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…

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.

Marc-André Hamelin has a marvelous, curious mind. While we chatted before his Tiny DESK concert, he snooped around the CD shelves near my desk, commenting on a few rarities and sharing his own eclectic tastes,…

Violinist Timothy Chooi performs Bruch with the Liverpool Philharmonic!   Embark on a pastoral journey with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestre under the baton of Domingo Hindoyan and virtuoso violinist Timothy Chooi! The evening begins with Bruch’s Scottish…

Last week, the wonderful violinist Esther Yoo released her latest recording on Deutsche Grammophon, performing the Barber and Bruch concertos with conductor Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. The album is available on all streaming platforms.

Last week, conductor Ken-David Masur wrapped up a critically-acclaimed three-week festival with the Milwaukee Symphony exploring and celebrating our relationship with earth’s most precious natural resource, which the city of Milwaukee is surrounded by. As the centerpiece of Masur’s…

Conversations with Zuill Bailey and the LoC Grammy Award-winner cellist Zuill Bailey discusses his virtual program at the Library of Congress. Bailey reflects on his upbringing in Northern Virginia surrounded by music opportunities, shares behind-the-scenes…

On January 27, 2023 Orli Shaham makes her Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra debut performing John Adams’ piano concerto “Why Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?” with David Robertson conducting. In this Insider Interview…

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…

Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is widely regarded for her performances and commissions of new music – and this month her advocacy is on gorgeous display as she premieres Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra with Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra, and tours Arturo Márquez’s Fandango with Gustavo Dudamel…

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…

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…

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…

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. Read the full article here.

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. Read the full article here.

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…

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).  Read the…

This season the phenomenal a cappella ensemble amarcord celebrates its 30th year anniversary with signature programs and collaborations with the German-French horn ensemble Hornsound;  Germany’s Thuringian Bach Collegium; the Art of the Fugue with the Schumann Quartet; and a benefit Concert of Christmas Music from the…

he brilliant Marc-Andre Hamelin kicks off his 22-23 season at the Berlin Philharmonic this week, performing Max Reger’s Piano Concerto with Marek Janowski.  Further orchestral engagements this fall include the San Diego Symphony with Rafael Payare and a return to Symphony Nova Scotia. Read the…

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,…

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. Read the full article…

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. Read…

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…

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…

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…

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…