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Chatham Baroque Brings East of the River To Pittsburgh For A Program Of Medieval Sephardic Music and More


by A.A. Cristi - March 07, 2022

This April, Chatham Baroque presents New York-based ensemble East of the River for the program Hamsa, featuring music from the geographic regions of Andalusia, North Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and the Sephardic diaspora....

Pianist Ruth Slenczynska to Releasse New Album 'My Life In Music'


by A.A. Cristi - March 07, 2022

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. ...

New York Philharmonic Concert Master Frank Huang To Give Master Class At Hoff-Barthelson


by A.A. Cristi - March 07, 2022

The 2022 Hoff-Barthelson Music School Master Class Series continues Sunday, March 27, 2022, from 2:00 – 4:00 pm with New York Philharmonic Concert Master violinist Frank Huang. The class is open to the public to observe free of charge....

BWW Review: WRITTEN IN STONE at Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater


by Mary Lincer - March 07, 2022

The Washington National Opera has gathered a company of first rate singers for a portmanteau of four, one-act operas called Written in Stone. Unfortunately, their fine skills and exceptional voices cannot make silk purses out of scores, libretti, and orchestrations that evade aesthetics, emphasize n...

Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra to Make Carnegie Hall Debut With Grammy Award-Winning Violinist Maxim Vengerov


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 07, 2022

Music Director and Founder Marios Papadopoulos will conduct the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra - praised as 'excellent' by Gramophone magazine and 'thoroughly impressive' by BBC Music Magazine - in their Carnegie Hall Debut on Tuesday, June 7 at 7:30 PM in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage....

The Met Announces A CONCERT FOR UKRAINE


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 07, 2022

The Metropolitan Opera announced today A Concert for Ukraine on Monday, March 14, at 6:00pm ET, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading the Met Orchestra and Chorus, featuring a roster of star soloists....

Young Texas Artists To Present Rising Classical Music Stars At Finalists' Concert & Awards


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 07, 2022

Audiences will experience classical music performances by immensely gifted young musicians Saturday, March 12, when the Young Texas Artists Music Competition culminates in the 2022 Finalists' Concert & Awards....

LONESOME TEARS Will Stream Next Week


by Stephi Wild - March 07, 2022

On Monday evening March 14, 2022, the award-winning Venezuelan American soprano Maria Brea joins forces with pianist Max Lifchitz for an intimate recital featuring music from Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and the US. Included will be music by Miguel Astor, Harry Bulow, Hector Campos-Parsi, Antonio E...

SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY Concertmaster Jeff Thayer at The Conrad In La Jolla


by Ron Bierman - March 06, 2022

Jeff Thayer was at the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony in Temecula when we spoke for an hour on Zoom. 'I'm usually here right before I have something big to do.' He was referring to upcoming performances of the ninth violin concerto of The Chevalier de St. George at The Conrad in La Jolla. As the San ...

First Single From New York Youth Symphony's Debut Album Is Live Today


by A.A. Cristi - March 04, 2022

After two years in the making during the pandemic, the wait is over and people can finally get a sampling of New York Youth Symphony's debut album with Avie Records....

Premiere Of Matthew Evan Taylor's LIFE RETURNS Announced March 24 at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art


by A.A. Cristi - March 04, 2022

Matthew Evan Taylor: Life Returns will have its premiere from Metropolis Ensemble with RAJA, Thursday, March 24, 2022, at 7 p.m. at The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium ...

NYC Master Chorale Presents WHAT SWEETER MUSIC


by A.A. Cristi - March 04, 2022

Join the New York City Master Chorale for our first live performance in over two years - our upcoming concert What Sweeter Music on Sunday, March 27 at 4 p.m. at Saint Ignatius of Antioch at 552 West End Avenue in Manhattan. This program was originally scheduled for December and postponed due to the...

Simone Dinnerstein Makes LA Debut At The Broad Stage, March 27


by A.A. Cristi - March 04, 2022

The Broad Stage presents Simone Dinnerstein, considered one of the foremost interpreters of Bach of her generation, making her Broad Stage debut on Sunday, March 27 at 4pm on the Main Stage. ...

Photos: Norm Lewis and the New York Pops Gear Up for Their Carnegie Hall Concert


by Stephen Sorokoff - March 04, 2022

Emmy, SAG, and Tony Award nominee Norm Lewis will premiere a new solo concert program with The New York Pops, led by Music Director and Conductor Steven Reineke this evening, Friday, March 4....

Pianist Sarah Cahill Releases New Album


by Marissa Tomeo - March 04, 2022

Pianist Sarah Cahill, described as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical avant-garde” by The New York Times, releases The Future is Female, Vol. 1, In Nature, today, March 4, 2022, on First Hand Records. The Future is Female is a three-volume series, which c...

