CMS Kids: Building Blocks of Music
Sun, Oct 18, 2026, 11:00 am, 1:00 pm, & 3:00 pm
Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS
1 hour, no intermission
CMS Kids offers relaxed, interactive concerts for children and their families. These informal performances welcome all young listeners, including those with sensory sensitivities.
Every CMS Kids event offers a Relaxed Performance, fostering an inclusive concert experience free from judgment. This performance is less formal and more supportive of sensory, communication, movement, and learning needs. Learn more about what to expect here. Kids explore chamber music through movement and play, then enjoy an up-close session with musicians and an instrument petting zoo.
Come and join us for a joyful, sensory-friendly musical adventure that sparks curiosity and invites everyone to make believe together!
To ensure adequate safety and capacity, all attendees for this event, regardless of age, need a ticket. This includes children that will be sitting in a guardian's lap during the performance.
Program
Niccolò Paganini
(1782–1840)3 Duetti concertanti for Violin and Cello, MS 107, No. 1 in E-Flat Major
(1810-18c)Paul Wiancko
(b. 1983)American Haiku for Viola and Cello
(2015)Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756–1791)Duo in G major for Violin and Viola, K. 423
(1783)Ernő Dohnányi
(1877–1960)Serenade in C major for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 10
(1902)
Laura Liu
Coleman Itzkoff
Jeffrey Meyers
Violist Laura Liu, a native of Miami, Florida, currently lives in New York City and studies with Cynthia Phelps and Misha Amory. Hailed by Classical Voice America as a “standout” with “sound deep, warm, and consistently musical,” she participated this summer as a Junior Artist at Marlboro Music Festival. Previously, she took part in the Verbier Festival Academy, where she won the Edwin Caplin Foundation Award. Her ardent love of collaboration led her to join the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach’s Rising Artist Program, Sunkiss’d Mozart Summerfest, Kronberg’s Chamber Music Connects the World, Olympic Music Festival’s Fellowship, Music@Menlo’s International Performer’s Program, Perlman Music Program’s Chamber Workshop, Taos School of Music, Kneisel Hall, and Heifetz International Music Institute. Liu recently earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees as a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship at the Juilliard School. She is currently pursuing her Artist Diploma, also at Juilliard.
Cellist and performer Coleman Itzkoff stands at the intersection of baroque/classical/new music, contemporary dance, and experimental theater. Whether premiering works by living composers and performing baroque music on historical instruments in the same concert, delivering enigmatic monologues in a piece of avant-garde dance theater (as well as dancing in said piece), composing, arranging, and recording music for the Amazon film ‘Le Bal des Folles’, or simply playing a piece of solo Bach for hospital patients in the time of COVID, Coleman continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be a musician of the 21st century, bringing his diverse range of interests and shape-shifting presence to every room and stage he occupies.
Hailed by Alex Ross in the New Yorker for his “flawless technique and keen musicality,” Coleman has performed in the great halls and festivals of America and abroad. As a soloist, he has had the privilege of being the featured soloist with many great orchestras, including recent appearances with the Houston, San Diego, and Cincinnati Symphonies. As a recitalist, he is allowed to express his eclectic taste and inventive programming, and is constantly experimenting with the form and format of a solo concert, playing with unique lighting, unconventional spaces, and often with an accompaniment of dance or text.
Collaboration is the heart of Coleman’s art making. To that end, he is a dedicated member of several ensembles, including the early music ensembles Ruckus and Twelfth Night, and is a founding member of AMOC, the American Modern Opera Company. Coleman holds a Bachelors in Music from Rice University, a Masters in Music from USC, and an Artist Diploma from The Juilliard School. For more information, please visit colemanitzkoff.com
Jeffrey Myers is first violinist of the Calidore String Quartet. His chamber music career with the award-winning Calidore String Quartet has established an international reputation for its informed, polished, and passionate performances. The quartet won the Grand Prize at the inaugural 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition along with grand prizes in the Fischoff, Coleman, Chesapeake, and Yellow Springs competitions, and captured top prizes at the 2012 ARD Munich International String Quartet Competition and Hamburg International Chamber Music Competition. The Calidore are recipients of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, and alums of CMS’s Bowers Program. The quartet was the first North American ensemble to win the Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship and was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. Jeffrey plays on a violin made by Francesco Rugeri in Cremona, c. 1680, owned by a private benefactor and on loan through the Leonhard Fellowship.
