Great Performances at Mason
Immerse yourself in a season full of inspiring performances by some of the worlds finest artists as the Center for the Arts brings the best artists from around the country and the world to Northern Virginia. Don't miss a second of this thrilling season of Great Performances at Mason.
This performance by Camille A. Brown & Dancers has been rescheduled to April 2, 2022 at 8 p.m. The Ticket Office will contact all ticket holders via email with their options. Please contact the Ticket Office at cfatix@gmu.edu or 703-993-2787 if you haven't heard from them by January 20.
Great Performances at Mason
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Fantastic Fantasies
Take an extraordinary journey through classical music with this Keyboard Conversations® performance. Virtuoso pianist Jeffrey Siegel will guide you through the improvisatory, unbound music of Mozart, Mendelssohn’s “Last Rose of Summer”, and Swedish composer Stenhammar’s rhapso... Read more
Vasily Petrenko, music director
Kian Soltani, cello
Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
Elgar: Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Celebrate the diamond jubilee anniversary of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) with a program featuring ... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Virginia Opera: Three Decembers
Sunday, Feb 06, 2022 2:00pm
by Jake Heggie with libretto by Gene Scheer
Virginia Opera’s production of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Three Decembers is a two-act chamber opera about family—the ones we are born into, and those we create. Based on Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally’s unpublishe... Read more
This performance by Kristin Chenoweth has been rescheduled to September 24, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. The Ticket Office will contact all ticket holders by email with their options. Please contact the Ticket Office at cfatix@gmu.edu or 703-993-2787 if you haven't heard from them by January 20.
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BIG FIVE-OH!
Pilobolus is turning 50! The remarkable company that secured an iconic place in American culture in the early 1970s is still wowing audiences with its irresistible mix of wit, sensuality, and stunning physical acumen. For this 50th anniversary celebration, Pilobo... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Mark Morris Dance Group
Saturday, Feb 26, 2022 8:00pm
Featuring the MMDG Music Ensemble
The ever innovative and compelling Mark Morris Dance Group is on every arts lover’s must-see list. They return to the Center with a medley of lively works. The performance opens on a playful note with Words, called “frisky and enigmatic” by Th... Read more
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 1986 when they col... Read more
The Chieftains Irish Goodbye Tour has been canceled, including this performance at the Center for the Arts.
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Mason Artist-in-Residence
A Joyce Theater Production
Directed by Caleb Teicher
The fire, fight, and sheer joy of swing dance inhabits the Center for the Arts in SW!NG OUT. Live music by Eyal Vilner’s Big Band accompanies the dancing and choreography created by the acclaimed Cale... Read more
Five-time GRAMMY Award-winning bassist and composer Edgar Meyer joins the acclaimed Glasgow-based Scottish Ensemble for a unique program that spans the ages from the Baroque to the present day. The concert features works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Wi... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Evocative Visions
Pianist Jeffrey Siegel is popular with classical music lovers and newcomers alike. In his final Keyboard Conversations® concert of the season, he plays the visually inspired masterpieces of Debussy, plus Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Grieg. Included on the program is Debussy’s The ... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Virginia Opera: The Marriage of Figaro
Sunday, Apr 10, 2022 2:00pm
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. It is all driven by the music of Mozart at his most spirited and conceived in collaboration with his most entrust... Read more
Mason Artist-in-Residence
Featuring Maria Schneider, conductor
GRAMMY Award-winning composer, conductor, and Mason Artist-in-Residence Maria Schneider conducts Northern Virginia’s own Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra in a night of cool, expressive jazz. The evening’s repertory inclu... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra with Simone Dinnerstein
Christopher Zimmerman, music director and conductor
Featuring Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Simone Dinnerstein was originally scheduled to perform Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5. Due to a strained finger injury, she has adjusted her repertoire over the next few months to allow i... Read more
