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CANCELLED: Cirque FLIP Fabrique Six°

Cirque FLIP Fabrique Six°, scheduled for October 17, has been cancelled. This performance will not be rescheduled or replaced. Ticket holders will be contacted regarding options for their tickets.

Bring the entire family for a thrilling live outdoor performance in front of the Center for the Arts on ...Read More

CANCELLED: Cameron Carpenter: All You Need is Bach

Cameron Carpenter is a game changer in classical music, and during these unprecedented times...Read More

CARTOGRAPHY

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Mason Artist-in-Residence
Co-created by Kaneza Schaal and Christopher Myers

Five young refugees set out in search of a new place to call home in this “stunning” (The New York Times) and timely theatrical work. Inspired by the artists’ creative work with refugees from around the world...Read More

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Celebrating Beethoven

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Welcome back to the stage virtuoso pianist and exceptional storyteller Jeffrey Siegel. In his first concert of the season, he celebrates the 250^th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with some of the composer’s best-loved works. This concert features the beloved “Moonlight” Sonata, Op...Read More

Sankofa Danzafro

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The City of Others

Through the lens of Afro-Colombian dance, The City of Others explores racism and social disparity in Colombia, a country home to Latin America’s second largest population of people of African descent. This dance style draws from capoeira, contemporary dance, hip-h...Read More

Les Violons du Roy

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Jeremy Denk, piano

H. von Bingen, O virtus Sapientus (transcript. for strings*)
Byrd, Haec dies (transcript. for strings*)
Morley, Christes crosse (transcript. for strings*)
Monteverdi, Zefiro torna e soavi accenti
J.S. Bach, Keyboard concerto in E major, BWV 1053
Biber, Battalia a 10...Read More

Virginia Opera: La Voix Humaine and Gianni Schicchi

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Virginia Opera returns to the Center for a double-bill of Francis Poulenc's La Voix Humaine (The Human Voice) and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi. An up-close-and-personal exploration of the whims of the human heart, La Voix Humaine is an intimate operatic adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s 19...Read More

Dervish

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Welcome Irish music icon, Dervish, to the Center for a rousing celebration of Irish heritage just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. For more than 30 years, the sextet hailing from Ireland’s rugged and wild coast has become one of the biggest names in traditional Irish music. The inter...Read More

Ladysmith Black Mambazo

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Sharing a heartfelt message of love, peace, and harmony, Ladysmith Black Mambazo performs an uplifting concert showcasing traditional South African vocal styles. Already successful in their own right in South Africa, the group rose to worldwide prominence in 1987 when they collabor...Read More

The Chieftains

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The Irish Goodbye 

Irish music legends, The Chieftains, return to the Center for a thrilling night of their signature blend of traditional Celtic and contemporary on "The Irish Goodbye" tour. The six-time Grammy® Award winners are celebrated for reinventing traditional Irish music a...Read More

KODO

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One Earth Tour: Legacy

Experience the power, grace, and joy that KODO’s athletic percussionists bring to the stage in their much-anticipated encore performance at the Center! With an exuberant, heart-pounding rush of energy, the group performs the ancient Japanese art of traditional...Read More

Virginia Opera: The Marriage of Figaro

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Mozart’s beloved four-act comic opera, The Marriage of Figaro, is the kind of mad and frantic bedroom farce of which guilty (and not-so-guilty) pleasures are made, all driven by the music of Mozart at his most spirited, and conceived in collaboration with his most entrusted and suc...Read More

Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra with Maria Schneider

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Mason Artist-in-Residence
Featuring Maria Schneider, conductor

Grammy® Award-winning composer and conductor Maria Schneider leads Northern Virginia’s own Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra in a night of cool, expressive jazz. The evening’s repertory includes instrumental excerpts from Wint...Read More

Cirque Éloize

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Hotel 

Cirque Éloize’s 25^th anniversary creation is an immersive, high-flying Art Deco universe—Hotel. The stage is transformed into a multi-storied grand hotel of a bygone era where acrobatics and dance are performed to live music. The hotel’s lobby doors swing open and a kaleidosc...Read More

Lila Downs

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Lila Downs is one of the most influential artists in Latin America. Whether it’s a full-throated mariachi song, an achingly tender bolero, or sultry jazz tune, this six-time Grammy® Award-winning singer-songwriter draws audiences in with her unmistakable charisma and inspiring stor...Read More

Jerusalem Quartet

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Featuring Pinchas Zukerman, violin/viola and Amanda Forsyth, cello

Bruckner: Adagio from String Quintet in F major
Dvorák: Sextet for Strings in A major, Op. 48
Brahms: Sextet for Strings in B-flat major, Op. 18 

Grammy^® ward-winning conductor, violinist, and violist Pinchas Zukerman, ...Read More

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Evocative Visions

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Virtuoso pianist Jeffrey Siegel is popular with classical music lovers and newcomers alike. In his final concert of the season, Siegel plays the visually inspired masterpieces of Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Debussy, Mendelssohn, and Grieg.  This “concert with commentary” makes connections...Read More

30th Anniversary Season Announcement

We’re unveiling the 30^th Anniversary Season! Join Director of Programming Adrienne Bryant Godwin and Dean of Mason’s College of Visual and Performing Arts Rick Davis for this live, virtual event announcing exciting in-person performances on the Fairfax campus, as well as new programming for Mason Ar...Read More