Isaac Stern News

Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition (SISIVC) Organisers today announced two recipients of the Isaac Stern - Human Spirit Award: Kayhan Kalhor and the Xiaoshuijing Miao Farmers Choir.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) today announces the fourth biennial gathering of the Stephen and Cynthia Rubin Institute for Music Criticism, a groundbreaking initiative for educational and financial support that identifies and engages emerging young writers in the art of classical music criticism and creates a sustainable funding model for professional journalists at news organizations across the United States. Taking place October 25-29 at SFCM and surrounding Civic Center venues, the Rubin Institute will, for the first time in its history, include jazz in its lineup of world-class concerts. Award-winning author, critic, essayist, and producer Gary Giddins will join the cadre of industry-leading journalists as guest critic.

Music Mountain, America's longest running summer chamber music festival, continues its 89th season with two first time guests! The brilliant American String Quartet offers a program featuring Haydn, Shostakovich, and Dvorak on Sunday, September 16 (3pm). The Roxy Coss Quintet, an inspiring jazz ensemble with a soulful, unique and progressive sound, plays their original compositions on Saturday, September 15 (6:30pm). Concerts are scheduled through September 23.

On Friday, Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition (SISIVC) Organisers announced the 6 Finalists who will move on to the Final Round.

Birdland will kick-off their exciting month of programming with the following acts:

Shanghai, China, August 14, 2018 - After a grueling Quarter-Final round that had some dubbing the Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition (SISIVC) the 'most difficult competition in the world,' organisers today announced the 12 competitors who will move on and compete in the Semi-Final rounds.

The first ever collection of George Szell's Complete Recordings for Columbia Masterworks on 106 CDs is now available thanks to Sony Classical. The collection features symphonies, overtures and other orchestral works, concertos and chamber music, recorded from 1946 to 1969, 92 recordings remastered from the original analogue tapes using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology.

Shanghai, China, August 10, 2018 - The success of the 2016 Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition raised worldwide coverage, and, for the first time, demonstrated that a Chinese music competition is just as sophisticated as any other at the global level. The Organisation Committee held a press conference on August 8, 2018 to announce that the second edition of the competition will take place from then until September 1 in Shanghai. In addition, there was also a draw for the order of the quarter finalists.

Birdland will kick-off their exciting month of programming with the following acts:

Next month, FEINSTEIN'S/54 BELOW, Broadway's Supper Club & Private Event Destination, presents some of the brightest stars from Broadway, cabaret, jazz, and beyond.

Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) announced that the Hershey Community Chorus has been invited to participate in a performance of John Rutter's Magnificat on the DCINY Concert Series in New York City.  This performance is planned to take place on Sunday, March 17, 2019 in Isaac Stern Auditorium at Carnegie Hall under the baton of DCINY Artistic Director, Dr. Jonathan Griffith.  The Chorus will join with other choristers from around the world to form the Distinguished Concerts Singers International, a choir of distinction.  Dr. Griffith will serve as conductor of the performance and clinician for the residency.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music (SFCM) today announces the details of its 2018-19 season, the 101st year of the institution's existence. After celebrating the Conservatory's centennial last season, SFCM looks to the future in its curricular model combining performance, history, and the humanities in thematically linked programming. This season's theme, 'Sound and Image,' brings the fine arts together with classes, concerts, and other events that examine the relationship between music, visual art, and the moving image.

Bostonians will have another reason to welcome autumn along the Charles River when the Celebrity Series of Boston presents Jazz Along the Charles: A Walkable Concert. After receiving close to 100 applications, a selection committee comprised of educators, administrators and performers from Boston's thriving jazz scene has chosen 25 ensembles to perform at a series of connected, walkable locations along the Charles River Esplanade, interpreting the same curated list of Boston-related tunes in one collective free concert.

Town Hall's Broadway by the Year series closes its 18th acclaimed season with a finale that will feature the musicals from 1988 and 2017 alongside a cast of nearly 35 performers, including the Broadway by the Year Chorus, the Broadway by the Year Dance Ensemble (under the direction of Danny Gardner), and these great stars: William Michals (Emile de Beque in the Lincoln Center production of South Pacific), Brian Charles Rooney (critically acclaimed in the recent Broadway revival of The Three-Penny Opera), Farah Alvin (Drama Desk Nominee and veteran of 5 Broadway shows), Rebecca Faulkenberry (Nancy on Broadway in Groundhog Day), Danny Gardner (2X Drama Desk Winner, Dames at Sea, Star of Radio City Summer Spectacular), and Marina Jurica (The Singing Meteorologist from CBS-TV, Christine in the National Tour of The Phantom of the Opera).

Stanislav Ioudenitch, Artistic Director of Park International Center for Music (Park ICM), announced today that their 2018-2019 season would kick off in September with a new performance home, the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kansas. "For the first time, we will perform our entire season at the 1900 Building as we adore performing in their wonderful spaces," said Ioudenitch. "Now between their two fabulous concert halls and their delicious restaurant, classical music lovers can have a full evening of fine wines and food, and cap it off with our world-class musicians! We are two hidden jewels just now being discovered in the Kansas City arts public."

Described by The New York Times as "liquid…dreamlike," acclaimed Russian pianist Katya Grineva returns to Carnegie Hall for her highly anticipated album release concert for one night only, Monday, July 16, 2018. Known for her deep connection to the Romantics, Katya presents an all-Chopin recital (Complete program is below.) in celebration of her new two cd set: The Complete Chopin Nocturnes.

Described by The New York Times as “liquid…dreamlike,” acclaimed Russian pianist Katya Grineva returns to Carnegie Hall for her highly anticipated album release concert for one night only, Monday, July 16, 2018. Known for her deep connection to the Romantics, Katya presents an all-Chopin recital (Complete program is below.) in celebration of her new two cd set: The Complete Chopin Nocturnes.

Dr. David R. Thye of Gilbert, Arizona, was not born into a musically-inclined family. But after taking trumpet lessons in the fifth grade, he found his passion. He began his musical journey as a trumpeter and baritone vocalist -- and has never looked back. Today this father of two and grandfather of six, who made his Carnegie Hall conducting debut in 2005, is now the patriarch of a three-generation musical dynasty.