Concert by Immanuel Wilkins and Lutosławski Quartet

About the Artists

Immanuel Wilkins wears sunglasses as he sits in a wooden chair facing left in a minimalistic, dimly lit room. He wears a dark jacket and leather pants. To his left is a small ornate wooden table with a brass saxophone resting on it. The background is a plain, textured wall, casting soft shadows.

Immanuel Wilkins is a saxophonist and composer from Philadelphia, and based in Brooklyn, United States. His music is filled with empathy and conviction, bonding arcs of melody and lamentation to pluming gestures of space and breath. His debut release, Omega (2020) was named best jazz album of the year by the New York Times, and best debut jazz album by NPR. Wilkins’s work as a performer and bandleader is also informed by creative connections within and outside the world of jazz, and has involved collaborations with filmmakers and visual artists on interdisciplinary productions.

Four musicians from the Lutosławski Quartet stand against a white background, smiling and laughing. The first person on the left holds a cello, the second holds a viola, the third (a woman) holds a violin in front of her, and the fourth holds a violin by his side. They are dressed casually in dark tops and jeans or dark pants.

Lutosławski Quartet is one of Europe’s foremost contemporary classical string quartets, composed of Roksana Kwaśnikowska (violin), Marcin Markowicz (violin), Artur Rozmysłowicz (viola), and Maciej Młodawski (cello). Blending contemporary repertoire with classical, Romantic, and jazz music, the group specializes in the music of their namesake, Witold Lutosławski, as well as works by Polish composers Grażyna Bacewicz, Karol Szymanowski, and the group’s own Marcin Markowicz.