BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13@millbrookmusicsalon.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T210000 DTSTAMP:20260427T113202Z URL:https://millbrookmusicsalon.org/events/contemporary-series-green-room- ensemble/ SUMMARY:Contemporary Series- “On the Edge” by Greenroom Ensemble DESCRIPTION:Performers: \nViolin: Nathan Meltzer (Winner of  Concert Arti st Guild\, 2022 Sibelius  Violin Competition\, Founder and  Director of Green Room Ensemble) \n\nViolin: Ariel Horowitz ( 2020 Concert Artist Gui ld Ambassador Prize) \n\nViola: James Kang (Juilliard Kovner Fellow\, A merican Viola Society Solo Competition winner\, Abeo Quartet) \n\nCello : Sterling Elliott (2021 Avery Fisher Award\, BBC Next Generation Artist ) \n\nPiano: Sophia Zhou (V BPA International Piano Award\, Artistic Di rector of Millbrook Music Salon) \nProgram: \nThis dynamite program trac es a wide arc of chamber music\, beginning with the wit\, clarity\, and co nversational elegance of Joseph Haydn’s Piano Trio in E major\, Hob. XV: 28\, and moving through a series of bold\, contemporary works that reimagi ne how sound\, rhythm\, and ensemble interaction can unfold. Misato Mochiz uki’s Brains explores motion and transformation through quick shifts in texture and rhythm\, while Caroline Shaw’s Limestone and Felt plays with contrast—hard and soft\, resonant and muted—inviting close listening and intimacy. Julius Eastman’s Joy Boy brings an urgent\, driving inten sity built on repetition and momentum\, challenging performers and listene rs alike to stay fully present. After intermission\, Andy Akiho’s The Pr ospects of a Misplaced Year closes the evening with propulsive rhythms and reflective moments\, capturing a sense of uncertainty\, resilience\, and forward motion. Together\, these works reveal chamber music as a living\, evolving conversation—one that honors tradition while embracing experime ntation and new voices. \n\n- Haydn: Piano Trio in E Major\, Hob. XV: 28\ n\n- Misato Mochizuki: Brains (2016/17) \n\n- Caroline Shaw: Limestone an d Felt (2012) \n\n--intermission-- \n\n- Andy Akiho: The prospects of a misplaced year\n\n*The concert is 2 hours in length\, with a 10 minute int ermission\nBuy Tickets\n\nAbout Greenroom Ensemble: \nGreenroom Ensemble was co-founded by violinist Nathan Meltzer and violist Devin Moore\, a mem ber of the Isidore Quartet. The ensemble has quickly built a reputation fo r presenting chamber music at the highest artistic level in distinctive\, contemporary venues. Recent engagements include performances at St. John ’s in the Village – Revelation Gallery and artXnyc\, a leading experim ental arts venue in the Meatpacking District\, featuring immersive program s that place new and reimagined repertoire in close dialogue with audience s. Drawing from a roster of internationally active performers heard regula rly at major halls and festivals\, Greenroom Ensemble presents concerts th at combine artistic rigor with a fresh\, modern sensibility.\nArtist Bios:  \nNathan Meltzer- Violinist/ Founder of GRE \nWinner of the 2023 Concer t Artist Guild Competition\, major prize winner at the 2022 Sibelius and S ingapore International Violin Competitions\, recipient of the Salon de\n\n Virtuosi Career Grant\, and youngest ever to win the Windsor Festival Comp etition\, violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a holistic and multi-fa ceted career as both a soloist and chamber musician\, with passions for bo th standard and contemporary repertoire.\n\nNathan has performed as a solo ist with major orchestras around the world. He has performed with the Orch estre national d'Île-de-France\, the Philharmonia Orchestra\, the Royal N orthern Sinfonia\, the Finnish RSO\, the Helsinki Philharmonic\, and the A alborg\, Charlotte\, Concepción\, Indianapolis\, Medellín\, Montréal\, North Carolina\, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras\, among others\, perfo rming across Europe and N in orth and South America.\n\nAs a recitalist an d chamber musician\, Nathan has performed at celebrated series including t he Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach\, Dresden Musikfestspiele\, Heidelb erger Frühling\, Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players\, Kallos Chamber Music Series\, Parlance Chamber Concerts\, and Midori’s Partners in Performanc e\, and at festivals including ChamberFest Cleveland\, IMS Prussia Cove\, Krzyzowa Music\, La Jolla SummerFest\, Montreal and Moritzburg Chamber Mus ic Festivals\, Music@Menlo’s International Program\, Newport Classical\, the Ravinia Festival Institute\, the Perlman Music Program\, Verbier Fest ival Academy\, and Yellow Barn.\n\nHe is also the co-founder and Artistic Director of The Green Room Ensemble\, a non-profit chamber music organizat ion dedicated to new music and historically unexplored works by composers from a variety of backgrounds and heritages.\n\nA Juilliard graduate and s tudent of Li Lin and Itzhak Perlman\, Nathan plays on a Storioni violin on generous loan from the Rin Collection.\nAriel Horowitz- Violinist \nHail ed by The Washington Post as “Sweetly Lyrical\,” violinist\, composer/ songwriter\, and community organizer Ariel Horowitz cannot remember life b efore loving music.