The latest news on performances of Classical Music in Classical Music.
Sarasota Orchestra Continues Search for New Music Center Location
by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2021
President and CEO Joseph McKenna has a released an update regarding plans for a new Sarasota Orchestra Music Center. ...
Chamber Music Northwest Announces 2021/22 Season
by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2021
For its 2021/22 Season, Chamber Music Northwest will present a strikingly diverse line-up of eight live concerts at four venues throughout the Portland metro area, with the first five recorded and available online. Chamber Music Northwest's season ahead is one of the most dynamic and diverse year-ro...
Gen Z Violinist, Sanne Zwikker, to Perform at The Ivoryton Playhouse
by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2021
On Monday, September 27th 18th at 7:00pm, Sanne Zwikker will present a solo violin concert at the Ivoryton Playhouse. The repertoire will include works from Bach – Partita No. 1 in B minor and Sonata No.1 in G minor - as well as technical masterpieces from Paganini – Caprice No. 11 and No. ...
Grammy-Winning Baritone Lucas Meachem Releases First Ever Solo Album, SHALL WE GATHER
by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2021
On Friday, September 24, 2021, Grammy Award-winning baritone Lucas Meachem, highly in-demand at opera houses around the world, releases his first ever solo album, Shall We Gather, on Rubicon Classics. Performed with his wife, pianist Irina Meachem, ...
World Jazz Quartet QUARTETO NUEVO Performs at ABT, October 1
by A.A. Cristi - September 10, 2021
Alberta Bair Theater launches its Outstanding Performances Series with Quarteto Nuevo, who melds music of ancient worlds and far away places with a contemporary groove, on Friday, October 1 at 7:30pm....
Pianist Julia Den Boer to Release KERMES Featuring Works By Lorusso, Smith, Thorvaldsdottir and Saunders
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 10, 2021
On Friday, October 22, 2021, French-American pianist Julia Den Boer will release her second album, Kermès, on New Focus Recordings. The album's four stunning works by experimental female composers include Giulia Lorusso's Déserts, Linda Catlin Smith's The Underfolding, Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Rem...
Peter Gregson Releases New Album PATINA
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 10, 2021
Acclaimed London-based producer, composer, and cellist Peter Gregson today releaseD his fifth studio album Patina on Deutsche Grammophon. Patina is the first of Gregson's albums specifically created to be listened to in Dolby Atmos and was mixed at the legendary Abbey Road Studios....
WELCOME BACK BALL to Honor Maestro Louis Scaglione
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 10, 2021
It's the brainstorm of two great Philadelphians – David Alexander Jenkins and Bill Lloyd – who brought together their organizations – “& We Dine” and the “Loyal Guard” to host the “Welcome Back Ball” at the Union League of Philadelphia. ...
David Bennett of THE SAN DIEGO OPERA
by Ron Bierman - September 10, 2021
David Bennett is now six years into his job as general director of the San Diego Opera Association. When hired, he faced shaky finances, a loss of major donors, and huge turnover in the membership of the board of directors. The new board hired him with the understanding that downsizing and reinventi...
Park University's International Center for Music Orchestra to Host First Concert of 2021-22 Season
by Stephi Wild - September 10, 2021
The Park University International Center for Music Orchestra will present its first concert of the 2021-22 season on Friday, Oct. 1, beginning at 8 p.m. inside Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel on the University's flagship Parkville Campus....
Dallas Symphony Orchestra Presents World Premiere of REMEMBERING RUTH BADER GINSBURG
by A.A. Cristi - September 08, 2021
The Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents the world premiere of Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich honoring the late Supreme Court Justice on October 7, 2021, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. ...
Boston Lyric Opera Moves Season Opener To Open-Air Seaport Venue
by A.A. Cristi - September 08, 2021
Boston Lyric Opera opens its new season October 1 @ 7:30 PM and October 3 @ 3 PM with the company's first production of “Cavalleria Rusticana,” composer Pietro Mascagni's one-act verismo tale of love, betrayal and death in a small Sicilian village. ...
Music Of The Baroque Presents The Midwest Premiere Of THE CHEVALIER A Play With Music
by A.A. Cristi - September 08, 2021
In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts and Concert Theater Works, Music of the Baroque presents the Midwest premiere of “The Chevalier,” a new concert theater work written and directed by Bill Barclay. ...
