Saturday, September 14

6:30 cocktails | 7:30 concert

In this enchanting performance, cellist Laura Metcalf and harpist Kirsten Agresta-Copely invite you to immerse yourself in a reimagined rendition of the 2024 GRAMMY® nominated album, Aquamarine. 

We will be collecting donations for Oceana.

Kirsten Agresta-Copely is a GRAMMY® Nominated, international award-winning harpist and composer who has made music in four continents for heads of state, in blockbuster movie soundtracks, alongside Billboard 100 artists, on late night television, and on the most recognized world stages. 

Steeped in rigorous classical training, Copely’s performance career began at an early age: by fourteen, she performed a full solo tour of the British Isles, and continued to gain attention in the classical world by winning Bronze Medal in the 1st USA International Harp Competition, debuting as concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center soon after. Copely served as the Associate Professor of Harp at Vanderbilt University Blair School of Music from 2017-2021.

Copely’s charismatic, telegenic presence on stage has also allowed her to share a prominent spotlight in a variety of pop-culture settings: she has performed on a full slate of late night and morning show television programming, including Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Late Night with Stephen Colbert, and The Today Show. She has played a gamut of the world’s biggest stages, from Madison Square Garden to Lollapalooza, alongside Lady Gaga, Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Florence + The Machine, Enya, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Evanescence, Adam Levine, John Legend, and The Roots. Her favorite: a performance alongside Beyoncé at the Second Official White House State Dinner for President Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón.

Her music has over 10 million streams on Spotify, steady airplay on the Sirius XM Spa Channel, and she has been featured in the New York Post, Hollywood Soapbox, and Crain’s Business New York.

Cellist Laura Metcalf, renowned worldwide as a passionate solo and chamber musician and acclaimed for her “brilliant” playing (Gramophone Magazine) has performed throughout the US and on six continents, and recorded extensively for the Grammy-winning label Sono Luminus, reaching #3 on the Billboard Classical Charts and surpassing 4 million streams on Spotify. A “cellist whose passion for music is as evident as her artistry and talent” (I care if you listen), she tours with her duo Boyd Meets Girl (with whom she recently gave the world premiere of a cello-guitar double concerto by Clarice Assad with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra) and string quartet The Overlook, as well as collaborates regularly with four-time Grammy winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird (with whom she has appeared as chamber soloist in contemporary concerti with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Symphony and others). She has toured extensively worldwide with the popular ensembles Break of Reality and Sybarite5, and has worked with The Knights, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra and ETHEL. She has performed at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center, Madison Square Garden and the Caramoor, Ravinia, Moab, Festival Napa Valley, Aspen and Newport Classical festivals, among countless others. Laura is also a curator and artistic director, having co-founded the concert series GatherNYC, as well as guest curating for the Museum of Arts and Design, Fotografiska, The Frick Collection, and Wave Hill. As an educator, she has given workshops, masterclasses and lectures at Juilliard, Curtis, New England Conservatory and many other conservatories, as well as played for tens of thousands of school-aged children across the globe from Dehra Dun, India to Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and is on the prestigious teaching roster for the online platform ToneBase Cello.