Charles Yang News

 On the evening of May 29, 2020, The Umbrella Arts Center invites the community to participate in a free special online celebration of the arts, STAND BY ME, at TheUmbrellaArts.org/StandByMe

Sing for Hope will present a free, live-streamed Memorial Day Weekend recital featuring 2020 GRAMMY winner John Brancy and acclaimed pianist Peter Dugan, host of NPR's 'From the Top.'

Country legends David Nail and Little Texas headline Elm Street Cultural Arts Village's third outdoor concert season, The Lantern Series, as part of their 2020/2021 Season of Character.

Time For Three, the world-renowned trio, releases 'Over.' Time for Three consists of founding members Nicolas Kendall (violin), Ranaan Meyer (double bass), and newest member Charles Yang who joined Kendall and Meyer in 2016. The band plans to create more vocally-fronted music in the coming months while they keep a busy touring schedule.

Two concerts taking place during the League of American Orchestras' 74th National Conference in Nashville (June 3-5) illustrate orchestras' increasingly innovative programming, including poignant new works based on topical events that edge towards social justice.  

The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture (18 Bleecker Street at the corner of Elizabeth Street in NYC) presents Time for Three for one night only, this Friday, May 17 at 8PM in the Loreto Theater. 

Last night, WNET hosted its annual WNET Gala, to celebrate artists and honor patrons of the American arts community in gratitude of their continued support of emerging creatives. A who's who of stars and patrons gathered at the Plaza Hotel Monday evening to shine a spotlight on seven 2019 honorees for their contributions to the arts including two-time Tony Award-winning actor Nathan Lane, American opera singer Renee Fleming, CEO of AMC Networks Josh Sapan, artistic director and CEO of Ballet Hispanico Eduardo Vilaro, and philanthropists Jody and John Arnhold of the Arnhold Foundation, recognizing them for their outstanding work in the arts, media, and philanthropy.

The League of American Orchestras' 74th National Conference, in Nashville, June 3-5, 2019, will place music, musicians, and community at the heart of its programming. MUSIC CentriCITY will highlight field-wide advances in equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and focus on the centrality of music, culture, and collective action in orchestras.

Amy Owens has an extensive career in the Classical World. Having performed on various stages across the country, such as Wolf Trap to Carnegie Hall, Owens has dazzled time and time again. In February, she released her jazz-pop single 'Discreet' and now returns with a new collaborative piece featuring renown violinist and recipient of the 2018 Leonard Bernstein Award, Charles Yang.

MUSE/IQUE continues its signature Uncorked series on Sunday, March 31, 2019, with UNRESTRAINED/REFRAINS, a musical experiment in inventiveness and collaboration. MUSE/IQUE founder and artistic director Rachael

MUSE/IQUE continues its signature Uncorked series on Sunday, January 27, 2019, with ACAPELLA/AWAKENING, a musical journey of the transcendent power of the human voice. MUSE/IQUE founder and artistic director Rachael Worby will lead the Los Angeles Children's Choir Young Men's Ensemble, the Pasadena Master Chorale, Urban Voices Project, Ember Vocals, DC6 Singers, and T-Sisters in a specially curated program held at Pasadena's Westminster Presbyterian Church that illuminates the awe-inspiring power of choral music and a capella performance to uplift the soul.

Copland House's 2018-19 mainstage season will offer celebrations aplenty! Ranging widely across more than a century of American music, the popular series is Copland House's 10th at Westchester County's majestic Merestead estate in Mount Kisco, NY. Hailed by The New York Times for "all the richness of its offerings, first-rate fare, and reputation for quality," the series has become a destination for an enthusiastic and growing audience of musical adventurers seeking discoveries of the new, old, and unexpected.

Copland House's 2018-19 mainstage season will offer celebrations aplenty! Ranging widely across more than a century of American music, the popular series is Copland House's 10th at Westchester County's majestic Merestead estate in Mount Kisco, NY. Hailed by The New York Times for "all the richness of its offerings, first-rate fare, and reputation for quality," the series has become a destination for an enthusiastic and growing audience of musical adventurers seeking discoveries of the new, old, and unexpected.

The Music Institute of Chicago announces the 2018-19 season of its Faculty and Guest Artist Series, featuring classical, jazz, and multi-genre artists; holiday programming for families; and a collaboration with the Bach Week Festival. All concerts take place at the historic Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue in downtown Evanston.

