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The 65-year-old Peninsula Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Mitchell Sardou Klein close their successful 2013-2014 season May 16 and 17 by continuing one of the Orchestra's cherished hallmarks: presenting an extremely gifted young soloist and winner of the Irving M.

Richmond, Virginia Join the Richmond Symphony at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage on Saturday, April 26th conducted by Steven Smith, featuring three-time Grammy Award nominated sitar player and composer Anoushka Shankar! This concert is a celebration of the variety of international infl

PRISM Quartet Turns 30 and the saxophone quartet announces an ambitious three-part concert series in NYC and Philadelphia that charts fresh musical territory: “HERITAGE/EVOLUTION.

Celebrity Series of Boston will present the eclectic Brazilian sounds of The Assad Family on Saturday, April 5, 2014 at 8:00pm at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA.

La Compagnie Baroque Mont-Royal (CBMR) will present Handel's opera Semele, in the magnificent yet intimate setting of Victoria Hall in Westmount, on April 5 and 6.

The genre-mixing and versatile Portland Cello Project will perform at Mesa Arts Center, March 21 and 22 at 7:30 p.

Principal Oboe Elizabeth Koch Tiscione will make her Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) solo debut performing the challenging Strauss Oboe Concerto April 10 and 11, 2014, at 8:00 p.

Attention budding musicians! Instruction and performance with the best talent in the midwest is now scheduled.

The recent heavy rains in Southern California did nothing to dampen spirits or dissuade guests from swarming into the five-diamond IslandHotel last Saturday night for the spectacular seventh-annual Pacific Coast Wine Festival (PCWF).

Familiar friends and new sensations take their turns on the Heinz Hall stage during the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's 2014-2015 PNC Pops season, one that promises an eclectic mix of favorites and surprises.

Jeffrey Khaner, the Principal Flutist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will make his Atlanta Symphony Orchestra (ASO) debut performing Jonathan Leshnoff's Flute Concerto with Music Director Robert Spano and the Orchestra tonight, March 6, 2014, at 8:00 p.

Celebrity Series of Boston will present jazz ensemble The Spring Quartet tonight, March 6, 2014, at 8:00pm at Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA.

Surging with energy, spontaneity and diversity, Pacific Symphony's upcoming concert-'Ravel's Piano Concerto'-is devoted to music from 19th-century France.

Today, March 6 at 12PM, the talented young students of The Chicago High School for the Arts (ChiArts) kick off the third Eat to the Beat performance of the 2013-2014 season at the Harris Theater.

The Music Institute of Chicago's popular Chicago Duo Piano Festival presents its annual Duo Piano Winter Mini-fest today, March 6-9 at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston.

Ennio Morricone, conducting an ensemble of 200 musicians and singers, will have a single performance at Nokia Theatre L.

Grammy nominated, internationally acclaimed ZOFO Duet, featuring solo pianists Keisuke Nakagoshi and Eva-Maria Zimmermann, perform a program including Gershwin's 'Cuban Overture' on Sunday, March 23 in Mill Valley.

The Virginia Arts Festival presents a rare evening of period music conducted by one of the most revered names in early music performance, William Christie, on Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30pm, at Norfolk's First Lutheran Church.

The Montreal Chamber Music Festival, now in its 19th season, will present 22 concerts from May 8th through May 31st, 2014 at the historic St.

Music Director Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) announce the Orchestra's 2014-2015 season, its eighth under the direction of Maestra Alsop.

Gramophone magazine picked "Strauss," the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's recent recording of Strauss tone poems on Reference Recordings Fresh! label, as one of its "Editor's Choice" recordings for March 2014.

Oakland Symphony Chorus, Music Director Lynne Morrow, will perform Handel's iconic oratorio, Messiah, Sunday, April 13, at 5:30 pm at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland.

Gramophone magazine picked "Strauss," the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's recent recording of Strauss tone poems on Reference Recordings Fresh! label, as one of its "Editor's Choice" recordings for March 2014.

Bringing its historic message of peace through music, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO), joined by Principal Guest Conductor Gianandrea Noseda, will return to Houston for the first time in 20 years on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at 8 p.

Omaha Performing Arts has announced the addition of A New World: intimate music from FINAL FANTASY to its 2013/2014 Season.