Paul Barnes is the featured artist in the opening concert of the 2023 Season. Performing the New York premiere of The Way of Mountains and Desert by Native American flutist and composer Ron Warren, he will be joined by James Nyoraku Schlefer who performs his composition Sidewalk Dances on the shakuhachi. Nyoraku Schlefer will be joined by a string trio to perform Rashomon by Victoria Bond. Barnes’s arrangement of Sacagawea by Philip Glass, with whom he has a long history of collaboration, features Ron Warren on Native flute. Additional works by Ron Warren fill out the program, which culminates in an improvised duet by the two flutists.

This program is made possible by the generous support of Liana K. Sandin and the Pearle Francis Finigan Foundation.