Felix Mendelssohn News

 The Naumburg Orchestral Concerts announced the lineup for their 117th season today - The Knights, Handel and Haydn Society, A Far Cry, The Knights return with violinist Lara St. John and East Coast Chamber Orchestra (ECCO) closes out the 2022 season. All concerts will take place at 7:30 PM at the Naumburg Bandshell (Concert Ground, 72nd St, mid-park, New York, NY 10065). The concerts are free but seats are allocated on a first come first served basis. Visit naumburgconcerts.org for more information.

The Music Academy has revealed its ambitious plans for the 75th Anniversary Summer Festival. This milestone year has been propelled by three sold-out concerts by the London Symphony Orchestra in March and three Competition Winners recitals in April.

 Shriver Hall Concert Series - Baltimore’s premier presenter of chamber music ensembles and solo recitalists — today announced its 2022-2023 season.

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 University Musical Society has announced its 144th season, which runs from September 2022 through April 2023.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is thrilled to return to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Let's continue our musical journey and harbour a love for music!

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is thrilled to return to the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall. Let's continue our musical journey and harbour a love for music!

Irvine Barclay Theatre, known for its intimate setting providing unique experiences and personal interactions with top performers, has announced its 2022-23 season. One of the most popular performing arts venues in Orange County, Irvine Barclay Theatre will again feature renowned artists in its broadest range of genres ever.

On Monday, May 9, 2022 at 7:30pm, Music Mondays will present a joint concert by the  Jasper Quartet, winners of the Cleveland Quartet Award, and the Jupiter String Quartet – winners of the Banff International String Quartet Competition.The concert will take place at Advent Lutheran Church (2504 Broadway, NY).  

On Saturday, May 7 at 8pm and Sunday, May 8 at 4pm, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) presents its Milanov & Jackiw concert featuring violin virtuoso Stefan Jackiw. Jackiw performs Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s lush Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35 on a program with Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegía Andina and Felix Mendelssohn’s “Scottish” Symphony No. 3 in A Minor, Op. 56. Edward T. Cone Music Director Rossen Milanov conducts both concerts at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, on the campus of Princeton University.Milanov and Jackiw are no strangers, having performed with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2015, the RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra in 2019, and, most recently, with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra this past October. Milanov invited the violinist to play with the PSO in March 2020, but that performance was pre-empted by the pandemic.

La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional interpretará un variado repertorio compuesto por la Sinfonía No. 39 en Mi bemol mayor, K. 543, de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Divertimento, de Jacques Ibert, y tres rags, de Scott Joplin, bajo la batuta de Jesús Medina, director huésped, el viernes 8 y el domingo 10 de abril, a las 20:00 y 12:15 horas, respectivamente, en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes, en el marco de la estrategia #VolverAVerte de la Secretaría de Cultura federal y del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal). 

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) kicks off May with The Blue Danube on Thursday May 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 7 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Music Director Andreas Delfs leads a program about beginnings and endings, featuring a World Premiere by acclaimed composer and recent Latin Grammy winner Roberto Sierra: Violin Concerto, a la memoria de una niña valiente, performed by Concertmaster Juliana Athayde (The Caroline W. Gannett & Cayla Ward Chair). 

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra kicks off May with The Blue Danube on Thursday May 5 at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 7 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre.

Besetzungs- und Programmänderung: Im 5. Meisterzyklus-Konzert der Saison wird das Eliot Quartett mit einem Programm von Beethoven, Mendelssohn und Schostakowitsch in St.Gallen zu Gast sein.

CSC will host a one-night-only benefit staged reading of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare, directed by Founding Artistic Director Steven Maler. This production will feature Christian Coulson (Harry Potter, The Hours, Mozart in the Jungle, Nashville) as Angelo and features a dynamic cast of the area’s extraordinary talent. 

Hoff-Barthelson Music School’s 2022 Elaine Stamas Chamber Music Residency, with musicians from the New York Philharmonic, will be held Sunday, April 24, 2022, at the Music School, 25 School Lane, Scarsdale, New York.

Broadwayworld had the pleasure of interviewing Ethan Stiefel about his career, the ARB and the upcoming performance of 'Midsummer Night’s Dream' at NBPAC.

Presents will feature the strings of Colorado Symphony’s Mendelssohn’s Octet; an evening of classic jazz at Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra Sextet’s Sass, Swingin’ and Standards featuring Marion Powers; a celebration of dance from India with IndianRaga @ the Rockies; and a sizzling evening of jazz with Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra Sextet’s Hot Latin Jazz, Celebrating the Music of Cuba and Brazil!

Carnegie Hall today announced new programming that has been added this month to Carnegie Hall+, a new premium subscription video on-demand channel, curated by Carnegie Hall, that offers instant access to unforgettable performances by celebrated artists from renowned stages all around the world.

The 92nd Street Y, one of New York’s leading cultural venues, today announced The Bach-Mendelssohn Connection, a ten-day festival of concerts and salons that will explore the unexpected or hidden connections between Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn.