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American Pianists Association Announces 2021-22 Grand Encounters Season
by A.A. Cristi - August 31, 2021
American Pianists Association announces its 2021-22 Grand Encounters season featuring performances by famed pianists Olga Kern and Michelle Cann as well as music from multiple American Pianists Awards winners, including 2021 classical winner Kenny Broberg. ...
BWW Review: TOUR DE PARIS WITH ALEX ROOSE at St. John's Church, Adelaide
by Barry Lenny - August 31, 2021
A musical tour of Paris in the Baroque period....
Portland Opera Music Director George Manahan Steps Down After 9 Seasons
by A.A. Cristi - August 31, 2021
George Manahan, Portland Opera's esteemed Music Director, will step down from the role after 9 years with the company. Portland Opera will celebrate his leadership and tenure with a concert in his honor, featuring the Portland Opera Orchestra and Chorus, as well as special guests, on May 14, 2022 at...
Toronto Symphony Orchestra Returns To CityView Drive-In For Live Concert Experiences
by A.A. Cristi - August 31, 2021
In its first performances in front of a live audience in nearly a year, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) makes a welcome return to CityView Drive-In for four performances with two concert programs: Mozart & Martines on September 24 and 25, 2021 (7:30pm) and Pride Together on October 1 and 2, 202...
Anna Rabinova and Amédée Williams Join Hoff-Barthelson Music School Faculty
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 31, 2021
Hoff-Barthelson Music School has announced the addition of six extraordinary artist educators to its distinguished faculty for the 2021-22 school year, which begins September 9....
Cellist Amit Peled to Open Fairfax Symphony Orchestra's Season In New Capital One Hall
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 31, 2021
On Saturday, October 9, 2021 at 8:00pm, acclaimed cellist Amit Peled will open the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra's 2021-2022 Season at the brand new Capital One Hall in Tysons, Virginia. Peled performs Saint-Saëns' Cello Concerto No. 1 in the highly-anticipated grand opening concert conducted by ...
Pianists Ursula Oppens & Jerome Lowenthal To Perform Live On BargeMusic's ECLECTIC Series
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 31, 2021
Ursula Oppens is joined by longtime collaborator, the noted pianist Jerome Lowenthal at Brooklyn's Bargemusic (Fulton Ferry Landing, 1 Water Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201) for an in-person piano concert, Eclectic Series: Friendship, on Friday evening, September 17, 2021 at 7 pm EDT. ...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Announces Fall 2021 COVID Protocols for Symphony Hall
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 31, 2021
The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s COVID protocols for the fall period of the 2021–22 BSO season at Symphony Hall, September 30–November 30, will require audience members to provide proof of vaccination or proof of a negative test result, either a PCR test taken within 72 hours of the performance...
The Royal Conservatory Announces 2021/22 Concert Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 31, 2021
Dr. Peter Simon, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, and James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould School, today revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 13th concert season at The Roy...
Banff Centre International String Quartet Festival Repertoire Announced
by Stephi Wild - August 31, 2021
The Banff Centre has announced the lineup for the International String Quartet Festival, running September 2 - 5, 2021. The program includes a slate of online concerts, talks, and film screenings....
The Third Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition Opens Online
by Stephi Wild - August 31, 2021
After a one-year postponement, the Opening and Drawing Ceremony of the third Shanghai Isaac Stern International Violin Competition was held online on August 12. ...
Young Women's Choral Projects Founding Director Susan McMane To Retire
by A.A. Cristi - August 30, 2021
Ahead of its 10th anniversary season, the Young Women's Choral Projects of San Francisco (YWCP) announced today that Founding Director Susan McMane will retire in July 2022. At the end of the forthcoming season, Dr. McMane will conduct her final concerts with the Young Women's Chorus in San Francisc...
American Lyric Theater Announces Six Artists Selected for Two-Year Fellowships in The Composer Librettist Development Program
by A.A. Cristi - August 30, 2021
American Lyric Theater today announces that three composers and three librettists have been selected from over 200 applicants to join the Composer Librettist Development Program (CLDP) as Resident Artists this season. The artists selected for this prestigious fellowship are composers Jasmine Arielle...
