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.…
In the midst of a busy fall season, the Juilliard Quartet was hailed for the first of their two annual concerts at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall: “Bittersweetness tinged the Juilliard String Quartet’s first Lincoln Center performance…
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…