Trio sensation and Indy favorite Time for Three returns to perform two programs in one night. Arrive after work for the 5:30 PM happy hour concert (60 minutes) and a free beverage voucher, or order dinner (food catered by The Jazz Kitchen) during the full length 8:00 PM performance. Set in the beautifully majestic Cabaret Theater, the evening features Nick Kendall and Charles Yang on violin/vocals and Ranaan Meyer on bass/vocals. Reserved tables are only available for the 8:00 PM performance for $10 per seat – contact the IVCI office for more information.

The National Bank of Indianapolis is a proud Supporting Sponsor for the evening.

2018 Laureate Ioana Cristina Goicea opens her Indianapolis recital debut with music inspired by her native Romania, followed by three of the violin repertoire's most treasured works.

This season we celebrate the 80th birthday of our beloved friend, IVCI Artistic Director Jaime Laredo. Together with former Laureates, jury members and other distinguished artists, we honor Maestro Laredo who has helped lead The Indianapolis to its worldwide prominence. Featured artists include IVCI Laureates Jinjoo Cho (2014 Gold Medalist), Shannon Lee (2018 Laureate), former jury member Malcolm Lowe (retired Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra), violists Yu Jin (Principal, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra) and Steven Tenenbom (Orion String Quartet), and cellists Sharon Robinson (Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio) and Keith Robinson (Miami String Quartet).

Rooted by a love of traditional Scandinavian folk music and blended with elements of classical and jazz, Dreamers’ Circus brews it all together to create something ingenious. Consisting of violinist Rune Tonsgaard Sørenson (Danish String Quartet), pianist Nikolaj Busk and citternist Ale Carr, Dreamers’ Circus “strives to invoke a place of freedom, somewhere for our imagination to play in and a space for dreaming.” Full tables are available for reservation at $10 per seat; contact the IVCI office for more information.

The National Bank of Indianapolis is a proud Supporting Sponsor for the evening.

1986 Gold Medalist Kyoko Takezawa collaborates with pianist Chih-Yi Chen to feature Saint-Saëns’ noble Sonata No. 1, a work which echoes the heroic musical language of Beethoven. The pair also performs Beethoven’s Sonata No. 10 in G, Chopin’s sentimental Nocturne in D-flat, and Bloch’s Baal Shem Suite.

2018 Bronze Medalist Luke Hsu combines forces with 2019 USA International Harp Competition Gold Medalist Mélanie Laurent in a program featuring the beautifully unique pairing of violin and harp, including Piazzolla’s capricious Histoire du Tango and Saint-Saëns’ Fantaisie for Violin and Harp. The program closes with a collaboration with the Ronen Chamber Ensemble in Ravel’s famed Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet.