Featured as part of the annual Leonard Falcone International Euphonium & Tuba Festival
Dr. Trae Blanco, conductor
Sgt. Hiram Diaz, euphonium
Stewart Shell

Broadcast at 8pm EDT on Blue Lake Public Radio

Blue Lake Fine Arts Faculty, Robert Cart (flute), Jeremiah Quarelles (oboe), Amy Guffey (clarinet), Heather Thayer (horn), Shawn Karson (bassoon), and Wan-chin Chang (piano) will perform B efore & After for flute, clarinet, piano (Eric Sessler), Three's a Crowd for flute, oboe, bassoon (Gary Schocker) - world premiere, and A Distant Light for flute, horn, piano (Elaine M. Ross).

Season Finale!
Dr. Salvador Brotons, conductor
Stewart Shell

Broadcast at 8pm EDT on Blue Lake Public Radio

Robert Cart (flute) and Starla Raley (piano) perform Songs of Home and Memory, a program that explores the many ways music connects us to place, identity, and belonging. For flutist Robert Cart, this performance marks a return to his Indiana roots and the memories that first inspired his musical journey. Through the lyrical elegance of Fauré and Poulenc, the rediscovered voice of émigré composer Richard Stöhr, the distinctly American soundscape of Copland, and Valerie Coleman’s celebration of our shared humanity in Fanmi Imèn, the program reflects on the meaning of home, whether remembered, rediscovered, lost, or reimagined. The concert takes place as part of Concerts at First recital series.

Gabriel Fauré – Fantasy for flute and piano

Richard Stöhr – Six Sketches for flute and piano

Aaron Copland – Duo for flute and piano

Francis Poulenc – Sonata for flute and piano

Valerie Coleman – Fanmi Imén

Part of the 200th anniversary of the Owen-Maclure experiment in New Harmony, Indiana, and in collaboration with the Innovative Communities Conference:

This solo flute recital explores the enduring human search for beauty, belonging, and ideal expression—echoing the visionary spirit of New Harmony Utopian Experiment. Through a program of lyrical fantasies, virtuosic variations, and beloved American song, the flute becomes a singing voice that moves between aspiration and memory, individuality and community.

Works by C.P.E. Bach, Kuhlau, and Boehm reflect the Enlightenment and Romantic ideals of expressive freedom and artistic imagination, while Stephen Foster’s songs of longing and home offer a deeply personal and distinctly American vision of connection and hope. Together, these pieces trace a musical journey that resonates with New Harmony’s legacy as a place where bold ideas and human ideals meet.

Robert Cart (flute) and Jacob Coleman (piano) will perform Songs of Home and Memory, a program that explores the many ways music connects us to place, identity, and belonging. Through the lyrical elegance of Fauré and Poulenc, the distinctly American soundscape of Copland, and Valerie Coleman’s celebration of our shared humanity in Fanmi Imèn, the program reflects on the meaning of home, whether remembered, rediscovered, lost, or reimagined. The concert takes place as part of Concerts at First recital series.

Gabriel Fauré – Fantasy for flute and piano

Aaron Copland – Duo for flute and piano

Francis Poulenc – Sonata for flute and piano

Valerie Coleman – Fanmi Imén

Èxi Chéria performs trios for flute (Robert Cart), viola (Ivan Mendoza), and cello (Wade Davis) ranging from the Baroque era to today, This concert features the world premiere of Metsäjkävä a newly commissioned work by Matteo Neri supported by a generous grant from the Composers’ Guild of New Jersey. For more information, visit‍ ‍Mallory Art Gallery of Rutgers University, Camden.

As part of the Sundays at 2 Series at the Chevy Chase United Methodist Church., Robert Cart (flute) and Regiuna DiMedio Marrazza (piano) present music shaped by exile, identity, resilience, and hope. Hope Will Never Be Silent celebrates the enduring power of artistic expression, and features works by Walter Benedict, Fania Chapiro, Francis Poulenc, Samuel Barber, Jake Heggie, and Gary Schocker, the program is united by a spirit of lyricism and the expressive ideals of the singing voice, inviting audiences into a journey of reflection, humanity, and renewal.

Program

• Walter Benedict — Sonata No. 2

• Fania Chapiro — Sonatine

• Francis Poulenc — Sonata for Flute and Piano

• Samuel Barber — Canzone

• Jake Heggie — Soliloquy

• Gary Schocker — Closer

The recital traces a progression through six inner states of reflection and imagination. Rather than presenting the works as independent compositions, the program invites listeners into a continuous landscape of memory, contemplation, tension, transformation, and release. From Debussy’s solitary invocation through the luminous freshness of Boulanger, the architectural intensity of Hindemith, Poulenc’s shifting emotional worlds, Messiaen’s suspended moments of listening, and Takemitsu’s final meditation on breath and silence, each work becomes a different facet of the inner life.

Debussy – Syrinx

Lili Boulanger – D’un matin du printemps

Hindemith – Flute Sonata

Poulenc – Flute Sonata

Messiaen – Le merle noir

Takemitsu – Air

Inspired by the exhibition Tobi Kahn: Quest for the Essence, this recital presents works by Walter Benedict, Rosy Wertheim, Robert Fürstenthal, Hugo Kauder, and Richard Stöhr—European émigré composers who forged new creative lives in America during the twentieth century. Through music of lyricism, introspection, and quiet strength, the program explores themes of resilience, renewal, and the search for meaning through art. Join Lisa Leonard (piano) and Robert Carg (flute) at the Boca Raton Museum of Art

Robert Cart (flute) and Andrea Feitl (piano) will perform Six States of the Dreaming Mind: A Dalí Sound Sequence. at the Salvador Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, FL. Rather than a conventional recital format, concert frames the pieces as six states of a dreaming mind, moving from emergence and awakening through construction, distortion, suspension of time, and finally dissolution. Each work functions as a psychological condition rather than a standalone concert item.

Debussy – Syrinx

Lili Boulanger – D’un matin du printemps

Hindemith – Flute Sonata

Poulenc – Flute Sonata

Messiaen – Le merle noir

Takemitsu – Air