Living Classical with Tyler Kline for March 22 - 28, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Sophia Jani wanted to break convention in her Woodwind Quintet No. 1: Music as Mirror—distributing the same musical elements equally across all five instruments instead of assigning each a specific role. The piece is built as a pulsating process that changes almost unnoticeably, slowly arriving somewhere completely different from where it began.

Then: Unsuk Chin's double concerto for piano, percussion, and ensemble fuses soloists and ensemble into a single new sonorous body. The piano is prepared with small metal wedges—muted and metallic in the middle register, percussive in the bass. The result: the nineteen-piece ensemble acts as a shadow of the soloists, receiving impulses that develop musical germs or incite each instrument to tell its own story.

Music by Sophia Jani, Unsuk Chin, Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee, Reena Esmail, Bosba Panh, Adeliia Faizullina, Judy A. Rose, Johanny Navarro, Clarice Jensen, Tessa Brinckman, Ania Vu, and Tania León.

Featuring performances by Timothy McAllister, saxophone; Liz Ames, piano; Joshua Ranz, clarinet; Dennis Kim, violin; Warren Hagerty, cello; Orli Shaham, piano; Jamie Monck, guitar; Jennifer Koh, violin; Cecille Elliott, soloist; Onry, soloist with Resonance Ensemble; Amalia Tortajada Zanón, flute; Andrea González Caballero, guitar; Clarice Jensen, cello; Tessa Brinckman, flute; Dimitri Vassilakis, piano; Samuel Favre, percussion with Ensemble Intercontemporain; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; Daniel Pesca, piano; Dandelion Quintett; and Flannau Duo.

Join Tyler Kline for this edition of Living Classical — exploring the full spectrum of classical music being made today.

Hour 1

• Encore by Chihchun Chi-Sun Lee

• Reena Esmail’s Saans

• Ode by Bosba Panh

• Sophia Jani’s Woodwind Quintet No. 1: Music as a mirror

• Urman by Adeliia Faizullina

• Judy A. Rose’s RE-FLEC

• Bambuleá By Johanny Navarro

Hour 2

• Unity by Clarice Jensen

• Tessa Brinckman’s A Cracticus Fancie

• Double Concerto by Unsuk Chin

• Ania Vu’s 2+

• Pinceladas by Tania León