Evening Performances

Friday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.

Opening Session Concert
Chanticleer

Known around the world for its eclectic repertoire and dazzling virtuosity, the Grammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Chanticleer, under the leadership of music director Tim Keeler, has been hailed by the Boston Globe as “breathtaking in its accuracy of intonation, purity of blend, of color and swagger of style.” Founded in San Francisco in 1978 by singer and musicologist Louis Botto, Chanticleer quickly took its place as one of the most prolific recording and touring ensembles in the world, an “orchestra of voices” performing thousands of live concerts and selling more than one million recordings.

Rooted in the Renaissance, Chanticleer’s repertoire has expanded to include a wide range of classical, gospel, jazz and popular music, and the group performs its beloved “A Chanticleer Christmas” program on tour every December. With a deep commitment to the commissioning of new compositions and arrangements, Chanticleer foregrounds American repertoire and a distinctively American sound, complementing the group’s signature diversity in terms of membership and genre.

Named for the “clear-singing” rooster in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, Chanticleer was named Ensemble of the Year by Musical America in 2008 and inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. The group’s award-winning education programs were recognized with the 2010 Chorus America Education Outreach Award, and have engaged tens of thousands of students since the ensemble began.

Monday, April 5, 8:00 p.m.

Tom Borrow, piano

Pianist Tom Borrow earned sensational public and critical acclaim in 2019 when, with only 36 hours’ notice, he replaced pianist Khatia Buniatishvili in a series of 12 concerts performing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G on tour with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.

Since then, Borrow has been invited by many of the world’s major orchestras, including the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Philharmonic, Hallé Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Czech Philharmonic, Basque National Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, NHK Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Baltimore, St. Louis, Atlanta, New Jersey and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras, among others. Leading conductors inviting him include Bychkov, Luisi, Eschenbach, Petrenko, Fischer, Oramo, Zhang, Denève, Saraste, Suzuki, Wellber, Treviño and Elder.

Equally in demand in recital, he has appeared at the BBC Proms, Verbier and Ruhr Festivals, Wigmore Hall, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Berlin Konzerthaus, Vienna Konzerthaus and Vancouver Recital Society. In summer 2025, he made his Aspen Music Festival debut.

Borrow’s 2026–2027 season includes debut recitals with Cal Performances Berkeley and the Gilmore Piano Festival; chamber music in the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s Winter Festival; and concerto appearances with the Dallas and Atlanta Symphony Orchestras.

Following recognition as a recent BBC New Generation Artist, and by International Piano and Gramophone magazines and Musical America, Tom was later presented with the prestigious Terence Judd-Hallé Orchestra Award in 2023.

Across 2024–2025, he was Artist-In-Residence for the São Paulo Symphony in their 70th Anniversary season, and was subsequently named to a third artist residency of his career for 2025–2026 with the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini in its 50th Anniversary season.

Born in Tel Aviv in 2000, Tom Borrow began studying piano at age 5. A protégé of Murray Perahia, he has performed as soloist with all the major orchestras of his native country.