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra to Present Commissioned World Premiere


by Marissa Tomeo - March 04, 2022

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s Eastside Chamber Series continues with the highly anticipated LACO-commissioned world premiere of Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Samuel Adam’s Sundail, an exploration of duality celebrating light and dark for string quartet and percussion, featuring Princip...

Violinist Jennifer Koh and Bass-Baritone Davóne Tines Bring EVERYTHING RISES to UCLA


by Marissa Tomeo - March 04, 2022

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) will present two musical powerhouses: violinist Jennifer Koh and bass-baritone Davóne Tines, during their musical collaboration Everything Rises on Thursday, April 14 at 8 p.m. in Royce Hall. Tickets starting at $39 are available now at cap....

BWW Review: Lise Davidsen Soars Over Naxos in Strauss's ARIADNE at the Met


by Richard Sasanow - March 04, 2022

I flipped over Lise Davidsen when she made her Met debut in QUEEN OF SPADES—the voice, the acting, the overall subtlety--but I was still unprepared for the performance she gave as the Prima Donna who became Princess Ariadne of Crete in Strauss’s ARIADNE AUF NAXOS. She was altogether divine....

Richmond County Orchestra Strikes Up The Band For Jewish Music Month


by A.A. Cristi - March 03, 2022

The Richmond County Orchestra performs 'Strike up the Band,' a concert in celebration of Jewish Music Month on Sunday, March 27th at 3 pm featuring singer-songwriter Ryan Berkowitz, pianist Olga Gurevich, child soprano Adeline Cherny, Anita Berger with the St Cecelia singers  and with Maestro Alan...

Miranda Cuckson & Rand Steiger Rescheduled to March 31 At National Sawdust


by A.A. Cristi - March 03, 2022

Violinist Miranda Cuckson and composer Rand Steiger collaborate on three works for violin and spatialized electronics, exploring the dazzling, immersive sonic potential of National Sawdust's 102-loudspeaker Meyer Sound Constellation system. ...

Musicians From NY Philharmonic & Gilles Vonsattel to Play Beethoven, Brahms, And Clara Schumann at 92nd Street Y


by A.A. Cristi - March 03, 2022

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York’s leading cultural venues, presents Musicians from the New York Philharmonic & Gilles Vonsattel, piano playing Beethoven, Brahms, and Clara Schumann on Sunday, March 6, 2022 at 3pm ET....

Maestro Harold Rosenbaum and The Canticum Novum Singers Present Choral Movements From J.S. Bach's Cantatas 52- 68


by A.A. Cristi - March 03, 2022

The Canticum Novum Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present all the choral movements from J.S. Bach's Cantatas 52 through 68 live in concert and online on Saturday, March 26 at 8:00 PM, with piano accompanist Brian Daurelle at St. Michael's Episcopal Church in Manhatt...

DACAMERA to Host NATHALIE JOACHIM and the SPEKTRAL QUARTET


by Marissa Tomeo - March 03, 2022

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, will present Nathalie Joachim and the Spektral Quartet on Monday, April 25 and Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at the Menil Collection at 7:30 p.m.. Flautist and vocalist Joachim is joined by the Spektral Quartet for two performances o...

Conductor Rossen Milanov to Return to Symphony in C for March Concert


by Marissa Tomeo - March 03, 2022

Symphony in C will welcome back former Music Director Rossen Milanov on March 12th at 8 pm. The concert  at Rutgers University-Camden’s Gordon Theater Maestro Milanov led Symphony in C from 2000-2015, and currently serves as Music Director of the Columbus and Princeton Symphonies, among other...

National Symphony Orchestra to Present Three Classical Programs


by Marissa Tomeo - March 03, 2022

The National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) continues its Classical series with three subscription concert programs this April and May, including the D.C. premieres of NSO co-commissioned works by Mason Bates and Joan Tower, and a return to The Anthem venue in the Southwest Waterfront. NSO subscriptions a...

VIDEO: Go Inside The Process For Canadian Opera Company's FANTASMA


by Alan Henry - March 03, 2022

The Canadian Opera Company reopens the doors to the recently renovated Canadian Opera Company Theatre with Fantasma, a new work by composer former COC Composer-in-Residence Ian Cusson and playwright Colleen Murphy. ...

Pavel Sporcl Named Chairman Of The Jury Of The Kocian Violin Competition


by Stephi Wild - March 03, 2022

The world's oldest violin competition for under-16s, the Kocian Violin Competition, has named Pavel Sporcl as Chairman Of The Jury for its 2022 edition. The competition is held each year in honour of the legendary Czech violinist Jaroslav Kocian, in Kocian's home town of Usti nad Orlici, near Pr...

