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Johnny Gandelsman – This is America at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

Dates: 7/5/2026

📍 Theatre:
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts


Violinist, producer, and 2024 MacArthur Fellow Johnny Gandelsman presents an extended program of solo violin works from his project This is America, featuring the New York premiere of Capriccio for Violin, a Caramoor co-commission by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tyshawn Sorey. This is America is Gandelsman's 2020 collection of over 20 new works commissioned for solo violin, written by American and US-based composers including Layale Chaker, Dana Lyn, Kinan Azmeh, Tomeka Reid, and Rhiannon Giddens. The program is presented in two parts at 1pm in the Sunken Garden and 3pm in the Spanish Courtyard, with a talk at 2:15pm featuring Gandelsman, Dana Lyn, and Christina Courtin.

Cast and Creative Team for Johnny Gandelsman – This is America at Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

Cast

Kira Grunenberg
Ensemble
Layale Chaker
Ensemble
Justin Messina
Ensemble
Calvin Ray Shawler
Ensemble
Maya Irizarry Lambright
Ensemble
Daniel Lasagna
Ensemble
Max Lang
Ensemble
Tyshawn Sorey
Ensemble
Jeff Scott
Ensemble
Coco Mi
Ensemble
Christina Jensen
Ensemble
MaryKay Messenger
Ensemble
Alphonso Horne
Ensemble
Akshaya Tucker
Ensemble
Jessica Stein-Natale
Ensemble
Curt Ebersole
Ensemble
Charles Goold
Ensemble
Ron Wilkins
Ensemble
Evan Arntzen
Ensemble
Ricky Riccardi
Ensemble
Kinan Azmeh
Ensemble
Christina Courtin
Ensemble
Conrad Tao
Ensemble
Johnny Gandelsman
Ensemble
Rhiannon Giddens
Ensemble
Olivia Davis
Ensemble
Tomeka Reid
Ensemble
Ebun Oguntola
Ensemble
Dana Lyn
Ensemble

Creative Team

MaryKay Messenger
Vocalist
Christina Courtin
Violinist and Vocalist
Johnny Gandelsman
Producer
Tyshawn Sorey
Composer
Jeff Scott
Composer
Jessica Stein-Natale
Assistant Conductor
Curt Ebersole
Conductor
Colin Jacobson
Co-Artistic Director
Eric Jacobson
Co-Artistic Director

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