\n\nIn 2020\, Ariel joined the Concert Artists Guild ro ster for North American management\, and enjoys an active touring schedule as a soloist and as one-half of Vision Duo\, an ensemble formed with fell ow CAG artist Britton-René Collins in 2021.\n\nAs a composer\, songwriter \, and avid improviser\, Ariel's original music centers themes of healing\ , community\, and liberation. They have performed their compositions and s ongs around the world\, including at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. \n\nAs a community organizer\, Ariel is honored to be the Founder and Arti stic Director of the Heartbeat Music Project\, a tuition-free program offe ring music and Navajo (Diné) cultural education as well as direct aid res ources to young people in grades K-12 living on the Navajo Nation. Ariel's organizing for this work is as a long-term co-conspirator for Indigenous- led decolonization and land back efforts\, and as a guest on the sovereign Navajo Nation. In 2022\, HMP received the Lewis Prize for Music’s Accel erator Award in the amount of $500\,000 to support their work with Navajo youth.\n\nIn October 2024\, Ariel released their solo debut album\, Hearth \, on the Bright Shiny Things label. Hearth is an immersive collection tha t weaves together classical pieces\, original compositions\, spoken word\, and nature sounds\, creating a dialogue between indie influences and clas sical traditions.\nJames Kang- Violist \nViolist James Kang is an invitin g performer and artist-teacher who creates meaningful connections with aud iences across the U.S. and abroad. James is the founding violist of the Ab eo Quartet which was formed at Juilliard in 2018 and has been featured at Alice Tully Hall\, The Kennedy Center\, and Norway’s Vertavo Festival. J ames is currently pursuing his DMA studies at Northwestern University as t he Teaching Assistant of Prof. Helen Callus\, and received his bachelor’ s degree at the Juilliard School as a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowsh ip.\n\nAs a soloist\, James won the American Opera Society of Chicago Cent ennial Award and top prizes at the American Viola Society Solo Competition and the ASTA National Solo Competition. In 2023\, he performed Hindemith ’s Der Schwanendreher Viola Concerto with the University of Delaware Sym phony Orchestra. James performs with orchestras such as ProMusic Chamber O rchestra and Chicago Philharmonic\, and has served as Principal Violist fo r the Juilliard and Symphony in C orchestras.\n\nAs an avid chamber musici an\, James has collaborated with musicians such as Itzhak Perlman\, Joseph Kalichstein\, Donald Weilerstein\, Calidore String Quartet and Dover Quar tet. Recent highlights for Abeo Quartet include returning to perform at th e Kennedy Center and being the 2023-24 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Res idence at Caramoor which entailed a yearlong residency that included outre ach to young listeners. In June\n\n2025\, Abeo will be returning to Bad T ölz\, Germany to give recitals after winning a prize at the Bad Tölz Int ernational String Quartet Competition in 2023.\n\nJames is devoted to teac hing and is currently on the Chamber Music Faculty of Music Institute of C hicago. In 2019\, he taught young violists in Brazil as a guest faculty ar tist in partnership with Guri Santa Marcelina. Dedicated to cultivating jo y in his audiences\, James is also active in community outreach and has pa rticipated in engagement concerts with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Ce nter’s Meet the Music!\, “If Music Be the Food…\,” and United Nati ons Chamber Music Society. His festival appearances include Music@Menlo\, Perlman Music Program\, Aspen Music Festival\, NYO-USA\, Yellow Barn YAP\, and La Jolla SummerFest.\nSterling Elliott- cellist \nAcclaimed for his stellar stage presence and joyous musicianship\, cellist Sterling Elliott is a 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient and the winner of the Senior Division of the 2019 National Sphinx Competition. Still in his mid-twenti es\, Elliott has appeared with orchestras including the Philadelphia Orche stra\, the New York Philharmonic\, the Boston Symphony\, the Cleveland Orc hestra\, the Los Angeles Philharmonic\, the Detroit Symphony and the Dalla s Symphony\, working with noted conductors including Yannick Nezet-Seguin\ , Thomas Wilkins\, Jeffrey Kahane\, and Mei Ann Chen\, among others.\n\nIn 2025/2026 Sterling Elliott debuts with the Phoenix Symphony\, the Buffalo Philharmonic\, the BBC Scottish Symphony\, and at the BBC Proms with Edwi n Outwater. As featured soloist with the Sphinx Virtuosi\, he takes part i n a mutli-city tour with performances at Carnegie Hall\, Shriver Concert S eries\, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society\, the Gardner Museum\, and Schu bert Club and more. As a chamber musician\, he continues his residency in the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\, appear ing with CMLSC at Alice Tully Hall and on tour throughout the United State s\, as well as in trio performances with Anthony McGill and Gloria Chien.