Ensemble Connect Up Close: Biribá Union

Ensemble Connect and Biribá Union invite audiences to the rehearsal room for a real-time look at artistic collaboration. During a residency at The Pocantico Center, made possible by The Rockefeller Foundation, Ensemble Connect fellows will collaborate with Biribá Union to explore a new musical style and develop a concept for their Ensemble Connect Up Close performance at Carnegie Hall in May 2027.

This performance offers a rare glimpse into the creative conversations, experimentation, and musical exchange that drive collaborative performance. Drawing on Brazilian, jazz, folk, and hip-hop musical traditions, Biribá Union’s genre-defying approach provides an inspiring creative partner for Ensemble Connect’s extraordinary young musicians.

Eleven Ensemble Connect fellows will be joined by Biribá Union’s cellist and vocalist Mike Block, beatboxer and guitarist Christylez Bacon, and electric bassist and vocalist Patricia Ligia. A discussion and audience Q&A with the musicians of Ensemble Connect and Biribá Union will follow the performance.

This work-in-process showing will be presented during Ensemble Connect’s residency at The Pocantico Center and is part of a larger show being developed for Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing on May 5.

This event will be followed by a reception in the DR Center Gallery, now showing Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries.

Presented in partnership with the RBF Culpeper Arts & Culture program and Carnegie Hall.

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