Da Capo Chamber Players

Encounters: with the music of our time, the Department of Music's contemporary music series, presents Da Capo Chamber Players performing Steve Reich's "Double Sextet" and Duke composer Stephen Jaffe's "Light Dances" (Chamber Concerto No. 2). Winner of the Naumburg Chamber Music Award in 1973, Da Capo has long been a leader in building a strong heritage of present-day American chamber music, pointing with pride to more than 90 chamber music works written especially for the group. Da Capo has performed in Russia at the Moscow Forum International Festival of Contemporary Music, at the Belarussian Musical Autumn, Moscow Autumn and St. Petersburg Sound Ways festivals, and at Smolny College in St. Petersburg. Da Capo;s Russian and Belarussian performances have been funded in part by The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals, of Arts International, and by the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Da Capo's New York concert series, presented annually since the group's founding in 1970, has included gala concerts honoring major composers and groundbreaking programs that stretch the definition of chamber music.