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The Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF) has announced its 2023 summer concert series, running from July 25-August 18, 2023....

Janina Fialkowska, chairman of the Jury for the 2023 Cliburn International Junior Piano Competition and Festival, currently taking place through 17, 2023, at Caruth Auditorium at SMU and Meyerson Symphony Center, has announced the 12 pianists advancing to the Quarterfinal Round....

Orchestra Lumos has shared the details of its 2023/24 season, a year after the announcement of the Connecticut ensemble's rebranding from Stamford Symphony....

On Saturday, June 3, Harlem-based composer/theater artist Troy Anthony’s NYC choir community, The Fire Ensemble, presented a free, one-night-only public sharing of their developmental concert, Pericles. See photos from the performance. ...

Classical Music Chicago spreads the beauty of music in multiple series, including the one-day fete of the musician within us all. Begun in summer 2011, Make Music Chicago is a citywide DIY music festival that invites and draws together people throughout the community in a celebration of music making...

Star pianist Alexei Tartakovsky is set to perform at the legendary Merkin Hall in New York City on Friday, June 9th, 2023. His performance at Merkin Hall will be a masterclass in piano recitals....

​​​​​​​NiCori Studios & Productions announces the next installment of the long running Bloomfield series 'Music at the Mansion' at the historic Thorne Mansion home of the Morristown Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Morristown on Sunday, June 25 at 3pm. ...

The Harlem Chamber Players will mark its 15th Anniversary and Black Music Month with a musical extravaganza Harlem Songfest II, celebrating Black opera singers and the music of Black composers, including women....

The North Charleston POPS! has announced its 2023 – 2024 season concerts. The season features all new shows and something for everyone. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets!...

On Thursday, June 22, 2023 at 7:30pm, the National Music and Global Culture Society presents acclaimed musicians violinist Melissa White and pianist Nargiz Aliyarova in a recital at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall. ...

On Monday, June 5, Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) held its last concert before the summer hiatus. The evening concert was held at Carnegie Hall where both choirs of the night fill the house with great energy and enthusiasm – the organization couldn’t have hoped for a bet...

Pilgrim Festival Singers, a select vocal ensemble of Pilgrim Festival Chorus (PFC), presents its four-concert summer series, “American Voices – Celebrating our American Heritage,” on Saturday, June 10, 4 pm, at First Trinitarian Church, 381 Country Way, Scituate; Sunday, June 11, 4 pm,  at Fi...

Cosplay Records – the music label of Central Florida strings super-group Violectric – announce the signing of their newest esteemed artist “The Disney Violinist” Robert Kerr.  Kerr has teamed up with Cosplay to produce his debut album, which will feature twelve of his classical string quar...

Boston-based and Mexican-born composer-percussionist Reynaliz Herrera, with her ensemble Ideas, Not Theories, release their debut album on June 30, 2023. Praised for her 'toe-tapping vibe' by the Boston Globe, Reynaliz's four-movement work BIKEncerto continues her exploration of the bicycle-as-instr...

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, has revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 15th concert season at The Royal...

​​​​​​​VocalEssence, one of the world's premier choral music organizations, is gearing up for its 'speed limit' season-55 years of making music and celebrating the joy of singing together. In honor of this auspicious occasion the new season will feature collaborations with the St. Olaf...

On June 17, 2023, the classical music world will see the simultaneous debut of a conductor, ensemble, and a world-premiere work by a rising-star composer in a single evening. ...

Contemporary new music ensemble Ecce will host its annual music festival Etchings from Monday, June 26 - Sunday, July 2, 2023 in New York City, culminating in a weekend of public celebrations and concerts. ...

The American Symphony Orchestra has announced its 62nd season featuring four full-orchestra programs at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan’s Riverside Church, and more....

Sublime voices overcome a troubled concept....

Sarasota Orchestra has been approved for a $15,000 Grants for Arts Projects award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the 2023 Sarasota Music Festival. The three-week Festival runs from June 5 – 24 and features a schedule of 12 different concerts, as well as a wide range of m...

