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Mezzo-Soprano Claire McCahan Wins First Prize At 47th NATS Artist Awards
by A.A. Cristi - January 18, 2022
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....
Shriver Hall Concert Series to Present Junction Trio
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 18, 2022
Shriver Hall Concert Series Baltimore's premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists - will continue its 2021-22 season on Sunday, February 13, 2022 at 5:30pm with a performance by the acclaimed Junction Trio, which is made up of violinist Stefan Jackiw, cellist Jay Campbell, ...
Carnegie Hall Announces Complete Afrofuturism Festival Schedule for February-March 2022
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 18, 2022
This February and March, Carnegie Hall will present Afrofuturism, a citywide festival exploring 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: Watch Highlights From MET STARS LIVE IN CONCERT Presents Sonya Yoncheva
by Alan Henry - January 18, 2022
Soprano Sonya Yoncheva performed a live concert on Saturday, February 27, 2021 from the Schussenried Cloister in southwest Germany as part of the Met Stars Live in Concert series. ...
The New York Virtuoso Singers to Present Choral Movements From Bach's Cantatas 25 Through 37
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 17, 2022
Maestro Harold Rosenbaum and The New York Virtuoso Singers will present the third live concert of their 2021-22 New York City season live in concert and online Saturday, February 5 @ 8 PM at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, Amsterdam Ave., between 99th and 100th Sts. in Manhattan....
VIDEOS: Elena Stikhina Sings Act II Aria From The Met's TOSCA
by Alan Henry - January 17, 2022
Watch as Elena Stikhina sings Tosca’s Act II aria from The Met's TOSCA. Puccini's thrilling masterpiece Tosca returns to the Metropolitan Opera for 15 performances December 2, 2021-March 12, 2022....
FINDING A VOICE - Music Of Women Composers Through The Ages Returns in March
by Stephi Wild - January 17, 2022
On this Women's Christmas, Finding a Voice has announced that the fifth edition of the innovative concert series will take place from March 3rd to 8th 2022. The festival will again focus on the music of women composers through the ages, building and expanding on the first four highly successful edi...
Ian Page and The Mozartists Launch 1772 at Cadogan Hall
by Stephi Wild - January 17, 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...
VIDEO: The Cleveland Orchestra Rehearses Dvořák's Symphony No. 8
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 15, 2022
Watch the Cleveland Orchestra rehearse Dvořák's Symphony No. 8....
RI Philharmonic Presents Violinist Benjamin Beilman & Students From The RI Philharmonic Music School Next Week!
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2022
The Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off 2022 with rousing performances of Beethoven's Fifth, helmed by Maestro Bramwell Tovey, featuring violinist Benjamin Beilman on Friday, January 21st and Saturday, January 22nd at The VETS. ...
JAZZ AT NAZ Month-Long Festival At The Soraya Beginning, February 5
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2022
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. ...
Handel And Haydn Society To Host Discussion With Paul Griffiths, Author Of MR. BEETHOVEN
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2022
The Handel and Haydn Society will host an online discussion with Paul Griffiths, author of Mr. Beethoven on Thursday, January 20, 2022 at 12:00 PM. ...
Young Women's Choral Projects Presents BOUNDLESS GRACE
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2022
Today, Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco Founding Director Susan McMane announced the program for Boundless Grace, featuring YWCP's premier ensemble, the Young Women's Chorus. ...
Sphinx Organization's 25th Annual Sphinx Competition & SphinxConnect: FORGING ALLIANCES To Be Presented Virtually January 20 - 29
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2022
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 Receives Grant From The Exchange
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2022
Sarasota Orchestra has received a $20,000 grant from The Exchange for the Sarasota Youth Orchestra program....
Program Changes Announced for GREAT ESCAPES 3 at Sarasota Orchestra
by A.A. Cristi - January 14, 2022
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. ...
Palaver Strings to Release READY OR NOT, A Collection Of Diverse Works By Female Composers
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2022
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....
Sarasota Concert Association to Kick Off Great Performers Series with Pianist Emanuel Ax
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2022
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. ...
RI Philharmonic to Present SCHEHEREZADE!
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 14, 2022
Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra will present Scheherazade! conducted by Lina Gonzalez-Granados. The program also includes Gabriela Lena Frank's Apu: Tone Poem for Orchestra and Barber's Cello Concerto, featuring cellist Oliver Herbert (Saturday only)....
Experiential Orchestra and Chorus Postpone Ethel Smyth Grammy Award Celebration Concert In NYC
by Stephi Wild - January 14, 2022
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...
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra Starts The New Year With RADIANT RACHMANINOFF
by A.A. Cristi - January 13, 2022
SDSO will present a classical series concert featuring Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony, Shostakovich's Festive Overture with the South Dakota Symphony Youth Orchestra joining their professional counterparts, and the world premiere of composer David M. Gordon's Fabular Arcana, performed by pianist an...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi, Announce 2021–22 Season
by A.A. Cristi - January 13, 2022
Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony In the winter and spring of his second season as Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Grammy-winning conductor Fabio Luisi conducts and records Brahms's Second Symphony in a just-announced series of three free performances ov...
