Classical Month in Washington (January)

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Classical Month in Washington is a monthly feature. If there are concerts you would like to see included on our schedule, send your suggestions by e-mail (ionarts at gmail dot com). Happy listening!

January 1, 2011 (Sat)
2 pm
New Year's Concert 2011: Salute to Vienna
Music Center at Strathmore

January 2, 2011 (Sun)
6:30 pm
American String Quartet [FREE]
Beethoven Quartet Cycle, Part 1
National Gallery of Art

January 7, 2011 (Fri)
8 pm
Yale Glee Club (with John Eaton, piano)
Music Center at Strathmore

January 7, 2011 (Fri)
8 pm
Folger Consort
Music by Vivaldi, Cage (Four Seasons)
Washington National Cathedral

January 8, 2011 (Sat)
11 am, 1:30 pm, 5 pm
NSO Teddy Bear Concert: Fancy That!
With Marissa Regni, violin
Kennedy Center Family Theater

January 8, 2011 (Sat)
7:30 pm
Coffee Cantata / Amahl and the Night Visitors
Opera Bel Cantanti
JCCGW (Rockville, Md.)

January 8, 2011 (Sat)
7:30 pm
Smithsonian Chamber Music Society
Music by Mozart and Beethoven
National Museum of American History

January 8, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Renée Fleming, soprano
With Harmut Höll, piano
WPAS
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 8, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Folger Consort
Music by Vivaldi, Cage (Four Seasons)
Washington National Cathedral

January 8, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
National Philharmonic
Music by Vivaldi
Music Center at Strathmore

January 9, 2011 (Sun)
1:30 and 4 pm
NSO Ensemble Concert: Science and Music
Kennedy Center Family Theater

January 9, 2011 (Sun)
3 pm
Coffee Cantata / Amahl and the Night Visitors
Opera Bel Cantanti
JCCGW (Rockville, Md.)

January 9, 2011 (Sun)
3 pm
Luis Pares, piano
Mansion at Strathmore

January 9, 2011 (Sun)
3 pm
National Philharmonic
Music by Vivaldi
Music Center at Strathmore

January 9, 2011 (Sun)
4 pm
Washington Saxophone Quartet
Phillips Collection

January 9, 2011 (Sun)
6:30 pm
NGA Orchestra [FREE]
Norwegian-American New Year concert
National Gallery of Art

January 12, 2011 (Wed)
8 pm
Mobtown Modern
Glass, Glassworks (1979)
The Windup Space (Baltimore, Md.)

January 13, 2011 (Thu)
7 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Kirill Karabits (conductor) and Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Music by Shostakovich, Silvestrov, Sibelius
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 14, 2011 (Fri)
8 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Kirill Karabits (conductor) and Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Music by Shostakovich, Silvestrov, Sibelius
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 15, 2011 (Sat)
11 am and 1:30 pm
NSO Kinderkonzert: Making Music with Friends
Kennedy Center Family Theater

January 15, 2011 (Sat)
6 pm
Emerson String Quartet
Music by Schubert, Beethoven
National Museum of Natural History

January 15, 2011 (Sat)
7:30 pm
Robin Tritschler (tenor) and Graham Johnson (piano)
Schubert, Die Schöne Müllerin
Vocal Arts D.C.
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

January 15, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Kirill Karabits (conductor) and Sergey Khachatryan (violin)
Music by Shostakovich, Silvestrov, Sibelius
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 15, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Glass, Icarus at the Edge of Time
Music Center at Strathmore

January 15, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
American String Quartet
Music by Beethoven
Smith Theater, Howard Community College (Columbia, Md.)

