Four musicians are featured in portraits against a backdrop of a church interior with fiery text announcing "The Firebird Quartet" and their program "Embers & Elegance."

Grace & St. Paul's Church

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General Admission

LXCL:Priority entry with reserved seating, and access to Meet &amp; Greet Includes separate ticket for general viewing of Master Class on Sunday at 7:30pm

Pre-Concert Mixer; Meet & Greet & Wine Included

LXCL:This is for Sunday night at 7:30pm. This includes the Q&amp;A Meet &amp; Greet.

Master Class General Admission

LXCL:This is for students in school, including college. Must be able to show current school ID.

Master Class- Student

&ldquo;Embers &amp; Elegance&rdquo;An Evening with The Firebird Quartet November 9, 2026, Monday&nbsp;7:30 PM Grace &amp; St. Paul&#39;s Church,123 W 71st St.&nbsp;New York, NY 10023 There&#39;s a violin in this concert with its own story older than the country it lives in.&nbsp; Jennifer Choi will walk on stage carrying the 1718 &quot;Firebird&quot; Stradivarius &mdash; a three-hundred-year-old instrument, on permanent loan to her, whose voice has been shaped by three centuries of hands, rooms, and music before it ever reaches yours. &nbsp;You are not just hearing a concert.&nbsp;You&#39;re hearing an object that has outlived empires, still singing. She won&#39;t be alone. Joining her is a quartet built from some of the most decorated chamber musicians working in New York today:&nbsp; Derek Wieland, a Juilliard-trained pianist who spent years as Music Director of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and has shared stages with the Cleveland Orchestra and Al Di Meola;&nbsp; Conway Kuo, Associate Principal Second Violin of the New York City Ballet Orchestra, who trained under legends like Arnold Steinhardt and Jascha Brodsky;&nbsp; Michael Cant&uacute;, a Fulbright and Sphinx-Prize-winning cellist who has played Carnegie Hall, Berlin&#39;s Konzerthaus, and Hamburg&#39;s Elbphilharmonie.&nbsp; These aren&#39;t local players doing a favor &mdash; this is a world-class ensemble assembling for one night. The program is a journey, not just a setlist: - Mozart&#39;s Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor** opens the night &mdash; dark, urgent, and startlingly modern for 1785; a piece that shocked its first publishers with how serious chamber music could be.-&nbsp; -Britten&#39;s Cello Sonata** turns the spotlight to a single dialogue between cello and piano &mdash; intimate, spiky, unexpectedly playful in its pizzicato scherzo.-&nbsp; Shostakovich&#39;s Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano** is pure color and wit &mdash; a waltz, a polka, an elegy &mdash; showing the lighter, sly side of a composer usually known for his weight.- Faur&eacute;&#39;s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor** &mdash; lush, Romantic, sweeping &mdash; one of the great masterworks of French chamber music, built to end a night on a high. It all happens inside the sanctuary at Grace &amp; St. Paul&#39;s Church, a historic, acoustically rich space on the Upper West Side that turns a concert into something closer to a communal, candlelit experience &mdash; no arena distance, no cheap seats. You&#39;ll be close enough to watch bow hairs move. And because the evening is being professionally video recorded, this isn&#39;t a performance that disappears the moment it ends &mdash; you&#39;re witnessing something that will exist as a document afterward, which is its own kind of reason to be there in person, in the room, first. Whether you&#39;re a lifelong chamber music devotee or you&#39;ve never seen a string quartet in your life, this is the kind of night that converts people &mdash; four extraordinary musicians, four centuries of music, one 300-year-old violin, and a room built for sound. Seats are limited.

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“Embers &amp; Elegance”An Evening with The Firebird Quartet November 9, 2026, Monday 7:30 PM Grace &amp; St. Paul's Church,123 W 71st St. New York, NY 10023 There's a violin in this concert with its own story older than the country it lives in.  Jennifer Choi will walk on stage carrying the 1718 "Firebird" Stradivarius — a three-hundred-year-old instrument, on permanent loan to her, whose voice has been shaped by three centuries of hands, rooms, and music before it ever reaches yours.  You are not just hearing a concert. You're hearing an object that has outlived empires, still singing. She won't be alone. Joining her is a quartet built from some of the most decorated chamber musicians working in New York today:  Derek Wieland, a Juilliard-trained pianist who spent years as Music Director of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and has shared stages with the Cleveland Orchestra and Al Di Meola;  Conway Kuo, Associate Principal Second Violin of the New York City Ballet Orchestra, who trained under legends like Arnold Steinhardt and Jascha Brodsky;  Michael Cantú, a Fulbright and Sphinx-Prize-winning cellist who has played Carnegie Hall, Berlin's Konzerthaus, and Hamburg's Elbphilharmonie.  These aren't local players doing a favor — this is a world-class ensemble assembling for one night. The program is a journey, not just a setlist: - Mozart's Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor** opens the night — dark, urgent, and startlingly modern for 1785; a piece that shocked its first publishers with how serious chamber music could be.-  -Britten's Cello Sonata** turns the spotlight to a single dialogue between cello and piano — intimate, spiky, unexpectedly playful in its pizzicato scherzo.-  Shostakovich's Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano** is pure color and wit — a waltz, a polka, an elegy — showing the lighter, sly side of a composer usually known for his weight.- Fauré's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor** — lush, Romantic, sweeping — one of the great masterworks of French chamber music, built to end a night on a high. It all happens inside the sanctuary at Grace &amp; St. Paul's Church, a historic, acoustically rich space on the Upper West Side that turns a concert into something closer to a communal, candlelit experience — no arena distance, no cheap seats. You'll be close enough to watch bow hairs move. And because the evening is being professionally video recorded, this isn't a performance that disappears the moment it ends — you're witnessing something that will exist as a document afterward, which is its own kind of reason to be there in person, in the room, first. Whether you're a lifelong chamber music devotee or you've never seen a string quartet in your life, this is the kind of night that converts people — four extraordinary musicians, four centuries of music, one 300-year-old violin, and a room built for sound. Seats are limited.

Grace & St. Paul's Church

“Embers & Elegance” with The Firebird Quartet

123 W 71st St

General Admission

$35

Pre-Concert Mixer; Meet & Greet & Wine Included

$70

Master Class General Admission

$50

Master Class- Student

$25

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