Andrew Polec Wins The International Lotte Lenya Competition – Theatrical/Voice
by A.A. Cristi - September 08, 2021
Andrew Polec, 32, actor/singer/musician/composer from Doylestown, PA, is honored to have been named the first prize winner in The Kurt Weill Foundation for Music 's 23rd Annual Lotte Lenya Competition, which took place in New York City on August 28, 2021. He received the $20,000 First Prize plus...
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine Announces Eleventh Season of Great Music in a Great Space
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 08, 2021
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), will present the eleventh season of Great Music in a Great Space under the direction of Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and Organist....
Composer Eric Nathan to Make Boston Conducting Debut In New England Philharmonic Season Opener
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 08, 2021
On Saturday, October 16, 2021 at 8:00pm, composer Eric Nathan will make his Boston orchestral conducting debut leading the New England Philharmonic in their season opening concert at All Saints Parish....
Oratorio Society of New York Announces 2021-2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 08, 2021
The Oratorio Society of New York has announced its 2021-2022 season of concerts at Carnegie Hall and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The season begins on Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 7:30pm at the Cathedral of St. John Divine with a highly-anticipated concert featuring Britten’s�...
Santa Barbara Symphony Announces 2021/22 Preview On September 14
by A.A. Cristi - September 07, 2021
Join Music & Artistic Director Nir Kabaretti for a preview of the diverse musical programs that make up the Santa Barbara Symphony's 2021/22 Season....
Passim Opens Up Applications For Iguana Music Fund Grants
by A.A. Cristi - September 07, 2021
Passim, the legendary music listening room in Cambridge, is opening up the application process for the annual Iguana Music Fund. The Iguana Music Fund awards grants annually to musicians for career building projects and for projects that provide community service through music. ...
Juilliard To Livestream All September Performances
by A.A. Cristi - September 07, 2021
Juilliard opens the fall 2021 performance season with five Juilliard LIVE streamed performances in September. Concerts announced this month feature the Juilliard Orchestra, Juilliard Wind Orchestra, New Juilliard Ensemble, Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, and a Daniel Saidenberg Faculty Recital with collab...
Severance Hall Announces Covid-19 Health & Safety Updates For 2021-22 Season
by A.A. Cristi - September 07, 2021
Today, The Cleveland Orchestra announced that, in order to ensure a safe return to live, indoor performances this fall, it is joining performing arts venues in Northeast Ohio and around the country in adopting updated health and safety policies and requiring all audiences ages 12 and over to be full...
Free Fiesta Sinfónica Concert At Jones Hall Returns To Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
by A.A. Cristi - September 07, 2021
Next month, the Houston Symphony's annual free Fiesta Sinfónica concert returns to Jones Hall after a yearlong COVID-induced absence with a vibrant and rhythmic program under the direction of guest conductor Rafael Enrique Irizarry, Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. ...
Metropolitan Opera Announces Cast Change for VERDI'S REQUIEM
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 07, 2021
Michelle DeYoung will be the mezzo-soprano soloist in the September 11, 2021, performance of Verdi’s Requiem, replacing Elīna Garanča, who is indisposed. ...
Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition Winner Juan Pérez Floristán Will Perform in New Yrok This Month
by Stephi Wild - September 07, 2021
On Thursday, October 14 at 7 PM, The Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition presents its Gold Medal Winner at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall featuring works by Chopin, Beethoven, Gershwin and Ginastera. ...
Kravis Center Announces Cancellation Of 'The Presidents Own' U.S. Marine Band
by A.A. Cristi - September 03, 2021
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts is announcing the cancellation of the previously scheduled October 13 performance of “The President's Own” U.S. Marine Band....
Sheku And Isata Kanneh-Mason Release First Duo Collaboration On Decca Classics
by A.A. Cristi - September 03, 2021
On Friday, November 5, 2021, star sibling duo Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason release their first recorded duo collaboration, Muse, on Decca Classics. ...
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Begins Global Search for Music Director Louis Langrée's Successor
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 03, 2021
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra President & CEO Jonathan Martin has announced that the Orchestra has initiated the process of searching for a successor to Louis Langrée, who announced in June that he will not seek a renewal of his contract beyond the conclusion of the 2023-24 season, his elevent...
Pianist Víkingur Ólafsson Releases MOZART & CONTEMPORARIES On Deutsche Grammophon
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 03, 2021
The recording brings together nine pieces by Mozart with works by Cimarosa, Galuppi, C.P.E. Bach, and Haydn in a typically skilful and thought-provoking programme by Ólafsson – one that captures a moment of musical change and experimentation in the late eighteenth century....
