cMonday, August 17, 2026 • 1 PM

Listening Lounge: Adès

Michael Gerdes hosts a guided listening series for curious concertgoers who want to expand how they hear music. Each session examines a single work, exploring how a piece is built, what to listen for as it unfolds, and how different performers bring contrasting perspectives to the same notes.

By comparing interpretations and considering changes in performance practice throughout history, we’ll begin to listen to music the way one might taste fine wine: attentively, thoughtfully, and with a growing vocabulary.

Registration Required.

Thomas Adès’ Concerto Conciso premièred when the composer was only 26. It distills the concerto form into something concise yet electrifying and was described in The Daily Telegraphy as “a pithy work, and one of formidable rhythmic complexity…The drama of Concerto Conciso is intense, its whirlwind impact galvanising.”

Thomas Adès’ Concerto Conciso will be performed on Wednesday, August 19.

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