World Premiere Of John Clayton's THE HILL WE CLIMB Featured In New Film By Amit Peled And The Mount Vernon Virtuosi
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 30, 2021
Amit Peled and the Mount Vernon Virtuosi today release a new performance film set to the world premiere of composer John Clayton's The Hill We Climb. The piece is inspired by and is set to the poem of the same name by American poet and activist Amanda Gorman, which she powerfully recited at the pre...
The New York Youth Symphony Musical Theater Songwriting Program Announces 2021/2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 30, 2021
The New York Youth Symphony Musical Theater Songwriting Program (NYYS) and Director Anna K. Jacobs have announced the 2021/2022 Season. Heading into its fourth season the NYYS Musical Theater Songwriting program is specially designed to lead students through a range of musical theater songwri...
LA Phil Announces 2021/2022 Dudamel Fellows
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 30, 2021
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association has announced the four conductors who will participate in the 2021/22 Dudamel Fellowship Program: François López-Ferrer, Chloé van Soeterstède, Camilo Téllez and Enluis Montes Olivar. ...
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops to Require Vaccinations or Proof of Negative Covid Test Results
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 30, 2021
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and Cincinnati Pops have announced that, beginning September 6, musicians, guest artists, staff and audiences will be required to provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or negative COVID test results and must be masked at all times at Music Hall (except when con...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Announces the New MetLiveArts Season of Performances
by A.A. Cristi - August 27, 2021
The Met today announced a new season of live performances with in-person audiences beginning fall 2021 and a new Artist in Residence, the acclaimed dancer and choreographer Bijayini Satpathy. Beginning in October, performances will once again take place in galleries throughout the Museum, as well as...
PSO Princeton Festival Guild To Host 'Party Again' Fundraiser
by A.A. Cristi - August 27, 2021
The Princeton Symphony Orchestra's Princeton Festival Guild is ready to party again on Saturday, September 18 from 3-5pm in support and anticipation of The Princeton Festival's 18th season. ...
VIDEO: Peter Holsberg on Practicing For The NY Philharmonic
by Alan Henry - August 27, 2021
Peter Holsberg, Director of Instrumental Music at Talent Unlimited High School in New York City, shares a wealth of tips for anyone looking for ways to practice more effectively....
Avner Dorman Premiere and Underrepresented Composers Feature On Ekstasis Duo's 2021-22 Season
by A.A. Cristi - August 26, 2021
Ekstasis Duo celebrate the return to live concerts in the classical music world with performances throughout New York, and in Maryland and Arizona....
Bloomingdale School Of Music Announces 2021 Fall Classes - Registration Open Now
by A.A. Cristi - August 26, 2021
Bloomingdale School of Music will offer in-person music classes for the fall semester in their beloved brownstone beginning September 16, 2021. ...
Concert Pianist Jeeyoon Kim Announces Release Of Her New Book 'Whenever You're Ready: How To Compose The Life Of Your Dreams'
by A.A. Cristi - August 26, 2021
Local Concert pianist Jeeyoon Kim has announced her new self-help book Whenever You're Ready: How to Compose the Life of Your Dreams (Greenleaf Book Group, Aug. 24, 2021)....
National Sawdust Presents the Live Premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull's DIAMETRICALLY COMPOSED
by A.A. Cristi - August 26, 2021
Bryant Park Picnic Performances' season of free, live performances continues on Friday, September 17 at 7pm with the live premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull's Diametrically Composed, exploring the duality of being a mother and an artist. This performance is presented by the Brooklyn performing art...
SMCQ Announces 2021-2022 Season of Events
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 26, 2021
The Société de musique contemporaine du Québec will yet again demonstrate its creativity by offering a series of monographic concerts dedicated to Quebec composers, as well as numerous new events....
Pacific Chorale Announces 2021-22 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 26, 2021
Pacific Chorale Artistic Director Robert Istad and Andrew Brown, President & CEO, today announced the chorus’ 2021-2022 Season featuring its return to in-person performances at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall, beginning in October, with sweeping programming that builds upon its trailb...
BWW Feature: Streaming Opera For The Week Of 8/26
by Maria Nockin - August 26, 2021
Mid afternoon, our tour group meets on the Magic Opera Flying Carpet at Los Angeles Airport (LAX). We watch LA Opera’s digital short entitled Gallup, or Na'nízhoozhí in Navajo. The scene incorporates the high desert New Mexico landscape and the city famed for Navajo jewelry. Tour members sho...
