Dawn Upshaw News

The Knights will conclude their inaugural Carnegie Hall season with new commissions honoring family by Montgomery, Kahane, and Clyne. Learn more!

The GRAMMY-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion, a quartet of established leaders in contemporary art music and percussion, received a 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant last night.

Join the George and Nora London Foundation as they present a recital by Blake Denson, a renowned baritone, on Sunday, April 28.

The Young Concert Artists organization has revealed a full slate of engagements for its roster of rising performers during the Spring 2024 season. Learn more about the season and see how to purchase tickets.

French Ensemble Ébène Quartet will make their Baltimore debut at Shriver Hall on April 7, 2024, performing works by Mozart, Schnittke, and Grieg's only complete quartet.

The 2024 George London Award winners have been announced, including soprano Katerina Burton, mezzo-sopranos Emily Treigle and Erin Wagner, tenor Samuel White, and baritones Benjamin Dickerson and Darren Drone.

Palm Beach Symphony celebrates its 50th Anniversary Season with Piano Virtuoso Emanuel Ax and a World Premiere. The concert features a new 6 p.m. concert time and the annual gala.

The George and Nora London Foundation Competition 2024 finalists have been announced. The finals will be livestreamed on Friday, February 16, at 4:00 pm ET. Tune in to watch the talented performers showcase their skills.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center will present Sō Percussion, a quartet composed of Eric Cha-Beach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, and Jason Treuting. 

Shriver Hall Concert Series will conclude its 2023-24 Discovery Series with the Isidore String Quartet in their Baltimore debut.

Tanglewood has revealed details of its 2024 season, opening in late June through August 31.

​​​​​​​Shriver Hall Concert Series (SHCS) — Baltimore's premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists — welcomes the acclaimed tenor Mark Padmore and pianist Mitsuko Uchida to Shriver Hall on Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 5:30pm in their inaugural performance in the city of Baltimore.

Wu Man will premiere Du Yun's new concerto for pipa at Zankel Hall on February 29.

New York Festival of Song (NYFOS), led by Artistic Director Steven Blier, collaborates with Young Concert Artists (YCA) in All Together Now on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 8:00 p.m. at the Kaufman Music Center's Merkin Hall.

The George and Nora London Foundation Competition for American and Canadian opera singers, one of the opera world’s oldest and most prestigious competitions, will hold its 52nd event in 2024, with a public final round at New York’s Morgan Library and Museum on Friday, February 16, at 4:00 pm.

Opera Saratoga announces additional casting and concert series for the company's 62nd annual Summer Festival.

The George and Nora London Foundation for Singers has received a gift of $215,000 from the estate of Lois Kirschenbaum, the famously devoted and ubiquitous New York opera fan who passed away in March 2021 at the age of 88.

East Passyunk Opera Project teams up with Society Hill Dance Academy and Top Dog Cocktails to present Love Notes 3: Notes to Self on Saturday, January 13th with shows at 6:30pm and 9:30pm.

At the conclusion of San Francisco Opera's December 9 fall season final performance of The Elixir of Love, the Company honored composer and philanthropist Gordon Getty in an onstage ceremony.

Young Concert Artists has announced the winners of the 2023 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. The winners will perform in the 2023 Winners Concert on November 12, 2023, at Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum.