The latest classical music news, concert reviews, and recital coverage from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the NY Philharmonic, and venues around the world.
The VOCAL JAZZ SUMMIT returns to Zeiders American Dream Theater in Virginia Beach with Mainstage Concerts featuring New York Voices, Veronica Swift, Matt Baker, and Kenny Washington, plus workshops and late-night jam sessions.
Nashville Symphony has announced its 2026 Community Concerts series, featuring free performances across Middle Tennessee this June.
The New York Philharmonic's PHILHARMONIC YOUTH CHOIR, formed in partnership with The Unsung Collective and The Abyssinian Baptist Church, will present its inaugural free concert at Christ & Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Manhattan.
The National Arts Centre in Ottawa announced its upcoming season, featuring new NAC Orchestra Music Director John Storgårds, dance, theatre, and performances by Bruce Cockburn, Hilary Hahn, and Zadie Smith.
Third Coast Symphony, formed by a merger of the Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra and Park Ridge Civic Orchestra, will present a free performance in Chicago.
Pacific Symphony will present a multimedia America at 250 program featuring pianist Conrad Tao in Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F and the West Coast premiere of AMERICAN MOSAIC, conducted by Alexander Shelley at Segerstrom Concert Hall.
The Louisville Orchestra with Music Director Teddy Abrams, Dashon Burton, and Jeffrey Kahane will release The Year of Silence, featuring commissioned works by Christopher Cerrone and Andrew Norman.
Sputter Box, a clarinet, voice, and percussion trio, will present its 8th Year Gala at the Tenri Cultural Institute of New York, featuring commissioned works and a sneak preview of an upcoming premiere.
Juilliard will present a week of free and low-cost public performances closing the academic year, featuring Music, Dance, and Pre-College students, plus a world-premiere commission performed by the Juilliard Orchestra.
Vanessa Cabrera, a French horn player and New Jersey Youth Symphony member since 2022, has been awarded the $1,000 George Marriner Maull Career in Music Scholarship.
The Newport Classical Music Festival will present concerts across Rhode Island venues, featuring pianist Michelle Cann, Broadway star Jeremy Jordan, tenor Lawrence Brownlee, and a regional premiere co-commissioned by the festival.
The 92nd Street Y will present the Curtis Chamber Orchestra alongside violinist Erin Keefe and violist Roberto Díaz at Kaufmann Concert Hall, featuring works by Barber, Mozart, and Beethoven.
The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra announced its 2026/27 season, headlined by violinist Itzhak Perlman and DISNEY'S STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE IN CONCERT, alongside a six-concert Signature Series at Miller Auditorium.
Following the opening concert of the Classical Music category within the new Concert Series of the Pafos Municipality Cultural Programme, they will continue with the concert “Echoes Across Lands” featuring the soprano Eleni Charalambous and the pianist Mariola Charitidou.
The Pops Orchestra of Bradenton & Sarasota announced Elyza Wylder-Wilcox as its inaugural Director of Marketing and Communications, a newly created role focused on audience engagement and community outreach.
The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and nonprofit Roof Above will present EMERGENCY SHELTER INTAKE FORM at Knight Theater, featuring a community chorus made up of individuals affected by housing instability.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts will present its 2026 Summer Season featuring Kelli O’Hara, Yuja Wang, Punch Brothers, and Gil Shaham.
Violinist Itzhak Perlman will perform a one-night-only recital at the Tobin Center for the Performing Arts in San Antonio, joined by pianist Rohan De Silva.
The South Jersey Jazz Society will kick off the summer beach concert series at William Morrow Beach in Somers Point with the PJ KEITER OCTET, led by a past SJJS Jazz Scholarship recipient.
Battery Park City Authority announced a free summer programming lineup featuring FIFA World Cup watch parties, an International Parade of Sail for America's 250th Birthday, the Swedish Midsummer Festival, and the River & Blues Concert Series.
The Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and Roof Above will present Gabriel Kahane's EMERGENCY SHELTER INTAKE FORM at Knight Theater, featuring a community chorus of people directly affected by homelessness or housing instability.
NJPAC announced its final classical concerts of the 2026 season, featuring violinist Itzhak Perlman, composer Max Richter with ACME, and Canadian Brass at its Newark, NJ venues.
