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On March 3-5, 2022, Unsuk Chin's Violin Concerto No.

Classical music performers and promoters, argues Jonathon Heyward, should bring palpable change to the communities they serve.

The largest privately funded, admission-free classical music festival in the United States presents over three weeks of world-class performances this summer in an outdoor alpine setting, led by Music Director Alasdair Neale.

Following a year of work on a truly global scale, hundreds of international musicians will take part in a ground-breaking performance of Mahler's Symphony No.

A field of top young vocalists from across North America offered thrilling performances as they competed in the 47th National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Artist Awards competition on Friday, January 7, 2022.

Ian Page and The Mozartists continue their ground-breaking Mozart 250 project – a 27-year mission to explore the music written by Mozart and his contemporaries exactly 250 years ago, year by year – with two concerts at Cadogan Hall this winter which focus on music from 1772, the year Mozart turn

The Soraya has long been at the epicenter of Jazz in LA—from CSUN's nationally respected Jazz studies program, to The Soraya's stellar reputation for Jazz programming.

Two of the Sphinx Organization's flagship annual events —the 25th annual Sphinx Competition for Black and Latinx musicians and the organization's annual convening, SphinxConnect—will take place virtually Thursday, January 20 through Saturday, January 29.

Sarasota Orchestra has received a $20,000 grant from The Exchange for the Sarasota Youth Orchestra program.

Due to COVID exposures in the Orchestra, and in compliance with our safety protocols, Sarasota Orchestra announced it will change the format and program of this weekend's Great Escapes: Comedy Tonight.

On Friday, April 15, 2022, musician-led ensemble Palaver Strings will release its new album of music by diverse female composers, Ready or Not, on Azica Records.

The Sarasota Concert Association kicks off its Great Performers Series with pianist Emanuel Ax performing an all-Chopin program in a one-night-only recital on Tuesday, February 1 in the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall.

Due to the ongoing pandemic, Experiential Orchestra (EXO) and Chorus, led by Music Director James Blachly, has postponed its January 29, 2022 concert at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, which was to have celebrated its 2021 Grammy win in the Best Classical Solo Vocal Album category for Dame

Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper releases The Understanding of All Things, a portrait album featuring frequent Wet Ink Ensemble collaborator Sam Pluta, on Friday, March 4, 2022 on New Focus Recordings.

Crowning a parade of highly positive reviews for their first two recent recordings under Music Director Robert Trevino – 'Ravel' and 'Americascapes' – the Basque National Orchestra have been given the orchestra of the month spot in this month's issue of Gramophone.

On January 17, 2022 at 8:00pm, Collage New Music will present the virtual world premiere of composer Eric Nathan's Short Stories.

In the final weeks of Franz Schubert's tragically short life, he wrote one of the great masterworks in all of chamber music — his Quintet in C Major.

Between international tours with the critically-acclaimed Philip Glass Ensemble, the award-winning composer/clarinetist Sam Sadigursky today announced the upcoming release of his latest recording project The Solomon Diaries.

With Parallel Prints - the fourth release in the Editions Verde series Seeing the Forest in a Tree - artist and researcher Marcel Zaes explores one conceptual idea through 38 iterations realized by the prolific and idiosyncratic new music group Yarn/Wire.

On January 21, 2022, pianist Simone Dinnerstein’s latest album Undersong will be released on Orange Mountain Music.

Sarasota Orchestra was awarded a ­­­­­$50,000 Arts Appreciation grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation.

John Adams’s jazz-influenced concerto calls on soloist Branford Marsalis’s ability to tap into the saxophone’s agility and sweetly lyrical voice.

Mark Strachan, Founder of online choral sensation Choir of the Earth, has been awarded a British Empire Medal (BEM) in the Queen's New Year Honours 2022 for charitable services to Musicians during Covid-19.

The Sarasota Concert Association will open its 4-concert Music Matinee series on Wednesday, January 12at 12 noon in David Cohen Hall in the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center.

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra has announced the return of celebrated jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowski for the return of VSO USA's annual Evening of Jazz live benefit concert and dinner, along with GRAMMY nominated guitarist Diego Figueiredo.