Johnny Gandelsman – This is America at 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.