Join us for our 10th Anniversary Season of Decoda Chamber Music Festival at our new North Carolina home at Warren Wilson College! Our first performance of the festival features our five DCMF faculty, Decoda artists Brad Balliett, bassoon, Claire Bryant, cello, Catherine Gregory, flute, David Kaplan, piano and Clara Lyon, violin.

In a program that shows off Decoda’s unique programming, you will be delighted by chamber music from Valerie Coleman, Felix Mendelssohn, and a new work by incarcerated composer and friend of Decoda, Xiaobao He. Also on the program are two Decoda arrangements by Brad Balliett, one by North Carolina native John Coltrane, and another in honor of the late South Carolina astronaut, Dr. Ron McNair. Anchoring the program is another Decoda original arrangement by Catherine Gregory, Reimagined Dance Suite, a mashup of the French Baroque by Rameau, and the Neo-Classical with Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite.

Maombi for flute, violin, and cello by Valerie Coleman

Andante espressivo from Piano Trio No. 2 by Felix Mendelssohn

Poetic Distance Suite for bassoon, cello and piano by Xiaobao He

Fantasy on Rendezvous 5 (Ron’s Piece) by Jean-Michel Jarre / Brad Balliett

brief intermission

Reimagined Dance Suite Rameau/Stravinsky (arr. Catherine Gregory)

Naima by John Coltrane (arr. Brad Balliett)

FREE!