Barbara Hannigan News

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced its 106th season of concerts at Severance Music Center from September 2023 to May 2024. Marking the 22nd year of the ensemble's acclaimed partnership with Music Director Franz Welser-Möst, the new season showcases extraordinary artistry and sharing music-making across multiple platforms.

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.

The Royal Conservatory of Music has added another performance to the run of A Little Night Music, which will close the 2022-23 concert season.

Bamberg Symphony's international competition for young conductors, The Mahler Competition, is accepting applications for conductors under the age of 35. The competition will take place in Bamberg, Germany from July 7 - July 15, 2023.

This season, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s 2022/23 Colburn Celebrity Recital series at Walt Disney Concert Hall will present 10 one-night-only performances from world class instrumental virtuosi to stellar operatic voices, from across the globe.

The Royal Conservatory of Music will open its doors to audiences for the first full concert season since March of 2020.

The Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gustavo Gimeno have announced the appointment of conductor and composer Trevor Wilson as the TSO’s next RBC Resident Conductor and the extension of Simon Rivard as the Toronto Symphony Youth Orchestra Conductor.

Park Avenue Armory continues its 2022 Recital Series on Tuesday evening, May 17, 2022, at 7:30pm for single performance by specialists in the music of France's Grand Siècle, Ensemble Correspondances, in the intimate setting of the Armory's Veterans Room.

On Thursday, May 19 and Saturday, May 21, 2022 at 8:00pm, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra (TSO) presents a stunning concert featuring the world premiere of Canadian composer Zosha Di Castri's newest work for soprano and orchestra, In the Half-light, performed by Canadian soprano Barbara Hannigan with a libretto by Tash Aw and commissioned by TSO.

The Plano Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce Shira Samuels-Shragg will be joining Maestro Hector Guzman as Assistant Conductor ahead of the orchestra’s 40th Anniversary Season. Shira is a young American conductor in her final year pursuing a Masters in Orchestral Conducting at the Juilliard School with highly-sought after conductor David Robertson. This full-time position is funded by a generous donation from Tammy and Charles Miller. Shira will assume her role on August 22, 2022.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents the Emerson String Quartet on Thursday, May 5 at the Samueli Theater. The Emerson String Quartet features Eugene Drucker, violin, Philip Setzer, violin, Lawrence Dutton, viola, and Paul Watkins, cello. The program includes Mozart K. 589; Bartok No. 1; and Beethoven Op. 132. A preview talk with Dr. Byron Adams at 7:15pm.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced the appointments of three new members to the orchestra: Elyse Lauzon to the position of fourth horn; Ashley Park to the position of first violin; and Jung Eun Kang to the position of second violin, effective immediately.

Musica Sacra, Kent Tritle, Music Director, performs in three concerts this spring whose variety is emblematic of its identity as New York’s elite professional chorus.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel and David C. Bohnett Chief Executive Officer Chair Chad Smith today announced the adventurous slate of programs for the 2022/23 season at Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Having planned a full, pre-pandemic-scale season for 2021-22, Kent Tritle, who is Director of Cathedral Music and Organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Music Director of both the Oratorio Society of New York and Musica Sacra, and Director of Choral Activities at the Manhattan School of Music, led or performed in a dozen concerts in the season’s first half, with only one event being canceled.

Kent’s spring concert schedule has undergone a few shuffles, but is going ahead largely as planned, featuring Mendelssohn’s Elijah with the Oratorio Society of New York and soloists Susanna Phillips, Lucia Bradford, Isaiah Bell, and Justin Austin at Carnegie Hall (May 9) and more.

Miller Theatre at Columbia University School of the Arts continues its 2021-22 Composer Portraits series with Luca Francesconi. Ensemble Signal, in their first live ensemble concert since COVID, performs two large-scale premieres by the Italian composer whose work Brad Lubman has often conducted in Europe.

Berg’s score, which was never completed due to the composer’s untimely death in 1935, is dodecaphonic but his characters have great lyricism and dramatic power. With our Music Director, Alain Altinoglu, at the helm, the return of this groundbreaking production promises to be mesmerising.

One of the world’s leading violinists, Tetzlaff brings together great proficiency and emotion in an all-Bach concert featuring four of the world-renowned composer’s sonatas and paritas. 

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, continues its 2021–22 chamber music series with Pure Genius: Solo Bach, a recital by Christian Tetzlaff at Stude Concert Hall, Rice University on Tuesday, November 30 at 7:30 p.m. One of the world's leading violinists, Tetzlaff brings together great proficiency and emotion in an all-Bach concert featuring four of the world-renowned composer's sonatas and paritas.