Happy New Year!

We'd love to see you in 2025 and we have 3 upcoming concerts to share with you.

• Wednesday, January 29, 2025
• Herbst Theatre

Carla Kihlstedt and Del Sol Quartet will perform Kihlstedt’s 26 Little Deaths, inspired by Edward Gorey’s macabre alphabet book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies. Moving between art song, pop song, and cabaret, this hour-long song cycle captures the pathos, humor, and wit of Gorey’s iconic images.

• Saturday, February 1, 2025
• Miner Auditorium

Del Sol is honored to be a part of the West Coast premiere of Kendrick Scott’s multimedia project Unearthed. Combining poetry, visuals, string quartet, and a jazz ensemble, this moving work memorializes the Sugar Land 95 – the 95 unidentified Black prisoners and forced laborers found buried in the Texas town of Sugar Land in 2018.

• Friday, February 14, 2025
• Duncan Recital Hall, The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University

We are excited to announce Del Sol Quartet as one of Chamber Music America’s inaugural Ensembles in Residence! The Quartet will be presenting a program (TBA) as part of CMA’s Friday Festival event.

Learn more about these and other upcoming events at delsolquartet.com/calendar.

Hear our behind the scenes conversation about producing the award-winning season 1 of Sounds Current with our producer and editor, Andrea Klunder, from her podcast The Creative Impostor.

But, wait! This episode isn’t just about creating a podcast.

It’s about the joys and tension of being part of a chamber ensemble, pushing yourself to do something new in order to move society, and making art that means something valuable even when, and especially if, it doesn’t make sense economically.

Oh and you will hear us mention briefly the Yampa River trip and the Pandemic Joy project, though we don’t go into detail. If you want to learn more about these and other Del Sol projects past and present, please visit DelSolQuartet.com.

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The word “departure” generally refers to the physical act of leaving a place. However, departure also indicates a deviation from one’s traditional course of action or way of thinking.

As we close out this season of Sounds Current, Charlton and esteemed collaborators reflect on their experiences related to the development and subsequent productions of Angel Island. How have the music, the conversations, and their experiences on Angel Island shaped their understanding of the current immigration debate in the US and beyond? How has being a part of the project affected their personal narratives and understanding of family history? And what does the future hold for this project as a whole?

And how is the audience receiving the piece? For the first time in this series, we hear immediate reactions..

Part 4 Features:

Matthew Ozawa, Stage Director, New York premiere of Angel Island

Andi Wong, Teaching Artist and Arts Advocate

Genny Lim, Poet, Playwright, Performer, and Pioneer

Casey Dexter-Lee, State Park Interpreter II for Angel Island

Susan Moffat, Principal, Future Histories Studio

Huang Ruo, Composer, Angel Island

Ben Kreith, Del Sol Quartet violinist

Kathryn Bates, Del Sol Quartet cellist

Hyeyung Sol Yoon, Del Sol Quartet violinist

Sidney Chen, Singer, Volti San Francisco

Ed Tepporn, Executive Director, Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation

And numerous audience members from the Next Wave Festival, co-presented by Brooklyn Academy of Music and Prototype Festival, Produced by Beth Morrison Projects in association with Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Featured Music Provided By:

Meilina Tsui

Byron Au Yong

Theresa Wong

Timo Chen

Taylor Ho Bynum

Erika Oba

Juri Seo

Order Huang Ruo’s A Dust in Time here, listen in Spotify or your favorite music streaming service.

The Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation invites you to Immigrant Voices, a growing archive of personal stories of Pacific Coast immigrants. Explore here.

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CREDITS:

Hosted by Charlton Lee

Produced by Andrea Klunder, The Creative Impostor Studios, Charlton Lee, Kathryn Bates, Hyeyung Sol Yoon, Ben Kreith

Story Editor: Andrea Klunder

Sound Design: Andrea Klunder

Technical Director & Post Production Audio: Edwin R. Ruiz

Field Producer & Recording Engineer: Kathryn Bates

Field Producer: Verena Lee

Podcast Manager: Alex Riegler

Show Notes: Lisa Widder

Cover Art: Felicia Lee

Theme Music: Charlton Lee

Executive Producers: Andrea Fellows Fineberg, Don Fineberg

Featured music from The Angel Island Oratorio composed by Huang Ruo. Performed by Del Sol Quartet & United States Air Force Band's Singing Sergeants / National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, recording and edited by Suraya Mohamed.