Hancher

We are delighted to welcome the Minnesota Orchestra back under the baton of Thomas Søndergård for a concert featuring violinist Benjamin Beilman, an adventuresome and passionate performer with a rich and deep tone.

In dialogue with Hancher, the Trisha Brown Dance Company will develop two distinct programs that engage audiences with the range of Brown’s artistry reframed against an array of natural and built landscapes. 

Floor of the Forest will be staged by Tony Orrico, University of Iowa assistant professor of dance and sculpture/intermedia. 

In celebration of the centennial of iconoclastic American artist Robert Rauschenberg, the Trisha Brown Dance Company performs Dancing with Bob: Rauschenberg, Brown & Cunningham Onstage, featuring two masterpieces. Student dancers from the University of Iowa’s Department of Dance will perform Brown’s Foray Forêt. 

In this special program, Yo-Yo Ma explores music at the center of his musical firmament, pairing it with his thoughts about how it has shaped his thinking about art, human nature, and our ongoing search for meaning.

Disney’s Moana Live-to-Film Concert features a full-length screening of the beloved animated movie accompanied by live music performed by an ensemble of top Hollywood studio musicians, Polynesian rhythm masters, and vocalists.

The current Imani Winds ensemble, the Harlem Quartet, and a jazz trio come together to perform the piece at The Englert. A.B. Spellman—a poet, music critic, arts administrator, and legend of the Black Arts Movement—will provide the stirring oration at the heart of the work. 

Winners of the 2022 Banff International String Quartet Competition and a 2023 Avery Fisher Career Grant, the members of the quartet forge an emotional connection with audiences—valuing the listener as a fifth member of the ensemble.

Hancher’s composer-in-residence revisits two of his exceptional song cycles in a single day—an opportunity to immerse yourself in Kahane’s lyrically beautiful work and affecting vocals and join a community dinner.

Pianist, vocalist, and Hancher’s composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane joins the vibrant Attacca Quartet for a performance which employs Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major as a scaffolding. Ravel’s work will be interwoven with Gabriel Kahane’s Klee and Final Privacy Song.