Sebastian Bach News

American pianist/composer Thomas Nickell, an artist with 'an ever increasing reputation as a player's player and composer' (Litchfield Live, July 23, 2017) will appear as soloist with the Oistrakh Symphony Orchestra of Chicago under the baton of Mina Zikri at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on Sunday afternoon, June 2, 2019, 3 p.m., presented by the Alexander & Buono Foundation.

Bach in Baltimore announced today the 2019/2020 Season of First Sunday Concerts, its annual series featuring the music of Baroque master J.S. Bach and his contemporaries in gorgeous sacred spaces across the Baltimore metro area, including Ellicott City, Inner Harbor Baltimore, and Towson. The 2019/2020 concert series will consist of eleven ticketed concerts that runs from October 6, 2019, to June 7, 2020.

La Compañía Nacional de Danza (CND) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura realizará el estreno en México de dos afamadas creaciones coreográficas internacionales: Por vos muero de Nacho Duato y Palladio de Stanislav Fečo.

After returning from the historic debut in Paris, which received rave reviews from critics and audiences alike, Boston Ballet is proud to announce a varied schedule of tours and appearances this year, starting with debut performances at Boston Calling Music Festival in May 2019, followed by Jacob's Pillow in August, and ending at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario in November. 

Your intrepid reviewer headed off last Wednesday night to the Providence Performing arts Center (PPAC) for the Complexions Contemporary Ballet's performance of FROM BACH TO BOWIE, part of the FirstWorks Artistic Icons Series. The first half of the New York dance troupe's performance featured 'Bach 25,' a fusion of contemporary dance and ballet technique performed to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The second part was 'Stardust,' which turns an assortment of Bowie's hits into a rock-inspired ballet to honor him. Songs such as Lazarus,' 'Heroes,' 'Young Americans,' 'Life On Mars' and 'Let's Dance' were featured. So, full disclosure, I am vastly unqualified to write a review about Bach, Bowie or dance. Now that we understand each other, here goes.

The Washington Bach Consort will be commended by the DC Council on Monday, May 6 at St. Peter's Church on Capitol Hill for 30 years of the Noontime Cantata Series. Heralded as a 'hidden gem,' or a 'gift you can't put a price on' by the Washington Post, the free concert series attracts more than 2,000 attendees each year.

The world's largest student ballet scholarship competition - YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX (YAGP) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary Season, with its NYC Finals held at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. The week of ballet festivities will include YAGP's Final Round (April 17th), YAGP's critically acclaimed Stars of Today Meet the Stars of Tomorrow Gala performance and dinner (April 18th), with a repeat Gala performance on April 19th. Lastly, on April 20th, YAGP will present an International Dance School Festival, where dancers from all over the globe will perform works representing each school's style and artistic tradition, ranging from beloved classics to cutting-edge contemporary dance.

A concert featuring members of the May Festival Chorus and Youth Chorus will take place this Sunday, April 14, at 8PM at the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption in Covington, Kentucky.

Mark Weiss, was a 14-year old kid from New Jersey when he made a deal with a neighbor to cut his lawn in exchange for a 35mm camera. Thus began a lifelong journey of rock & roll mayhem that continues to this day. While in high school, Mark would sneak his camera into concerts, paying off security guards to get him closer to the stage. Mark developed the prints in his parent's bathroom to sell the next morning out of his school locker and then in front of the concert venue that night.

When the Milwaukee Ballet presents a trio of works in one mixed program, odds are something will resonate — if not the haunting music of one piece, then the vibrant rush of costumes in another. Aesthetics aside, one can always appreciate the power and poise of the Milwaukee Ballet Company dancers and the skill and grace with which they execute such a range of choreography. This weekend's selections feature world premieres by choreographers Enrico Morelli and George Williamson, plus the much-buzzed-about Lambarena, choreographed by Val Caniparoli.

La Compa a Nacional de Danza (CND) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) ofrecer del 25 al 29 de abril en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes su temporada de primavera 2019 con siete funciones que alternar n el repertorio cl sico con el contempor neo.

Bernard Labadie leads Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec in Bach's Mass in B Minor on Tuesday, May 7 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Soloists for the program include soprano Lydia Teuscher, countertenor Iestyn Davies, tenor Robin Tritschler, and bass-baritone Matthew Brook.

BALAM Dance Theatre (BALAM) premieres its new Out & About series program, Dances of Love: East and West, in Fort Lee, New Jersey.  This entertaining, family friendly program will be presented at the Fort Lee Public Library, located at 320 Main Street, on Sunday, April 28 from 2:00-3:00 p.m.  The event is free and open to the public.

Da Camera of Houston announces its 2019/2020 season, which features a lineup spanning a multitude of styles and genres.

Como parte del ciclo Los colores de la voz, el Ensamble Solistas de Panamá ofrecerá un concierto que llevará al público del Palacio de Bellas Artes a un viaje musical con piezas que comprenden desde el Medioevo hasta el Renacimiento y el Barroco, para finalizar con obras tradicionales del país de la agrupación.

Entre los grandes debates que se registran en las sociedades modernas es cómo repensar las políticas culturales y la cultura misma en ciudades globalizadas, fue el tema coincidente tanto para el chelista Yo-Yo Ma, como para la directora general del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, Dra. Lucina Jiménez.

Una gran diversidad de conciertos organizados por la Secretaría de Cultura, a través del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), se llevará a cabo este sábado 30 de marzo.

Dentro del marco de las actividades que se han organizado para dar cuerpo a la novena edición del festival de piano en Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, se tienen contemplados tres recitales, como parte del ciclo Bellas Artes a todas partes, en los que se presentarán distintas obras clásicas interpretadas por tres reconocidos pianistas nacionales, Mauricio Náder, Erik Cortés y Héctor Rojas.

The Paphos Music Lovers Association organises, as part of the Bach Birthday Festival, a concert for violin and piano with Andreas Constantinou (violin), Yiotalina Sofocleous (violin) & Natalia Lezedova (piano), at Technopolis 20, on Tuesday, 26th of March 2019, at 7.30pm.

The Royal Conservatory regrets to announce that American pianist Murray Perahia has had to cancel what would have been his Koerner Hall debut on May 1, during Koerner Hall's 10th anniversary season finale festival. A statement from his management reads, It is with great regret that Mr. Perahia has been forced to withdraw from his upcoming solo recitals in North America as a sudden medical setback has prevented him from performing publicly. Besides his date in Koerner Hall, Perahia has withdrawn from concerts at Carnegie Hall and Chicago's Symphony Center.