“Ko te reo Māori, he matapihi ki te ao Māori” goes the Māori whakatauki (proverb) that has guided Aotearoa singer/songwriter Marlon Williams’(Kāi Tahu, Ngāi Tai) fourth solo album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka. Translated, it means “The Māori language is a window to the Māori world” and expresses Marlon’s motivation behind his first te reo Māori album. “Through the process of constructing these songs,” Marlon says, “I’ve found a means of expressing my joys, sorrows and humour in a way that feels both distinctly new yet also connects me to my tīpuna [ancestors] and my whenua [land, home].”

“Since Glenn Gould’s visit to Moscow and Van Cliburn’s victory at the Tchaikovsky Competition in the heat of the Cold War, never has a foreign pianist provoked such frenzy”. THE HUFFINGTON POST 

In upstate New York, deep in the seam between the Catskills mountains and the Hudson Valley, a richly swelling, spellbound sound emerges, eddying and flowing like the local Esopus Creek, or in the slipstream of the grander Hudson river, carrying the flotsam and jetsam of our hopes, dreams, fears. A sound composed of organic and electronic; guitars, keys, brass, strings, woodwind, drums – and a voice of incantations, tapping streams of consciousness that similarly eddy and flow.

Join us for an unforgettable evening at the intersection of jazz and chamber music with Ravinia On Tour's Bridges Composition Concert. This captivating fusion of genres promises to spark the joy of jazz aficionados and classical music enthusiasts alike.

From Mickey Mouse to Michael Jackson, and traditional Hawaiian song to Kabuki, the falsetto sound is deeply ingrained within our global consciousness. But what does it evoke, and what does it express? This synesthetic concert experience blends the intangibility of the countertenor voice with the invisibility of smell molecules. It explores how unseen elements––sound and smell––can provoke emotion and imprint long-lasting memories.

From Mickey Mouse to Michael Jackson, and traditional Hawaiian song to Kabuki, the falsetto sound is deeply ingrained within our global consciousness. But what does it evoke, and what does it express? This synesthetic concert experience blends the intangibility of the countertenor voice with the invisibility of smell molecules. It explores how unseen elements––sound and smell––can provoke emotion and imprint long-lasting memories.