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Guest Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to Heinz Hall to lead the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a BNY Mellon Grand Classics program featuring French masters and a composer performing his own concerto on March 14-16.

On Thursday, March 13, the Houston Symphony will continue its legendary centennial celebration by performing alongside one of the leading figures in the recording industry, Steve Tyrell.

Stunningly gifted vocalist, educator and founder of the progressive programs Vocal Musicianship Academy and Vocal Jazz Online, Lenora Zenzalai Helm has received the coup honor of an invitation to be a featured singer in the program 'Durham Symphony Orchestra and All That Jazz.

Montreal's Ensemble Caprice will return to the Houston Early Music series with its acclaimed 'Salsa Baroque' program of Spanish and Latin American Baroque music on Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.

Dinosaurs will seem to roam the stage at Abravanel Hall during two special performances of 'Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto' on March 15.

Handel and Haydn Society Artistic Director Harry Christophers follows recent critical successes with another signature choral program: sacred music by J.

“Music for the French salon,” stated Terry Orcutt, describing the upcoming Canton Symphony Orchestra's Casual Series concert.

Twenty-eight-year-old Russian-American violinist Yevgeny Kutik's new solo album, Music from the Suitcase: A Collection of Russian Miniatures,will be released by Marquis Classics on Tuesday, April 15.

The Tokyo Philharmonic has the longest history and tradition of any orchestra in Japan.

Musiqa, winner of the 2013 Chamber Music America/American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award for Adventurous Programming of Contemporary Music, presents a free Loft Concert, Strings Outside the Lines, at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston tonight, February 27, at 6:30 p.

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra presents Grieg's Piano Concerto on a program that also features Dvor?a?k's Eighth Symphony and Sibelius' Spring Song today, February 27-March 2 in Englewood, Red Bank and Newark.

Pacific Symphony recently received a generous gift of $2 million from long-time board member James Emmi and his wife, Catherine, providing continued support for orchestral operations and endowment.

When the Stockton Symphony performs its Classics IV concert at 6:00 pm on Saturday, March 22, in Atherton Auditorium on the Delta College campus, members of the audience will have the fortunate opportunity to hear the distinguishing nuances of sound that emanate from the viola versus the violin.

East Providence, RI ? Violinist PHILIPPE QUINT joins Music Director LARRY RACHLEFF and the RHODE ISLAND PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA for STRAVINSKY'S VIOLIN CONCERTO on Saturday March 22.

Pacific Symphony recently received a generous gift of $2 million from long-time board member James Emmi and his wife, Catherine, providing continued support for orchestral operations and endowment.

Avant-garde sax and voice duo, KOEK, featuring soprano Aliana de la Guardia and saxophonist Kent O'Doherty, present a blindfolded concert entitled “WITNESS,” on Saturday, March 22, 2014, 8 p.

For the FIRST TIME in a major city outside of China (Asia), the Chinese National Award-winning dance drama, “The Red Dress” by the China Ningbo Performance & Arts Group will be performed at the David H.

The Bach Festival Society of Winter Park is pleased to announce the program for its March 30, 2014, concert.

Renowned for its polished and refined sound, rooted in outstanding musicianship, The Academy of St.

Oscar-winning composer John Williams and legendary director Steven Spielberg will join the DSO for a one-night-only gala benefit concert for the orchestra.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (CMS) 2013-2014 Michael Hill series continues at the Harris Theater with French Revelations, Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30PM.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) Music Director Leonard Slatkin became the first orchestral conductor to ask a classical concert audience to turn their cell phones on last night, while conducting the first concert on the DSO's Floriday Tour at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach.

Guest conductor Anu Tali will lead the CSO in an exceptional program showcasing works of Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Pärt.

The New Hampshire Music Festival (NHMF) announced its 2014 summer season today.

Concert aficionados from around the country will want to mark their calendars for Music Mountain, America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, when it kicks off its gala 85th Anniversary Season beginning Saturday, June 7th! To commemorate the milestone, Music Mountain will continue the