Franz Liszt News

On Monday, February 13 at 7:30pm, Premiere Commission will mark its 10th anniversary with a Gala Celebration at Le Poisson Rouge (158 Bleecker Street, NYC).

Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks leads the North Carolina Symphony and a pair of featured soloists in a program sure to inspire with works from one of classical music's most influential national traditions.

The Canadian Opera Company has announced the following upcoming events.

On Sunday, January 22, 2012 at 4PM, organist Christopher Houlihan will perform a program featuring the Bach, Ravel, Liszt, Saint-Saens and Vierne. A "major talent" (The American Organist) and a "rising star of the organ world who already has his own fan club" (Cincinnati Enquirer), "Houli" is one of the brightest stars in the new generation of American organists. His upcoming program on January 22 is part of the N.P. Mander Organ Recital Series of Sacred Music in a Sacred Space concerts at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola.

Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks leads the North Carolina Symphony and a pair of featured soloists in a program sure to inspire with works from one of classical music's most influential national traditions.

Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will open a new season of Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel with a performance of Gershwin and Friends on Tuesday, Dec. 6, at 7:30 p.m.

New York's jazz heart wasn't always located downtown. Once it was found on 52nd Street and before that on 125th, and for many decades its most powerful radio voice has been WKCR-FM on the campus of Columbia University. Just a few yards away, jazz finds an uptown home at Columbia's Miller Theatre. This season, Melissa Smey has programmed groups from the top of her wish list in a Jazz series that begins with the inventive Lionel Loueke Trio and the Renee Rosnes Quartet.

Loyola University New Orleans alumnus Logan Skelton, D.M.A., '83, will perform a solo piano recital on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m.

The North Carolina Symphony invites audiences to explore the breakthrough musical works of history's greatest piano virtuosos-turned-composers next month when pianist Louis Lortie joins Music Director Grant Llewellyn for 'Liszt & Rachmaninoff.'

Today we are turning our attention to one of the biggest and brightest rising stars in classical music whose seriously awesome piano prowess will be in full view this weekend in two special showings on October 22 and 24 when Fathom presents his solo debut, broadcast internationally in movie theaters - pianist phenomenon Lang Lang performs Lizst's Concerto No. 1 live from Philadelphia on Liszt's 200th birthday. While Lang Lang has taken the classical music scene by storm at only 29, this event will provide the opportunity for an even larger international audience to fall under the spell of his emotional, sensitive and powerful piano concert skills, with the advantage of witnessing Lang perform with the additional symphonic support of the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Charles Dutoit - an orchestra of special personal meaning to Lang. Raised in China, but studying in Philadelphia for nearly a decade makes this a truly momentous culminating event for Lang Lang's life and career as a man and as an artist and we can certainly bet that the Kimmel Arts Center is the perfect venue for such an aural feast for the senses featuring some of Liszt's most famous and beloved compositions. Performances of Liszt's Concerto No. 1 and Liberstraum No. 3 seem to be forgone conclusions, yet what else from the expressive catalogue of Liszt's work shall Lang perchance sample? The Hungarian Waltz No. 2, perhaps? La Campanella? What else? Be there tomorrow to find out for once and all!

For the Columbus Symphony's inaugural concert in the Southern Theatre, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie has selected three 20th-century masterpieces showcasing orchestral strings.

The North Carolina Symphony invites audiences to explore the breakthrough musical works of history's greatest piano virtuosos-turned-composers next month when pianist Louis Lortie joins Music Director Grant Llewellyn for 'Liszt & Rachmaninoff.'

Loyola University New Orleans alumnus Logan Skelton, D.M.A., '83, will perform a solo piano recital on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m.

After celebrating a spectacular 20th Anniversary Season, The Sarasota Ballet prepares to enter its third decade and fifth season under the leadership of Iain Webb not only with the announcement that Webb has signed for a six year contract, but also with performances at The John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with The Suzanne Farrell Ballet, October 12 - 16, 2011.'

The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music will commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer and piano virtuoso Franz Liszt in four concerts that feature guests, faculty and student performers in solo, collaborative and choral works.

Simone Dinnerstein's Neighborhood Classics season continues with a concert by dazzling Ukrainian pianist Valentina Lisitsa on Friday, November 4 at 7pm at PS 142 (100 Attorney Street, NYC). Lisitsa offers music by Franz Liszt, in honor of the Hungarian composer's 200th birthday. She will play Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12, his Ballade No. 2, and 'La danza sacra e duetto finale,' a transcription by Liszt from Verdi'a opera, Aida. All ticket sales will benefit PS 142.

New York's jazz heart wasn't always located downtown. Once it was found on 52nd Street and before that on 125th, and for many decades its most powerful radio voice has been WKCR-FM on the campus of Columbia University. Just a few yards away, jazz finds an uptown home at Columbia's Miller Theatre. This season, Melissa Smey has programmed groups from the top of her wish list in a Jazz series that begins with the inventive Lionel Loueke Trio and the Renee Rosnes Quartet.

French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard honors Franz Liszt's 200th birthday (October 22) with his most ambitious recording for Deutsche Grammophon, The Liszt Project. Over the course of more than two hours of music Aimard compares and contrasts works for solo piano by Liszt with a thought-provoking selection of works by Wagner, Berg, Scriabin, Bartók, Stroppa, Ravel and Messiaen. This is Aimard's fourth solo album for Deutsche Grammophon and follows his highly acclaimed recordings of Bach, Messiaen and Ravel. The album is in stores and available today.

For the Columbus Symphony's inaugural concert in the Southern Theatre, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie has selected three 20th-century masterpieces showcasing orchestral strings.

French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard honors Franz Liszt's 200th birthday (October 22, 1811) with his most ambitious recording for Deutsche Grammophon to date, The Liszt Project.