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 GRAMMY Award-winning singer-songwriter draws audiences in with her unmistakable charisma and inspiring storytell... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: American Pianistic Treasures
Welcome back Jeffrey Siegel, a masterful “pianist who literally overflows with music” (Berlin Die Welt) to our stage for his popular series that tells the stories behind the music. In this “concert with commentary,” Siegel introduces the signature sounds of American piano music with belove... Read more
For the Girls
Is there anything Kristin Chenoweth can’t do? The Emmy® and Tony Award-winning performer dazzles audiences in every role she tackles on stage and screen. Join her as she takes centerstage as headliner of the 2022 ARTS by George!. In this much-anticipated concer... Read more
VIVA MOMIX
Wish MOMIX a “Happy Birthday!” with VIVA MOMIX, a compilation of the company’s most dazzling vignettes from the past 40 years of inventive dance and acrobatics. The program is a mix-and-match variety of sections from Botanica, Alchemia, Remix, Opus Cactus, and Lunar Sea. Expect ... Read more
Featuring Asere with special guest Brenda Navarrete
The Havana Cuba All-Stars will instantly transport you to its Caribbean homeland known for its hazy jazz clubs, soothing white sand beaches, rich culture, and lively beats. Afro-Cuban percussionist and vocalist Brenda Navarrete joins the ... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Virginia Opera: The Valkyrie
Sunday, Oct 09, 2022 2:00pm
Composed by Richard Wagner
Adaptation by Jonathan Dove and Graham Vick
Orchestrated by Jonathan Dove
Mortals are caught up amidst struggles between capricious gods in Richard Wagner’s iconic dramatic opera The Valkyrie, from his legendary “Ring” cycle. Virginia Opera boldly opens its 2022-2023 season ... Read more
Mason Artist-in-Residence
In collaboration with Chitrasena Dance Company
Ahuti
Set to the sounds of live flute, violin, harmonium, manjira, and drums onstage, Ahuti is a mesmerizing performance and collaboration between Mason Artist-in-Residence Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and the Chitrasena D... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Virginia Opera: The Pirates of Penzance
Sunday, Nov 13, 2022 2:00pm
Composed by Gilbert & Sullivan
Set sail with this classic comic operetta fit for all ages. Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Pirates of Penzance has everything—whimsical melodies, hilariously memorable characters, and one of the most terrific earworms of all time, “I Am the Very Model of a Modern... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Immortal Impromptus
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel is for both music aficionados and those that aspire to be so. He will draw you into the composers’ lives by sharing fascinating details about their creative processes. As a result, you will leave the concert with a deeper appreciation of the musi... Read more
Celebrate the holidays with a concert that fills the Center with all of the spirit and power of five grand pianos played together on one stage. The 5 Browns, a quintet of incredibly talented pianists and siblings—Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra, and Desirae—all simultaneously attended The J... Read more
A Celtic Family Christmas
Center for the Arts audience favorites, Natalie MacMaster and Donnell Leahy, return for the holidays with their musical family for a jubilant evening of lightning-fast fiddling, lively step dancing, and loads of Irish music. This husband-and-wife duo brings the sp... Read more
Christmas in Vienna
The holiday season isn’t complete without the return of the Vienna Boys Choir melting hearts with their heavenly voices. Admired across the globe for their pure sound and technical mastery, the cherubic ensemble features boy sopranos and altos from eight to 14, represen... Read more
Holiday Pops: Songs of the Season
Just hear those sleigh bells jingling, ring ting tingling too. Come out to the Center for the Arts for timeless holiday favorites with the American Festival Pops Orchestra. This beloved tradition starts the season off on a festive “note” with treasured cl... Read more
Adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas
“All for one and one for all. United we stand, divided we fall!” Escape into Alexandre Dumas’s swashbuckling epic The Three Musketeers, performed by The Acting Company. Full of charm, wit, and swordplay, this world-premiere adaptation by Linda Alpe... Read more
Mason Artist-in-Residence
Uplifted Voices
The GRAMMY Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble, founded by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, debuts their newest program Uplifted Voices at the Center, as part of their multi-year participation as a Mason Artist-in-Residence. Championing women and non-binary members of... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Virginia Opera: Fellow Travelers
Sunday, Feb 05, 2023 2:00pm
Composed by Gregory Spears
Libretto by Greg Pierce
