Sebastian Bach News

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 Besides his date in Koerner Hall, Perahia has withdrawn from concerts at Carnegie Hall and Chicago's Symphony Center.

En el marco de la Noche de Museos de marzo, el próximo miércoles 27 se desarrollarán diversas actividades gratuitas en múltiples espacios museísticos del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) y en otras sedes que contarán con la programación del Instituto, con el fin de que los asistentes disfruten del arte en sus diversas manifestaciones dentro de un horario extendido.

Singers participating in the 2019 Grand Rapids Bach Festival's inaugural Linn Maxwell Keller Distinguished Bach Musician Award were promised a $10,000 cash prize meant to encourage and promote their careers as professional singers.

The Handel and Haydn Society will close the 2018-19 season with a performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. Widely acknowledged as one of the most powerful and moving masterpieces ever composed, the performance will take place on Friday, May 3, 2019 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 3 p.m. at Symphony Hall in Boston.

Join Sydney Philharmonia Choirs on Easter Saturday, as they fill the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall with the gloriously uplifting sounds of Bach's Magnificat and Mozart's Great Mass in C minor. A highlight of the Choirs' much-loved annual Easter performance will be the premiere of a new work from Sydney composer, Antony Pitts, who takes his inspiration from Bach's Mente cordis sui: In the imagination of their hearts.

The soprano Ah Young Hong, praised for her 'fearlessness and consummate artistry' by Opera News and called 'the opera's blazing lone star' by The New York Times, will appear in recital with pianist Jacob Rhodebeck Sunday, April 7, 2019, 7 pm, presented by Spectrum, Brooklyn's concert venue for new music, located at 70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, (entrance between Cumberland and Carlton,) Brooklyn, NY 11205. Composers Michael Hersch and Georg Friedrich Haas will be in attendance. The full program follows:

New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA) presents the return of the iconic Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) for two main stage performances on March 22 and 23 at 8 p.m. at the Mahalia Jackson Theater.

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 Joyce Theater catapults its scintillating 2019 season that encapsulates an entire spectrum of contemporary international movement with a renowned and acclaimed audience-favorite, COMPLEXIONS Contemporary Ballet.

Violinist YooJin Jang comes to Pepperdine University's Raitt Recital Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 7, 2019 at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts as the final Recital Series performer of the 2018-2019 season. She will be accompanied by pianist Renana Gutman.

Como parte de los derechos culturales que deben disfrutar los mexicanos, la Secretaría de Cultura, a través del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, lleva conciertos de agrupaciones del INBAL a diferentes sedes y recintos del país.

The Music Center welcomes one of America's most popular dance companies, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, back to Los Angeles with the dance company's 60th anniversary celebration tour at The Music Center's Dorothy Chandler Pavilion from April 3 - 7, 2019. Led by Artistic Director Robert Battle, Ailey's remarkable dancers including Danica Paulos of Huntington Beach and Rehearsal Director and Guest Artist Matthew Rushing of Los Angeles, who has been with the Company for more than 25 years will perform four different programs of diverse repertory featuring West Coast premieres, new productions and returning classics. Part of the 2018/2019 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, which is curated by The Music Center's artistic division The Music Center Arts (TMC Arts), the engagement includes four special programs: Trailblazers, featuring the West Coast premiere of Lazarus by Rennie Harris the company's first two-act ballet; Bold Visions, featuring West Coast premiere of Wayne McGregor's Kairos and the Los Angeles premiere of The Call by Ronald K. Brown, alongside Jawole Willa Jo Zollar's Shelter; a Timeless Ailey program with rarely seen gems by one of America's greatest cultural leaders; and a Musical Inspirations program featuring the Los Angeles premiere of Ailey star Jamar Roberts' Members Don't Get Weary, a new production of Robert Battle's Juba, and his tour-de-force duet Ella.

Intensa oferta musical se ofrecerá durante la Noche de Museos de febrero, que, como cada último miércoles de mes, tiene programada una serie de conciertos en diversos recintos.

Organizado por la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, el ciclo El arte del piano presentará a Erik Cortés Alcántara, quien el 24 de febrero a las 17:00, en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes, compartirá una selección de obras de compositores como Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, Franz Joseph Haydn, Enrique Granados, entre otros.

Festival Place will welcome back five-time GRAMMY Award winners, The Swingle Singers, March 22, 2019.

El destacado director de orquesta, pianista y compositor italiano Guido Maria Guida (Turín, 1956) volverá a México para participar como director huésped en el Programa 4 de la Temporada 2019 de la Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA).

The Royal Conservatory Of Music has announced its lineup of April Concerts.

Today Pennsylvania Ballet announces the 2019-2020 season programming with 12 ballets, featuring three company premieres and five world premieres, including the classic ballet La Bayadere. The company will also pay homage to its roots with an all Balanchine season finale. This new season brings a high-energy, bright and uplifting spirit to the stage.

El Antiguo Palacio del Arzobispado, Museo de Arte de la SHCP, se verá inmerso en el clima frío de Rusia y la atmósfera romántica de la región del Veneto, Italia, pues será el recinto donde se interpretarán temas de los más grandes compositores pertenecientes a dichos lugares.

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO), led by founder and conductor Benjamin Zander, presents an all-Beethoven program with three performances today, February 14, 2019 at 7:00pm and Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 3:00pm at Sanders Theatre at Harvard University, and on Saturday, February 16, 2019 at 8:00pm at Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory, as part of the orchestra's 40th anniversary season and in honor of Mr. Zander's 80th birthday year.