Tickets On Sale For New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's 2021–22 Season
by A.A. Cristi - August 25, 2021
Tickets for all concerts in the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's 2021–22 season are available starting today as part of Compose Your Own series packages, through which patrons can select three or more mainstage concerts at any of the NJSO's venues and save. ...
Ars Lyrica Houston Rejuvenates Outreach Programs for Back to School
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 25, 2021
Ars Lyrica Houston, the Grammy-nominated early music ensemble, has announced its catalogue of community programming that includes bilingual, social-emotional, and a bespoke storybook performance alongside a broad curriculum of supporting materials....
American Youth Symphony Announces 2021-22 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 25, 2021
The American Youth Symphony has announced its 2021-22 season, marking the ensemble’s long-awaited return to performances following an 18-month period of cancellations due to the pandemic. AYS resumes concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall, UCLA’s Royce Hall, and continues its free Community Chambe...
The Orchestra Now Announces 2021-22 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 25, 2021
The Orchestra Now, the visionary orchestra and master’s degree program founded by Bard College president, conductor, educator, and music historian Leon Botstein, returns to the stage for its seventh season on September 11....
MELANATED MOMENTS IN CLASSICAL MUSIC Rolls Out Season Three
by A.A. Cristi - August 24, 2021
A leader in the ongoing re-imagination of classical music structures and stereotypes, Melanated Moments in Classical Music podcast releases its third season spotlighting music composed by, for, and about Black people. The podcast has caught on with a youthful, global audience that is steadily ...
Hoff-Barthelson Music School Announces New Offerings For All Ages
by A.A. Cristi - August 24, 2021
Hoff-Barthelson Music School will launch its 2021-22 school year by offering exciting new classes for all ages and resuming in-person delivery of most of its programs – including lessons, classes and ensembles – following an immaculate safety record during the 2020-21 school year and 2021 summer...
LACO Launches SUMMERFEST 2021, Series Of 5 Free On-Demand Digital Concerts Released Biweekly
by A.A. Cristi - August 24, 2021
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra continues to expand its digital offerings with SummerFest 2021, a series of five free streaming programs showcasing performances from the orchestra's first in-person concerts in 15 months. ...
American Classical Orchestra Offers Free Concert At Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park
by A.A. Cristi - August 24, 2021
The American Classical Orchestra, New York City’s foremost period instrument orchestra, opens its 2021-22 season with a free concert at Lincoln Center ‘s Damrosch Park on Wednesday, September 22 at 7 pm....
Sarasota Orchestra Announces Bramwell Tovey As New Music Director
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 24, 2021
Sarasota Orchestra has announced the appointment of internationally-renowned conductor Bramwell Tovey as Music Director. Tovey will begin his role as Music Director Designate on September 1, 2021, prior to taking the reins as Music Director in the fall of 2022 for the following four seasons....
Conductor And Organist Kent Tritle's Full 2021-22 Season Of Events Announced
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 24, 2021
Kent Tritle's 2021-22 season schedule features a full slate of events: he leads five concerts at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine with the Cathedral Choir, four with Oratorio Society of New York, four with Musica Sacra, and three with groups at the Manhattan School of Music....
F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music at Old Dominion University Appoints Dr. Emily Ondracek-Peterson as Executive Director
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 24, 2021
After an extensive national search, the F. Ludwig Diehn School of Music at Old Dominion University has appointed Dr. Emily Ondracek-Peterson as its first Executive Director....
The Met and its Orchestra Reach Agreement, Providing a Path to September Reopening
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 24, 2021
A new collective bargaining agreement between the Metropolitan Opera and its orchestra, the last of the Met’s three largest unions to reach an agreement, was ratified today. To commemorate the occasion, the Met has announced two free, pre-season performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, “Resurr...
Bronx Music Heritage Center and Carnegie Hall Partner to Celebrate Different Global Sounds
by A.A. Cristi - August 23, 2021
The Bronx Music Heritage Center in partnership with Carnegie Hall will present Carnegie Hall Citywide: The Blacksmiths We Insist on Saturday, August 28 at 5:00 PM on the Bronx Music Hall outdoor plaza. ...
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