Phoenix Chamber Music Society

The Grammy-winning Harlem Quartet, featuring Ilmar Gavilán, Melissa White, Jaime Amador, and Felix Umansky, has earned acclaim for its dynamic performances and fresh approach to classical music. The New York Times praised their “panache,” while the Cincinnati Enquirer lauded their “new attitude to classical music.”
The Quartet is well-known for their innovative programming, both through their own work and collaborations, which seamlessly mixes classical repertoire with jazz, and Latin, as well as contemporary works by composers from underrepresented backgrounds, championing diversity in classical music to their core.

Aldo López-Gavilán is a pianist, composer, and improviser whose music moves naturally between the concert hall, the jazz stage, and the living traditions of Cuba. His work resists easy classification. It carries the discipline of classical form, the freedom of improvisation, the rhythmic force of Afro-Cuban music, and the imagination of an artist who has never felt bound by a single musical language.