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Music by and at the Music Academy of the West also returns shortly courtesy of both the third season of its Mariposa Concerts, which feature pre-concert wine receptions before the Hahn Hall performances, and a pair of special intimate fundraising concerts with longtime MAW faculty artists billed as “Up Close & Unforgettable.” 

Mariposa makes its 2025-26 debut the same way the just-ended MAW summer festival began, with a recital by the Prometheus Quartet, the Music Academy’s inaugural Emerging Artists String Quartet, on October 17. Founded in 2023 at The Juilliard School, the fearsome foursome explore how composers’ intentions get shaped over centuries of playing works by Beethoven and Mendelssohn after Caroline Shaw’s Blueprint. November brings the return of clarinetist Gerbrich Meijer, winner of the Academy’s 2025 Alumni Performance Award, for a curated recital of 20th-century pieces with teaching artist Conor Hanick and featuring the world premiere of an MAW commissioned work by Derek Bermel. 

Grammy-nominated violinist Tessa Lark, seen at UCSB Campbell Hall last spring, teams with MAW alum cellist Joshua Roman and Grammy-winning double bassist Edgar Meyer for a genre-defying concert in January, while the New York Philharmonic String Quartet returns for a pair of performances, the latter featuring Music Academy alum pianist Han Chen. 

Meanwhile, Hanick and clarinetist Richie Hawley do their duo thing at Lehmann Hall on September 27, and MAW faculty member Takács Quartet play Dvořák for an on-stage chef-curated dinner party in January.  

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