Artist Raven Chacon in Concert and Conversation
• October 30, 2023

Artist Raven Chacon (Diné) is joined by Joy Harjo, Candice Hopkins, Ange Loft, Laura Ortman, and Olivia Shortt to present selections from his work, For Zitkála-Šá (2020). A Pulitzer Prize-winning […]

HARPSICHORD CONCERT: BACH, BYRD AND MORE
• October 10, 2023

Award winning harpsichordist Lillian Gordis plays beautiful works from J.S. Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier Book II and music by early English composers William Byrd, John Bull and William Tisdall.

Live! Concert Series on the Plaza
• June 26, 2023

From July 10 through September 15, noon – 1:00 pm on Wilson Plaza, join us for free lunchtime performances featuring the area’s most talented entertainers. Enjoy a variety of musical […]

Congressional Chorus presents Homesong
• November 10, 2022

Join the Congressional Chorus for its first concert of the 2022-2023 season, Homesong, on Saturday, November 12th at 7:30 p.m. The Chorus’ mission is to perform American music, and this […]

O! What a Beautiful City
• October 10, 2022

From vibrant neighborhoods and peaceful parks to enlightening museums and lasting monuments to our Nation’s history, Washington, DC is brimming with harmony and life. O! What a Beautiful City is […]

Elegies: A Song Cycle
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ELEGIES is a celebration of life and music, penned by Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist William Finn (Falsettos, A New Brain, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee), which commemorates […]

Lineage: Poems of Margaret Walker
• June 21, 2022

Commissioned by the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, Edward W. Hardy’s new song cycle “BORN FREE” will be premiered by acclaimed soprano Tiffany Townsend, pianist Alex Munger and […]

Afrofuturist Opera at Strathmore, April 28-29  
• March 9, 2022

Shortly after Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration, two dystopian classics, George Orwell’s “1984” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” — the first published in 1949 and the second in 1985 — […]

Marvelous Mozart and Mendelssohn with the National Chamber Ensemble
• August 13, 2021

Marvelous Mozart and Mendelssohn – Sat May 22, 2022  7:30 PM The Season concludes with Mozart and Mendelssohn – both child prodigies, pianists, musical conductors, and teachers and two of the most-celebrated […]

Beguiling Brahms and Schumann (Valentine’s Concert) with the National Chamber Ensemble
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Beguiling Brahms and Schumann (Valentine’s Concert) – Sat, February 12, 2022  7:30PM February’s Valentine’s Concert will present two great Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano – exciting, moving, superb and deeply […]