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Utah Symphony Music Director Thierry Fischer and President & CEO Melia Tourangeau today announced the Utah Symphony's complete 2014-15 season.

Beginning with a single flute line and concluding with lush harmonies created by multiple voices, Pacific Symphony's upcoming Cafe Ludwig chamber music concert, "The Brilliance of Bach," traverses the complex musical landscape created by counterpoint genius, Johannes Sebastian Bach.

Due to the sudden death of guest vocalist Alexei Mochalov's wife, the Friday, February 7 program of Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica at the Harris Theater has been changed.

The University Musical Society (UMS) presents two fundraising events and seven incredibly diverse performances this March, ranging from a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to an evening of Qawwali music from Pakistan.

Atlantic Classical Orchestra Artistic Director and Conductor Stewart Robertson presents the second lecture in the 2014 'Behind the Baton' series held at the Indian River State College campuses in Stuart and Vero Beach this February 17 (Stuart) and February 19 (Vero Beach) from 9:30 - 11:30 am.

Almost all of us have one… an instrument our parents bought us for fifth grade band or orchestra and it hasn't been touched since sixth grade.

On Tuesday, May 6th, at Amsterdam Bar & Hall, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music series presents Icelandic composer Daníel Bjarnason and violist and new music champion Nadia Sirota, featuring concert centerpiece Sleep Variations by Bjarnason for Sirota and chamber ensemble.

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has announced that, due to overwhelming demand The Danish String Quartet, a CMS Two Artist Member, has added an encore performance of Beethoven Reflected on Monday, February 10th at 7:30 PM at the Chamber Music Society's Rose Studio (Rose Building, 165 Wes

The 66th annual Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, under the leadership of General Manager Bernard Foccroulle, will present four world premieres in 2014: new opera productions of Handel's Ariodante and Rossini's Il Turco in Italia, plus Katie Mitchell's staging of Bach cantatas, Trauernacht, and William Ke

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra announces the subject matter of the upcoming works to receive their world premieres by the Orchestra as part of the groundbreaking artistic collaboration with the MusicNOW Festival and Artistic Director Bryce Dessner.

The Annapolis Symphony Orchestra's (ASO) 2013-2014 season continues with concerts at Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts on Friday, February 28 and Saturday, March 1, 2014 at 8pm.

Arnold Steinhardt, acclaimed first violin of the illustrious Guarneri Quartet, joins the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO) for its WESTSIDE CONNECTIONS chamber music series launch on Thursday, February 13, 2014, 7:30 pm, at the Moss Theater in Santa Monica.

On Sunday, February 9 at 3:00pm, The Greenwich Village Orchestra, led by Metropolitan Opera conductor Pierre Vallet, will perform a concert to include excerpts form Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust, Ravel's Sheherazade with Grammy Award-wining mezzo-soprano Sasha Cook, and Brahms' Symphony No.

The five-time Grammy Award-winning San Francisco Girls Chorus—Lisa Bielawa, Artistic Director, and Valérie Sainte-Agathe, Music Director and Principal Conductor—are in demand as one of the Bay Area's top vocal ensembles with upcoming guest performances this spring with the San Francisco Symphon

Unless otherwise noted, all concerts take place at Jones Hall for the Performing Arts, 615 Louisiana Street, in Houston's Theater District.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Music Director Riccardo Muti and Deborah F.

Pierre Boulez has been chosen to receive the eighteenth annual Cleveland Orchestra Distinguished Service Award, honoring a person or organization that has provided continuing exemplary service to the Musical Arts Association.

Beethoven and Rachmaninoff showcases, collaborations with the Irish Classical Theater Company and the University at Buffalo, and the energy of Broadway and The Cotton Club are just a few aspects of the Buffalo Philharmonic's 2014-15 season.

15-year-old organist Michael Jon Bennett from New York City will appear on an upcoming episode of From the Top, the hit NPR radio program featuring America's best young classical musicians and hosted by acclaimed pianist Christopher O'Riley.

Legendary pianist, Leon Fleisher, graces The Grand 1894 Opera House stage for one incredible performance tonight, February 1 at 8pm.

Join the Richmond Symphony tonight, February 1st - 8pm at the Carpenter Theatre at Richmond CenterStage for Grieg: Piano Concerto-a concert with three works connected by the theme of inspiration!

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 February 27-March 2 in Englewood, Red Bank and Newark.

Earlier this week, the American Marketing Association (AMA) - Baltimore presented the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) with the Marketing Excellence Award for Best Advertising Campaign for its ongoing Musicians Campaign.

Nearly 220 years ago this very week, Beethoven premiered his Piano Concerto No.

The Houston Symphony recently received a grant from The Boeing Company in support of the Houston Symphony Bay Area League's "I Heart Music" programs, which will be used to directly impact Clear Creek Independent School District and Boeing's arts education efforts in Houston's Bay Area.