Rabia Brooke is known worldwide for her passion and sincere artistry. As a soloist and chamber musician, Ms. Brooke has collaborated with some of today’s most compelling musical voices including ...
The five acclaimed musicians will perform their first residency concert held at Guarneri Hall on Wed Jan, 2025
ReadRabia Brooke and Haddon Kay
Every season has a first night, and this one belongs to chamber music. The evening moves between the familiar and the newly imagined: works drawn from the heart of the repertoire alongside music written for this moment.
Strings have carried human feeling across four centuries of music-making, from the courts of Baroque Europe to the concert halls of today, and few partnerships understand that continuum as instinctively as violinist Rabia Brooke and cellist Haddon Kay. What they bring to each piece is the quality that defines the playing on this stage: the sense that the music is being discovered, not simply delivered. Colleagues join them for an evening that sets the tone for everything that follows.
Guarneri Hall
A celebration of Philip Glass at 90, this landmark evening honors one of the most influential composers of the last century, brought to life by flutist Demarre McGill, violinists Desirée Ruhstrat and Rabia Brooke, and cellist Wendy Sutter in an intimate program of his most beloved chamber works. Nova Linea Musica marks the milestone with a concert worthy of the moment.
Rabia Brooke and Chelsea Wang
Midwinter in Chicago, and the music turns inward. Rabia Brooke and colleagues bring works that ask quiet, essential questions - about time, about memory, about what it means to listen carefully in a world that rarely slows down. The chamber music tradition has always found its deepest expression in rooms like this one: close, warm, unhurried, alive to the details that larger halls swallow whole. The CheckOut in January is its own particular thing - the lake outside, the audience near, the conversation between performers and listeners something closer to a dialogue than a performance. These are pieces that reward exactly that kind of intimacy, drawn from across the full arc of the repertoire and performed by artists who know how to use the room they are in.
Inheritance is what we carry forward, and what we make new. This evening moves between musical generations - works that have endured alongside music being heard for the first time, each in conversation with the other. The great violin repertoire is itself an act of inheritance: pieces passed from teacher to student, from recording to live performance, from one generation's understanding to the next. Among the premieres on this program: the World Premiere of Chen Yi's "My Childhood Memories," a solo violin work commissioned by Nova Linea Musica. To hear a piece of this personal depth - memories rendered in sound, filtered through one of the most distinctive compositional voices of our time - performed on the 1731 Lady Jeanne Stradivarius is to understand exactly why new music needs a home like this one.
Guarneri Hall
The NLM Piano Trio presents an evening anchored by the world premiere of a new piano trio by NLM Composer-in-Residence Stacy Garrop, written during her residency in the Rocky Mountains. Violinist/NLM Artist-in-Residence Rabia Brooke and her trio partners present an intimate evening of chamber music conversation and discovery.
World Premiere: Elizabeth Younan
The World Made Larger is when the season closes the way it should: with something that has never been heard before. A world premiere of and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow... by composer Elizabeth Younan anchors an evening alongside works that have shaped Rabia Brooke's musical life - pieces from the canon that illuminate what Younan's new work is in conversation with, and what it moves beyond. Younan's voice is one that rewards close attention: intricate, luminous, and built on the conviction that music should expand what we are capable of feeling. The violin repertoire grows one work at a time, each premiere a small act of faith that what is written today will matter tomorrow. This is an evening about arrival - the arrival of a new work into the world, and the particular kind of attention that only live music, in a room like this, can ask of us.
Winners and Garrop
A season filled with new music ends with three world premieres. The winners of Nova Linea Musica’s national Score Call, directed by composer Clarice Assad, hear their works brought to life by the Nova Linea Musica Piano Trio: Rabia Brooke, violin; Ashly Ryoo, cello; and Tamila Salimdjanova, piano.
Every piece on the program is being performed for the first time. No recordings, no reference points, no received wisdom about how any of it should sound. Just three composers, three brand-new pieces, and a room full of people hearing something no one has heard before.
June 4, 2027 | 7:30 PM
