Bohuslav Martinu News

On Saturday, March 2nd, the Anchorage Symphony deftly walks the delicate line of Tradition and Innovation, performing a range of music from Beethoven's masterwork Symphony No. 5 to the 2020 Musica Nova commission Trumpet Concerto by Canadian composer Vivian Fung. Learn more about the concert here!

Western Piedmont Symphony (WPS), the professional orchestra of the western foothills of North Carolina, presents MASTERWORKS: ROMANCE AND REALISM featuring the music of Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich on Saturday, November 18 at 7:30 PM at P.E. Monroe Auditorium on the campus of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory. Featured guest artist pianist Dmitri Vorobiev will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor.

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Anchorage Symphony presents Tradition & Innovation next year. The concert will take place on  Saturday, March 2, 2024 from 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM.

Providing assistance to young conductors in the early stages of their careers and thereby helping to continue the art form, The Solti Foundation U.S. has selected a record 22 young conductors to receive a 2023 Career Assistance Award (CAA).

On Saturday 11 March, conductor Paul Terracini will lead the orchestra in a concert featuring two towering Romantic favourites: the iconic Grieg Piano Concerto – featuring locally-born pianist Kathryn Selby AM – and Tchaikovsky's much-loved 6th Symphony, the Pathetique.  Plus two more recent composers' exploration of contemporary issues in crime against humanity and the connection between man and nature: young local composer Angus Davison's The Laws of Motion and Martinu's Ode to Lidice.

Philip Glass' Symphony No. 12 comes to Carnegie Hall this February for its New York premiere performance. Featuring five-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Angélique Kidjo and organ virtuoso Christian Schmitt, it concludes Glass' trilogy of David Bowie-inspired symphonies.

The Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan has announced the line-up for fall theater arts programs, happening in-person with the Lambert Center for Arts + Ideas in Goldman-Sonnenfeldt Auditorium and at JCC Harlem.

The Horszowski Trio will play a program that explores the depths of our humanity through three pieces including the U.S. premiere of Louis Karchin's 'Trio for violin, cello, and piano'. They will perform on Thursday, October 27 at 8 PM at the Morris Museum's Bickford Theatre.

The MusicUNTOLD Orchestra and Los Angeles Master Chorale present the West Coast premiere of American composer Roy Harris’ Bicentennial Symphony.

The critically-acclaimed American Chamber Ensemble, celebrating its 56th Anniversary, will present Diversity Through Music - Part 2, a live concert on Sunday, March 6 at 3:00 PM at Hofstra University's Helene Fortunoff Theater in Monroe Lecture Center on California Avenue in Hempstead, NY.

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In response to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's cancellation of its four-city tour to East Asia (Seoul, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Shanghai), which was to have taken place February 6a?"16, the management of the orchestra has added to its performance schedule a series of free musical offerings that will culminate in a Boston Symphony Orchestra community concert, under the direction of Thomas Wilkins, BSO Youth and Family Conductor, on Sunday, February 16, at 3 p.m., at Symphony Hall in Boston.

Sel Kardan, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Colburn School, and Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colburn School faculty, are pleased to announce the inaugural class of Salonen Fellows in the Conservatory's new Negaunee Conducting Program. British conductor and pianist Angus Webster and Finnish-British conductor Ross Jamie Collins were selected from more than 115 applicants from throughout the world.

Members of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performed at the 92nd Street Y with virtuoso harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani in a concert which included works by Martinu and de Falla.

The pianist Mari Nakamura will present a beautiful selection of works on the 22nd of May, 20:00, at Technopolis 20. The concert, an intimate performance of her new album, includes less well known but delightful works by the Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu and many favourites from Gabriel Faur 's beautiful piano works.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts has announced its annual Jazz, Cabaret and Chamber Music series for the 2019-2020 Season. It's another musically absorbing year of exceptional and adventurous music performed by some of the world's top solo artists and musical ensembles, whose work will canvas a range of styles and traditions. Subscriptions to the 2019 - 2020 Jazz, Cabaret and Chamber Music series will be on sale beginning Monday, March 25 at 10:00 a.m.

The OMNI Ensemble will continue its 36th season of concerts at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 8:00 pm. The program will feature music for flute, cello and piano. Also being performed are improvisations by The OMNI Ensemble featuring the Kora, an indigenous African string instrument. Music will be Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata op. 28, arranged for trio by Jim Lahti, Bohuslav Martinu's Trio for flute, cello and piano, Peter Schickele's Summer Trio, Michael Sirotta's Emanations Of Blue Light-A Rhapsody for Flute and Piano, and electronic and acoustic improvisations by The OMNI Ensemble featuring the Kora. Musicians are David Wechsler - flutes, John Cheek - keyboards, with guest artists Eric Cooper - cello and Salieu Suso - Kora.

El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), por medio de la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera, presentará por tercer año consecutivo la Gala de Concertistas de Bellas Artes, “dedicada a la música de cámara y que tiene la intención de ser una muestra representativa del trabajo que realiza el grupo”, señaló en entrevista José Julio Díaz Infante, titular de dicha Coordinación.

El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA), por medio de la Coordinación Nacional de Música y Ópera, presentará por tercer año consecutivo la Gala de Concertistas de Bellas Artes, “dedicada a la música de cámara y que tiene la intención de ser una muestra representativa del trabajo que realiza el grupo”, señaló en entrevista José Julio Díaz Infante, titular de dicha Coordinación.