Friends of Chamber Music presents an exclusive streamed concert featuring Anthony McGill on clarinet and Anna Polonsky on piano. Concert will premiere on our website beginning at 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 20 and be available for 30 days.

The performance will include Brahms’s Clarinet Sonata No. 2 and James Lee III’s 2015 work, Ad Ahna? and will conclude with a conversation on music and social justice issues with Roger Holland, DU faculty member and Director of the Spirituals Project. Recorded in the beautiful Leshowitz Recital Hall at Montclair State University, this concert will be streamed by our partners at OurConcerts.Live.

Concert will premiere on our website beginning at 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 20 and will be available for 30 days. www.friendsofchambermusic.com.

Anthony McGill serves as principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic (the orchestra’s first African-American principal player) and maintains an international solo and chamber music career. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, he serves on the faculty of the Juilliard School, the Curtis Institute, and Bard College’s Conservatory of Music. McGill has been using his platform as a renowned musician to speak out powerfully about the struggle for racial justice and decency.

Anna Polonsky was scheduled to close FCM’s last season with violinist Arnaud Sussmann. She has previously performed on our series with violinist Stefan Jackiw and pianist Orion Weiss. Polonsky, who earned degrees from the Curtis Institute and Juilliard, serves on the piano faculty of Vassar College, and in the summer at the Marlboro and Kneisel Hall chamber music festivals.