Dear Friends,

Celebrity Series at Home continues to bring you new digital concerts specially curated by our talented and inspiring Neighborhood Arts artists. Save the date for our next concert with Puerto Rican cuatro player Fabiola Méndez on Thursday, April 16 at 7 PM. A prize-winning performer, she is the first Berklee College of Music student to graduate with the cuatro as her principal instrument. Tune in to Facebook Live this Thursday for her concert! 

This week we are sharing special messages to Celebrity Series audiences from pianist Daniil Trifonov and Paul Taylor Dance Company dancer Madelyn Ho. Daniil has some exciting news for Boston audiences, and Madelyn has a positive and uplifting message of hope for better days ahead. Scroll down to view their special videos.

Stay tuned to these weekly emails and celebrityseries.org to be the first to know about the launch of our 2020-2021 season! With more than 60 performances across all genres, we're looking forward to celebrating everything the season ahead holds. 

Let us know where you are finding inspiration using #CelebritySeriesAtHome on social media and tag us @celebrityseries. 

Paul Taylor Dance Company dancer Madelyn Ho has a special message for audience members in Boston! Click above to watch her video message for all of us. The company has released free streaming recordings and is offering classes for adults and youth live on Instagram twice a day. Check out this week's schedule of classes, streaming videos, and Taylor Trivia on the company's website.

Daniil Trifonov has good news! We have rescheduled his Boston recital at Symphony Hall for October 30, 2020. View his message to Boston audiences above.

Program:

Karol Szymanowski, Piano Sonata No. 3, Opus 36
Carl Maria von Weber, Piano Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Opus 24
Johannes Brahms, Piano Sonata No. 3 in F minor, Opus 5 

For a taste of what to expect from Daniil, click below to watch this inspiring Yellow Lounge performance of Alexander Scriabin's Etude Op. 8 No. 12. 

Celebrity Series presented British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason and pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason in a sold-out recital in December. They are currently staying at home in Nottingham with their family of musicians! Tune in to the Kanneh-Masons' weekly livestreams on Wednesdays and Fridays at 1:30 PM EDT on Sheku's Facebook page, or catch last week's episode featuring music and table tennis above.

Sandeep Das’ virtual concert is now available for on-demand viewing! A Grammy award-winner with Silkroad and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, Sandeep is hailed as one of the world's top tabla performers and educators. Click above to watch his concert!

Thank you to all of you who have reached out to us over the past month. Whether you’ve tuned in to an online concert with one of our Neighborhood Arts artists, made a donation of your tickets (over 1,100 households and growing), engaged with us on social media, or reached out to staff personally, your support has made an extraordinary difference. We are so glad to connect with you all in these virtual ways, and we look forward to gathering again in the community when the time is right.

Daniil Trifonov’s performance is sponsored by Melinda & James Rabb and is also made possible in part by Celebrity Series’ LIVE PERFORMANCE! Arts for All Endowment and Innovation Funds, with generous leadership support from Lawrence T.P. Stifler & Mary McFadden and Dorothy & Stephen Weber. Additional support is provided by Stephen C. Perry & Oliver Radford, Stephen C. Harrison & Tomas Kirchhausen, Debra & Michael Raizman, and in memory of Blanche & George Jones. Thank you as well to our Dance Series sponsors for 2019-20, including Stephanie L. Brown Foundation, Cynthia & John S. Reed Foundation, and Royal Little Family Foundation, for their support of the Paul Taylor Dance Company engagement. Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason’s performance was sponsored by an anonymous donor and was presented as an Aaron Richmond Recital.