Spoleto Festival USA and Phenotypic Recordings announce the first single from the forthcoming Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music two-part album is now streaming exclusively on Apple Music. Terry Riley’s G Song, performed by Alexi Kenney and Geneva Lewis (violins), Ayane Kozasa (viola), and Paul Wiancko (cello), launches the next chapter of the Festival’s exclusive multi-project partnership with Apple Music Classical.

The single offers the first preview of Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music, Vol. 1, which arrives digitally Friday, April 3 via Phenotypic Recordings. A second album, Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 “Vivaldi Meets Vahdat,” follows on Friday, May 8, completing the two-part series drawn from the Festival’s Bank of America Chamber Music series performances during the 2025 season.

At the center of the first release, G Song offers a minimalist, meditative pause through Riley’s signature blend of repetition and improvisatory grace. Its patterns slowly shift as the players shape the piece through deep listening, creating a sense of time that feels flexible and alive rather than fixed. The track will become available on all digital service providers on Friday, March 27.

Recorded live during Spoleto Festival USA’s concentrated 17-day run in Charleston, Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music brings listeners inside the historic Dock Street Theatre, capturing performances as they happen in real time, shaped by proximity, trust, and musicians listening closely to one another. That spirit shapes the album, which moves fluidly across styles and traditions—from Dinuk Wijeratne’s Love Triangle, a volatile, open-ended work where jazz impulses and South Asian inflections push against classical form, to familiar works transformed by the immediacy of live performance, including Borodin’s Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 in D major and Pedro Iturralde’s Pequeña Czarda, which brings an earthy, improvisatory edge through Steven Banks’ saxophone.

Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music, Vol. 2 “Vivaldi Meets Vahdat” expands the sense of dialogue across time and culture. The album interweaves songs by Iranian vocalist and 2025 Spoleto Festival USA Suzan D. Boyd Composer-in-Residence, Mahsa Vahdat, with movements from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, turning the program into a single, continuous arc in which Persian song and Baroque concerto speak directly to one another.

“Spoleto is about adventure and excitement—about how different art forms can collide with each other to create something new,” said Spoleto Festival USA General Director and CEO Dr. Mena Mark Hanna. “Chamber music is one of the Festival’s core artistic pillars, and these recordings reflect the same spirit of curiosity, daring, and immediacy that defines Spoleto Festival USA as a whole.”

Curated by Paul Wiancko, the Charles E. and Andrea L. Volpe Director of Chamber Music, the two albums are guided by an interest in music that feels alive in performance. “I look for the energy of improvisation in everything,” said Wiancko. “Music played with such deep understanding that it feels newly invented each time.”

Taken together, the two Live from Spoleto 2025: Chamber Music albums offer a vivid portrait of the Festival’s chamber music series in full flight, capturing not only performances but the spirit of a festival where music is made in the moment: alive, unfiltered, and shared.

TRACKLIST

LIVE FROM SPOLETO 2025: CHAMBER MUSIC, VOL. 1

  1. Dinuk Wijeratne — Love Triangle

Geneva Lewis, violin · Jay Campbell, cello · Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

  1. Dan Trueman & Monica Mugan — Ricercar (arr. Owls)

Alexi Kenney, violin · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Gabriel Cabezas, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello

  1. Pedro Iturralde — Pequeña Czarda for Saxophone and Piano

Steven Banks, saxophone · Soyeon Kate Lee, piano

  1. Alexander Borodin — Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 in D major

David McCarroll, violin · Melissa White, violin · Celia Hatton, viola · Paul Wiancko, cello

  1. Terry Riley — G Song

Alexi Kenney, violin · Geneva Lewis, violin · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Paul Wiancko, cello

  1. Dobrinka Tabakova — Moreni for Clarinet, String Quartet, and Piano

Todd Palmer, clarinet · Geneva Lewis, violin · Melissa White, violin · Celia Hatton, viola · Jay Campbell, cello · Todd Palmer, clarinet · Pedja Mužijević, piano

  1. Mahsa Vahdat — Improvisation

Mahsa Vahdat, voice · Daniel Chong, violin · Daniel Phillips, violin · Geneva Lewis, violin · Livia Sohn, violin · Jessica Bodner, viola · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Raman Ramakrishnan, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello · Anthony Manzo, bass · Pedja Mužijević, piano

  1. Caroline Shaw — “Other Song”

Steven Banks, saxophone + ensemble

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TRACKLIST

LIVE FROM SPOLETO 2025: CHAMBER MUSIC, VOL. 2

“VIVALDI MEETS VAHDAT”

  1. Mahsa Vahdat — A Thousand Birds Will Chant Your Song

Mahsa Vahdat, voice · Jessica Bodner, viola · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Raman Ramakrishnan, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello · Anthony Manzo, bass · Pedja Mužijević, piano

  1. Antonio Vivaldi — The Four Seasons “Summer” – Presto in G minor

Daniel Chong, violin · Daniel Phillips, violin · Geneva Lewis, violin · Livia Sohn, violin  Jessica Bodner, viola · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Raman Ramakrishnan, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello · Anthony Manzo, bass · Pedja Mužijević, piano

  1. Mahsa Vahdat — Dialogue With the Beloved

Mahsa Vahdat, voice · Daniel Chong, violin · Daniel Phillips, violin · Geneva Lewis, violin · Livia Sohn, violin · Jessica Bodner, viola · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Raman Ramakrishnan, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello · Anthony Manzo, bass · Pedja Mužijević, piano

  1. Antonio Vivaldi — The Four Seasons “Autumn” – Adagio molto in D minor

Pedja Mužijević, piano · Daniel Chong, violin · Geneva Lewis, violin · Daniel Phillips, violin · Livia Sohn, violin · Jessica Bodner, viola · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Raman Ramakrishnan, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello · Anthony Manzo, bass

  1. Mahsa Vahdat — Vaya Vaya

Mahsa Vahdat, voice · Daniel Chong, violin · Daniel Phillips, violin · Geneva Lewis, violin · Livia Sohn, violin · Jessica Bodner, viola · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Raman Ramakrishnan, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello

  1. Antonio Vivaldi — The Four Seasons “Winter” – Allegro non molto in F minor

Livia Sohn, violin · Daniel Chong, violin · Geneva Lewis, violin · Daniel Phillips, violin · Livia Sohn, violin · Jessica Bodner, viola · Ayane Kozasa, viola · Raman Ramakrishnan, cello · Paul Wiancko, cello · Anthony Manzo, bass · Pedja Mužijević, piano