On September 19, Kutik gives the world premiere of Eric Nathan's new Violin Concerto, The Mountains We Climb, with the Rhode Island Philharmonic — a co-commission by eight orchestras and a consortium of violinists, of which Kutik is honored to be the one to introduce the work to the world. Led by Music Director Ruth Reinhardt, the performance opens the RI Phil's 2026–27 season and marks the launch of Nathan's three-year appointment as the orchestra's first-ever Composer in Residence. Inspired by the act of mountain climbing as a metaphor for perseverance, the concerto shares the program with Beethoven's "Pastoral" Symphony.

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Last month brought the Quartet to New London, NH and Greensboro, VT, closing out the festival season at the finale of the Newport Classical festival, where they joined the festival's Resident Artists for string octets by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn. The momentum continues with an eight-day New England tour, August 9–16, including a stop at the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival in Chatham; collaborative jazz-and-classical performances with saxophonist Steve Wilson, pianist Renee Rosnes, and bassist David Wong in Falmouth and Wellfleet, featuring world premieres of a new Rosnes commission and two Maria Schneider arrangements; and appearances on Martha's Vineyard with the Chappaquiddick Community Center Chamber Music Series and the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society.

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The Terra String Quartet has just returned from a tour of Spain and looks forward to a full summer festival season stateside. Highlights include a return to the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, where the Quartet joins forces with the Balourdet Quartet for a program of Borodin, Golijov, Ravel, and Shostakovich; a stop with Capital Region Classical's Tannery Pond Concerts in New Lebanon, NY; a debut at the Kingston Chamber Music Festival's 38th season, running July 22–August 2; and a return to the Skaneateles Festival on July 28.

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The Galvin Cello Quartet has wrapped a full spring run of their "Voice of the Piano" program, bringing cello quartet arrangements of Mussorgsky, Schumann, Gershwin, and more to venues including the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Ashe County Arts Council's Ed Perzel Chamber Music Series in West Jefferson, the Enchanted Mountains series in St. Bonaventure, NY, the Greater Miami Youth Symphony's Miami Cello Institute, the Telluride Chamber Music Association, and Chamber Music in Yellow Springs. Looking ahead to summer, the Quartet will take up residencies at the Ascent International Cello Festival in mid-June, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival later that month, followed by Texas Cellos in August. Additional engagements throughout the summer include concerts with Princeton University on June 22, Austin Chamber Music Center on July 25, the Abbey Bach Festival on July 31, and Classical Music Chicago on August 18.

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The Borromeo String Quartet had a packed March and April, opening with a sold-out appearance at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 15 before heading to Virginia for back-to-back concerts at the Feldman Chamber Music Society in Norfolk on March 16 — joined by Feldman artist-in-residence Alex Beyer — and the Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg on March 17. The Quartet returned to the Feldman on April 13 for the society's season finale, this time for a special octet program of Shostakovich, Enescu, and Mendelssohn at the Chrysler Museum of Art, co-presented with the Virginia Arts Festival; the same octet collaboration then traveled west for a performance at Southern Oregon University's Music Recital Hall in Ashland on April 18, presented by Chamber Music Concerts, followed by a performance in Brookings with the Partnership for the Performing Arts.

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Cellist Tommy Mesa performs Wynton Marsalis' newly commissioned cello concerto on March 10 at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, alongside Interlochen Arts Academy students and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under conductor Cristian Măcelaru. The concerto received its world premiere on March 7 at Interlochen with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist, with Mesa taking the baton for the Detroit leg of the "Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250" tour. This program marking both the U.S. semiquincentennial and a century of partnership between Interlochen and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

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Pianist Stewart Goodyear will be performing alongside three American orchestras this season. He returns to the Phoenix Symphony under Mélisse Brunet from February 27 to March 1, performing Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, a 100 year old work weaving together jazz, ragtime, and classical idioms, as part of a program celebrating American music. On March 7 and 8, he joins the Greenwich Symphony under Stuart Malina for Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Egyptian"). He then returns to the Baltimore Symphony under Jun Märkl, again performing the Saint-Saëns "Egyptian" Concerto, this time alongside works by Pépin, Debussy, and Ravel.

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The Lysander Piano Trio concluded its winter West Coast tour, starting with performances at Chamber Music Monterey Bay and Music in Corrales in January and concluding with a debut at Camerata Musica in the Tri-Cities in Washington state and a return to Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, California.

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Melissa White gave four stunning performances of the new Violin Concerto by Sophia Jani, the Dallas Symphony's composer-in-residence, in her Dallas Symphony debut. Rave reviews came from several local news outlets, including The Dallas Morning Sun and Texas Classical Review (see here). These performances will be aired on MediciTV.

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Cellist Tommy Mesa releases his second solo album on February 13, 2026, titled ‘17(67),' pairing together the year the artist’s Nicolò Gagliano cello was made with a popular modern slang term. The album’s title reflects the bridge created between the traditional and the innovative through this wide-ranging program, played alongside pianist Yoon Lee. With recordings from the Romantic canon, an early 20th century Brazilian composition, to contemporary voices and even some of Mesa’s own arrangements, Mesa’s repertoire spans eras and styles. The album has been praised by the CBC as their Album of the Week (see here).

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