2026 Events and Tickets
Artistic Director’s Description
Home is not a single address—it is a collection of sounds, stories, and shared moments. Wherever we gather to create and listen, it becomes home. ENCORE’s 2026 Music & Ideas Festival opens the summer season under the open sky at the Grove with the full artist-teacher string ensemble in a concert inspired by our theme, HOME. Drawing on folk traditions and voices from East to West, this program traces music shaped by place, memory, and movement—from Elgar and Barber to Greek dances, Thracian airs, minimalist stillness, and a fiery Misirlou finale.
Gather Around Our Table
Since home is where we gather to share moments, we invite you and your family to join us early at The Grove. Enjoy a pre-concert dinner with your loved ones and make our musical home your own.
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Featured Food Trucks (Ready by 7:00 PM):
- Drizul Soft Serve & Waffle Wands
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Join us before the performance begins to share a meal and the beautiful evening sun!
Program
Edward Elgar Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
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Nikos Skalkottas Epirotikos from Five Greek Dances, AK 11b
Reena Esmail Fantasie (Bihag) from String Quartet (Ragamala) (2013)
Grażyna Bacewicz Concerto for String Orchestra
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Philip Glass Mishima / Closing from String Quartet No. 3 “Mishima”
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen Shine You No More
Erberk Eryılmaz Thracian Airs of Besime Sultan (String Quartet version)
Samuel Barber Adagio for Strings, Op. 11
Misirlou (from Pulp Fiction, arr. Quatuor Ebène)
Performing Artists
Dancer
Yamini Kalluri
Verona String Quartet
Jonathan Ong, Dorothy Ro, violin
Abigail Rojansky, viola
Jonathan Dormand, cello
Violin
Sibbi Bernhardsson, Brendan Shea,
Inhae Cho*, Seungwon Park*,
Tiffany Yeung*, Marina Ziegler*
Viola
Min-Jeong Koh, Zhe Cao*, Ilgyeong Shin*
Cello
Amit Even-Tov, Hyeonmin Lee*
Double Bass
Charles Paul
* 2026 Fellowship Recipient