2024 Summer Season at Caramoor kick off

Caramoor’s spectacular open-air venues, intimate indoor spaces, and world-renowned artists make it the perfect destination for gathering outdoors with friends and family to celebrate and be renewed by the dynamic power of music and the arts. The 2024 summer season kicks off with a gala performance by longtime Caramoor friend Wynton Marsalis with his Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (June 22).

2024 Season Line up:

Two large-scale movement-centered events are featured at Caramoor this season: a new street-dance infused production of Purcell’s The Fairy Queen from Les Arts Florissants led by William Christie and choreographed by Mourad Merzouki, and the Caramoor debut of the Mark Morris Dance Group. The Knights and Aaron Diehl give their first complete live performance of Mary Lou Williams’s Zodiac Suite following their recent lauded recording; two concerts with Orchestra of St. Luke’s feature guitarist Miloš and pianist Jeremy Denk; and Cleveland period ensemble Apollo’s Fire performs a program of Vivaldi and Handel led by Jeannette Sorrell. The Sphinx Virtuosi present music by a vital group of contemporary Black and Latinx composers, much of it written for them; “Our Song, Our Story: The New Generation of Black Voices” with music director Damien Sneed honors the legacies of Marian Anderson and Jessye Norman; and the free world premiere of Douglas J. Cuomo’s community project THE JUMP UP! features Sandbox Percussion and collaborating local percussionists. The Concerts on the Lawn series features Grammy winners Roomful of Teeth and Time For Three, Cuban cuatro sensation Kiki Valera, and Zimbabwean Afrofusion band Mokoomba; chamber performances include the Calidore String Quartet and harpist Bridget Kibbey, the Abeo Quartet, and Owls, plus solo recitals from violinist Kevin Zhu and pianists Richard Goode, Joyce Yang and Clayton Stephenson. The annual Jazz Festival features the already storied young pianist and bandleader Matthew Whitaker; and the American Roots Music Festival is headlined by Grammy winner Madison Cunningham. Roots events later in the summer showcase the Lost Bayou Ramblers and Rhiannon Giddens; Broadway star Sutton Foster gives a solo performance; special events celebrate Pride with drag artist Jasmine Rice LaBeija and Juneteenth with Charles Turner & Uptown Swing; three Music & Meditation in the Garden events are held in the Sunken Garden; fireworks return on the Fourth of July along with the annual Pops, Patriots & Fireworks concert; and the Sonic Innovations sound art installation features the debut of Stephan Moore’s Promenade and Senem Pirler’s Seismic Grief, along with seven returning pieces.

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