First Baptist Church

Now in its 17th year, CMNW’s Protégé Project has helped launch the careers of a new generation of world-renowned musicians and composers, and tonight is a celebration of their stellar rise! Acclaimed bassist Nina Bernat (2024) joins the dynamic Viano Quartet (2022)–all five Protégé Project Alumni now winners of the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant–for an evening of quartets and quintets. Their program will feature two CMNW-commissioned works written especially for them by Protégé Alumni Composers Alistair Coleman (2022) and Kian Ravaei (2023), as well as Dvořák’s String Quintet No. 2, which combines the Vianos’ virtuosity with the power and depth of Bernat’s double bass.

“[Viano Quartet] are capable of making their instruments both surge and whisper, and the Viano demonstrated their prowess, hypnotically conjuring the most rarefied emotions. The group conveyed the soothing iterations of the melancholic melody with such control and comforting suspense that I didn’t want it to end.”

— Classical Voice North America

“Speechless is perhaps not the best place to begin as a reviewer, but the accolades and awards Ms. Bernat has already garnered do make any expressions of appreciation by me feel a bit superfluous.”

— EarRelevant

First Baptist Church
Saturday, 3/6 • 8:00 pm

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