Name: Paquito D' Rivera Tribute
Start: 2024-11-15T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 2936 N Southport Ave, 60657

The Atheneum Center presents the Orion Ensemble and Guests in an exciting “Tribute to Paquito D’Rivera,” featuring guest jazz pianist Bradley Williams performing his world premiere salute to the Cuban-American jazz clarinetist legend and a program including works by D’Rivera along with a brilliant rendition of de Abreu’s “Tico Tico” from a historical Paquito performance at Lincoln Center.
Collaborating with Orion artists Florentina Ramniceanu, violin, Kathryne Pirtle, clarinet, and Judy Stone, cello, will be jazz artists Bradley Williams, piano, Morgan Pirtle and Amy Jill, jazz vocalists.
Now in their 32nd season, The Orion Ensemble, winner of the prestigious Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming for its critically acclaimed millennium celebration “An Inside Look at Contemporary Music,” features a roster of four acclaimed musicians—Kathryne Pirtle (clarinet), Florentina Ramniceanu (violin), Diana Schmück (piano) and Judy Stone (cello)—who have performed throughout North America, Europe and Asia, as an ensemble and individually in solo, orchestral and other chamber music roles. The Chicago Tribune called Orion “one of Chicago’s most vibrant, versatile and distinctive ensembles,” and the Chicago Sun-Times said Orion is “what chamber music should be all about: Individual virtuosity melded into a group personality.”