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Wet Ink Ensemble Releases Wet Ink Archive: 06 'Adversarial Anti-Solutions'


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 18, 2022

​​​​​​​Wet Ink Ensemble has released the sixth edition of its online journal of adventurous music and conversation, the Wet Ink Archive: 06 'Adversarial Anti-Solutions.'...

Anchorage Symphony to Present VIRTUOSITY Concert This Month


by Stephi Wild - February 18, 2022

On Saturday, February 26th (7:30 pm), the Anchorage Symphony takes the stage for their fourth classic concert of the season, Virtuosity. This evening of musical mastery and artistic performances includes Rossini's comedic overture from The Thieving Magpie, Billy Child's new Violin Concerto No. 2 fea...

CELEBRACIÓN DE LA MÚSICA LATINOAMERICANA Comes To Nichols Concert Hall


by A.A. Cristi - February 17, 2022

The Music Institute of Chicago has partnered with Strings of Latin America and the Reverón Piano Trio to produce Celebración de la Música Latinoamericana, a three-concert guest artist series featuring music by Latin-American composers in April and May at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Aven...

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra Presents STAR OF TOMORROW


by A.A. Cristi - February 17, 2022

The Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra is excited to continue the Focus Series in February with Star of Tomorrow at The Plaza Live on Monday, February 28 at 7 p.m....

BSO And Andris Nelsons Perform Two Concerts At Carnegie Hall In March 2022


by A.A. Cristi - February 17, 2022

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons will return to Carnegie Hall, March 14 and 15, to perform for their New York audiences after a 16-month absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Patrick Holcomb Receives ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize for 'Persephone'


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 17, 2022

Paul Williams, President of The ASCAP Foundation, has announced that Patrick Holcomb is named recipient of the 42nd ASCAP Foundation Rudolf Nissim Prize. The prize is awarded for Persephone, a seven and a half-minute work for orchestra. Selected by a panel of conductors, Holcomb is awarded a...

The New York Pops Adds New Musicians To Its Roster


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 17, 2022

The New York Pops is welcoming seven new musicians to its orchestra: violinists Monica K. Davis, Keats Dieffenbach, Joshua Henderson, and Ashley Horne, and violists Amadi Azikiwe, Dana Kelley, and Ardith Holmgrain....

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Announces 2022-23 Season


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 17, 2022

Today the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra announced details of its 2022-23 season, marking the organization’s second century of performances.  The new season will feature three inspiring choral works, appearances by world class guest artists, plus great symphonies of Brahms and Sibelius and Ravel...

American Chamber Ensemble to Present DIVERSITY THROUGH MUSIC - PART 2


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 17, 2022

The critically-acclaimed American Chamber Ensemble, celebrating its 56th Anniversary, will present Diversity Through Music - Part 2, a live concert on Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 PM at Hofstra University's Helene Fortunoff Theater in Monroe Lecture Center on California Avenue in Hempstead, NY. ...

VIDEO: Dallas Opera's Opera Box Score With Mathilda Edge


by Alan Henry - February 17, 2022

Sports are the common denominator of our society. Everyone’s been to a baseball game. Everyone has a favorite team or hated rival. Everyone knows who Michael Jordan is. So what if opera – its performances, personnel and programming – could be demystified, discussed and promoted in such a way a...

VIDEO: Get A First Look At ELEKTRA at The Met Opera


by Alan Henry - February 17, 2022

Soprano Nina Stemme brought down the house when she headlined the premiere of visionary director Patrice Chéreau’s 2016 staging of Elektra. Now she returns to Strauss’s unhinged heroine, opposite one of today’s most in-demand artists, soprano Lise Davidsen, as her sister, Chrysothemis. Donald...

BWW Review: San Diego Opera's MOZART'S COSI FAN TUTTE at San Diego Civic Center


by Ron Bierman - February 17, 2022

I admire the plucky inventiveness of the San Diego Opera. On an annual budget of roughly three percent of New York’s Metropolitan Opera, it has managed to mount a consistently appealing and entertaining variety of productions, traditional and contemporary, in both good times and plague times. The ...

