A Dust in Time: Present Music
Milwaukee’s award-winning premiere new music group in their long-awaited return to Madison. An intimately scaled performance presenting Huang Ruo’s achingly moving A Dust in Time.
Pardon Our Mess!
Please pardon our dust!
The Token Creek concert barn will be closed from late spring through much of the summer.
Reading Anna K: A Play Reading
In our inaugural play reading event, this summer Fran Zell directs her humorous barb about discrimination against the aging.
Token Creek Jazz Club
Token Creek’s iconic jazz club re-opens! Dim lights, café seating, refreshments and beverages tableside — for two nights the concert barn transforms into a magical jazz club. Introducing pianist Peter Godart to join the TC house band.
The Next Subject: Words to Music - New Song Cycles of John Harbison
Premieres of new and newly restored song cycles of John Harbison.
Sarah Brailey, soprano | Clara Osowski, mezzo soprano | Tomasz Lis, piano
The Aspen String Trio
A rarity in the chamber music world: the string trio—”a connoisseur’s delight.”
Words & Ideas: TC Speakers Series
Watch for the new Token Creek Speakers Series launching in the next months. Wide ranging topics — art, literature, culture, ecology — from top writers and speakers of our times.
Songs America Loves to Sing: Chamber Music with Flute
A program of chamber music with flute that shines a lens on sparkling and witty writing for winds, strings and piano in works by Haydn & Harbison. Anchored by a vivacious early flute quartet of Haydn, Harbison’s evocative musical “after-images” of six American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, and his witty, virtuosic and quite original take on American music of a bygone era, reworked and re-imagined for a chamber quintet.
Sonatas for Viola: Two World Premieres
Madlen Breckbill, viola | Micah Behr & Nolan Veldey, piano
Of Mere Being: A Recital in Honor of Dennis Maki
Daniel McGrew, tenor | Sophia Zhou, piano
Marcia Hadjimarkos, clavichord
Marcia Hadjimarkos offers a program of new and old music for the clavichord, including the premiere of Short Suite by John Harbison, commissioned for her by Timothy Farley.