The York Symphony Orchestra will present Celtic Celebration on Saturday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. at the Appell Center for the Performing Arts in York. The performance will feature special guest soloist, Jerry O'Sullivan, who is widely hailed as America's premier uilleann piper. Single tickets starting at $9 for adults and $5 for students are available online at www.YorkSymphony.org and by calling 717-846-1111.
The McCallum Theatre presents Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel on Monday, February 26, at 7:00pm. This performance, "The Golden Age of the Piano," will feature "Minuet in G" by Ignace Paderewski; "Spinning Song" by Felix Mendelssohn; "Humoresque, Op. 101, No. 1" by Antonin Dvorak; "Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5" by Sergei Rachmaninoff; "April, Op. 39, No. 4" from The Seasons by Peter Ilyich Tchaikowsky; "Wedding Day at Troldhaugen" by Edvard Grieg; "Valse Triste, Op. 44" by Jean Sibelius; and "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2" by Franz Liszt.
Australia's bold and brilliant Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra opens its 2018 season next month with Pastoral Melodies (22 March Melbourne, 25 March Sydney), featuring much-loved idyllic and tempestuous works of Mozart, Mendelssohn, Brahms & Beethoven.
The Falmouth Chorale, led by Artistic Director John Yankee, presents In Paradisum, a "heavenly" selection of choral works from 19th and 20th century composers, on Saturday, March 10, 4 pm, and Sunday, March 11, 3 pm, at Falmouth Academy's Simon Center for the Arts, 7 Highfield Drive, in Falmouth.
The Grammy Award-winning Harlem Quartet and Cuban pianist/composer Aldo Lopez-Gavilan join members of the Denver Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the DPO's "With a Twist" chamber music series. With a Latin jazz flavor, this "Twist" is a can't-miss collaboration featuring original music by Lopez-Gavilan, Dizzy Gillespie, Antonio Carlos Jobim and Billy Strayhorn (March 9), and Lopez-Gavilan and Felix Mendelssohn (March 10).
Fifteen of the Valley's most talented young classical musicians will showcase their astounding abilities, maturity and artistry at Arizona Musicfest's Young Musicians Winter Concert at 2 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 28 at the Musical Instrument Museum, 4725 E. Mayo Blvd.
Reaching full bacchante mode, punk redhead violinist Aisslinn Nosky torched the Red Priest.
The New York Choral Society (NYCHORAL), under the baton of music director David Hayes, will appear at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium (881 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019) with Where Even the Sea Sings, Sunday afternoon, February 11, 2018, at 3 pm. This program juxtaposes three composers of very different backgrounds and styles, inspired by a shared commonality in theme: the grandeur of the 'sea.'
The Chi Phil Chamber Players invite audiences to ring in the new year in a rich celebration of classical music with Berlin to Buenos Aires. On Sunday, January 21, audiences at City Winery Chicago will stay warm with delicious brunch, coffee, and drinks while the virtuosic Chamber Players present an international program featuring pieces by Mendelssohn, Piazzolla, and Kreisler.
The Emerson String Quarte t, one of the giants of the classical music world and a cornerstone of the Center's annual Chamber Series, is joined by the exceptional young Calidore String Quartet to perform works from th e string quintet, sextet and octet repertories on Thursday, February 8 at 7 : 45 p.m. in Samueli Theater.
Under the baton of Jaime Laredo, the New York String Orchestra, an ensemble of young players from around the world who come together each year for a seminar of rehearsals and performance preparation, will give its two annual concerts in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage in late December. For more than 40 years, the orchestra has celebrated joyous music-making in concert on Christmas Eve. This year, on Sunday, December 24 at 7:00 p.m., the orchestra is joined by violinist Pamela Frank, who was once a student of Mr. Laredo, for Mozart's Sinfonia concertante on a program that also includes Vivaldi's Concerto in A Minor for Two Violins, Strings, and Continuo from L'estro armonico as well as Haydn's Drumroll Symphony. On Thursday, December 28 at 8:00 p.m., pianist Richard Goode is featured in Mozart's dramatic Piano Concerto No. 20 in D Minor. Also on the program is Gabriela Lena Frank's work Eleg a Andina inspired by Peruvian pan pipes and Mendelssohn's vibrant Scottish Symphony.
Melodia Women's Choir, New York's premier ensemble for women's choral music, led by artistic director Cynthia Powell, celebrates 15 years of bringing women's choral music to the world with a 15th-anniversary concert Autumn Fire, a program featuring a lovely set of motets by siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, as well as the harp mass Harfenmesse: Missa Advocata Nostra by Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, and Josef Rheinberger's ethereal Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen.
Melodia Women's Choir, New York's premier ensemble for women's choral music, led by artistic director Cynthia Powell, celebrates 15 years of bringing women's choral music to the world with a 15th-anniversary concert Autumn Fire, a program featuring a lovely set of motets by siblings Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, as well as the harp mass Harfenmesse: Missa Advocata Nostra by Johann Kaspar Aiblinger, and Josef Rheinberger's ethereal Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen.
The acclaimed Kegelstatt Ensemble presents the second and final concert in its 2017 Song and Dance series of intimate one hour concerts. Song takes place at 2.30pm for 3pm Sunday 19 November, Carclew House Ballroom, Cnr Jeffcott St and Montefiore Hill, North Adelaide.
The acclaimed Kegelstatt Ensemble presents the second and final concert in its 2017 Song and Dance series of intimate one hour concerts. Song takes place at 2.30pm for 3pm Sunday 19 November.
Andr s Schiff will return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct and perform J.S. Bach's Piano Concerto in A major, BWV 1055, and Schumann's Piano Concerto; he also conducts Haydn's Symphony No. 80 and Bart k's Divertimento for String Orchestra.
Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Jane Moss today announced Lincoln Center's 2017 White Light Festival, which runs from October 18 through November 15. With more than 35 events presented in 13 venues throughout the city, including U.S. and New York premieres and nine commissions, the eighth annual international festival will explore transcendence, interior illumination, and faith in the human spirit, as exhibited through artistic expression across continents and centuries. The multidisciplinary festival takes its name from a quotation by Estonian composer Arvo Part: "Icouldcomparemymusic to white light, which contains all colors. Only a prism can divide the colors and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener."
The New York Philharmonic String Quartet will make its New York recital debut at 92nd Street Y performing Beethoven's String Quartet No. 4; Dvo? k's String Quartet in F major, American; and Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F minor on Sunday, November 12, 2017, at 3:00 p.m. The performance will be co-presented by the New York Philharmonic and 92nd Street Y. Formed in January 2017, the New York Philharmonic String Quartet comprises Concertmaster Frank Huang, Principal Associate Concertmaster Sheryl Staples, Principal Viola Cynthia Phelps, and Principal Cello Carter Brey.
On Sunday, October 29 at 4 pm, the New York-based LARK Quartet, which counts Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) concertmaster Basia Danilow among its members, joins the PSO to perform Erwin Schulhoff's Concerto for String Quartet and Winds, WV97 on a program with Ottorino Respighi's Gli uccelli and Felix Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5 in D Major, Op. 107 Reformation. Rossen Milanov conducts the afternoon concert at Richardson Auditorium on the campus of Princeton University.
On September 24 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) Main Theatre, winners of the National Music Competitions for Young Artists (NAMCYA), the country's most prestigious music competition for the youth for more than 40 years, will be performing with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) to give a sampling of great works of some of the most prodigious composers who ever lived.
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