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Kennedy Center District of Columbia Partner Schools present an evening of vocal music. The senior high school concert choirs under the direction of Ms. Joan Moten and Ms. Lori Williams, resp…
Organized in 1987, this group of taiko drummers with intellectual disabilities has performed five times overseas and in more than 100 venues in Japan each year. Part of the 2012 National Che…
Students at Berklee College of Music, the members of the quartet are saxophonist Erena Terakubo, pianist Takeshi Ohbayashi, bassist Zach Brown, and drummer Roberto Giaquinto. Part of the DC …
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts joins Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes for the next episode of #ArtsAcrossAmerica exploring Music for Abolition. 🌎💻⛓︅
Members of the National Symphony Orchestra perform Maurice Ravel's String Quartet in F Major at The Kreeger Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Wanzhen Li, violin
Peiming Lin, violin
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Members of the program perform selections from various operettas. Part of The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna.
This program focuses on Czech polka dances with music played by the polka band. Lesson at 5 p.m. Performance and open dancing at 6 p.m. Part of The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna.
The DC band, fronted by tour de force Jessica Louise Dye, mixes clever songwriting and instrumentation with pop, folk, and rock melodies.
Students perform a vocal program featuring works by Rossini, Mozart, Barber, Smetana, R. Strauss, Bizet, Jason Robert Brown, and Kern. Part of the Conservatory Project.
The D.C. band mixes diverse cultures and sounds, serving up hot Latin beats combined with dub, hip hop, reggae, and trip-hop with funk salsa, samba, and more.
Joy of Motion Dance Center's elite pre-collegiate student company returns with a mixed repertory program featuring works by Helanius Wilkins and Helen Hayes, among others.
The group presents its young artists in a musical program.
The national finalists of the KCACTF Ten-Minute Play Award present their original works.
The 17-piece house band at the historic Bohemian Caverns presents a variety of music from big band literature and features some of the District's best musicians. Part of the DC Jazz Festival…
Participants in the orchestral training program for talented high school instrumentalists administered by the NSO Education Program of the Kennedy Center Education Department present a recit…
The school of Hawaiian dance that is part of Hawaii's PA'I Foundation, celebrates the foundation's 35th anniversary of preserving and perpetuating Hawaiian cultural traditions.
This program focuses on the Hungarian Csardas dance with music played by the folk ensemble. Lesson at 5 p.m. Performance and open dancing at 6 p.m. Part of The Music of Budapest, Prague, and…
Students from the DC-area community music school play a chamber music program.
An evening of live and digital performances highlighting the poetry, video, photography, and music of young people from around the country engaged in "What's Going On…NOW," the Kennedy Cen…
Students play a classical program featuring works by composers Poulenc, Arnold Bax, Mozart, Elgar, Ante Grgin, Fritz Kreisler, Gareth Farr, and Alexander Arutiunian. Part of the Conservatory…
Live, staged opera returns in the 50th Anniversary season of the Kennedy Center"and we return together!
We're thrilled to announce Washington National Opera's 2021"2022 season of world prem…
Styled after the Swing and Dixieland styles of Benny Goodman and Pete Fountain, these seasoned musicians are a healthy serving of the best in sounds and shtick for a fun-filled show.
The band presents Navy Pioneers: A History of African Americans in Navy Music, a multimedia performance that tells the history of African Americans in the Navy, shown through a variety of li…
The big band presents a concert highlighting diverse jazz styles and improvisation.
Chicago-based circus-punk marching band Mucca Pazza brings its sweet sounds indoors, using trombones, marching drums, accordions, and more to get the audience moving. Happenstance Theater pr…