In a commitment to share contemporary opera experiences with its audiences, Virginia Opera presents Fellow Travelers by New York-based composer Gregory Spears and librettist Greg Pierce. Set at the dawn of the Cold War, Fellow Travelers fol... Read more
Robert McDuffie, violin
Brahms: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Known for exuberant performances, the acclaimed Munich Symphony Orchestra (MSO) returns to the Center with an uplifting program of masterworks! The MSO embraces the sheer joy and ... Read more
Featuring the Mason Dance Company
Doug Varone and Dancers returns to the Center, bringing a program brimming with the vitality of highly charged choreography which also touches the human heart. The program will feature Somewhere (2019), Short Story (2001), Nocturne (2017), and Double Octet... Read more
The Corner of Broadway and Main Street
Calling all Disney and Broadway fans! A cappella superstars, Voctave, will transform the Center for the Arts into The Corner of Broadway and Main Street in an “aca-awesome” treat for all ages. Featuring swoon-worthy arrangements from some of your favo... Read more
Viral tap dance phenomenon Syncopated Ladies LIVE! is the brainchild of D.C.-native and Emmy® Award-nominated tap dancer and choreographer Chloé Arnold, protégé of Debbie Allen. This fierce all-female troupe of hoofers has amassed more than 100 million video views online for their hypnoti... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Musical Valentines
Go beyond chocolates and flowers when you take your sweetheart to experience an evening of Musical Valentines. In this stirring Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel, be swept away with music of infinite passion, poetry, and longing by Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, and Chopin, and learn how the com... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Virginia Opera: La Traviata
Sunday, Mar 12, 2023 2:00pm
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
Featuring one of the most demanding, sumptuous, and recognizable scores of all time, Virginia Opera concludes its season with Giuseppe Verdi’s tours de force La Traviata. Set amidst the pleasure-loving and decadent French aristocracy of the 19th century, Verdi’s ... Read more
One Earth Tour 2023: Tsuzumi
Experience the power, grace, and joy that KODO’s athletic percussionists bring to the stage in their much-anticipated 40th anniversary performance: Tsuzumi. As masters of the ancient art of Japanese taiko drumming, KODO bewitches audiences with visually-stunnin... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Cirque FLIP Fabrique
Saturday, Apr 01, 2023 2:00pm
Muse
In this all-new, high-energy production, the seven acrobats of FLIP Fabrique don high heels, then football shoulder pads to dazzle audiences of all ages. Muse playfully pirouettes around and tackles the perennially complicated questions of gender archetypes—circus-style. Set to an ori... Read more
America
Violin luminary Daniel Hope returns with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra to reveal the charisma of American music in a program named after his new album, America. This concert celebrates our country’s most recognizable tunes from across the 20th Century, including Copland’s iconic “Ho... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra with Bobby Floyd
Bobby Floyd, organ
Calling all cool cats to head to the Center for the Arts for a swinging evening of jazz with Northern Virginia’s own Metropolitan Jazz Orchestra, featuring keyboardist/organist Bobby Floyd on the Hammond organ and led by Founder, Artistic Director, and virtuoso saxophoni... Read more
Mostly B
Experience the sleek grace and physicality of neoclassical ballet with the State Ballet of Georgia in a program of works by George Balanchine and Ukrainian choreographer Yuri Possokhov. Led by the renowned Nina Ananiashvili, a native of Georgia and a former Bolshoi prima ballerina... Read more
Great Performances at Mason
Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel: Mozart and Friends
Jeffrey Siegel closes out the Keyboard Conversations® season with a program that celebrates the power and inspiration of friendship. Join him for Mozart and Friends, and hear masterpieces of Mozart, magnificent music by composers who influenced him such as Joseph Haydn, and by those he inf... Read more
George Li, piano
Christopher Zimmerman, music director and conductor
Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance, March No. 1
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Elgar: Symphony No. 1
The Center for the Arts is proud to co-present a soaring classical music program by the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, featuring... Read more
Mason Artist-in-Residence
Indigenous Liberation
Indigenous Enterprise is on a mission to proudly share their heritage and culture through explosively joyous authentic dance and song. Comprised of champion dancers from Native American and Canadian tribes and Nations, this group first stunned... Read more
