as “a series of impressions and reveries.”

PROGRAM
BACH: Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Major, BWV 872
DEBUSSY: Selected Etudes
BACH: Prelude and Fugue in C-sharp Minor, BWV 873
ADÈS: Traced Overhead (1996)
BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata in A Major, Op. 101

November 17, 2026
Ensemble 132

Sahun Sam Hong, piano
Zachary Mowitz, cello
Stephanie Zyzak, violin

Ensemble 132 is an internationally acclaimed collective of soloists and chamber musicians of the highest caliber, uniting with a shared mission to reimagine the chamber music landscape. Please join us for an exciting mixed program of delightful dance music for piano by Robert Schumann, a dreamy fairy tale for cello and piano by Leos Janáček, and the electrifying C minor Trio of Felix Mendelssohn.

PROGRAM
SCHUMANN: Papillons, Op. 2
JANÁČEK: Pohádka
MENDELSSOHN: Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66

March 2, 2027
Laurel Gagnon, violin and Umi Garrett, piano

Violinist Laurel Gagnon has been praised for a “naturalness that is both disarming and distinctive” (The Straits Times, Singapore.)  She joins prize-winning pianist Umi Garrett  in an evocative and beautifully crafted program featuring the famous Blues-inspired Sonata of Maurice Ravel and the grand Fantasy of Franz Schubert, complemented by works of turn-of-the-20th century American women, Florence Price and Amy Beach.

PROGRAM
PRICE: Fantasie No. 1 in G Minor
RAVEL: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano
BEACH: Romance, Op. 23
SCHUBERT: Fantasy in C Major for Violin and Piano, D. 934

April 27, 2027
Callisto Quartet

Eric Tsai, violin
Gregory Lewis, violin
Eva Kennedy, viola
Hannah Moses, cello

Praised for their “tremendous variety of color’ (The Strad) the Callisto Quartet has quickly risen to international acclaim. Today they bring us Jesse Montgomery’s highly popular, folk-inspired “Strum,” followed by the first of Beethoven’s legendary late quartets. In these works, Beethoven plumbs the depths of the personal to achieve the universal. Op. 127 is magnificent: innovative, sublime, and deeply emotional.

PROGRAM
MONTGOMERY: Strum (2012)
BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in Eb Major, Op. 127