After Fall 2015 dates with the Boston Symphony and the Cleveland Orchestra, Maestro Christoph von Dohnányi returned to North America this month, leading the New York Philharmonic in the Brahms Requiem: “Mr. Dohnanyi, looking hale…

The Heath Quartet, which plays with “a winsome blend of impetuosity and discipline” (The Washington Post), has just completed a stint as Middlebury College‘s first-ever string-quartet-in-residence. The residency featured the Heath performing the six Bartók quartets (which…

This weekend, pianist Ran Dank offers two recital programs for San Miguel de Allende. Program 1 includes Chopin, Liszt, Scriabin, and Beethoven; Program 2 is (wholly different) works by Beethoven, Liszt and Rachmaninoff. Watch Dank…

This week Zuill Bailey launched the Northwest Bach Festival (where Bailey is Artistic Director), joining the Matt Herskowitz Piano Jazz Trio in an opening-night performance, offering his “Bach’s Lunch” today, and leading chamber concerts through…

Pianist Ursula Oppens strolls the red carpet at the 2016 GRAMMY Awards with her artistic and personal partner Jerome Lowenthal.  Oppens was nominated for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for the Cedille Records release featuring her recording of Frederic Rzewski’s…

Well established in Europe and Australia as leader/soloist with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, the Norwegian and Swedish Chamber Orchestras, Camerata Bern, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Anthony…

Alina Ibragimova’s debut performances at the Boston Symphony included the Hartmann Concerto funebre and the Haydn Violin Concerto in C Major: “Ibragimova’s faultlessly elegant playing captured it adroitly.” – The Boston Globe, Feb. 19, 2016…

With mounting success in both symphonic and operatic repertoire, Jayce Ogren is building a reputation as one of the finest young conductors to emerge from the United States in recent seasons. Ogren is enjoying a…

Last week Marc-André Hamelinperformed a solo recital at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, with a program featuring works by Mozart, Ravel, Busoni, himself, and Liszt. “Mr. Hamelin, having spent much of his early career exploring pianistic showpieces…

Maestro Michael Stern ended his 2015 leading concerts with IRIS Orchestra, and began this year with Midori in concerts with both the Kansas City Symphony and IRIS! This week Stern leads the KCSO and Jeremy…

Conductor Jayce Ogren led December and January dates with the Utah Symphony and Colorado Symphony. Looking forward, Ogren leads the Dallas Symphony in special screenings of Bernstein’s West Side Story (a production he’s led with…

Maestro Daniel Meyer wrapped up 2015 with a slate of diverse performances, including concerts with the Pittsburgh Symphony (both holiday programs and a special performance of the music of Star Wars, see below) and a…

Conductor Ken-David Masur enjoyed an international end to 2015, a year anchored by three subscription weeks with the Boston Symphony (where he is Assistant Conductor). World-wide dates included programs of Grieg, Vaughan Williams, Ravel, and…

Maestro Jacques Lacombe began the year in Canada, leading a program of Paganini, Tchaikovsky and Coulthard with the Edmonton Symphony and this week leads his home orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony, in their annual Winter…

Maestro Bernhard Gueller concluded 2015 with a dear musical friend – and a happy tradition for his Symphony Nova Scotia – Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. “I have a very emotional relationship with The Nutcracker’s composer, Pyotr…

This December, pianist Till Fellner joined Bernard Haitink and the Berlin Philharmonic, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 503. Enjoy this charming interview in German with Fellner and Berlin Philharmonic cellist Knut Weber,…

Last month Zuill Bailey returned for several appearances to the International Wimbledon Music Festival in London – a solo recital, a premiere of a new chamber work by Australian composer Elena Kats-Chernin, a masterclass, and…

Conductor, educator, pianist and public speaker Rob Kapilow brought his renowned What Makes It Great?®  program to Merkin Hall this week, exploring Schumann’s Piano Quintet. In January, Kapilow leads What Makes It Great?®  with the Toronto Symphony, exploring Mozart Symphony No.…

After Summer dates at Tanglewood, Chautauqua and Ravinia (where she performed with the chamber orchestra The Knights), soprano Dawn Upshaw has launched into a busy Fall season. She kicked things off with fellow soprano-explorers Lucy…

“On the podium, he cuts a figure both streamlined and angular, and his taut podium gestures convey a wiry intensity;” so wrote The Boston Globe when Maestro Ken-David Masur led the first of two last-minute…

JACK Quartet enjoyed Summer dates at the Ottawa Chamberfest, the Music Academy of the West, in Lucerne and at the Salzburg Festival, before returning home to New York for the opening of the Miller Theatre season, performing a…