Classical Concert Series

Seth Weinstein, piano

Monday, October 6, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Sunrise Theater

SETH WEINSTEIN is a pianist, conductor, and composer from Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard College, he has been a classical and theatre pianist in New York for more than 20 years. He was the musical director and composer of the Off-Broadway musical, How to Save the World & Find True Love in 90 Minutes. He has toured internationally with Fosse and Ivan Jacobs’s The Phantom of the Opera and in the USA with Almost Heaven: Songs of John Denver. For this concert, Seth will perform The Chagall Suite, his piano piece inspired by Marc Chagall’s artwork and commissioned by Chagall scholar and lecturer, Vivian R. Jacobson, and her late husband, Ralph, in honor of their 50th wedding anniversary.

This concert will feature projected images of Chagall’s artwork to accompany Seth’s unique piece, The Chagall Suite.

Miki Sawada, piano

Monday, November 3, 2025 | 7:30 PM | Sunrise Theater

Pianist MIKI SAWADA enjoys a career of solo and chamber music. With degrees from Yale University, Eastman School of Music, and Northwestern University, she has been featured at Carnegie Hall, Toronto Music Festival, Banff Centre, and recently made her soloist debut with the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra and Portland Columbia Symphony. Miki founded and directs Gather Hear Tour, where she travels with a piano in a rented van to perform in community gathering spaces with a mission to connect with Americans across socioeconomic and political divides. Gather Hear has given 90+ free performances in seven states and created three films. Miki returns to CCS to present a special concert while she embarks on her Gather Hear North Carolina Tour.

This concert will feature Christopher Thompson, also known as “Master Christopher”, a multi-disciplined performer-composer who creates innovative ways to blur the distinction between genres by merging contemporary art music, jazz, percussion, & notated rap. Originally from Greensboro, NC, Chris is now based in Philadelphia, PA and pursuing a doctorate in composition at John Hopkins University’s Peabody Conservatory. He holds a bachelor’s from North Carolina A&T State University and a master’s in Percussion Performance from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

“I think the beauty of experiencing music together is one of the very few truths we can agree upon and reminds us of our common humanity.” ~ Miki, as interviewed by The Philadelphia Inquirer

Windsync

Monday, February 16, 2026 | 7:30 PM | Sunrise Theater

By popular demand, WINDSYNC returns to CCS with a new program and new members. This wind quintet has performed at Carnegie Hall, Chautauqua Institution, Shanghai Oriental Arts Center in China, and on NPR’s Performance Today. In the span of one performance, they cover vast musical ground from revitalized standards to freshly inked works to folk and songbook, the common thread telling a compelling story about music history and our human selves. WindSync frequently eliminates the “fourth wall” between musicians and audience by performing from memory, creating an extraordinary connection. That personal performance style lends WindSync its reputation as “a group of virtuosos who are also wonderful people, too” (Alison Young, Classical MPR).

“A major force in the American chamber music landscape.” ~ Sherry Cheng, Arts & Culture Texas

Galvin Cello Quartet

Monday, March 30, 2026 | 7:30 PM | Sunrise Theater

Back by popular demand, the GALVIN CELLO QUARTET returns to Moore County with their untamable desire to bring joy through music and to explore and expand the possibilities of the cello quartet. The group takes its name from Galvin Recital Hall at Northwestern University where three of its original members met as students and then captured the Silver Medal at the 2021 Fischoff Competition, followed by winning the 2022 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition. Based on the response to their incredible concert here in 2024, Galvin is well on the way to fulfilling the group’s mission to establish the cello quartet as a core part of the classical music world.

“This performance demonstrated the musical possibilities such an unusual ensemble line-up can offer, so long as very talented musicians are handling the bows and plucking the strings. Members of the Galvin Cello Quartet…showed off that talent.” ~ Louis Harris, Third Cost Review