Each subtle gesture of Kondakçi’s baton seemed to suspend time... The audience was transfixed.
— Boston Music Intelligencer

What’s in Motion Right Now?

K²O opens its 2025–2026 season with The Wild and the Tame, featuring Ortiz’s Kauyumari, Brahms’s Double Concerto with Sophia Szokolay and Alan Toda-Ambaras, and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6.

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Recent Interview with ABC News Albania
Recorded live on 1.28.2025

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This essay explores how Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony navigates survival, sorrow, and subversion within the constraints of Stalinist Russia.

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