The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave

Voices from Far Away
Mary Bonhag, soprano
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Michael Sitton, piano
J. Tavener – Akhmatova Songs
F. Chopin - Largo from Cello Sonata, Op. 65
C. Debussy - Ariettes oubliées, CD 63
J. Brahms – 2 Gesänge, Op. 91
L. Bernstein - Dream with me

Season 2026 announced!

F. Schubert

Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano

F. Chopin

Polonaise Op. 3

Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Corbin Beisner, piano

FACES & MASQUES

April 23, 24, & 26

Violinist William Shaub (Concertmaster, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra) and Katherine Benson (TPCP Artistic Director) celebrate the release of their new album FACES & MASQUES on TPCP’s Spring Concert Series

Also on the program, cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich in Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 “Dumky” and 2025 Bristol Music Club winner, William Tran

FACES & MASQUES

April 23, 24, & 26

Violinist William Shaub (Concertmaster, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra) and Katherine Benson (TPCP Artistic Director) celebrate the release of their new album FACES & MASQUES on TPCP’s Spring Concert Series

Also on the program, cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich in Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 “Dumky” and 2025 Bristol Music Club winner, William Tran

FACES & MASQUES

April 23, 24, & 26

Violinist William Shaub (Concertmaster, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra) and Katherine Benson (TPCP Artistic Director) celebrate the release of their new album FACES & MASQUES on TPCP’s Spring Concert Series

Also on the program, cellist Ignacy Gaydamovich in Dvorak’s Piano Trio No. 4 “Dumky” and 2025 Bristol Music Club winner, William Tran

Masterclasses and Recital at University of Southern Mississippi

Ignacy Gaydamovich Cello Faculty Recital
J. S. Bach - Cello Suite No. 1 BWV 1007
Z. Kodály - Sonata Op. 8 for cello solo

J.S. Bach - Suite No. 1

Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello

CONFRONTATIONS WITH FATE

Oct. 17th, 18th, 19th 2025

Masterpieces for piano quartet by Mozart and Brahms

CONFRONTATIONS WITH FATE

Oct. 17th, 18th, 19th 2025

Masterpieces for piano quartet by Mozart and Brahms

CONFRONTATIONS WITH FATE

Oct. 17th, 18th, 19th 2025

Masterpieces for piano quartet by Mozart and Brahms

Spring Show: Working to Transcend

~Live Music and Dance~

Join us for our spring show, Working to Transcend, which celebrates women composing against the current. We are honored to have local professional musicians performing Rebecca Clarke’s “Sonata for Viola and Piano” (1919), choreographed by Madeleine Bonn and Mikayla Archambeau, and Florence Price’s “Piano Quintet in A-minor” (1936), choregraphed by Mikayla Archambeau.

the dances

Both pieces began with the music; the choreography was developed in response to it. Each explores themes of creativity and what it means to live as an artist throughout one’s life.

The Price includes the entire school—from our youngest dancers just beginning their journey, to those with rich and varied experience in ballet. My goal was to offer every dancer meaningful movement to engage with, and to create a shared vocabulary that could resonate across all levels.

the music

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was something of a maverick 100 years ago: a working female musician. Initially, she released her compositions under a male pseudonym to give them a better chance at reception during a time when women musicians were frowned upon.

At the beginning of her score to the sonata for viola and piano, she inscribed the words of Alfred de Musset(“La Nuit de Mai”): Poet, take your lute, the wine of youth ferments this night in the veins of God. This epigraph paraphrases the torrid drama of the piece. It is emotional, passionate, and turbulent throughout; one wonders at what the composer must have been feeling when she wrote it.

Florence Price (1887-1953) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the only Black dentist in town. She graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, studying piano and organ. Price could not find work in Little Rock due to segregation, so moved to Chicago with her husband and two daughters in 1927.

In 1932 when her Symphony in e minor was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, it the first performance by a major symphony orchestra of a piece by a Black composer. Price’s piano quintet is an example of a gifted composer at the height of her powers.

the musicians

Robyn Quinnett, violin
Hillary Dumond, violin
Geoffrey Archambeau, viola
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Corbin Beisner, piano

Suggested Donation - $20

Payment forms accepted at the door: Venmo, PayPal, Cash, Check

Spring Show: Working to Transcend

~Live Music and Dance~

Join us for our spring show, Working to Transcend, which celebrates women composing against the current. We are honored to have local professional musicians performing Rebecca Clarke’s “Sonata for Viola and Piano” (1919), choreographed by Madeleine Bonn and Mikayla Archambeau, and Florence Price’s “Piano Quintet in A-minor” (1936), choregraphed by Mikayla Archambeau.

the dances

Both pieces began with the music; the choreography was developed in response to it. Each explores themes of creativity and what it means to live as an artist throughout one’s life.

The Price includes the entire school—from our youngest dancers just beginning their journey, to those with rich and varied experience in ballet. My goal was to offer every dancer meaningful movement to engage with, and to create a shared vocabulary that could resonate across all levels.

the music

Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) was something of a maverick 100 years ago: a working female musician. Initially, she released her compositions under a male pseudonym to give them a better chance at reception during a time when women musicians were frowned upon.

At the beginning of her score to the sonata for viola and piano, she inscribed the words of Alfred de Musset(“La Nuit de Mai”): Poet, take your lute, the wine of youth ferments this night in the veins of God. This epigraph paraphrases the torrid drama of the piece. It is emotional, passionate, and turbulent throughout; one wonders at what the composer must have been feeling when she wrote it.

Florence Price (1887-1953) was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the only Black dentist in town. She graduated from the New England Conservatory in Boston, studying piano and organ. Price could not find work in Little Rock due to segregation, so moved to Chicago with her husband and two daughters in 1927.

In 1932 when her Symphony in e minor was performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, it the first performance by a major symphony orchestra of a piece by a Black composer. Price’s piano quintet is an example of a gifted composer at the height of her powers.

the musicians

Robyn Quinnett, violin
Hillary Dumond, violin
Geoffrey Archambeau, viola
Ignacy Gaydamovich, cello
Corbin Beisner, piano

Suggested Donation - $20

Payment forms accepted at the door: Venmo, PayPal, Cash, Check