The 64th Henry & Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance

Established in 1959 with a gift from the Louis and Henrietta Blaustein Foundation Inc., the Rosenberg Foundation honors the late Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg '21 and her late husband, Henry A. Rosenberg. Since 1960, the foundation has enriched the music program at Goucher College by funding the Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance. Each year, income from an endowment provided by the Rosenberg Foundation brings a musical group, performing artist, composer, or musicologist to the campus to present a lecture and performance. The Rosenberg Foundation recently made an additional contribution to the fund that will continue the lecture-performance series for years to come.

Bela Fleck and BEAT trio band members posing with instruments

Béla Fleck BEATrio

April 16, 2026 | 7 p.m. | Kraushaar Auditorium
General public: $45
Goucher students, faculty, and staff: free

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The 64th Henry and Ruth Blaustein Rosenberg Lecture-Performance presents the BEAT Trio Featuring Bela Fleck, Edmar Castaneda, and Antonio Sanchez

Banjo. Drums. Harp. Huh?

To be sure, the new all-star trio of Béla Fleck, harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez features instrumentation that might safely be called uncommon. Unless, of course, you’re already familiar with 19-time Grammy-winner Fleck — the genre-blurring virtuoso who has done more to expand the possibilities of the banjo than any other player in the instrument’s history. From his bluegrass beginnings through his otherworldly Flecktones, his duo with Chick Corea and his reimagining of Rhapsody in Blue, Fleck’s work never fails to surprise. What doesn’t surprise is the impeccable caliber of his collaborators — and this new trio includes two of the most gifted musicians of their generation. The harpist, Castañeda, hails from Bogotá, Colombia, and has led his own bands in addition to sharing projects with such masters as Hiromi, Paquito D’Rivera and Grégoire Maret. 5-time Grammy-winner Sánchez grew up in Mexico City and built a reputation as one of the great jazz drummers through his work with guitarist Pat Metheny. He’s also been a visionary bandleader, helming progressive groups like Bad Hombre, and collaborated with Chick Corea, Gary Burton, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker and other giants. His Golden Globe-nominated drum-set score for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s 2014 film Birdman earned him renown far outside the jazz world.

Playing original repertoire, much of it collaboratively written, this trio embarks nightly on fearless explorations that audiences will find irresistible — rich with strong melodies, gorgeous harmony and grooves that twist and turn while feeling fantastic.

Stay after the concert for a live on stage interview with host Tom Hall and BEAT Trio.

 



Previous Rosenberg Artists

2025 Brooklyn Rider

2024 Cecile McLorin Salvant

2023 The Branford Marsalis Quartet

2020 Septura Brass Septet

2019 Anthony McGill

2018 Concert Artists of Baltimore, Edward Polochick, Artistic Director

2017 New York Voices

2016 Ray Chen

2015 Alessio Bax

2014 Eddie Palmieri

2013 Canadian Brass

2012 Simone Dinnerstein

2011 Dafnis Prieto Si O Si Quartet

2010 Leon Fleisher

2009 Nathan Gunn

2008 Wu Man

2006 Joe Lovano Quartet

2005 Cyrus Chestnut Trio

2004 Eugenia Zukerman

2003 Misha and Cipa Dichter

2002 Susanne Mentzer

2001 Mendelssohn String Quartet

2000 Paula Robison

1999 Vladimir Feltsman

1998 Christopher Parkening

1997 Horacio Gutiérrez

1996 Billy Taylor Trio

1995 Garrick Ohlsson

1994 Emanuel Ax

1993 Jean-Pierre Rampal

1992 Andre Watts

1990 Marilyn Horne

1990 Lynn Harrell

1989 Victor Borge

1988 Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg

1987 Yo-Yo Ma

1986 Roberta Peters

1985 Beaux Arts Trio

1984 Max Morath

1983 Julius Rudel, Philip Glass, Jacquelyn Silver, and Gwendolyn Bradley

1981 Juilliard String Quartet

1980 Beverly Sills

1980 Isaac Stern

1978 Gunther Schuller

1976 Yehudi Menuhin

1976 Mstislav Rostropovich

1974 Marilyn Horne

1973 Boris Goldovsky

1972 Jennie Tourel

1970 Erich Leinsdorf

1969 Milton Babbitt and Anna Sokolow

1968 Ravi Shankar

1967 Ernst Krenek

1966 Michael Tippett

1964 Aaron Copland

1963 Aaron Copland

1962 Virgil Thomson

1961 Nadia Boulanger

1960 75 Years of American Music with Roger Sessions, Wallingford Riegger, William Austin, and Chamber Concert Orchestra under the direction of Elliot Galkin