PUBLIQuartet Offers Free Concerts with Rite of Summer Music Festival

The concerts will take place on August 26, 2023, at New York City's Governors Island

PUBLIQuartet is to present two free concerts as part of the Rite of Summer Music Festival, which takes place each year on Governors Island in New York. The festival is curated by Directors Pam Goldberg and Blair McMillen, and strives to present cutting-edge performances of classical and contemporary music.

PUBLIQuartet, which comprises Curtis Stewart and Jannina Norpoth (violins), Nick Revel (viola), and Hamilton Berry (cello), will be playing selections from their GRAMMY-nominated album, What is American. The album explores the multitude of styles that make up American musical identity, including American Indigenous and Black music.

These concerts will take place at Nolan Park on Saturday, August 26, 2023, at 1pm and then again at 3pm. The outdoor setting is relaxed, and listeners can come and go as they please — as well as mingling, eating, and drinking during the performance.

Devoted to the performance of new music, PUBLIQuartet were the winners of the 2013 Concert Artists Guild’s New Music/NewPlaces award, and in 2019 they received Chamber Music America’s Visionary Award for outstanding and innovative approaches to contemporary classical, jazz, and world chamber music.

They have served as artists-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and National Sawdust, and their album Freedom and Faith debuted at the top of the Billboard Classical Charts in May 2019.

You can read more about the event, as well as donate to the festival, here.