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In a year marked by renewed political polarization and rising threats to inclusion, the New York Choral Society  closes its season with a concert that responds with intention, power, and hope.

Tickets will go on sale this week for the world-premiere performances of A Night of Mellon Collie and Infinite Sadness — a historic event produced by Lyric Opera of Chicago.

This spring, GRAMMY Award-winning violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra premiere The Pacific Has No Memory, a new work for violin and string orchestra by acclaimed composer Eric Whitacre.

On Monday, May 12, 2025 at 7:30pm, GRAMMY-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein, an Artist-in-Residence with the Kaufman Music Center (KMC) this season, performs her first ever all-Philip Glass concert at KMC's Merkin Hall (129 West 67th St), as part of KMC's Piano Dialogues series.

Pianist and conductor Ian Hobson will continue his celebrated Robert Schumann Cycle with a solo piano recital in April.

J’Nai Bridges will perform the world premiere of “Everything Hurts,” a musical setting of poet Amanda Gorman’s “Hymn for the Hurting” by composer Brian Field, with the Nashville Symphony, conducted by Christian Reif.

The Oratorio Society of New York, led by Music Director Kent Tritle, has announced the winners of its 48th Lyndon Woodside Oratorio-Solo Competition Finals Concert held at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Saturday, April 5, 2025, at 1:30 pm.

Swedish-Norwegian string quartet Opus13 has been awarded First Prize at the 16th Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition, following a week of exceptional performances by eleven outstanding ensembles from around the world.

Hailed as one of this era’s most adventurous interpreters of the classical organ repertoire, leading female organist Gail Archer has released her 11th album: Dobrich: A Bulgarian Odyssey.

fortyfivedownstairs invites you to experience two weeks of chamber music at the Chamber Music Festival 2025, running this May.

Imagine you are living with your family at your mother-in-law’s house.

Dominated by a new James MacMillan work, and a lively couple of pieces by Shostakovich reflecting on the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia, this concert from the LSO, with their Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda and violinist Nicola Benedetti, offered a lively evening of music.

American organist Paul Jacobs, the only organist ever to have won a GRAMMY Award, will return to the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as a soloist under the baton of conductor Carolyn Kuan.

The Indeterminacy Festival has announced the debut album release of Fourteen Porches, an immersive, site-inspired and community-driven composition by Stanzi Vaubel and Philippe Treuille.

xChamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's May concert calendar includes a performance honoring Founding Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth, Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir De Florence, Beethoven Trilogy III, and more.

California Symphony and Artistic and Music Director Donato Cabrera conclude the 2024-2025 season, which has showcased the crowning achievements of composers at the peak of their powers, with UNFINISHED BRUCKNER – two concerts featuring a striking pair of unfinished masterpieces by Franz Schubert a

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota will present the final two concerts of its 29th season in May.

The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has revealed its 2025/26 season, the first under the artistic leadership of newly appointed Canadian Music Director, Jean-Marie Zeitouni.

One of the most versatile, highly respected and best-reviewed artists of her generation, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott will be Palm Beach Symphony’s featured soloist in Ludwig van Beethoven’s sublime Piano Concerto No.