Upcoming Events:

Saturday August 22 at 5:00 pm (tentative)
”Two Emmas”
BannerArts House Concert/Potluck, 7502 Flower Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912

Emma Young, violinist, Emma Holmquist, author, Greta Ehrig, singer/songwriter, Carl Banner, piano
Beethoven, Schubert, and Milhaud

Sunday October 11, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Captain Richard White’s Bethesda House Concert/Potluck Dinner

Emma Hays Johnson, cello, Carl Banner, piano.
Bohuslav Martinu: Cello Sonata No. 3 (1952)
Henriette Bosmans: Cello Sonata (1919)

More information, and tickets through GroupMuse. $25, advance only.

Saturday October 24, 2026 at 7:30 pm
Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring MD

World Premiere: Stephen M. Cormier’s “Josquiniana”, for flugelhorn and piano
A Washington Musica Viva commission

Guericke Christopher Royal, flugelhorn, and Carl Banner, piano

Admission $20

Carl Banner: My Life and Thought

"What is the equation that includes suffering and creative work as terms?"

This memoir is a collection of Banner's thoughts about his life and music, and a reflection on the difficult childhood that shaped him as an artist. It is not for the faint of heart!

“…powerful, vulnerable, wise, thought-provoking….” Rabbi Rain Zohav

Mike Hummel’s “Three American Artists at Midlife”. (Contains the origin story of Washington Musica Viva).

Marilyn Banner’s art was featured in the 2025 NYC Outsider Art Fair!
Jerry Saltz thinks it’s the “best art fair in the world!”