…the heart alone: a chamber music concert
This program re-examines the classical piano quartet from a contemporary lens, pairing Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 3, “Werther,” in dialogue with a new commission by emerging composer, Max Eidinoff. This new piece responds both to Brahms’s music and Goethe’s novella, The Sorrows of Young Werther, which Brahms alluded to in relation to his quartet. John Pablo Rojas, in his improvisatory string trio, piece about yourself, creates an evolving harmonic world which complements the emotional landscape spanned by Brahms, Eidinoff, and Goethe.
“If I were not a fool, I could spend the happiest and most delightful life here. So many agreeable circumstances, and of a kind to ensure a worthy man’s happiness, are seldom united. Alas! I feel it too sensibly, – the heart alone makes our happiness!”
– The Sorrows of Young Werther,
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Program:
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60 (1875)
John Pablo Rojas – piece about yourself (2026)
Max Eidinoff – …the heart alone (2026)
Performers:
Claire Hughes – Violin
Megan Wike – Viola
John Pablo Rojas – Cello
Joseph Kruse – Piano
Saturday, October 17th, 2026
7:30PM
An die Musik
409 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD
$20 general
$10 student
Free for Peabody students
Saturday, October 24th, 2026
7:30PM
MISE-EN_PLACE
45 St Nicholas Ave
New York, NY
$10 minimum, pay what you can
Dialogues x New York New Music Festival
Thursday, November 19th, 2026
9:30PM
The Tank
312 W 36th St.
New York, NY
Unheard-of performs trios by David Bird, Meg Okura, Max Eidinoff, and Ben Wallace, exploring sounds in between worlds from the fantastical to sonic memory and imagined futures. The program opens with Meg Okura’s Phantasmagoria described as a musical odyssey into a world more surreal than even the most fantastical dream. David Bird’s Hysteresis blends electronics, video, and expansive sonic textures that weave through time. Max Eidinoff’s Converging on a Critical Band expands the trio into a processed meta instrument. Ben Wallace’s Crash Out ends the program with persistent 90s rave and a fever dream.
Program:
David Bird – Hysteresis (2026) 7’
Meg Okura – Phantasmagoria (2020) 10’
Max Eidinoff – Converging on a Critical Band (2026) 7’
Ben Wallace – Crash Out (2026) 8’
Chambre d’échos
[aspects] Festival des musiques d’aujourd’hui
Sunday, March 21st, 2027
5PM
Conservatoire & Orchestre de Caen
L’Ensemble de l’Opéra Orchestre Normandie Rouen
Jean Deroyer, conductor
program:
Pascal Dusapin
Coda pour treize instrumentistes – 1992
Hop’ pour quatre groupes de trois instrumentistes – 1983/1984
Coda pour treize instrumentistes – 1992
Hop’ pour quatre groupes de trois instrumentistes – 1983/1984
Max Eidinoff
Catatonic in an Echo Chamber of Your Own Design – 2024
Catatonic in an Echo Chamber of Your Own Design – 2024
Oliver Leith
Honey Siren pour cordes – 2019