🎻🎻🎹🎹🎸🎸Join my friends @phantasmagape , @j_col_ and I at @2640space for “Two Worlds: One Language” featuring the music of Amy Beach, Florence Price, arrangements of the music of Yamandu Costa and others.
This will be my first recital and one excited to share this performance with you all!
See you there!
When it’s this hot out, we can’t help but dream of cooler spring weather and some of the fantastic gigs we played together! We were so grateful to be welcomed back to Crescent Avenue Presbyterian in Plainfield NJ to perform our Fire and Ice program. A huge thank you to @keefss for joining us on violin!
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After composing and orchestrating music for orchestras and choirs across the country this summer, I finally carved out one day to spend with two of my amazing brothers—and I’m beyond proud of both of them‼️
🎻 Dr. @amyrjoyner – my fellow @howard1867@hufinearts professor, 1st violinist of the acclaimed @griotstringquartet , and featured artist on my newest recording OUR SONG, OUR STORY (@applemusic@weareplatoon )
📸 @keefss – a brilliant composer, violinist, chamber musician, mechanical engineer and an extraordinary photographer behind @filmic_standard
Both are featured artists on NPR Tiny Desk, and together they’ve mastered classical music, R&B, hip-hop, gospel, and more. These two are walking brilliance—and I’m just blessed to call them brothers.
Check them out, follow their journeys, and witness what it looks like when Black excellence shows up in every space.
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Grazyna Bacewicz Piano quintet from last week at Summertrios #womancomposer #bacewicz #chambermusic #summertrios #KeithColon #firstviolin #Music #chamber
Introducing our final star collaborator for this Spring 2025 season! Keith Colón joins us today for our concert in Planfield, NJ at 4pm, at Cresent Avenue Presbyterian Church.
Violinist Keith Colón, Jr. began playing violin at age 12 and continued studies with grammy award winning violinist, Christopher Collins Lee and Cleveland Chandler. He also attended college at Drexel University where he became the concertmaster of the Drexel University Symphony Orchestra and performed with the Drexel University chamber strings. Keith was a finalist for the Washington Conservatory concerto competition in 2025. He has worked with the Summertrios chamber Music Festival for a decade, and now serves as the Artistic Coordinator and as a member of the board. He is an avid chamber musician and performs regularly with the Gallery Quartet and Cuarteto Antiguo in the northeastern US and other ensembles internationally in Austria, the Bahamas, and Mexico. He has performed as part of the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Robert Glasper’s Black Radio Orchestra, Daniel Bowen’s Symphony 21, and the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. He has been blessed to perform for award winning artists such as Damien Sneed, Richard Smallwood, Angelique Kidjo, the LOX, Samara Joy, and Twinkie Clark.
