Justin Austin

The 92nd Street Y, New York presents Jay Campbell, cello and Conor Hanick, piano on Friday, October 20, 2023 at 7:30 pm at the Buttenwieser Hall at The Arnhold Center. Learn more about the concert and how to get tickets here!

Violinist Edward W. Hardy will perform with the University of Northern Colorado Symphony Orchestra on September 25.

The 92nd Street Y, New York has announced its 2023/24 Tisch Music Season, as part of the institution’s far-reaching 150th anniversary celebration. Learn more about the season here!

Des Moines Metro Opera’s complete repertory for the company’s 2024 Festival Season has been revealed.

Last Saturday Opera Theatre of St. Louis premiered a new adaptation of Scott Joplin’s legendary opera Treemonisha.  It is a bright and worthy addition to our recent flurry of adoration of some of America’s major black composers;  the Black Rep closed their stunningly fine evening of Eubie Blake’s music three days earlier.

Spivey Hall announces its 2023/24 season featuring expansive repertoires, hidden gems, and new discoveries, alongside classic performances of great historic works. This season, the first curated by Executive and Artistic Director, Katherine Lehman, will showcase fresh artistic voices, artists with Atlanta roots, and international stars who make Spivey Hall a tour destination.

On April 29, 2023, Capitol Hill Concerts will have their season finale, a multi-genre concert by composer/ violinist Edward W. Hardy.

It's truly amazing that one can walk by a place and be unaware of it, no matter how important it may be. Or what it looks like inside. I, for one, am not one of those people. I have been curious about New York City's Central Synagogue (in Midtown East) for a long time. And just recently I had the chance to go in and experience not a traditional service but something that surely was a transcendent spiritual moment in a transcendent, historic space.

Lyric Opera of Chicago has announced the company’s 2023/24 Season, which takes audiences on a global tour of opera featuring a richly curated slate of musical events in six different languages.

Washington National Opera has announced its 2023-24 season featuring the world premiere of Tesori's Grounded and more.

Park Avenue Armory's 2023 season will mark the tenth year of its celebrated Recital Series, bringing chamber music programs by world-renowned artists to the restored Board of Officers Room.

Our Song, Our Story is an evening of music highlighting some of the world's most well-known operatic arias, art songs, and spirituals. The concert brought together two of today's most exciting operatic voices in a diverse and powerful event featuring Janinah Burnett and Justin Austin, accompanied by Damien Sneed on piano and the Griot String Quartet; Dr. Amyr Joyner on violin, Justus Ross on violin, Edward W. Hardy (The Woodsman) on viola, and Boubacar Diallo on cello. See photos here!

MasterVoices continues its eclectic 2022-23 season on March 23 at Central Synagogue with Ted Sperling leading O How Good, a performance of Jewish sacred music. The program includes two beloved works of traditional Jewish liturgy set by master composers – Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service and Kurt Weill's Kiddush – as well as the world premiere of And the Sun Goes Up, a new work by Israeli-American composer Daniel Rein, commissioned by MasterVoices.  

Lyric Fest has commissioned COTTON, a new multimedia work combining photography, poetry, and song that is inspired by the cotton photography of Philadelphia artist John Dowell. Slated to have its world premiere performance on Saturday, February 25, 2023 at 7:30 p.m. at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral.

Watch the GRAMMY-nominated Aizuri Quartet's seventh episode of its critically acclaimed AizuriKids series.

Created and directed by composer, conductor, and multi-genre musician Damien Sneed, Our Song, Our Story - the New Generation of Black Voices is an evening of music highlighting some of the world's most well-known operatic arias, art songs and spirituals.

Lyric Fest will continue its 20th anniversary season with Ode to the Lost Song, a collection of songs by Norwegian composer Arne Dørumsgaard, on Tuesday, December 6, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Moorestown Community House in Moorestown, NJ, and Wednesday, December 7, 2022 at 7:00pm at the Academy of Vocal Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

The GRAMMY-nominated Aizuri Quartet, “a quartet of expert collaborators” (The New York Times), performs their innovative Song Emerging program at The Greene Space as part of the WQXR Artist Propulsion Lab Concert Series on Friday, November 18 at 7:00pm ET. A livestream is also available.

The GRAMMY-nominated Aizuri Quartet will perform their innovative Song Emerging program at The Greene Space as part of the WQXR Artist Propulsion Lab Concert Series on Friday, November 18 at 7:00pm ET. A livestream is also available.

​​​​​​​New York Festival of Song (NYFOS) releases Paul Bowles' A Picnic Cantata on its in-house label NYFOS Records on Friday, November 18, 2022. Recorded at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center on February 22 and 23, 2017, A Picnic Cantata features sopranos Amy Owens and Chelsea Shephard, mezzo-sopranos Amanda Lynn Bottoms and Naomi Louisa O'Connell, and percussionist Barry Centanni, together with NYFOS Artistic Director Steven Blier and co-founder Michael Barrett on the piano.