ETHEL and Friends is a music series lovingly programmed for “Date Night” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Great Hall at the Balcony Bar by The Met’s Resident Ensemble, ETHEL.
The Great Hall Balcony Bar “Date Night” Artists perform 3 sets on Fridays and Saturdays:
6 PM, 7 PM and 8 PM
ABOUT ETHEL
ETHEL is one of the most acclaimed ensembles in contemporary music. With an eye to tradition and an ear to the future, the quartet is a leading force in concert music’s re-engagement with musical vernaculars, fusing diverse performance practices into a vibrant, engaging sound. ETHEL and ETHEL members perform regularly at the Petrie Court Café, and they welcome celebrated friends to the series–such luminaries as JP Jofre, Alexis Michelle, Kaki King, Allison Loggins-Hull and Raja Rahman.
ETHEL & FRIENDS SERIES CALENDAR
August 1st & August 2nd
Raja Rahman, piano
Raja Rahman, piano
President & CEO of Nevada School of The Arts, and one half of magic duo, Jarrett & Raja, pianist Raja Rahman is a perennial Met favorite. The winner of the 2022 Nevada Arts Council Professional Artist Grant, Raja is active as a soloist, chamber musician, and recording artist with the Sono Luminus label. Performing favorites of the repertoire from Bach to Glass.
August 8th & August 9th
Rock Paper Scissors
Lavinia Pavlish, violin
Ralph Farris, viola
Laura Metcalf, cello
New York’s most engaging string trio brings classics old and new with their signature high-energy spirit — from Beethoven and Kodály, to Hailstork, Hu and Skoryk.
August 15th & August 16th
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Performing the House Band’s Greatest Hits, to include music by Thelonious Monk, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Ron Carter.
August 22nd & August 23rd
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Performing the House Band’s Greatest Hits, to include music by Philip Glass, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Janis Joplin.
August 29th & August 30th
Corin Lee, Violin
Corin Lee, violin
ETHEL’s own Corin Lee offers a showcase of Concert and Contemporary Favorites for Solo Amplified Violin.
September 5th & September 6th
Rock Paper Scissors
Lavinia Pavlish, violin
Ralph Farris, viola
Eleanor Norton, cello
New York’s most engaging string trio brings classics old and new with their signature high-energy spirit — from Beethoven and Kodály, to Hailstork, Hu and Skoryk.
September 12th & September 13th
Lavinia Pavlish
Lavinia Pavlish, violin
Lavinia Pavlish (violinist of Balcony Bar favorite Rock Paper Scissors) is a dynamic New York City-based violinist whose versatile career spans orchestral, chamber, film, and television music. Music of Bach, Vivaldi, Bartók and Farris.
September 19th & September 20th
Booked by The Met
September 26th & September 27th
ETHEL and Kyle Miller
Kyle Miller, guitar
Corin Lee, violin
Kip Jones, violin
Ralph Farris, viola
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Guitarist-composer extraordinaire Kyle Miller joins the House band on new Miller works, as well as celebrated ETHEL favorites.
October 3rd & October 4th
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Program:
Performing the ever-popular music of ETHEL members, as well as audience favorites by the group’s celebrated colleagues and collaborators — Mary Ellen Childs, Phil Kline, and DBR.
October 10th & October 11th
Serene
Serene — piano
@serenepianist
Program:
Serene is a concert pianist and computer scientist. Despite skipping conservatory, she concertizes with orchestras worldwide and is an endorsed Bösendorfer Artist. She also composes avant-garde cyberpunk music, improvises, and collaborates with artists across many genres, and is considered one of the most significant hackers in the world (WIRED).
Her work lives and breathes at the intersection between the traditional and cutting-edge.
Composers to include: Ravel, Liszt, Scriabin.
October 17th & October 18th
Booked by The Met
October 24th & October 25th
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Program:
Performing the House Band’s Greatest Hits, including music by Philip Glass, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and Janis Joplin.
October 31st & November 1st
ETHEL
Ralph Farris, viola
Kip Jones, violin
Corin Lee, violin
Dorothy Lawson, cello
Program:
Performing the infectiously engaging music of ETHEL (your House Band!), as well as audience favorites by the group’s eclectic crew of contemporary composers — Marcelo Zarvos, Ulysses Owens Jr., and Hye-Kyung Lee.
Stay tuned. More dates to be announced.
ETHEL at THE MET
ETHEL has been in Residence at The Met for over a decade– originally on the Balcony Bar, and for the past two years in the virtual realm, producing The Met’s celebrated “Balcony Bar from Home” series where the group presented weekly celebrations of ETHEL’s wide world of music, featuring collaborations with an extraordinary collection of guest artists from Svjetlana Bukvich to Jarrett & Raja; from Layale Chaker to Rhett Price; from Ron Carter to Todd Rundgren.
Visit ETHEL’s YouTube Channel, featuring a playlist of some of ETHEL’s classic BBfH offerings.
Here is a sampling:
