Join us on Saturday, September 13th at 5pm for the Rites of Spring Music Festival featuring the Toomai String Quintet!

Toomai String Quintet, an ensemble known for championing works by Latin American composers through its inventive original arrangements, performs music from Cuba, Mexico, and beyond in this celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The program includes works by early 20th century composers such as Ernesto Lecuona and Manuel Ponce; and current-day compositions by Tania León, Paquito D'Rivera, and Adonis Gonzalez-Matos.

Formed in 2007 at The Juilliard School, the quintet is named after Rudyard Kipling’s short story “Toomai of the Elephants” in which a young boy journeys into the jungle to witness the dance of the wild elephants. The Toomai String Quintet aspires to cultivate a similar sense of curiosity and discovery by searching for diverse music and sharing it with its audience.The quintet members are violinists Emilie-Anne Gendron and Alex Fortes, violist George Meyer, cellist Hamilton Berry, and bassist Andrew Roitstein