Cellist Sterling Elliott has just wrapped up a busy summer which included return engagements at several notable chamber music festivals, a first appearance at La Jolla Music Society’s SummerFest, and a debut at the Aspen Music Festival, performing the Brahms Double Concerto with violinist Gil Shaham and conductor John Storgård.
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The Juilliard String Quartet kicks off their fall season by welcoming violist Molly Carr to Europe with concerts in Prague, Merano, and Pullach. Stateside they perform in Syracuse, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, and Vancouver.
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Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers begins her 22/23 season with a return to the brilliant new concerto she commissioned and premiered with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl in 2021; Fandango by Arturo Márquez.
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Pianist Adam Golka begins 22/23 with recitals for Philip Lorenz International Keyboard Concerts in Fresno, CA and Mesa Arts Center in Mesa, AZ, performing a program that bridges two long-term repertoire interests; Beethoven Sonatas, which he has explored and performed through his gripping 32@32 series (more below) and Brahms, whose complete piano works he will perform and record over the next few years.
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Today, Orli Shaham welcomes the next album in her multi-year endeavor – recording all of Mozart’s piano sonatas – with Volumes 2 and 3 of “Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas,” released on Canary Classics (CC21). The album is available on major streaming services and can be purchased as a download or double-CD.
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This Saturday, August 20 at Tanglewood, Ken-David Masur leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a range of starry guests — including Yo-Yo Ma, James Taylor, Branford Marsalis, and others — in a gala performance honoring John Williams’s 90th birthday.
It’s a glittering end to a fabulous summer for Masur, in which he led concerts at the Pacific Music Festival, Classical Tahoe, and — later this month — with Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Chamber Orchestra.
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On August 28, 2022, at the Grafenegg Festival in Austria, violinist Miranda Cuckson, the Tonkünstler-Orchester, and guest conductor Baldur Brönnimann will perform Georg Friedrich Haas’s Violin Concerto No. 2, a work written for Cuckson, which she premiered with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and conductor Ilan Volkov in 2017. Schumann’s 4th Symphony rounds out the program.
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Colbert Artists is delighted to announce that conductor Shiyeon Sung has joined our roster for North American representation.
The first woman to win the Sir Georg Solti International Conductors’ Competition, Sung held early-career posts with the Boston Symphony as its first female assistant conductor, and with the Seoul Philharmonic as associate conductor. Since then, she has appeared with noted orchestras throughout Europe, Asia, and North America, including debuts this season with the Bayerischer Rundfunk and the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
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Tonight at the Colorado Music Festival, Peter Oundjian leads the world premiere of a new orchestral work by composer/pianist Timo Andres. Dark Patterns was commissioned by CMF after Oundjian saw Andres in performance at Ojai, and it is programmed alongside works by Andres’s colleagues and friends, John Adams and Samuel Carl Adams.
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Last week at the Aspen Music Festival, violinist Esther Yoo made her much-anticipated recital debut. Next month she embarks on a tour of Australia as part of the Z.E.N. Piano Trio in conjunction with the release of their new album, “Burning Through the Cold.” In November, she returns to North America for performances of the Sibelius Concerto with the Cincinnati Symphony. Next season will see her return to Wigmore Hall in her recital.
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