The Las Vegas Philharmonic will start selling its FLEX PASS to patrons on Monday, July 2, 2018.  This will be the fourth concert season that the Philharmonic has offered the Flex Pass as an alternative to its traditional subscription packages.  FLEX PASS is a membership-based program that offers customization and flexibility for patrons to decide which concert(s) they want to attend at a later date.  The FLEX PASS offers 6 seats to any of the Philharmonic's Reynolds Hall performances in the upcoming 2018?2019 season.  The seats can be redeemed all at once or broken into any configuration, using up to a maximum of 6 seats.  

MUSE/IQUE, Pasadena's pioneering live music organization and counter-conventional orchestra, announces additional programming for its inaugural summer series at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on June 30, July 28 and August 25, 2018. Performances will take place at the Brown Garden Lawn, adjacent to the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. Tickets are on sale now at http://muse-ique.com/. Aptly titled STATES/UNITED: Mapping Musical America, the three-part series of live events at the Huntington will celebrate and explore the unique American sound.

The Las Vegas Philharmonic and Music Director Donato Cabrera announced the 2018 - 2019 concert season today, which will include 13 performances from September 15, 2018 - May 11, 2019 at The Smith Center for the Performing Arts.  This marks the orchestra's 20th concert season and Cabrera's 5th season as Music Director for the Las Vegas Philharmonic.  The upcoming season begins with works by Leonard Bernstein as part of a world-wide celebration of his 100th birthday and the orchestra performs selections from West Side Story and Candide.  Other composers featuring prominently in the new season include Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, John Williams and others. The critically-acclaimed horror film Psycho will be presented in full on the large screen with the orchestra performing the entire spine-tingling score live in a concert for film and music lovers alike in October.   In November, a piano concerto composed by Philip Glass and commissioned by the Las Vegas Philharmonic as part of a consortium of orchestras will be performed by pianist Simone Dinnerstein.  Two holiday concerts in December will delight with nostalgia and feature a special reading of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas as well as powerful vocal performances by Kristen Hertzenberg and Travis Cloer.  Once again, we dedicate an entire evening to epic film scores by John Williams and perform music spanning four decades of fan favorites from films including Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Harry Potter, and Memoirs of a Geisha in January.  The orchestra features two of its own principal musicians, De Ann Letourneau (violin) and Andrew Smith (cello), as guest soloists in February's An Evening of Brahms.  For the first time, the orchestra is joined by the group Time For Three, an American trio that boasts an uncommon mix of virtuosity and showmanship on music from Bach to Brahms in addition to originals and their own arrangements of everything from bluegrass to mash-ups of hits by the Beatles, Justin Timberlake and more at the March 2019 concert.  In April, the second installment of the Music Unwound initiative with the National Endowment for the Humanities explores Czech composer Antonin Dvo?ak and his New World Symphony.  The Philharmonic's chorus-in-residence, the Las Vegas Master Singers will perform at the holiday concerts in addition to May's presentation of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9. Marking the third year of the orchestra's American German Cultural Exchange Fellowship, violinist Thomas Reif will perform Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in May's season finale. In a finale befitting a 20th Anniversary celebration, acclaimed vocalists Felicia Moore (soprano), Kelley O'Connor (Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano), Sean Panikkar (tenor) and Raymond Aceto (bass) will also perform on Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

MUSE/IQUE, Pasadena's pioneering live music organization and counter-conventional orchestra, is proud to announce that its summer music series will continue under a new collaboration with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens on June 30, July 28 and August 25, 2018. Performances will take place at the Brown Garden Lawn, adjacent to the Virginia Steele Scott Galleries of American Art. Past performances took place at Caltech's Beckman Mall Lawn.

In celebration of the GRAMMY Awards coming to New York for the first time in 15 years and to honor Leonard Bernstein's 100th anniversary, the Recording Academy in association with CAMI Music, announced today the complete lineup for the GRAMMY Salute To Classical Music . This special event is to be held at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on the afternoon of January 26th, 2018 at 2:30PM. Hosted by world-famous pianist Lang Lang, the concert celebrates the life and legacy of composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein and will feature artists across a spectrum of genres. The lineup includes GRAMMY Award winning soprano Isabel Leonard, GRAMMY nominated R&B singer Ledisi, classically-trained string trio Time for Three, Los Angeles-based R&B artist Kiana Led and acclaimed Spanish guitarist Pablo S inz Villegas. (Ren e Fleming, who was previously announced, will no longer be performing due to scheduling conflicts.) For more information, please visit carnegiehall.org, CarnegieCharge 212-247-7800 or the Box Office at 57th and 7th Avenue.

Trumpeter Brandon Ridenour comes to Pepperdine University's Raitt Recital Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday, February 11, 2018 at the Lisa Smith Wengler Center for the Arts as the first artist of the New Year in the 2017-2018 Recital Series.