Pianist and musicologist Katelyn Bouska offers new insights into Antonín Dvořák in America through a special musical tour focused on his compositions, students and contemporaries in the late 19th century. Featuring works by Dvořák, Burleigh, Beach, Suková-Dvořáková.
Celebrating the renewal of nature in spring as well as the promise of young musical talent during this Year of Czech Music. Featuring students from The Juilliard School as well as seasoned New York players.
Opening event of the Year of Czech Music abroad. The concert will feature songs by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů. The program offers a special performance of Janáček's extraordinary cycle “The Diary of One Who Disappeared.”
The acclaimed Sullivan Quartet returns for the latest installment in DAHA’s unprecedented series exploring the entire chamber music repertoire of Antonín Dvořák.
The Dvořák Room welcomes in-person visits once again as part of Open House New York – an unparalleled citywide cultural event that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places.
The works of Bedřich Smetana and Josef Suk will be featured in a musically revealing piano program that anticipates the upcoming Year of Czech Music 2024, when musicians will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Smetana's birth and the 150th anniversary of Suk's birth.
Professor Michael Beckerman hosts a panel discussion about how to conceive of questions of Czech nationality/ethnicity in music from the early Renaissance to the 20th century. Invited panelists include scholars and musicians Erika Supria Honisch, David Hoose, and Carl C. Bettendorf.
Celebrate spring and the “New World” Symphony in a special tribute to Antonín Dvořák and his symphonic masterpiece, marking its 130th anniversary year. In person and live online.
DAHA is pleased to present outstanding musicians from the Filharmonie Brno in a special performance at Bohemian National Hall. Dennis Russell Davies, Filharmonie Brno Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, appears as piano soloist. Composer Laurie Anderson will join us as a special guest for this performance.
In collaboration with the Czech Center New York and the Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, with support by the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association.
Immerse yourselves in the life stories of four phenomenal Czech composers– Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček, Bohuslav Martinů – and their classical music works in a multimedia exhibition, featuring illustrations, video commentary, memorabilia, and original costumes.
The program will be drawn from Dvořák’s prolific output of chamber works, which exceeded 40 duos, trios, string quartets, quintets and sextets.
The Dvořák Room welcomes in-person visits once again as part of Open House New York – an unparalleled citywide cultural event that showcases hundreds of NYC’s most architecturally and culturally significant spaces and places.
From the streets of Brno to the plains of southern Spain, this international program is an exploration of grief and joy with special meaning for our times.
Explore the life of Jarmila Novotná, the great 20th century Czech opera singer and actress who had a brilliant career in Europe and America. Selections from the George Daubek Collection of Novotná memorabilia will be on view in the Dvořák Room.
Opening of the exhibition Ticket to the New World curated by photographer Eva Heyd, with a special Dvořák Room presentation of the life of Jarmila Novotná, the great 20th century Czech opera singer and actress, and a conversation between translator Alex Zucker and Eva Heyd.
A concert exploring the musical cultures of Habsburg Central Europe with the soprano Ariana Wyatt and pianist Richard Masters.
A two-day conference exploring the sonic and musical cultures of Habsburg Central Europe, with a specific focus on (trans)national circulations, exchanges, and ruptures.
A two-day conference exploring the sonic and musical cultures of Habsburg Central Europe, with a specific focus on (trans)national circulations, exchanges, and ruptures.
The tradition of spring musicales continues as the spirited ArtsAhimsa ensemble returns for its tenth season. The evening offers a special program fusing Antonín Dvořák musical gems, Czech and American poetry, and inspirational dance.
Join us for the concert of Ester Pavlů, which is part of events celebrating the year of Bohuslav Martinů in New York. The program includes not only works of Czech composers Antonín Dvořák, Leoš Janáček and Bohuslav Martinů. The evening will be also featuring Vladimír Chmelo, Slovak opera singer and accompanying Czech piano player Ahmad Hedar.
Musicologist and author Michael Beckerman will present the remarkable Czech composer, phenomenal pianist and elemental musician Jaroslav Ježek (1906-1942) and his last years in New York where he lived in exile after fleeing the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1939. Professor Beckerman will discuss Ježek’s final composition, the Piano Sonata, which he completed shortly before his death in 1942 in New York.
DAHA presents the acclaimed Quartet 131 and guest artists in the fifth edition of Dvořák: The Chamber Music Survey, the multi-year series in which all of Dvorák’s chamber music will be heard by New York audiences.
Celebrate the 180th Anniversary of Antonín Dvořák’s Birth! Woodwind Concert in Stuyvesant Square Park near the Dvořák Statue; walking tour of Dvořák’s East 17th Street neighborhood during his American residency from 1892-95, the period in which he composed the world-famous “New World” Symphony.
Own a Limited Edition Lithograph of the Czech composer created by internationally acclaimed graphic artist Oldřich Kulhánek (1940-2013).
From DAHA’s Archive: Explore an intriguing mix of classical and non-traditional music played by international violin sensation Iskandar Widjaja in his New York debut at the historic Bohemian National Hall. Moving from Dvořák to contemporary works, the Indonesian-German violin virtuoso provides a new vibe, capturing meditative sounds that have a transcendental quality and focus. The stellar young musician demonstrates his charisma and talent in this memorable performance, and he will revisit the magic in a special opening conversation with DAHA music advisor Laura Goldberg. Bravo Iskandar!
Originally performed in collaboration with Groupmuse on November 1, 2019, Iskandar Widjaja, violin, Miki Aoki, piano.
From DAHA’s archive: Composer Carl Bettendorf and the Momenta Quartet present a virtual program of string quartets focusing on two great Czech modernists, Leoš Janáček and Alois Hába, plus a contemporary work by Bettendorf.
Originally performed on February 28, 2019, Momenta Quartet
A conversation and book launch in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
A panel discussion with Marcus Pyle, NYU/Davidson University; Douglas Shadle, Vanderbilt University, and Michael Beckerman, New York University
This event is also a “book launch” for Prof. Shadle’s forthcoming Antonín Dvořák’s New World Symphony (Oxford University Press, 2021).
This event will take place via zoom.
Enjoy a festive virtual sing-along and film about the American premiere of Georgius Zrunek's tri-lingual Christmas Mass of 1766. Introduced by Professor Michael Beckerman of New York University, the film features the Czech early music group Ritornello and NYU collegiate choristers as they prepare the delightful Zrunek work for concert, merging folk and spiritual traditions in surprising ways.
From DAHA’s Archive: View the brilliant Martinů Quartet from Prague performing Antonín Dvořák’s “American” String Quartet, composed during his idyllic midwestern sojourn in the summer of 1893. This event was the third annual concert in DAHA’s continuing series of Dvořák’s complete chamber works. In the Grand Ballroom of the historic Bohemian National Hall, the renowned musicians and their audience enjoyed the enhanced acoustics and intimacy created by a central seating arrangement.
Originally performed on September 23, 2018, Martinů Quartet
Although it is not possible for us to have in-person concerts, the Dvořák American Heritage Association would like to stay in touch and has selected some of the most beautiful and exciting pieces of music from our past concerts in the historic Bohemian National Hall in New York City. These concert selections will be rebroadcast on our YouTube channel on the listed dates. The links will be emailed to those on our email list with program notes on the day of the event, going live at 3 PM, EST, and available for repeat viewing. We hope that you will enjoy them.
View a memorable performance of Antonín Dvořák’s American period masterwork, the most celebrated of cello concertos to this day, composed in New York City in early 1895.
Originally performed on March 26, 2017, Marcy Rosen, cello; Aaron Copland School of Music Orchestra; Maurice Peress, conductor
