Shupp Artists Management News 2025

La Morra

Early Music ensemble La Morra charmed audiences on its US tour in 2024 including concerts at Early Music Now Milwaukee, Schubert Club in St. Paul, Lafayette College, Early Music San Francisco, Early Music San Diego, and Music Before 1800 in New York City, and now has just celebrated its 25th anniversary with a gala concert at the Historische Museum in their home city of Basel.

David McCarroll, violin

Having previously performed the Schumann Violin Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony, concert master David McCarroll very recently played the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the Pittsburgh Symphony as well as with the Erie Philharmonic and the Cleveland BlueWater Chamber Orchestra. Of the Cleveland performance, Cleveland Classical.Com wrote:

“Let’s cut to the chase and simply say that it would be difficult to imagine a more perfect and moving performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto than the one David McCarroll gave with Daniel Meyer and the BlueWater Chamber Orchestra …. A violinist of formidable musicianship.”

The Alliage Quintet

After its highly successful recent concerts – also in the US and Canada - and a CD with cellist Alban Gerhardt, The Alliage Quintet is pleased to announce the release of its newest CD, Behlcanto, with beloved tenor arias featuring one of Germany’s hottest tenors, Daniel Behle.. The ensemble will be returning to the US in 26/27 and in 27/28, also with Alban Gerhardt.

Holger Falk, baritone

German baritone Holger Falk enchanted audiences with his recital of Schubert and Eisler at the Library of Congress in February 2025, and then went on to enchant even more with concerts of Il Gondoliere Veneziano with Nuovo Aspetto in Florida, for Music Before 1800, and the University of Connecticut. During the upcoming season, he will premiere mein Fleich with the West Deutsche Rundfunk Orchestra with Gordon Kampe at the Kölner Philharmonie and the Philarmonie Essen. Having performed the outstanding production of AMOPERA with the Klangforum Wien already at the Hong Kong Arts Festival, in South Korea and at the Wiener Konzerthaus, further performances during the 25/26 season include the Transart Festival in Bolzano, and at the NOSPR concert hall in Katowice.

Phaeton Piano Trio

The Phaeton Piano Trio continues to simply dazzle audiences in Europe, China and on their North American tours, such as at their July 2024 concert at Princeton University. The trio toured the US in November 2025 with concerts that include the University of Connecticut and Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California where they performed Fazil Say’s Space Jump and an arrangement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition in overall interesting programming.

Bennewitz Quartet

The fabulous Bennewitz Quartet was recently in the United States including performances at Washington, DC’s prestigious Cosmos Club, and a three-day residency and concert at Kohl Mansion outside San Francisco. Also this quartet goes from strength to strength.

Gropius Quartet

The very exciting Gropius Quartet made its North America debut tour in October 2024 including concerts in Bethlehem (PA), Cleveland, San Jose, and Vancouver to great success. It has recently released it first CD with works by Dvorak, George Albrect, and Mendelsson. Fanfare wrote:

“Nuts and bolts are in place: impeccable intonation, seamless ensemble, beauty of tone and phrase. The improvable but all important elements: sincerity, candor and a deep sense of what the music is about, are there as well… They are the best we have.”

Arsentiy Kharitonov, pianist and composer

Pianist and composer Arsentiy Kharitonov had his new violin concerto premiered by the Tulsa Philharmonic in February 2025. Earlier, in May 2024, he gave the first performance of his piano concerto with the Kandinsky Symphony Orchestra in Yerevan, Armenia. A CD of the performance was made and has received critical acclaim:

“A pianist himself, he has created a tremendously pianistic concerto that warrants the attention of any pianist; his colorful approach to orchestration should make the piece highly attractive to conductors as well. …Kharitonov is also the pianist for this recording, and he is more than equal to its substantial technical demands. He plays with brilliance, crisp articulation, and a continually attractive tone.” –Fanfare

“This Piano Concerto (2022), though, really announces him as a major composer—in fact, a pianist-composer of the type we don’t see often anymore, who sees composition as a natural and necessary outgrowth from performance, the two irrevocably linked. He is firmly in the lineage of such Russian pianist-composers as Prokofieff and Rachmaninoff; the language of his music certainly owes a bit to them, as well as to Bartok.” –American Record Guide

“Arsentiy Kharitinov plays his own composition with technical assurance and a breadth of imagination. His sound is beautiful…. There is life in this concerto, discipline, beauty, truthfulness, in a word – genius - reassuring in our troubled times.” –Fanfare

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