John Harbison: What Do We Make of Bach? for Orchestra and Obbligato Organ World Premiere: Friday, October 12, 2018 with the Minnesota Orchestra, Osmo Vänska, conductor Wayne Oquin: Resilience World Premiere: October 6, 2017 with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor…
Jennifer Higdon: Concerto for Harp and Orchestra Premiered on May 10, 2018 with the Rochester Philharmonic led by Ward Stare, Commissioned by The premiere series of performances will continue with Yolanda Kondonassis as soloist throughout 2018…
This month, cellist Zuill Bailey released a Prokofiev CD of the Sinfonia Concertante, Op. 125 with the North Carolina Symphony Orchestra led by conductor Grant Llewellyn and the Cello Sonata in C Major, Op. 199 with pianist Natasha Paremski.
As much of the world feels the inexorable pull of the Force, Maestro Daniel Meyer leads the Pittsburgh Symphony in a special live performance of John Williams’s iconic scores for the Star Wars films.
This week Paul Jacobs returns to the Chicago Symphony for Saint-Saëns Symphony No. 3 led by Emmanuel Krivine. Two weekends ago Paul was the featured soloist at the final concert of the Cleveland Orchestra’s weeklong festival exploring ecstasy in…
US Touring Period: March 4 – 15, 2020 In March 2020, Tafelmusik will bring their latest multimedia project on tour to the U.S.: In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, refugee communities such as French Huguenots…
Dashon Burton tours with Cleveland Orchestra and exciting new projects!
This month Pianist Till Fellner debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Christoph Eschenbach conducting, for performances of Mozart K. 482 April 19, 21, and 24 at David Geffen Hall. He lands first on the West Coast for performances of the same concerto April 13 and 14 with the New West Symphony in Los Angeles.
Francesco Piemontesi performs Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3 with Roger Norrington and the SWR Symphonieorchester in Stuttgart on March 9, 2018. his brilliant performance was filmed from several angles with the players surrounding Norrington: This…
On Thursday March 22, the HEATH QUARTET returns to Great Performers at Lincoln Center for a program of Haydn and Tchaikovsky and appears with the Treetops Chamber Music Society in Stamford, Connecticut on March 25. Next season they will make return…
Pre-order Marc’s Schubert Album, which releases April 27. The album has two of Schubert’s masterpieces: the Piano Sonata in B flat major D. 960 and the Four Impromptus D. 935 Op 142. Pre-order it on: iTunes Hyperion…
Conductor Jayce Ogren leads subscription weeks this season in debut performances with the Columbus, Louisville, and Asheville Symphonies, and in a return performance with the Edmonton Symphony in straight-ahead classical repertoire ranging from Mendelssohn and…
“…Lacombe treated Symphony Hall to the most engrossing and dynamic rendition of Ravel’s ‘Daphnis et Chloé’ that I’ve ever seen performed… “Lacombe’s direction gave unique form to each figure, with the conductor stepping lightly and…
Currently Principal Conductor of the Bonn Opera in Germany, Jacques Lacombe keeps his hand in the orchestral scene in North America when he leads the Boston Symphony February 15-17 in a subscription week at Symphony…
The Violin Channel recently caught up with former Juilliard String Quartet members who shared their collective memories of long-time colleague and friend, violinist Robert Mann, who passed away last week, aged 97.
Adam Golka releases SCHUMANN: Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 11 etc with First Hand Records. For more information, click here. “These are performances of poetry and sensitivity, with the reading of the piano sonata rivalling…
On February 2, Marc-André Hamelin looks forward to the release of Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring & Other Works for Two Pianos Four-Hands. Recorded with Leif Ove Andsnes for Hyperion, the new album is the…
Tonight, when James Morris sings the role of Timur in Turandot, it will mark his 1,000th performance on the Metropolitan Opera stage. He made his house debut in 1971 at the age of 23 s…
Next week, conductor Ken-David Masur leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a cast of actors in a new staged adaptation of Edvard Grieg’s incidental music to Henrik Ibsen’s play Peer Gynt…
Conductor Jayce Ogren leads subscription weeks this season with the Columbus, Edmonton, Louisville and Asheville Symphonies in straight-ahead classical repertoire ranging from Mendelssohn and Beethoven to Sibelius, Stravinsky, and Copland – all dear familiars and…
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Marc-André Hamelin recently completed his week at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, where he participated in the Jury. Hamelin evaluated competitors on his own composition, commissioned specially for the competition, in addition to several other…
Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto and Chopin’s Piano Cto. No. 1 figured into Adam Golka’s winter season, with performances with the Riverside County Phil. in CA and the Knoxville Symphony, respectively: “Golka’s playing was light and full of the…
Highlights of Mahan Esfahani’s busy winter and spring included the world premiere of Francisco Coll’s harpsichord Concerto with the Britten Sinfonia in February. His US recital tour in March included dates at the McCarter Theater…
Marc-André Hamelin‘s winter/spring highlights included Ravel and Shostakovich concerti with the Montreal Symphony and Kent Nagano, Medtner’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Kirill Petrenko and the Bayerische Staatsorcheter as well as with the Atlanta Symphony and Michael…
The technically dazzling and intellectually probing artistry of pianist Ran Dank is on full display as he heads into a November marathon of recitals, chamber music, and performances of the Kevin Puts Piano Concerto. First,…
Paul Jacobs‘ season has been shaped by the Christopher Rouse Organ Concerto, which he premiered with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin on November 17 last year, and has continued performing this spring with dates…
Soyeon Kate Lee had a year full of orchestral performances, playing Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Erie Philharmonic led by Daniel Meyer in January and later with the Eugene Symphony in March. She also performed Chopin’s…
Ran Dank has given both orchestral and recital concerts so far this year, starting with the Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Toledo Symphony in March, recitals at Bargemusic in April, and a stunning performance…
Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colón invited pianist and conductor Marino Formenti for a month-long residency which took place this past March. Unable to decide which of the suggested projects to present, the artistic direction invited Marino…