The Reflections in Music series, led by Bruce Wolosoff, its artistic director, will return to The Church in Sag Harbor on Saturday at 6 p.m. with "Time Remembered." The concert, which was inspired by Bill Evans's composition of the same name, explores the classical side of the musical world that influenced Evans and was in turn influenced by him.
The program, which moves through memory, introspection, and music's ability to suspend time, according to The Church, features compositions by Bach, Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, Dutilleux, Stravinsky, and Ligeti, and includes a world premiere of a new piece by Wolosoff.
In addition to Wolosoff on piano, the performers are Narek Arutyunian on clarinet, Christina Nam on violin, Michael Nicolas on cello, and Catherine Winters Boyack on flute.
As first-prize winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, Arutyunian performed in debut recitals in New York at Merkin Concert Hall and in Washington, D.C., at the Kennedy Center. His performances as a soloist with orchestra have included the Copland Clarinet Concerto with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at Alice Tully Hall, Artie Shaw’s Concerto for Clarinet with the Boston Pops, and the Mozart Concerto No. 23 with Oregon’s Newport Symphony.
Nam won first prize at the Ysaye International Music Competition 2026 in Korea, and received the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant 2026. She was awarded Juilliard's Peter Mennin Prize for outstanding achievement and leadership in music, as well as the Prix Reyl Award for violinists at the Verbier Festival Academy in Switzerland in 2025.
Nicolas's career has taken him from chamber musician to soloist to recording artist to educator. He is the cellist for Brooklyn Rider, a Grammy-nominated string quartet; the International Contemporary Ensemble, and he co-founded Third Sound, which made its debut at the 2015 Havana Contemporary Music Festival.
Also an active chamber musician, Boyack is a co-founder of Coriolis Duo, a flute and percussion ensemble, with Olivier Xu, a percussionist. As a fellow of Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect, she has performed chamber music in New York and Europe. As a concerto soloist, she has appeared with the contemporary ensemble AXIOM, the Lake Forest Symphony, and the Utah Symphony.
A pianist and composer, Wolosoff, who has been the artistic director of Reflections in Music since 2020, is known for integrating classical, jazz, blues, and contemporary musical influences. He has often composed in response to work by visual artists, among them Eric Fischl, April Gornik, and Milton Resnick. His most recent album, "Blue Mantra," features music for clarinet including "Matisse Fantasies," "Blues for the New Millennium," and the title work, which was inspired by a painting by his wife, Margaret Garrett.
He often collaborated with the late choreographer Ann Reinking, composing "The White City," which The Chicago Sun-Times called the best dance of 2011, and "A Light in the Dark," an Emmy-nominated ballet inspired by Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan.
Tickets are $30.
Also this weekend, Janet Reitman, an award-winning journalist and contributor to The New York Times Magazine, will be at The Church Friday at 6 p.m. to discuss her just-released nonfiction book, "The Inheritance: An American Tragedy in Five Acts."
Through hundreds of hours of interviews, the book shows, through the eyes of nine individuals, how this country was transformed by 9/11 from a country known in some quarters for its democratic ideals to one defined by its fears. In his New York Times review, Anand Giridharadas called the book "richly empathetic, morally complex, many-windowed."
Reitman, the author of "Inside Scientology: The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion," will talk about how her experience as a war correspondent in the Middle East and covering post-9/11 America as a contributing editor for Rolling Stone helped inform her approach to "The Inheritance."
She will be joined by Dini von Mueffling, a board member of The Church, who will lead the conversation. Reitman will take questions and sign copies of her book after the talk.
Tickets are $10, free for members, who are required to R.S.V.P.
