Ringdown’s music is like calling your first love on a rotary telephone, percussively tearing out the hammers from a 1924 vintage upright, and flinging each of them into space while you wait for every heartache you’ve ever felt to quietly return. Collaborators Caroline Shaw and Danni Lee Parpan—who between the two of them have a Pulitzer Prize, a handful of Grammys, and a “Best Drum Major Award”—describe Ringdown as an electronic cinematic pop duo based in Portland, Oregon and New York City. Others have described Ringdown as the love child of Johannes Brahms and Brandi Carlile—if they were born in the same century and if Brahms was a queer woman. You decide.

Decoda is an artist-led chamber music collective dedicated to creating a more compassionate and connected world through music. As the only affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda combines virtuosic performance with deep community engagement, bringing chamber music to concert halls, schools, shelters, hospitals, and correctional facilities.

Each summer in the Asheville region, Decoda leads the Decoda Chamber Music Festival, a dynamic training program for young musicians who seek to develop both artistic excellence and social impact. Through side-by-side performances, mentorship, and creative collaboration, participants explore how music can build community and inspire change.