Arthur Rubinstein News

Edo de Waart will replace Christoph von Dohn nyi in concerts featuring the World Premiere-New York Philharmonic commission of Bent S rensen's Evening Land; Emanuel Ax as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 (replacing the previously announced Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27); and Brahms's Symphony No. 2.

The immensely versatile and renowned pianist Ian Hobson, whose playing has been described by Gramophone as 'intensely alive to expressive nuance, textural clarity, and elastic shaping,' will perform 'Sound Impressions: The Piano Music of Debussy and Ravel,' a six-recital cycle of the complete solo piano works of the two composers, at SubCulture, 45 Bleecker Street (between Bowery and Lafayette Streets).

Mr. Trifonov has already developed an international career as a solo artist, a champion of the concerto repertoire, a collaborator at the keyboard in chamber music and song, and as a composer artistic facets that will all be showcased in his seven-concert Perspectives series this season, beginning with a solo recital in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Saturday, October 28. At 26 years of age, Mr. Trifonov is the youngest artist ever to curate a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall.

Winner of The 15th Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in May 2017, 21 year-old pianist Szymon Nehring, gives his New York recital debut at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall with an intriguing program of works by Beethoven, Szymanowski and Chopin, presented by the American Friends of the Arthur Rubinstein International Music Society. The winner was also awarded Best Performer of a Chopin Piece and Junior Jury Prizes.

The Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy (PYPA) will be celebrating its fifth year as an international event when it returns to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music located at 1726 Locust St in Philadelphia from August 8 through August 15, 2017.

The Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy (PYPA) will be celebrating its fifth year as an international event when it returns to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music located at 1726 Locust St in Philadelphia from August 8 through August 15, 2017.

I was fortunate to see the Cirio Collective on Monday, June 24, 2017, a part of the Joyce Theater's Ballet Festival, July 18 - 29. Drawn to see the company of extraordinary American Ballet Theatre principal dancer, Jeffrey Cirio, the artistic director of his own company, I was not disappointed. Cirio's associate artistic director is his sister, Lia Cirio, principal dancer of the Boston Ballet, also a remarkable dancer.

The Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy (PYPA) will be celebrating its fifth year as an international event when it returns to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music located at 1726 Locust St in Philadelphia from August 8 through August 15, 2017.

The Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy (PYPA) will be celebrating its fifth year as an international event when it returns to the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music located at 1726 Locust St in Philadelphia from August 8 through August 15, 2017.

Since first achieving fame as a teen pop sensation in the 1950s, Neil Sedaka has kept America singing for six decades. He brings the timeless hits of his storied career to Heinz Hall to perform with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra during the PNC Pops weekend May 12-14.

Shrek The Musical has a new production in Sao Paulo, with season from March 12, in Clube A Hebraica. It is a production of A Hebraica Sao Paulo, in a partnership between Teatro da Juventude and TeenBroadway, with artistic direction by Marcelo Klabin and supervision by Maiza Tempesta, and brings together more than 40 people on stage.

???????Singer, songwriter, composer, pianist, author - these are just a few of the titles that can used to describe Neil Sedaka, who will be playing the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall on Friday, April 7th at 8 PM.

Once again the Jury Chairman is pianist, educator and recipient of this year's Israel Prize for Music - Professor Arie Vardi.

Oakland University welcomes Tokyo-born pianist Kotaro Fukuma to Varner Recital Hall on Today, February 24 at 8 p.m. to perform as a guest artist of the Music program.

Acclaimed Music Director Xian Zhang and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra present Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto and Elgar's Enigma Variations, February 23-26 in Englewood, Newark, Red Bank and Morristown. Pianist Kirill Gerstein-hailed as "alarmingly gifted" by Classical Review-returns to perform the Rachmaninoff concerto, one of the most enduring works in the canon.

Oakland University welcomes Tokyo-born pianist Kotaro Fukuma to Varner Recital Hall on Friday, February 24 at 8 p.m. to perform as a guest artist of the Music program.

Pianist Kirill Gerstein assumes a variety of roles-solo recitalist, chamber musician, and concerto soloist-in New York- and New Jersey-based performances from Thursday, February 23, to Wednesday, March 1. First he performs Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto in four concerts (February 23-26) with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra conducted by Xian Zhang. The next evening at 7:30 p.m., he gives a solo recital at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, performing works by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, and Liszt. He concludes his concerts with a chamber performance of Brahms's Piano Quintet with the Hagen Quartet at Carnegie's Zankel Hall on Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m.

???????Twenty-five year-old Daniil Trifonov has taken the musical world by storm. Ever since his astounding prize-winning performance at the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition in 2011, critics have been quick to draw comparisons between the young Russian pianist and the likes of Liszt and Rachmaninoff.

Everyone's favorite music cafe is serving up hot, peppery rhythms, when Pacific Symphony's Cafe Ludwig spices up Sunday with music by the most significant composers south of the border.

Pianist Kirill Gerstein continues to champion Tchaikovsky's own final version of the First Piano Concerto in four performances with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, on Thursday, February 2 at 7:30 PM; Today, February 3 at 11:00 AM; Saturday, February 4 at 8:00 PM; and Tuesday, February 7 at 7:30 PM. The performances will mark the first time this 1879 version will be heard in New York since Tchaikovsky himself conducted it for the 1891 opening of Carnegie Hall. The concerts also feature Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony and are part of Beloved Friend - Tchaikovsky and His World: A Philharmonic Festival (January 24-February 11), the New York Philharmonic and Mr. Bychkov's three-week festival of orchestral, chamber, and vocal programs that explore music by Tchaikovsky and composers who influenced or were influenced by him.