The Aspen String Trio
A rarity in the chamber music world: the string trio—”a connoisseur’s delight.”
David Perry, violin | Victoria Chiang, viola | Michael Mermagen, ‘cello
Token Creek Jazz Club
Token Creek’s iconic jazz club re-opens! Dim lights, café seating, refreshments and beverages tableside — for two nights the concert barn transforms into a magical jazz club. Introducing pianist Peter Godart to join the TC house band.
Words & Ideas: TC Speakers Series
Watch for the new Token Creek Speakers Series launching in the next months. Wide ranging topics — art, literature, culture, ecology — from top writers and speakers of our times.
The Poet Sings: Late Songs of John Harbison
One of the most defining and poignant song cycles in Harbison's masterful vocal oeuvre, Miłosz Songs (newly restored), together with first performances of new works completed in 2025. Spanning voices ancient and modern, the program explores the deep connection between music and poetry—where composer’s craft meets poet’s line. Harbison’s settings reveal the expressive potential of language, transforming verse into richly nuanced song.
SARAH BRAILEY, soprano | CLARA OSOWSKI, mezzo soprano | TOMASZ LIS piano
Fragments of Time: Present Music / The Violins of Hope
Whether it’s the recorded voices of WWII survivors in Steve Reich’s Different Trains, reimagined liturgical music in Yotam Haber’s work, the infinite reverential unfolding of the cello's Louange from Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, or the stories behind the Holocaust-era instruments of Violins of Hope, bringing these fragments together invites reflection, connection, and quiet acts of remembrance across generations.
THE ARTISTS: Members of Present Music, Milwaukee's premiere new music group.
The Avanti Piano Trio
A program of rarities: the newly restored premiere of French composer Rita Strohl’s Piano Trio No. 2 in its U.S. premiere, together with other works rarely experienced, concluding with Smetana’s monumental G minor piano trio.
Reading Anna K: A Play Reading
In our inaugural play reading event, Fran Zell directs her heartfelt look at life imitating art while exploring our endless need for friendship, love, and new beginnings in a one-act play that also breaks the stereotypes about what it means to grow old.
Featuring Sam D. White, Colleen Murphy, Marian Kaderbek, and Ann Stuart.
Pardon Our Mess!
Please pardon our dust!
The Token Creek concert barn will be closed from late spring through much of the summer.
A Dust in Time: Present Music
Milwaukee’s award-winning premiere new music group in their long-awaited return to Madison. An intimately scaled performance presenting Huang Ruo’s achingly moving A Dust in Time.
Songs America Loves to Sing: Chamber Music with Flute
A program of chamber music with flute that shines a lens on sparkling and witty writing for winds, strings and piano in works by Haydn & Harbison. Anchored by a vivacious early flute quartet of Haydn, Harbison’s evocative musical “after-images” of six American paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, and his witty, virtuosic and quite original take on American music of a bygone era, reworked and re-imagined for a chamber quintet.
Sonatas for Viola: Two World Premieres
Madlen Breckbill, viola | Micah Behr & Nolan Veldey, piano
Of Mere Being: A Recital in Honor of Dennis Maki
Daniel McGrew, tenor | Sophia Zhou, piano
Marcia Hadjimarkos, clavichord
Marcia Hadjimarkos offers a program of new and old music for the clavichord, including the premiere of Short Suite by John Harbison, commissioned for her by Timothy Farley.