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Vietnamese multi-instrumentalist and composer Van-Anh Vo plays rarely heard zithers, drums, and other striking instruments from her native land, unfolding their sonic possibilities in new and intriguing ways.

The Orion Ensemble, winner of the prestigious Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, devotes its 21st season to 'Musical Travels,' featuring Beethoven's String Trios, which are rarely performed as a cycle, and works by Brahms, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Gershwin and more.

The 19th annual Summer Festival continues on Sunday, July 14 at 11 a.

According to the National, Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman recently left the stage during one of his concerts in Essen, Germany after being distracted by a fan recording him with his phone.

There will be a live radio and online broadcast of the Tuesday, June 25 BPYO performance of Mahler 2 from the De Doelen concert hall in Rotterdam.

Orchestra Seattle and the Seattle Chamber Singers (OSSCS) launch their 44th season with a dynamic new music director, Clinton Smith.

Celebrate the summer at Music Mountain, America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, when it welcomes back two acclaimed groups: HBO's favorite 1920's dance band Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks on Saturday, July 13 (6:30PM) and the Penderecki String Quartet performing Warner, Dvorak,

Last night mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World title, one of the most prestigious prizes in the classical music industry.

Week Two of the 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival begins with the first of two concert series with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra on Tuesday, August 6 and Wednesday, August 7 in Avery Fisher Hall with French conductor Jeremie Rhorer.

Concertmaster Jonathan Carney will lead the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in an evening of music by Baroque Masters on Thursday, July 11 at 8 p.

A Fourth of July tradition returns to the Washington Crossing Open Air Theatre stage with Stars n' Stripes, a Salute to America's Greatest Composers.

Ghostlight a cappella Choir is an elite New York City chamber choir that is performing a concert at the Epping Community Church, in Epping, NH, this this morning, June 23, at 9 a.

Tonight, June 22, music lovers can hear another free concert by the 100-year-old Houston Symphony at Miller Outdoor Theatre as part of their ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights series at Miller Outdoor Theatre.

Hear composer/pianist Gregg Kallor in conversation with host David Osenberg on WWFM's 'Cadenza,' tonight, June 22, at 11 p.

Join the 80-piece Hershey Symphony Orchestra and three of Broadway's brightest stars for a concert celebrating the newest shows and latest revivals gracing the Great White Way at 8 p.

Ghostlight a cappella Choir is an elite New York City chamber choir that is performing a concert at the Epping Community Church, in Epping, NH, this Sunday morning, June 23, at 9 a.

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Tenor Anthony Kearns was the special guest singer at the official U.

Pacific Symphony heads into its 13th summer hosting 150 middle-school students for arts-X-press, an overnight camp (three one-week sessions) that offers a nurturing environment for students to explore their interests in the visual and performing arts.

The New York Philharmonic Summertime Classics presents The Planets -- An HD Odyssey, Friday, July 5-7.

Dust off those lawn chairs and picnic baskets and head out to one of three Orange County neighborhoods for Pacific Symphony's 2013 Target Symphony in the Cities (SITC) concert series-free summer evenings of outdoor music and entertainment.

Next week at Lincoln Center, the New York Philharmonic will perform a highly unconventional staging of Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka that was conceived of and first performed by the University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra.

As part of the traveling exhibition New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music, the Atlanta Symphony Brass Quintet will perform a free concert in Nashville, GA, tonight, June 21, 2013, at 6:30 p.

Tonight, June 21, the Houston Symphony will celebrate its 100th birthday on the anniversary of its first public concert by inviting all of Houston to a free Centennial 100th Birthday Concert at Miller Outdoor Theatre.

Hear composer/pianist Gregg Kallor in conversation with host David Osenberg on WWFM's 'Cadenza,' Saturday, June 22, at 11 p.