Houston Chamber Choir Presents DE LA NOCHE AL DIA With Guest Conductor Maria Guinand


by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2022

The Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir, Robert Simpson founder and artistic director, presents “De la noche al día” under the directions of guest conductor María Guinand from Venezuela. ...

SOPAC Celebrates Women's History Month With Resistance Revival Chorus Performance + Panel Discussion


by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2022

Founded in the wake of the 2017 Women's March, the Resistance Revival Chorus is a passionate group of artists and activists whose mission sits at the intersection of social justice and song. Joining together to uplift and center womxn's voices to raise awareness of the continuing need to advance soc...

Tafelmusik to Pay Tribute To Jeanne Lamon; Tickets On Sale February 24


by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2022

Tafelmusik has unveiled further details about a special live tribute concert honouring Music Director Emerita Jeanne Lamon, C.M. O.Ont., who passed away in June 2021. ...

Pianist Shai Wosner Features to Peform Variations On A Theme Of FDR At The Wallis


by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2022

The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents an evening with pianist Shai Wosner, featuring Variations on a Theme of FDR, a work he commissioned from Derek Bermel, Anthony Cheung, John Harbison, Vijay Iyer, and Wang Lu, five remarkable American composers, on Saturday, March 5, 2022, ...

Joshua Bell & Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields Announced At The Soraya


by A.A. Cristi - February 16, 2022

Just days before the COVID-19 lockdown shuttered theatres and businesses worldwide, Joshua Bell & The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields took to the stage in what would be The Soraya's final live performance for the next 18 months.   ...

VIDEO: Inside Rehearsals For Opera Orlando's KING FOR A DAY


by Alan Henry - February 16, 2022

Verdi goes “On the Town” as Opera Orlando presents his comic King for a Day at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando, March 4 and 5. ...

Plano Symphony Orchestra Offers New Networking Venture For Young Professionals


by Stephi Wild - February 16, 2022

The Plano Symphony Orchestra announces the launch of a new networking group for DFW young professionals—Young Professionals for Plano Symphony Orchestra (YP4PSO)....

Choral Artists Of Sarasota Celebrates Women's History Month With A Program Of Works By Female Composers


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2022

Choral Artists of Sarasota's 43rd season, “Carried Away,” continues with “She Is The Music,” Sunday, March 20, 2:30 p.m., at First Presbyterian Church, 2050 Oak Street, Sarasota. ...

BLACK PANTHER IN CONCERT Announced at Walmart AMP, April 15


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2022

Walton Arts Center will present Marvel Studios' Black Panther in Concert featuring a screening of the complete film with the musical score performed live to the film at 8 pm on Friday, April 15, at the Walmart AMP. The full orchestra, including members of the Symphony of Northwest Arkansas, will be ...

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra To Perform At Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, March 11


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2022

World-renowned actor and pianist Jeff Goldblum will take the stage with his jazz band, the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra inside 24 Oxford at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, part of Curio Collection by Hilton, on Friday, March 11....

March Performances Announced At Merkin Hall


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2022

March at Kaufman Music Center spotlights an exciting array of emerging artists. Two performers beyond category – vocalist/composer/performance artist Holland Andrews and composer/multi-instrumentalist/interdisciplinary artist Darian Donovan Thomas – collaborate for the first time thanks to Ecsta...

Cellist Pablo Ferrández To Play Dvořák Concerto With Princeton Symphony Orchestra


by A.A. Cristi - February 15, 2022

On Saturday, March 5 at 8pm and Sunday, March 6 at 4pm, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) welcomes Spanish cellist Pablo Ferrández back to Princeton for a performance of Antonín Dvořák's iconic Cello Concerto in B Minor. Edward T. ...

Meira Warshauer's 'Ocean Calling Trilogy' To Be Featured In February And March Lectures And Performances


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 15, 2022

Composer Meira Warshauer's Ocean Calling Trilogy for two pianos will be featured in a series of February and March 2022 lectures and performances....

Pianists Jessica Chow Shinn and Michael Shinn Release DOUBLE RAINBOW: THE MUSIC OF THOMAS CABANISS


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 15, 2022

In celebration of composer Thomas Cabaniss' birthday, pianists Jessica Chow Shinn and Michael Shinn announce the release of Double Rainbow: The Music of Thomas Cabaniss, now available digitally and in CD format....

Carnegie Hall's Afrofuturism Festival Continues in March 2022


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 15, 2022

This March, Carnegie Hall continues its Afrofuturism citywide festival that explores the thriving aesthetic and cultural movement that looks to the future through a Black cultural lens, intersecting music, visual art, literature, politics, science fiction, and technology....

VIDEO: San Diego Opera Presents Mozart's COSÌ FAN TUTTE


by Alan Henry - February 15, 2022

San Diego Opera presents Mozart's Così fan tutte at the Civic Theatre in downtown San Diego, February 12-20, 2022. ...

Six Conductors To Take Part In League's Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview


by Stephi Wild - February 15, 2022

Conductors Bertie Baigent, Tong Chen, Gonzalo Farias, Norman Huynh, Yuwon Kim, and François López-Ferrer will lead the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at the League of American Orchestras' Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview, March 16-17, 2022 at New Orleans's Orpheum Theater. ...

Sarasota Orchestra Presents March Concerts with Passion, Lyricism and a Little Suspense


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

Sarasota Orchestra's March concerts include a star-studded line-up of Broadway soloists on its second Pops program, an alluring Masterworks program featuring works that embody the “sound” of America and a unique, mystery-themed Great Escapes performance that takes listeners on a suspenseful jour...

Chamber Music Society Of Lincoln Center Presents COMPOSERS IN FOCUS: MARY KOUYOUMDJIAN


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

On Wednesday, March 30, 2022 at 6:30pm, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents Composers in Focus, a digital event celebrating Armenian-American composer and documentarian Mary Kouyoumdjian. ...

Vocal Arts Ensemble Of Cincinnati To Condense 2021-2022 Season Due To Covid


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

Due to ongoing production challenges related to the pandemic, the 2021-2022 Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati season will be condensed to one performance on Friday, March 4....

Itzhak Perlman Returns To The Van Wezel Stage This March


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

The Van Wezel welcomes back Itzhak Perlman for a Sarasota performance on Tuesday, March 8 at 8 p.m....

AMP Concerts Expands Artist Residency Program In 2022


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

AMP Concerts presents seven different musical artists from around the world representing various musical styles in extensive artist residencies this year. While AMP has hosted artist residencies previously, this year features more artists than ever before, with more activities benefitting more New ...

Handel And Haydn Society Presents Bach + Vivaldi Gloria


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

The Handel and Haydn Society celebrates the joys of Baroque music with Bach + Vivaldi Gloria. The program features three crown jewels of the Baroque era: Vivaldi's sunny Gloria; CPE Bach's Magnificat, featuring festive trumpets and drums; and J.S. Bach's radiant Orchestral Suite No. 1. The H+H Orche...

WSP's NEW SING OUT STRONG Commemorates Lives Lost To COVID, March 11


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

Since the start of the pandemic, Cerise Jacobs and her activist opera company, White Snake Projects, have been developing a trilogy of virtual operas revolving around populations disproportionately affected by COVID-19: essential workers, the incarcerated, and survivors of intimate partner violence....

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra Announces March 2022 Events


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

TSO will welcome back the National Arts Centre Orchestra with a concert built around concepts of truth and freedoms and includes a World Première by renowned composer, Philip Glass. Former TSO Music Director Jukka-Pekka Saraste also returns to the podium with a program highlighting Sibelius symphon...

Chamber Music Society Of Detroit to Present DSO Acting Concertmaster Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy In Recital


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy, Acting Concertmaster of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the last decade, will make her Chamber Music Society of Detroit debut with a recital on Friday, March 4, 2022, 8 PM, at Schaver Music Recital Hall.  ...

Boston Landmarks Orchestra Returns To Roxbury And Jamaica Plain For Two Performances Of COMMON GROUND


by A.A. Cristi - February 14, 2022

Boston Landmarks Orchestra under the direction of Music Director Christopher Wilkins celebrates international cultures and collaboration in two free concerts titled 'Common Ground' on February 26 at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury and on February 27 at the Bethel AME Sanctuary in Jamaica Plain....

RI Philharmonic to Present Grieg Piano Concerto


by Chloe Rabinowitz - February 14, 2022

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will present Grieg Piano Concerto on Saturday, March 19th, at The VETS....




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