Gotham Early Music Scene Presents OPEN GATES PROJECT CONCERT C3: Countertenors, a Consort, and Continuo
by A.A. Cristi - January 13, 2022
Gotham Early Music Scene continues the inaugural season of its Open Gates Project with C3: Countertenors, a Consort, and Continuo, a program featuring a roster of countertenors of color alongside a consort of viols, on Friday, February 11, 2022 at 7:00pm at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (3 W 65th St...
Keyboard Conversations Resumes With MY FAVORITE BRAHMS, February 21
by A.A. Cristi - January 13, 2022
Keyboard Conversations, featuring concert pianist Jeffrey Siegel continues the 2021-2022 Season sponsored by Dr. John F. Dixon, with My Favorite Brahms in the Bank of America Theatre at the Eisemann Center, 2351 Performance Drive in Richardson, Texas on Monday, February 21, 2022....
Pianist Igor Levit and Conductor Elim Chan to Make BSO Debuts
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 13, 2022
Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan, chief conductor of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, makes her BSO debut and acclaimed Russian-German pianist Igor Levit makes his BSO subscription series debut in these concerts....
The Orlando Philharmonic to Present Beethoven's Symphony No. 4
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 13, 2022
The Orlando Philharmonic will present Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 as a continuation of the Focus Series at The Plaza Live on January 24 at 7:00 p.m. Chloé van Soeterstéde will take the podium and direct the orchestra featuring Principal Trumpet Michael Fee. ...
New England Conservatory Announces Spring Programming
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 13, 2022
New England Conservatory has announced their spring 2022 Season. Highlights include NEC Wind Ensemble and Choirs offer a 50th anniversary celebration of the Wind Ensemble by presenting Igor Stravinsky's 'Symphony of Psalms,' and the world premiere commission of Chris Brubeck's first wind ensemble pi...
Composer Kate Soper Releases Portrait Album, THE UNDERSTANDING OF ALL THINGS On New Focus Recordings
by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2022
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. ...
Season 2 of The Cleveland Orchestra's IN FOCUS Premieres February 4
by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2022
Season will feature six episodes, one release per month February to June with behind-the-scenes interviews and features about the music and music making ...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi Announce 2021–22 Season
by A.A. Cristi - January 12, 2022
In the winter and spring of his second season as Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Grammy-winning conductor Fabio Luisi conducts and records Brahms's Second Symphony in a just-announced series of three free performances over two days in February (Feb 23–24...
The Canticum Novum Singers to Present All The Choral Movements From Bach's Cantatas 13 Through 24
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 12, 2022
The Canticum Novum Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present all the choral movements from J.S. Bach's Cantatas 13 through 24 live in concert and online on Saturday, January 29 at 8:00 PM, with piano accompanist Will Healey at St. Michael's Episcopal Church....
Mark Williams Announced as New CEO of Toronto Symphony Orchestra
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 12, 2022
Mr. Williams is a senior leader in the orchestra sector, having held positions at the San Francisco Symphony and IMG Artists New York, prior to his current role as Chief Artistic and Operations Officer at The Cleveland Orchestra....
New York Festival Of Song Presents BUENOS AIRES, THEN AND NOW At Kaufman Music Center
by A.A. Cristi - January 11, 2022
New York Festival of Song, led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, continues its 2021-22 Mainstage Series with Buenos Aires, Then and Now on Tuesday, February 15, 2022 at 8:00pm at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center. ...
Basque National Orchestra Is Gramophone's Orchestra Of The Month; Announces Sequel To Ravel Album
by A.A. Cristi - January 11, 2022
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. ...
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute's Young Musicians Debut Orchestra
by A.A. Cristi - January 11, 2022
The Young Musicians Debut Orchestra, one of the many ensembles of Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute, kicks off 2022 with a concert on Saturday, January 22 at 4:00 p.m. at The Temple Performing Arts Center, located at 1837 N. Broad Street in Philadelphia....
Collage New Music to Present Virtual World Premiere Of ERIC NATHAN'S SHORT STORIES
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 11, 2022
On January 17, 2022 at 8:00pm, Collage New Music will present the virtual world premiere of composer Eric Nathan's Short Stories. Performed live from Pickman Concert Hall at the Longy School of Music with no audience, the concert will also feature the Boston premieres of Talia Amar's When a Dream B...
Composers Concordance to Present SOUND LIBERATION at Chelsea Table + Stage
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 11, 2022
Composers Concordance will present Sound Liberation on Friday, February 11th, 2022 at Chelsea Table + Stage. Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation will present a concert showcasing their new album 'Lets Save The World Suite'. T...
VIDEO: Get A First Look At 'La Donna È Mobile' From The Met's RIGOLETTO
by Alan Henry - January 11, 2022
Get a first look at The Met's production of Rigoletto, now on stage through June 11th....
Curtis At 92Y Kicks Off In January 2022 With Events Dedicated To Franz Schubert
by Stephi Wild - January 11, 2022
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. In this new five-part course, Jonathan Coopersmith, Chair of Musical Studies at the Curtis Institute of Music, explores the work in depth, as well a...
Maya Angelou's Caged Bird Is Set Free To Dream In New York Choral Society's Digital Collaboraon
by A.A. Cristi - January 10, 2022
The New York Choral Society, New York's pioneering symphonic chorus that explores unique collaboration and dynamic repertory, announces their latest digital collaborative project, The Caged Bird Sings for Freedom, as part of their hybrid Reimagine 2021-2022 season. Committed to exploring choral work...
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