Joseph Kuipers - Songs of the Silk Road

Event Date: 
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Event Time: 
7 PM
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Songs of the Silk Road is sold out.

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11/29/25 Sounds of the Season, Tinsel
12/20/25 Winter Solstice, Rudi & the Rudiments
01/17/26 Quintessential Classics, Woodland Winds

And so much more for 2026!

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Step into a world where East meets West in a breathtaking musical journey with Joseph Kuipers, cello, and Uko Adams, guzheng: Songs of the Silk Road is a transcendent concert that weaves the soulful resonance of the cello with the shimmering elegance of the guzheng, a traditional Chinese zither. This evocative performance celebrates the cultural tapestry of the ancient Silk Road, where music was as vital a currency as silk and spices.

Program
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Uko Adams graduated from the Department of Chinese Music at Chinese Culture University with majors in piano and guzheng. Over the course of her musical career, she has performed around the world including in Japan, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, and across the United States.

American cellist Joseph Kuipers is renowned for his creativity and versatility in his captivating performances on both modern and gut strings. Appearing at festivals and music centers around the globe, he has performed at the Ravinia Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, Les Festival International du Domaine Forget, Kronberg Academy, Ascoli Pinceno Festival, Carl Orff Festival, and the World Cello Congress. Equally at home with modern and baroque performance styles, and often juxtaposing them in concert programs, Joseph is dedicated to the music of our time. He has worked extensively with living composers, among them Robert Cogan, Heinz Holliger, Helmut Lachenmann and Arvo Part.

Joseph completed his undergraduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where his primary teachers were Paul Katz for cello and Pozzi Escot for composition. To immerse himself in the European Music Tradition, he subsequently studied for six years in Germany and Switzerland. In 2008, Joseph received an Artist Diploma from the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Mannheim, Germany, where he studied with Michael Flaksman. He completed his Master of Musical Arts from the Musik-Akademie der Stadt Basel, Switzerland, where he studied with Thomas Demenga. Other important influences came from Anner Bylsma, Rainer Faupel, Bernard Greenhouse, Mstislav Rostropovich, and Hong Wang, and in chamber music from Rainer Schmidt of the Hagen Quartet.

He plays a cello from Francesco Gobetti, Venice, ca 1710, a custom Tourte bow by Roger Zabinski, and a baroque bow by Andrew Dipper.