\ n\nRecent highlights include debut performances with the Atlanta\, San Fra ncisco\, New Jersey\, Columbus\, Ann Arbor\, and Grand Rapids Symphonies\, the Minnesota Orchestra\, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Reno Philh armonic. Elliott has also made returns to Carnegie Hall with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s led by Louis Langrée\, and performed the Beethoven Tripl e Concerto with Madison Symphony alongside Gil Shaham and Orli Shaham. He premiered a new orchestral version of John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria\, commissioned for him by a consortium of orchestras\, led by the Orlando P hilharmonic and music director Eric Jacobsen.\n\nAs the Robey Artist with the London-based Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) in partnership with Music Masters\, Elliott regularly performs throughout the UK and Europe in cluding at Wigmore Hall\, Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie\, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam\, as well as on tour in New Zealand. In 2024\, Elliott was na med a BBC New Generation Artist.\n\nSterling’s long association with the Sphinx Organization began when he won the 2014 Junior Division Competitio n. The following year he went on to tour with the Sphinx Virtuosi before b eing awarded the Organization’s Isaac Stern Award in 2016. He became the first alumnus from the Sphinx Performance Academy to win the Sphinx Compe tition (in 2019). Sterling received the Sphinx Medal of Excellence in 2024 \, the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization.\n\nBorn into a m usical household\, Sterling initially wanted to play the violin like his o lder brother and sister. After a bit of encouragement\, he completed The E lliott Family String Quartet\, an ensemble that enjoyed personalized arran gements of genres such as bluegrass\, gospel\, and funk music.\n\nHe is an ambassador of the Young Strings of America\, a string sponsorship operate d by Shar Music. He performs on a 1741 Gennaro Gagliano cello on loan thro ugh the Robert F. Smith Fine String Patron Program\, in partnership with t he Sphinx Organization.\nSophia Zhou- Pianist/ Founder of Millbrook Music Salon \nNew York- based pianist Shuhui (Sophia) Zhou has been performing as a soloist and chamber musician internationally in the USA\, Europe and China. She was the winner of the V BPA International Piano Award of Barcel ona\, engaged for 5 solo recitals across Spain. Her recent concert appeara nces include the Royal Concertgebouw\, Carnegie Hall\, Kennedy Center\, Sh anghai Concert Hall\, etc. As a chamber musician\, she frequently collabor ated with members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra\, New York Philharm onic Orchestra\, Metropolitan Opera House\, HK Philharmonic\, etc.\n\nMs. Zhou holds a Master of Music degree from Mannes College of Music in New Yo rk\, studying with Thomas Sauer. She also holds a Bachelor of Music in Pia no Performance and Bachelor of Arts in German Literature from Oberlin Coll ege. Ms. Zhou was invited as a post-graduate piano fellow by the Bard Coll ege Conservatory\, working with the Graduate Vocal Arts Program under the guidance of Dawn Upshaw and Stephanie Blythe and offering Secondary Piano lessons to college undergraduate students.\n\nAs one of the most dynamic a nd versatile young musicians of her generation\, Sophia recorded and premi ered music by renowned composers such as Andrew Norman (Pulitzer- Prize an d Grammy-Award nominee) \, Benjamin Broening (recipient of Guggenheim Awar d)\, Alexander Goehr\, John Harbison\, Nina Shenkhar\, etc.\n\nHer recent projects include multimedia concert project “Bach VS The Climate Crisis ” in collaboration with renowned environmental photographer J Henry Fair \, an interdisciplinary performance in the Nam June Paik retrospectives sh ow in San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, chamber music concerts with mem bers of Carnegie Ensemble Connect\, song recitals with American tenor Dani el McGrew (2021 YCA Winner) in Merkin Hall and Morgan Library\, New York C ity\, Kennedy Center for the Arts in Washington D.C\, Harvard Music Associ ations in Boston and concert tours with ATL Piano Trio in Florence\, Livor no\, as well as appearances at the Mexican Republican Senate Hall to be br oadcasted on national television for 2 consecutive weeks.\n\nMs. Zhou is t he founder and director of two concert series in upstate New York\, Chambe r Music at The Stissing Center and Millbrook Music Salon. She has created and produced critically-acclaimed concerts for six consecutive seasons\, b ringing world-class music making into the community.\n2026 Summer- Fall wi ll be announced soon! ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://millbrookmusicsalon.org/wp-content/uploa ds/2026/03/May-2_-Greenroom-Ensemble.jpg CATEGORIES:2026 Season LOCATION:Millbrook School- Chelsea Morrison Theater\, 131 Millbrook School Rd\, Millbrook\, NY\, 12545\, United States X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=131 Millbrook School Rd\, M illbrook\, NY\, 12545\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Millbrook School- Chelsea Morrison Theater:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR