Vivacious, technically flawless, and elegantly effortless, violinist Tai Murray builds a special bond with audiences through her musical intelligence and warm presence.
In March, Tai Murray performs the Dvorak Violin Concerto, March 3-5 with the Houston Symphony Orchestra led by Osmo Vänskä, and March 16-17 & 19 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra led by Michael Balke.
The wonderful Marc-André Hamelin kicked off his February recital tour at Chamber Music in Napa Valley with a uniquely Hamelinian program including his own Suite à l’ancienne. The program also featured works by Prokofiev, Scriabin and Beethoven’s monumental “Hammerklavier” sonata.
Highlights of Timo Andres’s season include a solo recital debut for The Cliburn in February 2023; curated programs honoring his teacher, Ingram Marshall, in New York and San Francisco; collaborations with Philip Glass and choreographer Justin Peck; and a new orchestral piece for the Colorado Music Festival.
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Paul Jacobs returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra in a program with Nicholas McGegan, performing Handel’s imaginative “Cuckoo and the Nightingale” Concerto.
Other 22/23 season highlights include the Nashville Symphony with Giancarlo Guerrero; the season opener of the Charlotte Symphony, where he performed the Cuckoo and Nightingale and Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3; the Pacific Symphony as part of its celebration of its refurbished Hazel Wright Organ at Christ Cathedral; and the Hartford Symphony as part of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford.
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In October, Asbury began an exciting 2022-23 season by leading the Grossman Ensemble at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago. And just last week, Asbury wrapped up a Halloween program with the Indianapolis Symphony that Included Night on Bald Mountain and the Bernstein Serenade.
This month, Asbury joins the Tulsa Symphony before returning to Europe to appear with the Norrkoping Symphony and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester.
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Rob Kapilow, whose communicative gifts are so keen and whose musical language is so fluent, just opened the Kaufman Music Center‘s 22/23 series of What Makes it Great? with a new program examining the original 1924 jazz band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
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This weekend violinist Tai Murray open the Sacramento Philharmonic‘s season with the Wynton Marsalis Violin Concerto. She next performs the piece in November with the Rochester Philharmonic.
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Conductor Jacques Lacombe opens his busy 2022/2023 season with back-to-back opera productions: first with Il Trovatore at L’Opera de Montreal in September, and this week making his debut leading the Canadian Opera Company in Carmen.
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In this thrilling collaboration by the imaginative Calder Quartet and dancer, choreographer, and Deaf artist and advocate, Antoine Hunter, audiences are offered an immersive and joyful journey into chamber music and dance – and a special insight into Beethoven’s Op. 130 String Quartet and Grosse Fugue, written toward the end of his life, when his hearing loss had a profound impact on his life and work.
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This Thursday, the phenomenal JACK Quartet opens the 2022/23 Season of the Miller Theatre Composer Portrait Series with an evening dedicated to the work of Liza Lim, recognized as “one of Australia’s most important cultural exports” (Limelight Magazine).
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