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This summer’s Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will presents 11 concerts from July 24 to August 21 – approaching its pre-pandemic scope. The 11 distinct programs in the 39th season of Long Island’s longest-running classical music festival highlight interconnections in music.

The San Diego Symphony today announced its 2022-23 Jacobs Masterworks Classical concert season, offering 16 programs of classical and contemporary masterworks from October 1, 2022 through May 27, 2023. 

The Minnesota Orchestra today unveiled plans for 2022-23, a wide-ranging season that pairs the music of Beethoven, Brahms and Mendelssohn alongside newer compositions by Alberga, Mazzoli and Montgomery; spotlights masterpieces of the piano repertoire, and more.

The Bard Music Festival returns for its 32nd season this August, with an intensive two-week exploration of “Rachmaninoff and His World.” In twelve themed concert programs, Bard examines Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), perhaps the last great exponent of Russian Romanticism, who nevertheless embodied many contradictions.

The National Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director  Gianandrea Noseda and Executive Director Gary Ginstling, announces its classical  programming for the 2022–2023 season. The new season, during which Maestro Noseda appears in 14 programs and leads a total of 36 concerts, embodies the special connection between  Orchestra and Music Director that has strengthened over the past five years.

Music Director Andrey Boreyko leads the Orchestra in Brahms' Symphony No. 1, and the first prize winner of the 2021 International Chopin Piano Competition, Bruce Liu, joins the Orchestra for Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1. The program opens with Stanisłas Moniuszko's short work, Overture to Paria (The Outcast).   

The CreArtBox Music Festival has solidified its presence as one of the most sought-after classical music platforms in Queens, offering regularly sold-out performances since its premiere in 2018.

 Bard SummerScape will return this year with eight weeks of live dance, theater, music, and opera in New York’s Hudson Valley, June 23–August 14, 2022. SummerScape 2022 presents the world premieres of new commissions in both dance and theater.

Ballet Theatre of Maryland will present Momentum at Maryland Hall (Feb 25-27) and PGCC Center for Performing Arts (Mar 12). This mixed-repertory production features an excerpt from Paquita’s Grand Pas Classique, a restaging of Forever You by BTM’s founding artistic director Edward Stewart, world premieres by Lindsey Bell and Isaac Martinez, and The Little Slippers, Roman Mykyta’s original adaptation of a Ukrainian story.

As only the third American opera company in history to reach this centennial milestone, the Company’s 2022–23 Season will honor San Francisco Opera’s glorious past while inviting the public into an exciting new era of musical excellence under Kim’s music directorship and a renewed commitment to innovation.

Interlochen Arts Camp has announced the conductors and repertoire for the 2022 World Youth Symphony Orchestra, the program's flagship ensemble. 

The San Diego Symphony today announced its winter-spring 2022 concert season, offering 31 performances of classical and contemporary masterworks and chamber music from January 15 through May 28. Presented as “Hear Us Here,” the season will give the San Diego Symphony the opportunity to bring its music to a wider audience, with concerts performed at nine venues in the city and across the County, including the Symphony's newest venue, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park.

Acclaimed soloist Vladimir Khomyakov, who has performed with orchestras worldwide, joins the West Valley Symphony for its 2021-2022 season-opening performance at 3 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 21 at The Vista Center for the Arts, 15660 N. Parkway Place in Surprise.

The National Symphony Orchestra continues its Classical series with three subscription concerts this November, featuring works spanning from Bach to Bryce Dessner. A slate of guest conductors, including Simone Young in her NSO debut, lead the Orchestra in these performances. NSO subscriptions are available here or by calling (202) 416-8500. Individual tickets are also available for purchase on the Kennedy Center's website.

Dallas Chamber Symphony has announced its 2021-22 season lineup. The season kicks off on Tuesday, October 19 with Schumann 4 at Moody Performance Hall.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons will mark the 90th birthday of distinguished Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina with performances of her 2003 work The Light of the End, October 21-23.

Carnegie Hall today announced that its Opening Night Gala concert on Wednesday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m. EST, will be webcast free of charge to a worldwide audience on carnegiehall.org, the Hall’s social media channels, and on partner sites.

The ARC Ensemble’s Chamber Works by Dmitri Klebanov begins the long-overdue process of gaining recognition for a composer undeservedly relegated to obscurity. The recording, released today, September 24, is the fifth in the group’s critically acclaimed “Music in Exile” series for Chandos.

The Dover Quartet will launch the newest installment of its complete cycle of Ludwig van Beethoven's string quartets with an album of the composer's five 'Middle Quartets,' set for worldwide release October 8, 2021, on Cedille Records.

Dr. Peter Simon, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, and James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould School, today revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 13th concert season at The Royal Conservatory of Music.