American Composers Orchestra Opens 21-22 Season With A Welcome Back Family And Friends Chamber Concert
by Stephi Wild - September 03, 2021
ACO musicians including violinist Karen Kim, cellist Eugene Moye, pianist Christopher Oldfather, flutist Laura Conwesser, clarinetist Liam Burke, and percussionist Javier Diaz will perform music by a broad array of composers, many of whom are close to the orchestra – including current and former A...
Charlotte Symphony's 90th Season Begins with VIVALDI'S FOUR SEASONS
by A.A. Cristi - September 02, 2021
Music Director Christopher Warren-Green will open the Charlotte Symphony’s 90th season with a concert featuring works by some of Italy’s most celebrated composers, including Vivaldi’s beloved The Four Seasons. ...
Experiential Orchestra Opens 2021-22 Season with RENEWAL: An Evening with Louise Toppin
by A.A. Cristi - September 02, 2021
Fresh from winning its first Grammy Award, Experiential Orchestra, led by Music Director James Blachly, opens its 2021-22 season on Saturday, October 2, 2021 at 8pm with a concert at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music (450 W. 37th St., NYC) highlighting its partnership with the African Diaspora ...
David Bernard and Park Avenue Chamber Symphony Announce 2021/22 Season
by A.A. Cristi - September 02, 2021
The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony and their Music Director David Bernard have announced their 2021-22 season. The ensemble are riding high after some excellent reviews for their recent recording,...
Jermaine Hill Named Assistant Chair Of Theater For Boston Conservatory At Berklee
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 02, 2021
Boston Conservatory at Berklee has named educator and artist Jermaine Hill as assistant chair of theater. Hill comes to the Conservatory from the musical theater program at Columbia College Chicago, where he instituted a national search for new musicals written by historically marginalized writers a...
Black Opera Alliance And TRG Arts Insight Report Reveals Lack Of Transparency Around Commitment To Racial Equity in Opera
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 02, 2021
BOA and international arts management consultants TRG Arts have released their second Insight Report, 'US Opera Company Responses to 'Pledge for Racial Equity and Systemic Change in Opera' and Next Steps,' to track progress U.S. opera companies are making toward the eight areas of needed transformat...
Utah Symphony Celebrates Latin American Music and Culture in Season-Opening Concert
by A.A. Cristi - September 01, 2021
Latin American symphonic music and culture will fill Abravanel Hall on Wednesday, September 8, when the Utah Symphony opens its 2021-22 season with the third-annual ¡Celebración Sinfónica!....
Palm Beach Symphony Presents A Family Concert On October 24
by A.A. Cristi - September 01, 2021
Palm Beach Symphony will present Eudora's Fable: The Shoe Bird, an adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Eudora Welty's only children's book, The Shoe Bird, at the Eissey Campus Theater at Palm Beach State College on Sunday, October 24 at 3 p.m. ...
DACAMERA to Kick Off 2021-2022 Season With GARRICK OHLSSON: AN EVENING OF CHOPIN in October
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 01, 2021
DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, will kick off its 2021–22 season with Garrick Ohlsson: An Evening of Chopin at Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center on Friday, October 29, 2021, at 7 p.m....
Kristine Mills Announces Album Release & Shows In Austin, Houston And NYC
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 01, 2021
Houston-based, award-winning, singer/songwriter Kristine Mills has announced the upcoming release shows for her brand new album “Looking Back. Moving Forward.” set to drop Friday, Nov. 12. “Looking Back. Moving Forward.” is a reflection on Kristine's several-decades' long career and will be ...
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein Takes On New Artistic Challenges With Three Upcoming Projects
by Chloe Rabinowitz - September 01, 2021
This fall, pianist Simone Dinnerstein takes on new artistic challenges in three projects, expanding her role from performer to director in her first production, The Eye Is the First Circle, developed in residence at PEAK Performances at Montclair State University, and premiered at MSU's Alexander Ka...
BWW Review: PAGLIACCI at Lyric Opera of Chicago
by Maria Nockin - September 01, 2021
Lyric Opera of Chicago announced that registration is now open for audiences to secure a free link to screen its new, original film production of Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, made at the Lyric Opera House. Audiences can now secure a free, on-demand viewing of this verismo production. More information...
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