January 15, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
GMU Center for the Arts

January 16, 2011 (Sun)
2 pm
Kennedy Center Chamber Players
Music by Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

January 16, 2011 (Sun)
4 pm
Kelly Hall-Tompkins (violin) and Craig Ketter (piano)
Phillips Collection

January 16, 2011 (Sun)
6:30 pm
Bruno Nasta (violin) and Ensemble [FREE]
Music by Gershwin, Joplin, Milhaud
National Gallery of Art

January 19, 2011 (Wed)
7:30 pm
Quatuor Diotima
La Maison Française

January 20, 2011 (Thu)
7 pm
JFK 50th Anniversary Concert
With American Ballet Theater and National Symphony Orchestra
Peter Lieberson, Remembering JFK: An American Elegy
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 20, 2011 (Thu)
7:30 pm
Friedrich Kleinhapl (cello) and Andreas Woyke (piano)
Mansion at Strathmore

January 21, 2011 (Fri)
8:15 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Off the Cuff: Shostakovich, 5th symphony
Music Center at Strathmore

January 22, 2011 (Sat)
2 pm
Sofya Gulyak, piano
WPAS
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

January 22, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) and Tzimon Barto (piano)
Music by Gershwin, Bernstein, Lieberson
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 22, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Brazilian Guitar Quartet
Albéniz, Iberia Suite
Dumbarton Concerts

January 23, 2011 (Sun)
1:30 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) and Tzimon Barto (piano)
Music by Gershwin, Bernstein, Lieberson
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 23, 2011 (Sun)
2 pm
Amit Peled, cello (with Eli Kalman, piano)
WPAS
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

January 23, 2011 (Sun)
4 pm
Raphael Trio (Schubert piano trios, Part 1)
Phillips Collection

January 23, 2011 (Sun)
5:30 pm
Jonathan Biss, piano
Shriver Hall (Baltimore, Md.)

January 23, 2011 (Sun)
7 pm
A Far Cry, string ensemble
Dumbarton Oaks

January 24, 2011 (Mon)
7 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
With Christoph Eschenbach (conductor) and Tzimon Barto (piano)
Music by Gershwin, Bernstein, Lieberson
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 24, 2011 (Mon)
7:30 pm
Aleksandr Haskin, flute
Young Concert Artists
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

January 24, 2011 (Mon)
8 pm
A Far Cry, string ensemble
Dumbarton Oaks

January 25, 2011 (Tue)
7:30 pm
Pablo Casals Tribute Concert
With Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Emanuel Ax (piano), Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 25, 2011 (Tue)
8 pm
Fessenden Ensemble
Music by Bach, Schoenfield
St. Columba's Church (4201 Albemarle St. NW)

January 26, 2011 (Wed)
8 pm
Joshua Bell, violin
With Sam Haywood, piano
WPAS
Music Center at Strathmore

January 27, 2011 (Thu)
7 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
Music by Beethoven, Berg
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 27, 2011 (Thu)
7:30 pm
Adam György, piano
Embassy Series
Embassy of Hungary

January 28, 2011 (Fri)
8 pm
Ariel Quartet
With Roger Tapping, viola
Corcoran Gallery of Art

January 28, 2011 (Fri)
8 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
Music by Beethoven, Berg
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 29, 2011 (Sat)
2 pm
Till Fellner, piano
Music by Haydn, Schumann, Liszt
WPAS
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

January 29, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Philharmonia Quartett Berlin
Music by Mozart, Shostakovich, Schubert
Smith Theater, Howard Community College (Columbia, Md.)

January 29, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie
With Philippe Entremont (conductor) and Sebastian Knauer (piano)
GMU Center for the Arts

January 29, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
Axelrod String Quartet
National Museum of American History

January 29, 2011 (Sat)
8 pm
National Symphony Orchestra
Music by Beethoven, Berg
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 30, 2011 (Sun)
2 pm
Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
Kennedy Center Terrace Theater

January 30, 2011 (Sun)
3 pm
American Youth Philharmonic Orchestra
GMU Center for the Arts

January 30, 2011 (Sun)
4 pm
Raphael Trio (Schubert piano trios, Part 2)
Phillips Collection

January 30, 2011 (Sun)
6:30 pm
Victor Goldberg, piano [FREE]
National Gallery of Art

January 30, 2011 (Sun)
7 pm
Jazz at Lincoln Center
With Wynton Marsalis, trumpet
WPAS
Kennedy Center Concert Hall

January 30, 2011 (Sun)
7:30 pm
Axelrod String Quartet
National Museum of American History