“With fine backing from the winds, Golka gave a performance that was both subtle and true to the spirit of Gershwin.” – Olin Chism, Star-Telegram, December 31, 2016 On New Year’s Eve, Adam Golka returned…
Conductor Daniel Meyer appears in Germany three times during January and February. He returns to the Württembergische Philharmonie in Reutlingen for concerts of Gerswhin, Mintzer and Rachmaninoff; debuts with the Staatsorchester Darmstadt in concerts of…
Paul Jacobs gives the world premiere of the Organ Concerto by Christopher Rouse on November 17 with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by their Music Director, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, in an organ extravaganza program that also includes Barber’s Toccata Festiva for Organ…
Pianist Marc-André Hamelin earned accolades for a recent Festival performance at La Jolla Music Society: “One moment Hamelin demonically crashed out chords in the lowest register, the next teased out pianissimo plaintive utterances in the treble. He…
“Every detail, from technical virtuosity to balance, is set nakedly in front of the listener. And each of these hurdles, big and small, were navigated with grace by these four fine players. The music pulsed…
Three years ago, pianists Soyeon Kate Lee and Ran Dank were wed, and marked that year by performing together at (Le) Poisson Rouge for the first time. Those three years have seen them from Cincinnati…
Conductor Michael Stern took the podium with Yo-Yo Ma and the Boston Symphony for the penultimate concert at Tanglewood this summer in a program of Bernstein, Haydn, John Williams, and Respighi: “The program was designed…
Dubbed a “Harpsichord Ninja” by the BBC, Mahan Esfahani returned to North America for debuts at the Aspen Music Festival with works by de Falla and Saariaho on August 1 and a Little Night Music…
JACK Quartet began an exciting transition earlier this month as they bade farewell to founding members violinist Ari Streisfeld and cellist Kevin McFarland at the Crested Butte Music Festival on August 5th. New members violinist Austin Wulliman and cellist Jay Campbell join the…
Vocal ensemble amarcord offers a new program marking the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation of 1517 and the resulting progression of performance practice in vocal music. Leipzig’s premiere a cappella ensemble joins the city’s Gewandhaus…
As the Juilliard String Quartet welcome cellist Astrid Schween, watch her tell how the match was made in this engaging video. The forthcoming season is highlighted by concerts at some of their favorite venues including Alice Tully Hall…
The Heath Quartet returns to the Ryedale Festival this week where the late string quartets of Beethoven take center stage. Over the course of four concerts (entitled ‘A Meeting of Minds’), these quartets are heard alongside the poems they…
Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra brings their latest multi-media project J.S. Bach: The Circle of Creation to the U.S. for the first time in March 2017. Tour dates include: February 28 – Oberlin College & Conservatory – Oberlin, OH March 2 – Center…
Rob Kapilow wrapped up his 2015/2016 season on June 21 with his sixth appearance on the PBS News Hour, this time discussing Cole Porter’s musical legacy in honor of Porter’s 125th birthday. “In a great song, once…
The May 2016 Edition of the International Festival of Vocal Music, “A CAPPELLA”, established in Leipzig in 1997 by the Ensemble amarcord, opened with amarcord’s popular “European Romantic” program May 20 at St. Michael’s Church…
In a series of spring concerts, pianist Marc-André Hamelin played recitals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Lucerne, Chicago, and the Klavier-Festival Ruhr. The Canadian master played and recorded Rachmaninoff 3 and Medtner 2 with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic…
Austrian pianist Till Fellner returned to the States last month for “crisp and stylish” performances of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in E-flat Major, K. 482, in a Chicago Symphony subscription week with Bernard Haitink. “Fellner is…
Conductor Michael Stern starts the summer with a 7 concert tour of Israel, leading the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and Joshua Bell in a program of Copland, Lalo, and Sibelius and ends the summer at Tanglewood…
Pianist Soyeon Kate Lee began her spring season with the release of an all-Scriabin solo album from Naxos, and performances of solo and duo concerts in New York. Earlier this month, Lee and her husband, pianist Ran Dank, offered four-hand…
We are delighted to announce that tenor Anthony Dean Griffey has joined the Colbert Artists Management family. A four-time Grammy winner, he has also been praised on the concert stage with The New York Times…
The brilliant, questing JACK Quartet is in the midst of a busy stretch, with a recent performance of the “in-the-dark” Haas Quartet No. 3, launching the San Francisco Performances new music series “Pivot.” “It’s the best kind of…
Cellist Mark Kosower kicked off 2016 with a series of orchestral dates, performing the Brahms Double Concerto with Franz Welser-Moest and the Cleveland Orchestra as part of their winter residency at the Adrienne Arsht Center…
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…