September 13, 2024
Beethoven Meets Climate Justice in E-flat Major with Luisa Neubauer and the Lydian Quartet
12:30 PM, International Student Lounge
Brandeis University
Boston, MA

Beethoven’s Cavatina, the Golden Record, and climate justice meet in this special presentation by Luisa Neubauer (youth climate justice activist, Germany’s Fridays for the Future co-founder) and the Lydian Quartet.

October 16, 2024
Lydian Quartet
12:00 PM, Mandel Center
Brandeis University
Boston, MA

Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3 (“The Bird”)
Lembit Beecher | Juniper and Birch (2024, world premiere, commissioned by the Lydian String Quartet)

October 19, 2024
Lydian Quartet & Steven Ansell
7:30 PM, Slosberg Music Center
Brandeis University
Boston, MA

Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3 (“The Bird”)
Lembit Beecher | Juniper and Birch (2024, world premiere, commissioned by the Lydian String Quartet)
Johannes Brahms | String Quartet No.2 in G Major, Op. 111 
With guest artist Steven Ansell, principal viola of the Boston Symphony Orchestra

October 29, 2024
Beethoven Meets Climate Justice in E-flat Major with Luisa Neubauer and the Lydian Quartet
7:00 PM, Goethe Institut Boston
Boston, MA

Beethoven’s Cavatina, the Golden Record, and climate justice meet in this special presentation by Luisa Neubauer (youth climate justice activist, Germany’s Fridays for the Future co-founder) and the Lydian Quartet.

November 8, 2024
A Far Cry: Last Dance
7:30 PM, Jordan Hall
New England Conservatory
Boston, MA

Osvaldo Golijov | Last Round
Trevor Weston | Juba for Strings
Dinuk Wijeratne | Two Pop Songs on Antique Poems, arr. Wijeratne
George Enescu | Octet for Strings in C major, Op.7; arr. Popper-Keizer

November 16, 2024
Grand Valley Piano Chamber Series
with Hannah Collins, cello and Sookkyung Cho, piano
3:00 PM, SVS Recital Hall
Grand Valley State University
Allendale, MI

Franz Schubert | Piano Trio in B-flat major, D. 898
Antonín Dvořák | Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, Op. 26

November 17, 2024
Grand Valley Piano Chamber Series
with Hannah Collins, cello and Sookkyung Cho, piano
3:00 PM, Dogwood Performing Arts Center
Fremont, MI

Franz Schubert | Piano Trio in B-flat major, D. 898
Antonín Dvořák | Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, Op. 26

November 18, 2024
Grand Valley Piano Chamber Series
with Hannah Collins, cello and Sookkyung Cho, piano
7:00 PM, Mayflower Congregational Church
Grand Rapids, MI

Franz Schubert | Piano Trio in B-flat major, D. 898
Antonín Dvořák | Piano Trio No. 2 in G minor, Op. 26

November 24, 2024
Decoda at Musical Masterworks
2:00 PM, St. Ann’s Episcopal Church
Old Lyme, CT

Danish traditional, Arr. Nikolaj Busk | Sønderho Bridal Trilogy - Brudestykke
George Meyer | Trio for Two Violins and Cello
Edgar Meyer | Concert Duo for Violin and Double Bass
Cheshire Correctional Facility Collective | Greatest Adventure (2023)
arr. Brad Balliett | I’ve Got Vision (2024)
Anton Arensky | Quartet No.2 in A minor, Op. 25

December 6, 2024
Old Grass, New Roots
7:30 PM, Slosberg Music Center
Brandeis University
Boston, MA

An evening celebrating connections between American string band music and classical chamber music, featuring collaboratively arranged interpretations of traditional fiddle tunes and bluegrass standards along with original compositions by Ackley.

Clara Lyon and Julia Glenn, violins (Lydian String Quartet)
Taylor Ackley, mandolin and vocals (Brandeis University)
Tony Watts, guitar (Berklee School of Music)
Bob Nieske, bass (Brandeis, New England Conservatory)

December 13, 2024
Lydian Quartet
7:30 PM, First Parish
Wayland, MA

Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3 (“The Bird”)
Lembit Beecher | Juniper and Birch (2024, world premiere, commissioned by the Lydian String Quartet)
Kurt Rohde | seeking all that’s still unsung (2023-2024)
This commission of Kurt Rohde’s work has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

December 14, 2024
New Music Brandeis with Lydian Quartet
7:30 PM, Slosberg Music Center
Brandeis University
Boston, MA

