Events

Trios and duo with Olga Kern, piano; Alexandre Da Costa, violin: Tommy Mesa, cello.

Jinjoo Cho, Max Geissler, Jordan Bak, Tommy Mesa, Verona Quartet, Timothy Chooi, Brendan Shea, Eric Wong. The culmination of our exploration of HOME, this student and faculty collaboration invites you to step into a world where young musicians make a home in music. John Rutter’s Suite for Strings opens with folk-inspired melodies that dance with […]

Tommy Mesa and The Crossing Choir present a World Premiere by Natalie Joachim. Digging still deeper into our catalogue of commissions, we find the extraordinary community of Philadelphians, writing new works in this Place of the Declaration and sending out musical messages to the far corners of the globe. Composers Jennifer Higdon, Kile Smith, Robert […]

Tommy Mesa and The Crossing Choir present a World Premiere by Natalie Joachim. Digging still deeper into our catalogue of commissions, we find the extraordinary community of Philadelphians, writing new works in this Place of the Declaration and sending out musical messages to the far corners of the globe. Composers Jennifer Higdon, Kile Smith, Robert […]

Tommy Mesa and Miki Aoki take on the rarely heard Rhapsody by Rebecca Clarke during the Grand Finale Concert of the Heifetz Institute 2026.

W.A Mozart, Piano Quartet in E-flat major, K. 493 Julian Rhee, Cynthia Phelps, Tommy Mesa, Albert Cano-Smit Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 57 Chad Hoopes, Julian Rhee, Cynthia Phelps, Tommy Mesa, Albert Cano-Smit

Andrea Cassarubios, SEVEN for solo cello; Boccherini, Grave Assai Fandango from Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet. Jason Vieaux, Julian Rhee, Michael Brown, Cynthia Phelps, Tommy Mesa

Boccherini, Quintet for Guitar and String Quartet Jason Vieaux, Julian Rhee, Michael Brown, Cynthia Phelps, Tommy Mesa   Ernö Dohnányi. Serenade for String Trio, Op. 10 Julian Rhee, Cynthia Phelps, Tommy Mesa   Aaron Jay Kernis, 100 Greatest Dance Hits for Guitar and String Quartet Jason Vieaux, Julian Rhee, Michael Brown, Cynthia Phelps, Tommy Mesa

Tommy Mesa, cello
Chia-Hsuan Lin, conductor

The season finale of Rochester Symphony ignites in celebration with the fiery and sensual Danse Bacchanale. The intimate longing of Dvořák's soulful cello concerto sparks the spirit of fantasy in Scheherazade, where a tale of beauty and resilience amidst danger is carried by one of the most sweeping and lush orchestral scores of all time.

Wolfgang Amadé Mozart (1756–91)

Fantasia No. 3 in D Minor, K397 (ca. 1782)
Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827)

7 Variations on “Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen,” WoO 49 (1801)
Tommy Mesa, cello
Danny Driver, piano

Franz Liszt (1811–86)

Réminiscences de Don Juan (1841)
Orion Weiss, piano

Pablo de Sarasate (1844–1908)

Fantasy on Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Op. 54 (c. 1900)
Lun Li, violin
Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93)

From Mozartiana, Suite No. 4, Op. 61 (1887) (arr. for piano)
No. 3 Preghiera
Danny Driver and Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Anton Reicha (1770–1836)

18 Variations and Fantasy on a Theme from Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Op. 51 (1804)
Keith Bonner, flute
Luosha Fang ’11, violin
Tommy Mesa, cello

Francis Poulenc (1899–1963)

Novelette in C Major, for piano solo, FP 47 (1927)
Danny Driver, piano

Richard Strauss (1864–1949)

String Sextet from Capriccio, Op. 85 (1940–41)
Ariel Quartet
Luosha Fang ’11, viola
Tommy Mesa, cello