Experience Musical Excellence at the Bender JCC
2024-2025 POLINGER ARTISTS OF EXCELLENCE CONCERT SERIES | Sundays at 3:00 PM & 7:00 PM
The Bender JCC is pleased to announce that we will be offering free tickets to registrants who are 18 and under years of age with a paying adult. For more information, please contact Marcie Blackman at mblackman@benderjccgw.org or 301-348-3808.
Join us for magnificent well-loved chamber works by Schubert, Franck, Puccini and Dvořák plus lesser-known works by Thomas Adès, Adolphus Hailstork and Pierre Jalbert. Musicians perform in the Gildenhorn/Speisman Center for the Arts’ intimate Kreeger Auditorium.
Single concert tickets now on sale for $50/ticket!
Marcie Blackman: (301) 348-3808 or mblackman@benderjccgw.org
Purchase Polinger Artists of Excellence Concert Tickets
Brannon Cho and Janice Carissa
Cello + Piano | November 17 | 7:00 PM
Leoš Janáček: Pohádka
Cesar Franck: Sonata in A Major FWV 8 (arr.Delsart)
John Corigliano: Phantasmagoria
Bohuslav Martinů: Sonata No. 3 for Cello and piano H. 340
William Hagen and Albert Cano Smit
Violin + Piano | December 8 | 3:00 PM
Mendelssohn: Violin Sonata in F major, MVW 026
Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Schumann: Violin Sonata No. 2 in D minor
Ying Quartet
String Quartet | March 16 | 3:00 PM
Hugo Wolf: Italian Serenade
Giacomo Puccini: Chrysanthemums
Pierre Jalbert: Icefield Sonnets
Franz Schubert: String Quartet in D Minor, D. 810 “Death & the Maiden”
Lysander Piano Trio
Ensemble | April 6 | 7:00 PM
Joaquín Turina: Circulo, Op. 91
Franz Schubert: Notturno, D. 897
Udi Perlman: Nostos (2022)
Schumann: Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 63
Alon Goldstein
Piano | June 8 | 7:00 PM
Bach/Busoni: Choral Prelude
Mendelssohn: Song Without Words
Mozart/Generani: Andante from Divertimenti Op. 138
Janacek: Sonata Oct. 1, 1905
Debussy: Preludes and “The Island of Joy”
Schubert: Sonata in B flat, D. 960
The Polinger Artists of Excellence Concert Series is made possible by the Geraldine and Howard Polinger Concert Endowment Fund.
Questions about concerts at the Bender JCC? Contact Marcie Blackman at mblackman@benderjccgw.org or 301-348-3808!
PARKING – Free parking is available in the Bender JCC parking lot
