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Acclaimed soprano Maria Clark and award-winning pianist/composer Maria Thompson Corley have released a new album of spirituals and hymns called Soul Sanctuary.

The Dessoff Choirs continues its season celebrating African American composer Margaret Bonds (1913-1972), a significant figure in the fight for civil rights.

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra will make its guest appearance at Liberty Island Usedom on the Baltic Sea as 'Ambassadors for Peace.

The George London Foundation for Singers concludes its 2021-22 season of events with a recital by tenor Aaron Blake, a 2017 George London Award winner who has received acclaim in some of opera's most prominent recent productions, with pianist Ken Noda.

Violin, dance, opera singers and the sounds of Nina Simone are just a few possible experiences you can have at one time at The Blue Building.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota will present soprano Kendra Colton in performance with pianist Kayo Iwama on Wednesday, April 20 at Plantation Golf and Country Club, 500 Rockley Blvd.

In conjunction with World Poetry Day, composer Kim D.

Chris Grymes and Open G Series will present composer, performer and 2019 Miss America Nia Imani Franklin in a concert featuring works from her debut EP, Extended, along with new and recent music by her fellow contemporary women composers.

Recent Kennedy Center Honor Awardee for Lifetime Artistic Achievement Midori joins Palm Beach Symphony in a spectacular season finale with Music Director Gerard Schwarz at the podium on Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.

The Chicago area's 49th annual Bach Week Festival will present concerts in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, from April 24 to May 12, 2022.

Acclaimed pianist Orion Weiss today released his new album, Arc I: Granados, Janáček, Scriabin, on First Hand Records.

On Friday, May 27, 2022, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra will release their new album, William Grant Still, on Naxos.

For its second concert of the season, the Orchestre Philharmonique et Choeur des Mélomanes (OPCM)  and its young conductor Francis Choinière have called on pianist Alain Lefèvre.

16 STORIES is a collection of 16 previously unrecorded songs written by award-winning musical theatre creators from around the world and recorded by The Australian Discovery Orchestra, conducted by Kevin Purcell.

On Friday, May 20, 2022, the renowned Kronos Quartet releases the world premiere recording of Mỹ Lai, the acclaimed opera composed by Jonathan Berger with libretto by Harriet Scott Chessman, on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

With electrifying energy, Esprit Orchestra, lead by Conductor Alex Pauk, returns to Koerner Hall on Sunday April 3rd to launch ESPRIT LIVE 2022!- a series of four Spring concerts.

Two icons of Australia's theatre and concert stages - the inimitable John Bell and extraordinary pianist Simon Tedeschi - return to Glen Street Theatre with Words and Music.

Anthony Roth Costanzo is taking a break from rehearsing Handel's RHODELINDA at the Metropolitan Opera.

On Friday, April 1, 2022, GRAMMY Award-winning classical guitarist Jason Vieaux will release Bach Volume 2: Works for Violin on Azica Records.

The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra ushers in springtime with Grieg’s Piano Concerto featuring pianist Joyce Yang on Saturday, March 19th at 8pm at The VETS.

Falcón's open embrace of various musical traditions and styles was a staple of the first iteration of Imaga Mondo and continues on the second volume, Imaga Mondo Vol.

Sarasota Orchestra concludes several of its subscription series in the month of April with exceptional fanfare.

Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota presents Taiwanese-American violinist Max Tan in performance with Joseph Holt, piano on Thursday, April 7 as part of the Lunch and Listen series at Bird Key Yacht Club, 301 Bird Key Drive, Sarasota.

Deutsche Grammophon has announced the signing of a long-term project contract with the Freiburger Barockorchester (FBO).

Ruth Slenczynska will return to the label nearly 60 years later to release a brand new solo piano album, recorded in 2021, entitled My Life in Music.