World premieres of new compositions for string quartet by Brandeis university PhD candidates and student composers: Jingmian Gong, Marco Hernandez, Benjamin Lichter, Samuel Long, and Dylan Needleman

January 25, 2025
Decoda
3:00 PM, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414
Robert Schumann | Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44

February 9, 2025
Valley Classical Concerts
Lydian Quartet & Jiayan Sun, piano
3:00 PM, Sweeney Concert Hall, Sage Hall
Smith College
Northampton, MA

Joseph Haydn | String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33 No. 3 (“The Bird”)
Claude Debussy | String Quartet in G Minor
Cesar Franck | Piano Quintet in F Minor

March 11, 2025
Decoda @ Carnegie Hall
7:30 PM, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
New York, NY

Lucy Fitz Gibbon, Soprano
Thomas Meglioranza, Baritone
Richard Powers, Narrator

Robert Schumann | "Eintritt" from Waldszenen
Clara Schumann | "Geheimes Flüstern," Op. 23
Gustav Mahler | "Ging heut' Morgen übers Feld" from Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Alma Mahler | "Licht in der Nacht"
Arnold Schoenberg | Verklärte Nacht
David Kirkland Garner/ Stephen Jaffe / Eric Moe/ Melinda Wagner | A Forest Unfolding

March 13, 2025
Decoda @ Joye in Aiken Performing Arts Festival
12:00 PM, First Presbyterian Church
Aiken, SC

March 29, 2025
Time’s Echo with Jeremy Eichler & Lydian Quartet
7:30 PM, Slosberg Music Center
Brandeis University
Boston, MA

Dmitri Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 3 in F Major, Op. 73

April 4-6, 2025
Decoda @ Charlotte SHOUT! Festival
Programs TBA
Charlotte, NC

April 26, 2025
Lydian Quartet
7:30 PM, Slosberg Music Center
Brandeis University
Boston, MA

May 14, 2025
Lydian Quartet on Tour
Festival Cultural de Mayo
Guadalajara, Mexico

Recent Performances

March 14, 2024
Premiere of "Thus, the Night", panel conversation, and performance 
Isis Theater, with Aspen Film
Aspen, CO

Thus, the Night is a short art film (approx. 19 min.) inspired by French composer Henri Dutilleux's seminal work for string quartet written in 1976, "Ainsi la Nuit". One of the final projects produced by three-time Grammy-nominated Spektral Quartet, the film was developed by violinist Clara Lyon, visual artist Antonia Contro, and film production company Four/Ten Media. In Thus, the Night, the collaborative team strove to reflect the composer's interests in surrealism, highlighting the unique and heightened qualities of perception and memory as enhanced by the liminal space between light and dark. More about the film, here.

The event will include a panel conversation with violinist Clara Lyon of Spektral Quartet, visual artist Antonia Contro, and filmmaker Evan Chapman of Four/Ten Media, to be moderated by Michal Raz-Russo, noted curator and photographer, as well as a special live performance of Scorrevole – a new visual/sonic collaboration by Lyon and Contro featuring the live performance of composer Andrew Norman’s Sabina for solo violin, in dialogue with Contro’s animated film One Cloud.

April 5, 2024
Decoda at NOLA Chamber Fest
7:30 PM, University of New Orleans Recital Hall
New Orleans, LA

Music by Christopher Cerrone, Brad Balliett, Igor Stravinsky, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Guillaume Connesson,
and new works by incarcerated composers who participate in Decoda's Music for Transformation program 

April 12, 2024
CHIMEFest
7:30 PM, Logan Center Penthouse, University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

CHIMEFest: Chicago Integrated Media Experimental Studio presents an annual celebration of electroacoustic music. Featuring work by Darlene Castro Ortiz.

April 27th, 2024
Grand Valley Piano Chamber Series
3 PM, The Block
Muskegon, MI

Music by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, with Hannah Collins, cello, and Sookkyung Cho, piano

April 28th, 2024
Grand Valley Piano Chamber Series
4 PM, Westminster Church
Grand Rapids, MI

Music by Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, with Hannah Collins, cello, and Sookkyung Cho, piano

May 10, 2024
A Far Cry at Jordan Hall: Perception
8pm, Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory
Boston, MA

Music by Sofia Gubaidulina, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Béla Bartók

May 14, 2024
Decoda at Carnegie Hall
7:30 PM, Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall
New York, NY

Music by Aaron Copland, Hannah Kendall, Hans Eisler, Billy Bragg, 
and a special collaborative set including a world premiere by and featuring Ringdown (Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee)