Gary Graffman News

Celebrity Series of Boston will present pianist Yuja Wang on Friday, October 18, 2013, at 8pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston. This performance is an Aaron Richmond Recital, endowed by Nancy Richmond Winsten and the late Dr. Joseph Winsten in memory of Aaron Richmond, who founded Celebrity Series in 1938. Media Partner is 99.5 Classical New England. Check out the photos below!

Sony Classical celebrates the 85 th birthday of Gary Graffman American pianist, music administrator and piano teacher with the first ever release of Mr. Graffman's complete recordings in a limited original jacket collection available September 24, 2013. Gary Graffman The Complete Album Collection, 24 CDs in a clamshell box with booklet, will be offered at budget price. When RCA Red Seal released the first Graffman recordings in 1956 Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy and Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3 the pianist was 28 years old. Now, after more than 50 years this debut recording is being released for the first time on CD, together with 23 LPs-worth of music, all newly remastered from the original analogue tapes and many also debuting on CD.

America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, Music Mountain, continues its 84th Anniversary Season with a weekend of classical music by the Shanghai String Quartet tonight, August 31st (6:30PM) and Sunday, September 1st (3PM) featuring guest artist Haochen Zhang, piano. Music Mountain has a long-standing reputation of bringing some of the finest and most widely admired chamber musicians and guest artists to Falls Village each summer, and this weekend is no exception. Award winning talents from around the world have fillEd Gordon Hall with the sounds of exceptional music. The final concert of the season is scheduled for September 8.

America's oldest continuing summer chamber music festival, Music Mountain, continues its 84th Anniversary Season with a weekend of classical music by the Shanghai String Quartet on Saturday, August 31st (6:30PM) and Sunday, September 1st (3PM) featuring guest artist Haochen Zhang, piano. Music Mountain has a long-standing reputation of bringing some of the finest and most widely admired chamber musicians and guest artists to Falls Village each summer, and this weekend is no exception. Award winning talents from around the world have filled Gordon Hall with the sounds of exceptional music. The final concert of the season is scheduled for September 8.

Sony Classical celebrates the 85 th birthday of Gary Graffman American pianist, music administrator and piano teacher with the first ever release of Mr. Graffman's complete recordings in a limited original jacket collection available September 24, 2013.

Sony Classical celebrates the 85th birthday of Gary Graffman – American pianist, music administrator and piano teacher – with the first ever release of Mr. Graffman's complete recordings in a limited original jacket collection available September 24, 2013.

Tonight, June 28, the Houston Symphony will perform a free concert as part of the ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights series at Miller Outdoor Theatre. The concert will feature the famous Romeo and Juliet Overture by Tchaikovsky, followed by popular works from Mendelssohn and Schumann. Led by American conductor Case Scaglione, the concert will also feature pianist Kuok-Wai Lio. Born in Macau, Kuok-Wai has gained worldwide recognition performing with various orchestras and for multiple festivals and competitions. Kuok-Wai will be making his Houston debut performing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto in G Minor.

Make Music New York presents the world premiere of Jed Distler's Broken Record, a piece composed for 175 battery-powered Yamaha keyboards and one Yamaha acoustic grand piano on Cornelia Street in the West Village today, June 21st. There will be two performances at 11am and 12 Noon in front of the Cornelia Street Cafe.

On June 28, the Houston Symphony will perform a free concert as part of the ExxonMobil Summer Symphony Nights series at Miller Outdoor Theatre. The concert will feature the famous Romeo and Juliet Overture by Tchaikovsky, followed by popular works from Mendelssohn and Schumann. Led by American conductor Case Scaglione, the concert will also feature pianist Kuok-Wai Lio. Born in Macau, Kuok-Wai has gained worldwide recognition performing with various orchestras and for multiple festivals and competitions. Kuok-Wai will be making his Houston debut performing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto in G Minor.

Make Music New York presents the world premiere of Jed Distler's Broken Record, a piece composed for 175 battery-powered Yamaha keyboards and one Yamaha acoustic grand piano on Cornelia Street in the West Village on Friday, June 21st. There will be two performances at 11am and 12 Noon in front of the Cornelia Street Café.

Carnegie Hall presents the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas in two concerts, on Wednesday, March 20 at 8:00 p.m. and Thursday, March 21 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage.

Continuing a season marked by two major national awards and ongoing performances throughout the U.S., in Europe and Asia, the sold-out March 12 Young People's Chorus of New York City (YPC) Gala at Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, has turned out to be the most successful in the chorus's history. Check out the photos from the gala below!

CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in three of the most popular orchestral examples of creative and appealing musical "conversations" in the Themes & Variations program. The program includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor featuring guest pianist Stewart Goodyear, and Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma Variations."

CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in three of the most popular orchestral examples of creative and appealing musical "conversations" in the Themes & Variations program. The program includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor featuring guest pianist Stewart Goodyear, and Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma Variations."

CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni leads the Columbus Symphony in three of the most popular orchestral examples of creative and appealing musical "conversations" in the Themes & Variations program. The program includes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor featuring guest pianist Stewart Goodyear, and Elgar's Variations on an Original Theme, "Enigma Variations."

The Minnesota Orchestra and Music Director Osmo Vänskä announced today the appointment of American violinist Erin Keefe as concertmaster.

Pianist Yefim Bronfman has withdrawn from his engagements with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for its program of Brahms' First Piano Concerto this weekend for medical reasons.

Pianist Yefim Bronfman has withdrawn from his engagements with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra for its program of Brahms' First Piano Concerto this weekend for medical reasons.