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Steinway & Sons announces a $50,000 donation to Harlem School of the Arts made possible through a unique collaboration with musical icon Lenny Kravitz....

Sarasota Orchestra has received a $60,000 Arts Appreciation Grant from Gulf Coast Community Foundation in support of the 2022-2023 season and the Orchestra's mission to engage, educate and enrich the community through high-quality, live musical experiences....

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will welcome internationally acclaimed virtuoso Kayhan Kalhor at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 4, at the Morris Performing Arts Center for Kalhor + Brahms....

Stephanie Blythe is probably the only opera singer who represents an ukulele company. That she embodies the unexpected is further confirmed by her upcoming roles in the San Diego Opera's next production, two one-act operas by Puccini. The mezzo soprano will first sing a deeper contralto as the Princ...

Matías Tarnopolsky, president and CEO of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center, Inc., has announced the continuation of the extraordinary partnership of Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra with the extension of Nézet-Séguin's contract through 2030, and the ...

Pianist Hélène Grimaud's new Deutsche Grammophon album, featuring Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov's Silent Songs, will be released on March 3....

A worthy candidate for CSO's vacant musical directorship, Vinay Parameswaran brings a winsome personality and an eclectic modern program to the Knight Theater podium for his Charlotte debut....

Houston Grand Opera (HGO) has announced the winners for this year's Concert of Arias, the 35th Annual Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers, held this evening at the Wortham Theater Center and livestreamed for audiences at home.   ...

Pompano Beach Cultural Center welcomes international violin phenom Rachel Barton Pine in A Woman of Substance, a joyful selection of string pieces in a variety of genres....

The New York Choral Society, New York's pioneering symphonic chorus that explores unique collaboration and dynamic repertory, celebrates an epic season of large scale choral and multi-disciplinary collaborations with their annual gala, March 30, 2023, at the Metropolitan Club on Manhattan's Upper Ea...

BroadwayWorld chats with baritone Darren Drone & soprano Chanae Curtis, stars of Verdi's comedic masterpiece 'Falstaff' at Opera San Jose February 11-26. The 2 up-and-coming singers represent the new face of opera....

Get a first look at Canadian Opera Company's SALOME! A dance—perhaps the most famous one in history—precedes a macabre kiss and an execution in this opera by Richard Strauss. An explosive, modernist score propels the action, redefining musical storytelling....

The College of Performing Arts - Mannes, Jazz, Drama is welcoming their newest Ensemble-in-Residence, Sandbox Percussion, joining the ranks of such prestigious and acclaimed ensembles such as The JACK Quartet, The Westerlies, and The Vanguard Orchestra....

Phoenix Chorale brings a multi-sensory event to the Phoenix Art Museum on March 24 & 25, with DOMINION. Audiences will experience the ethereal sounds of the Grammy winning Phoenix Chorale and chamber orchestra, while viewing the stunning moving digital art projected on the walls of the museum's Grea...

MasterVoices continues its eclectic 2022-23 season on March 23 at Central Synagogue with Ted Sperling leading O How Good, a performance of Jewish sacred music. The program includes two beloved works of traditional Jewish liturgy set by master composers – Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service and Kurt Weil...

Frederick Renz, Founder and Director of Early Music New York, has chosen representative works by three composers to perform at First Church of Christ, Scientist in March....

New England Conservatory (NEC) announces an expansive winter-spring season of performances, featuring a diverse roster of ensembles and programming. Ensembles large and small perform in NEC's world-class venues, including Jordan Hall and the Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre.  ...

The Perlman Music Program Suncoast (Perlman Suncoast) present the Florida debut performance of the Renaissance Quartet with PMP alumni, Randall Goosby, violin; Jeremiah Blacklow, violin; Jameel Martin, viola; and Daniel Hass, cello, Wednesday, February 22, 7 p.m., at the Sarasota Art Museum, 1001 S....

On Friday, February 24, 2023, Houston Grand Opera (HGO) will stage the fourth annual Giving Voice concert in partnership with Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church, the Houston Ebony Opera Guild, Prairie View A&M University, and Texas Southern University. The fourth annual concert will be presented outsi...

Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble & The Valencia Baryton Project March will be a 'month of music' for the Edmonton Chamber Music Society (ECMS) as they present two shows: Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble on March 8 and The Valencia Baryton Project on March 22. ...

The 2022/23 Season marks the 75th Anniversary of the Phoenix Boys Choir (PBC)....

Back–by–popular demand, the Kimmel Cultural Campus presents Cantor David F. Tilman; singer, songwriter, and humanitarian Noa; local synagogues; and congregational and community choirs for Sing Hallelujah, an evening of Jewish music led by Tilman in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Perfo...

Making his Tafelmusik debut this season as guest director is harpsichordist Francesco Corti, “a powerhouse of unbridled vivacity, exciting and excitable in equal measure” (BBC Music Magazine). Corti leads the orchestra in Bach's Library, a fascinating program of music by J. S. Bach and those who...

The 85th Tanglewood season will offer audiences a wide range of programs and events that spotlight favorite guest artists and repertoire, while introducing dynamic new performers, conductors, and composers, with 48 artists in their Tanglewood or BSO debuts, and works by 28 living composers, includin...

The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA's 2022/23 season continues with 2022/23 Artist-in-Residence and virtuoso pianist Orli Shaham in a tour-de-force program on February 25-26 at Skyview Concert Hall. ...

The Los Angeles Master Chorale's 2022-2023 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall continues with Choose Something Like A Star, led by Kiki & David Gindler Artistic Director Grant Gershon on February 12, 2023, and Esmail/Fauré led by Gershon and Associate Artistic Director Jenny Wong on March 26, 2023....

What did our critic think of PROKOFIEV'S ROMEO & JULIET at Robinson Center?...

The Plano Symphony Orchestra (PSO) continues its 40th Anniversary Season, Celebrating Connections, with an extraordinary concert on Saturday, February 18, at 8 p.m. at the Eisemann Center. ...

Garrison Keillor at 80 with Heather Masse & Richard Dworsky announced at Orpheum Theater in Sioux Falls, Friday, March 3, 2023. Tickets on sale Friday, February 3, 10 a.m. A special online only presale takes place Thursday, February 2, 10 a.m.-10 p.m....

Ensemble 20/21 presents “Music of the Earth,” the second of three programs in the contemporary music ensemble's bold and eclectic 2022–23 season, on Saturday, February 11, 2023, at 8:00 p.m., in Gould Rehearsal Hall at the Curtis Institute of Music....

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), presents the second half of the twelveth season of Great Music in a Great Space under the direction of Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and Organist....

A concert of music by Samuel Lord Kalcheim, Ancient Wisdom, Emerging Voices: New Music by Samuel Lord Kalcheim, will take place on Friday, March 3, 7:30 pm, at the Tenri Cultural Institute....

Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville has announced the defiant and beautiful voices of Ukrainian ensemble DakhaBrakha will take the OZ Arts stage on February 25, 2023 - one year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine....

Kennesaw State University's Bailey School of Music will present the annual Collage Concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 11. Led by Interim Director Dr. Julia Bullard, the Bailey School of Music will present the signature production for the 17th year in a row as the sole fundraising concert for music ...

Kennesaw State University's Bailey School of Music will host clarinetist Anthony McGill and the Pacifica Quartet on Friday, Feb. 3 at 8 p.m....

On Sunday February 5, 2023, pianist Max Lifchitz will offer a recital featuring eight distinctive works inspired by diverse aspects of the natural world. Composers included in the event hail from Italy, Mexico, Nigeria and throughout the US....

Fast-rising Ukrainian concert pianist and 2022 Honens Prize Laureate, Illia Ovcharenko will perform at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall on February 26 at 7:30 pm. ...

On Friday, March 24, 2023, composer Robert Honstein will release a portrait album of works for percussion, Lost and Found, on New Focus Recordings....

Direct from Windsor Castle, The Queen’s Six, the internationally acclaimed vocal sextet, will offer free tickets to New York City Public School students through the New York City Department of Education....

On March 14, Meridian Performances returns to The DiMenna Center, presenting cellist Sergey Antonov and pianist Karén Hakobyan's fresh interpretation of Rachmaninoff's beloved cello sonata, among other works....