S.E.M. Ensemble Presents String Quartets Plus Concert


by Stephi Wild - March 03, 2022

On Wednesday, April 6th at 7pm, the S.E.M Ensemble will perform works for string quartet, double bass, percussion, and marimba. The program will combine music of the 1950s by Morton Feldman; the 1990s, by Frederic Rzewski and Alvin Lucier; recent works by Petr Kotik, Ana Sokolovic, and Jo...

New England Conservatory Students And Alumni Win Grow Your Art Grants


by Stephi Wild - March 03, 2022

New England Conservatory's Entrepreneurial Musicianship team has announced the winners of this year's Grow Your Art grants. Totaling $12,000, the grants have been awarded to Akenya Seymour ('14), Amanda Ekery ('18 MM), and Anna Abondolo ('22) and Jonathan Starks ('20)....

The Ruth Page Center For The Arts Announces The Return Of CENTER STAGE AT RUTH PAGE, March 25 and 26


by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2022

The Ruth Page Center for the Arts will present its annual celebration of its founder and dance icon Ruth Page's (1899 – 1991) birth, Center Stage at Ruth Page, Friday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 26 at 7:30 p.m., at The Ruth Page Center for the Arts at 1016 N. Dearborn St....

Conducting ST. MATTHEW PASSION's Only One of James Conlon's Many Current Commitments


by Gil Kaan - March 02, 2022

LA Opera’s next production St. Matthew Passion will open March 12, 2022, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. LA Opera’s music director James Conlon conducts with choreographer John Neumeier staging Johann Sebastian Bach’s scared masterpiece with members of the Hamburg Ballet. The always busy Mae...

Deutsche Grammophon To Release World Premiere Recording Of Jóhann Jóhannsson's Oratorio Drone Mass


by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2022

The previously unrecorded Drone Mass was described by its composer, the late Jóhann Jóhannsson, as “a contemporary oratorio.” Written for voices, string quartet and electronics, it was commissioned and premiered by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble, aka ACME, who toured and recorded wi...

La Musica International Chamber Music Festival Announces Changes and Additions to its 2022 Season


by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2022

La Musica International Chamber Music Festival, which celebrates its 36th season this year with events and concerts from April 1 to April 13, is pleased to announce changes and additions to its season. ...

Illinois Philharmonic Announces 45th Anniversary Season


by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2022

Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Maestro Stilian Kirov, has announced its 45th anniversary season. The 2022-23 season features some of the world's most celebrated musicians with cellists Oliver Herbert and Inbal Segev and multiple appearances by Grammy award-winning baritone ...

Musica Sacra Announces Three Performances for Spring 2022


by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2022

Musica Sacra, Kent Tritle, Music Director, performs in three concerts this spring whose variety is emblematic of its identity as New York’s elite professional chorus. ...

Symphony San Jose Presents Gershwin, Copland, Bernstein, Ellington, April 2-3


by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2022

Four composers, whose works defined America in the '30s and '40s, come together on one grand program: Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Leonard Bernstein, and Duke Ellington....

The Canticum Novum Singers to Present All The Choral Movements From Bach's Cantatas 52 Through 68


by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 02, 2022

The Canticum Novum Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present all the choral movements from J.S. Bach's Cantatas 52 through 68 on Sunday, March 20 at 3:00 PM, with piano accompanist Brian Daurelle at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 68 Bedford Road in Katonah, Westchester, ...

Chamber Music Society Of Detroit Is Now Chamber Music Detroit


by A.A. Cristi - March 01, 2022

In a unanimous vote by its Board of Directors, the Chamber Music Society of Detroit has changed its name to Chamber Music Detroit. The  78-year-old arts organization, one of the nation's oldest and most respected independent chamber music presenters, is shortening its name in keeping with its goal ...

BWW Review: La Jolla Music Society Presents THE DOVER AND ESCHER QUARTETS at Baker-Baum Hall At The Conrad


by Ron Bierman - March 01, 2022

The La Jolla Music Society has been bringing some of the world’s best string quartets into the Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad. With a little over 500 seats and acoustics that allow you to hear off-stage whispers, it’ a setting that could only be improved upon if the performing quartet vis...

VOICExperience Returns To Tarpon Springs with VOICES IN THE CATHEDRAL, March 20


by A.A. Cristi - March 01, 2022

The VOICExperience Foundation is returning to Tarpon Springs and is slated to present “VOICES in the Cathedral” on Sunday, March 20....




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