Robert Schumann News

The University of Chicago Presents is offering a recital of German lieder and sentimental song from English tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Imogen Cooper. The duo will perform a selection of vocal works by Ludwig van Beethoven that offer a glimpse at the composer's romantic side, as well as Robert Schumann's Liederkreis, Op. 39.

On Friday evening March 12, 2021, Houston Grand Opera presented Live from The Cullen: Jack Swanson and Richard Bado in a wide-ranging recital of music by Robert Schumann, Leonard Bernstein, Roger Quilter, Kurt Weill, Franz Liszt, and Gioachino Rossini. Swanson can hold his audience spellbound with the magic coming from his voice and his eyes.

The Houston Symphony has announced guest artists and conductors appearing in the 2021–22 Season. Andrés Orozco-Estrada's final season as Music Director brings the Colombian-born, European conductor to Houston for five concert weeks, two of them featuring guest performances by pianists Emanuel Ax and Yefim Bronfman.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra brings its first-ever all-online season—with near weekly concert streams distributed through its new streaming platform BSO NOW, November 2020-April 2021—to an end with four programs led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons, released each Thursday at noon, March 25–April 29, at www.bso.org/now.

Six Feet Apart, The Sofia's virtual concert series, presents acclaimed Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna Faliks! 

This spring, the University of Chicago Presents shares eight new virtual programs featuring artists from around the world. The concert series on Chicago's South Side has long been a premiere venue for internationally touring musicians of classical, jazz, early, and world music.

Acclaimed mezzo-soprano Hai-Ting Chinn brings her eclectic musical science show to The Marsh with Science Fair: An Opera with Experiments. Conceived and performed by Chinn with pianist Erika Switzer, Science Fair pairs luscious operatic vocals with light-hearted humor and science lectures. 

The Orchestra Now (TŌN) has announced the March 19 release of Piano Protagonists: Music for Piano and Orchestra, a new CD on Bridge Records. The new recording features three works for piano and orchestra first performed in concerts at the Bard Music Festival with the “powerful technique and exceptional insight” (The Washington Post) of award-winning American pianist Orion Weiss.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota will present a live performance of “Women of Note,” its celebration of female artists and composers in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of women’s right to vote.

David Korevaar will present a solo recital live streamed from the University of Colorado’s Grusin Hall on Tuesday, January 26 at 7:30PM MST (9:30PM EST).  The program entitled Variations Fantastiques, a journey through keyboard music from the Italian Renaissance to the Harlem Renaissance will include works by Frescobaldi, Bach, Mozart & more.

Pianist Daniel Vnukowski has reached over half a million viewers with his high-definition, livestreamed performances since the start of the pandemic earlier this year. On Tuesday, December 15th at 7pm PST, he performs a virtual fundraising recital in support of the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund (sweetrelief.org) to assist those musicians urgently affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

From November 12th to November 16th 2020, Pacific Northwest Ballet offers Rep 2

From the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre and Abravanel Hall stages to schools and living rooms throughout the state, Utah Symphony | Utah Opera rolls out streamed content that will bring performances from local, professional musicians to Utahns at home or in the classroom.

a?oeMindful Minutes,a?? the online venture of the popular Sunday morning New York concert series GatherNYC, will release a series of brief video premieres by noted musical artists throughout October.

On October 23, Signum Classics will release BABEL, the Calidore String Quartet's second album on the label, following 2018's Resilience. The program of quartets by Schumann, Shostakovich and Caroline Shaw was conceived of in response to this unsettling time of polarization and lack of civility in public discourse.   

The New School's Mannes College of Music has announced the Schneider Concerts ONLINE | 2020-21 Season - we have been working for the past few months to develop a flexible model that will allow us to continue to provide outstanding, emerging chamber artists with performance opportunities and offer New York audiences introductions to chamber music.

Kaufman Music Center's Ecstatic Music series returns this fall, opening with an exciting pair of online concerts.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota presents, in partnership with Florida Studio Theatre's Suffragist Project, 'Women of Note,' a virtual celebration of female artists and composers in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the passage of women's right to vote.

The Mankato Symphony Orchestra has announced for concerts as part of its Music on the Hill series.

On August 25, 2020, The Grand Teton Music Festivala??s online edition, a?oeMusic from the Mountainsa?? presented a recital performed by Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano, and Festival Music Director Donald Runnicles, piano. Stucker, currently a Jette Parker Young Artist at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, has already been hailed as a versatile new singing actress on Boston and Berlin stages.