25/26 Season:

Concerts at the Lehman College Art Gallery at Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd. West, Bronx, NY 10468

September 25th 2025, 12 noon
Our season opener celebrates the return of our beautiful Steinway Concert Grand, which has undergone extensive repairs and upgrades. Pianist Leon Bernsdorf leads the charge in the tour-de-force piano trio by Arensky, joined by our Artistic Director Monica Bauchwitz, violin, and Alberto Parrini, cello. We have asked Leon to play some solo piano works by Chopin to further delight in the sonority of our rebuilt piano. A Violin Sonata by Corelli rounds out the program.

October 30th 2025, 12 noon
Grammy-winning Soprano Laura Strickling makes her CITH debut in a vocal program that features a wide variety of selections. She is supported by Monica Bauchwitz, Violin, and Karl Kramer, piano and horn.

December 4th 2025, 12 noon
Two new artists join our roster; Violist Jeremy Kienbaum and pianist Yoon Lee join Monica for a program of music by Shostakovich, Coleridge-Taylor and Martinu. Martinu’s two Madrigals for Violin and Viola is fiery and vibrant and probes the full sonorities of the two string instruments in duo. Coleridge-Taylor’s Suite for Violin and Piano is full of lush melodies and Romantic loveliness. Shostakovich’s 5 Pieces has wit and charm as well as ironic and wistful elements

February 26th 2026, 12 noon
Pianist Reiko Uchida returns to CITH for a closer look at Nadia Boulanger and her legacy as expressed through the works of a broad range of her students including Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Jean Francaix, Johan Kvandal and Lili Boulanger. The range of styles is astonishing!

March 26th 2026, 12 noon
We celebrate Women’s History Month by programming rarely heard masterpieces by Clara Schumann, Mel Bonis, Jane Vignery, Maria-Theresa von Paradis and others.

April 23rd 2026, 12 noon
Our season finale brings the Mendelssohn String Quintet #2 in B flat Major alongside Mozart’s bubbly Horn Quintet. Both these pieces are joyous, virtuosic and full of hope and life. Monica Bauchwitz, Keiko Tokunaga, Jessica Thompson, Josh Halpern and Karl Kramer.