Alchemy: Classical Meets Jazz

Featuring the Harlem Quartet with Steve Wilson, Renee Rosnes, and David Wong
Thursday, August 13, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Simon Center for the Arts, Falmouth Academy, 7 Highfield Drive, Falmouth

Harlem Quartet:
● Ilmar Gavilán, violin
● Melissa White, violin
● Jaime Amador, viola
● Felix Umansky, cello
Steve Wilson, alto and soprano saxophone
Renee Rosnes, piano
David Wong, bass

The GRAMMY®-winning Harlem Quartet and outstanding jazz musicians Steve Wilson, Renee Rosnes, and David Wong will fuse classical and jazz forms in an evening that will include three world premieres. One is a new work commissioned for the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival and composed by Rosnes for jazz trio and classical string quartet. The Festival also commissioned two new arrangements for jazz trio and classical string quartet by GRAMMY-winning composer and orchestra leader Maria Schneider of her pieces Sky Blue and Walking by Flashlight. Harlem Quartet will perform Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat Major and Aldo López-Gavilán’s Frère Jacques.