MOLA: An Association of Music Performance Librarians is honoring American conductor JoAnn Falletta with the 2023 Eroica Award for Outstanding Service to Music....

Tony and Erik gathered seasoned musicians, and friends Blair Krivanek (Sonny Knight and The Lakers) on lead and rhythm guitar, bassist Nick Salisbury (Ryan Bingham, The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon), drummer JT Bates  (Taylor Swift, Michael Stipe, Trampled By Turtles, Bon Iver), and Gregg Inhof...

This was a hugely demanding program, and Morlot and his musicians together produced an awe-inspiring accomplishment....

Pianist Alexei Tartakovsky is set to perform at the legendary Merkin Hall in New York City on Friday, June 9th, 2023. ...

South Bend Symphony String Quartet and vocalist Abbie Thomas will take the stage for 'Hits Through the Decades,' a unique, interactive concert at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, at the Bendix Arena (inside the Century Center)....

Morris Arts invites you to join them in celebrating their 50th Anniversary at this year's Giralda Music & Arts Festival on Sunday, June 25th on the grounds of the Giralda Farms (Dodge Drive and Madison Ave./Rt. 124., Madison). Gates open at 3:00PM with a pre-show performance at 4:00PM and New Jersey...

For the final concert of the 2022-23 Hal and Jeanette Segerstrom Family Foundation Classical Series, Music Director Carl St.Clair transforms the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall's stunning acoustics into a “Cathedral of Sound” (June 15-17) in a program that spans five centuries and celeb...

Cantus announces its 29th season of concerts in Minnesota and throughout the country, on tour....

Distinguished Concerts International New York will present Music for the Human Spirit, a two-act performance that begins with DCINY Composer-in-Residence Michael Bussewitz-Quarm’s moving composition, Where We Find Ourselves, and a second act featuring music for middle school voices....

A veritable cornucopia of African American talent from multiple generations. One could hardly imagine a more comprehensive collection. Not to be missed....

Thomas Guggeis, the young German conductor making his Met debut, is Kapellmeister at the Staatsoper Berlin and the designated Generalmusikdirektor of the Oper Frankfurt; pretty impressive for one who has yet to hit his 30th birthday!   His Met debut was justly anticipated, as across Europe he is k...

The Cleveland Orchestra announced updates to musician personnel with five new members and one member to a first assistant principal position. Earlier this year, Charles Paul, a bass section member since 2022, was appointed first assistant principal bass. ...

Composing music and writing lyrics can often be a daunting task. But when you have a mentor who has life experiences to help guide you and a class full of people to bounce your work off of, it all becomes possible.  ...

Musicians represented by the New York City musicians' union (AFM Local 802) will picket outside the Carnegie Hall stage door (behind Carnegie Hall on West 56th Street) with live music on Monday, June 5 at 5pm as part of their strike for a fair contract against the music producer Distinguished Conc...

On Tuesday June 6, North/South Consonance, Inc. celebrates the life and work of Sorrel Hays (1941-2020), the multifaceted American composer who resided in New York City during the second half of the 20th century....

National Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Jean Davidson and the Kennedy Center have announced Eric B. Stillman as the Chief Development Officer for the NSO. Stillman began on May 1, 2023 and comes to the Kennedy Center from the Jewish Federation and Jewish Foundation of Nashville and Middle Ten...

Boston Baroque is ecstatic to release a live concert recording of the Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 3, No. 1 by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The recording features GRAMMY-nominated concertmaster and soloist Christina Day Martinson in a stunning performance that The Boston Musical In...

West Windsor Arts is marking the unofficial start of summer by officially announcing its 2023 lineup of free summer concerts. West Windsor Arts is once again presenting a summer music series that offers more than three great concerts....

Recitals by rising young opera stars and one of the vocal world's most prestigious competitions comprise the George and Nora London Foundation for Singers 2023-24 season of events at New York's Morgan Library and Museum. Mezzo-soprano Lindsay Kate Brown, a 2020 George London Award winner, and barito...