Chamber Music Cincinnati,
Chamber Music Cincinnati,
Tue, February 17, 2026
7:30 PM
$29.00 - $44.00
inc. $4 service chargeKaren Slack, Soprano Michelle Cann, Pianist
Countdown to 100: Five…
In 2029-30, Chamber Music Cincinnati will celebrate its 100th Anniversary. Only four other U.S presenters will have reached that milestone. (Kudos to St. Paul’s Schubert Club, the first to do so, in 1983!)
The six 2025-26 concerts comprise the first of five celebratory seasons that will culminate in a landmark.
Chamber Music Cincinnati and Memorial Hall welcome you to them all!
2025 Grammy Award winners
The first time best classical solo vocal album award for music composed entirely by a Black woman.
“Slack and Cann’s chemistry makes for the warmest of introductions to the jeweled beauty of (Florence) Price’s songs.”- Washington Post
”gorgeously mezzo-like…velvety sumptuousness” – BBC Music Magazine
BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM 2025
The duo didn’t just earn a trophy for “Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price.” They created history. It was the first time in that category that music composed solely by a Black woman won.
About Karen Slack. Praised for her “sizeable voice that captured all of the vacillating emotions” (New York Times), American soprano Karen Slack has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut in the title role of Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, and San Francisco Opera. She had a featured role as the Opera Diva in Tyler Perry’s movie and soundtrack “For Colored Girls.” Ms. Slack appeared during CMC’s 2022-23 season with the Pacifica Quartet.
About Michelle Cann. Called “a pianist of sterling artistry” by Gramophone, the world’s most important classical music magazine, Ms. Cann has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo. Her 2024-25 engagements included the San Francisco Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. In addition to Beyond the Years with Ms. Slack, Cann’s recording of Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with the New York Youth Symphony won a GRAMMY Award in 2023 for Best Orchestral Performance. She performed with Chamber Music Cincinnati during both the 2021-22 and 2023-24 seasons.
Karen Slack, Soprano Michelle Cann, Pianist
Countdown to 100: Five…
In 2029-30, Chamber Music Cincinnati will celebrate its 100th Anniversary. Only four other U.S presenters will have reached that milestone. (Kudos to St. Paul’s Schubert Club, the first to do so, in 1983!)
The six 2025-26 concerts comprise the first of five celebratory seasons that will culminate in a landmark.
Chamber Music Cincinnati and Memorial Hall welcome you to them all!
2025 Grammy Award winners
The first time best classical solo vocal album award for music composed entirely by a Black woman.
“Slack and Cann’s chemistry makes for the warmest of introductions to the jeweled beauty of (Florence) Price’s songs.”- Washington Post
”gorgeously mezzo-like…velvety sumptuousness” – BBC Music Magazine
BEST CLASSICAL SOLO VOCAL ALBUM 2025
The duo didn’t just earn a trophy for “Beyond the Years: Unpublished Songs of Florence Price.” They created history. It was the first time in that category that music composed solely by a Black woman won.
About Karen Slack. Praised for her “sizeable voice that captured all of the vacillating emotions” (New York Times), American soprano Karen Slack has appeared with the Metropolitan Opera, where she made her debut in the title role of Verdi’s Luisa Miller, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Washington National Opera, and San Francisco Opera. She had a featured role as the Opera Diva in Tyler Perry’s movie and soundtrack “For Colored Girls.” Ms. Slack appeared during CMC’s 2022-23 season with the Pacifica Quartet.
About Michelle Cann. Called “a pianist of sterling artistry” by Gramophone, the world’s most important classical music magazine, Ms. Cann has performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, and the Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de São Paulo. Her 2024-25 engagements included the San Francisco Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. In addition to Beyond the Years with Ms. Slack, Cann’s recording of Price’s Piano Concerto in One Movement with the New York Youth Symphony won a GRAMMY Award in 2023 for Best Orchestral Performance. She performed with Chamber Music Cincinnati during both the 2021-22 and 2023-24 seasons.
