Behind the Music: Henrique Eisenmann & Josh Halpern

Behind the Music—the Cultural Caravan's popular concert-and-conversation series features Artistic Director Josh Halpern in unscripted conversation with a lineup of dynamic MainStage artists. Get a rare glimpse into their creative process, hear music you won't experience anywhere else, and bring your own questions about art, inspiration, and life.

For this special June Festival edition taking place at the Collective Community Arts Center, Henrique Eisenmann—renowned Brazilian jazz pianist, faculty member at the Juilliard School, a current member of the six-time Grammy-winning Paul Winter Consort, and collaborator with Steve Reich, The Brubeck Brothers, and many others on stages across the world—joins cellist and Cultural Caravan Artistic Director Josh Halpern to discuss the new work he has composed especially for the two of them. He'll share how he draws on their combined classical and jazz backgrounds and weaving together elements from musical cultures across the globe, Western harmonic language, and space for spontaneous…