Was Mozart truly a “quill in divine hands” — or a brilliant, complicated human being shaped by family, ambition, and legacy?

Close Encounters With Music explores the myth and the man in Mostly Amadeus – Meet the Mozarts. The program features Mozart’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, K. 502, and the Piano Quartet in G minor, K. 478 — works of radiant beauty and emotional intensity that reveal both refinement and risk.

Placing Mozart within his own lineage — from his father Leopold to his sister Nannerl and his son Franz Xaver — the concert reexamines how genius is cultivated and remembered.

The afternoon concludes with a provocative listening challenge: a newly realized Mozart fragment… or perhaps a work generated by artificial intelligence. Without revealing its origin, audiences are invited to decide for themselves.

Ieva Jokūbavičiūtė, piano; Hye-Jin Kim, violin; Ara Gregorian, viola; Yehuda Hanani, cello