The University of Washington’s Meany Center for the Performing Arts has announced a return to live performance on October 13, 2021, with the beginning of the 2021–22 Season. Meany Center is inviting back to the stage many of the visiting artists whose performances were canceled due to the pandemic.
Live music will return to Orange County, and Pacific Symphony is thrilled to kick off the festivities! The July 4th Spectacular begins the summer at FivePoint Amphitheatre in Irvine. Featuring the music of Elton John, this is Pacific Symphony’s first time performing at Orange County’s newest outdoor venue and it promises to be a historic event.
Tippet Rise Art Center today announced highlights of its 2021 season, which will include two three-day virtual festivals. From April 16 through 18, Tippet Rise on Tour: Spring Festival will offer the premieres of 10 short films featuring musical performances, readings of poetry, and conversations.
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra will present a virtual Lunar New Year festival and concert to celebrate the Year of the Ox. Festival videos premiere February 1–5 at 5 pm, leading up to a celebratory concert program featuring new NJSO performances led by Music Director Xian Zhang at NJPAC.
The Kravis Center for the performing arts has announced an update regarding COVID-19 safety rules and regulations.
The Houston Symphony announces October concert programs for its Classical, Bank of America POPS, and BBVA Family Series as in-person performances for subscribers and weekly livestreaming to ticketed home audiences continue.
With a line-up that features world-class artists in music, dance, comedy, top-touring Broadway hits and more, the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts continues its tradition of offering a diverse season with something for everyone.
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts has announced the cancelation and rescheduling of previously announced performances in two of the multi-show series for the upcoming 2020/2021 season.
Tippet Rise Art Center has announced two online initiatives, adding to its websitea??s expansive offerings of films, performances, interviews, podcasts, and photography.
Tippet Rise Art Center announces two online initiatives, adding to its website's expansive offerings of films, performances, interviews, podcasts, and photography. Brought about by the cancellation of the art center's seven-week summer series due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Tippet Rise is launching a library of free music downloads in high resolution format and offering its audiences a monthly virtual concert series, Tippet Rise & Friends at Home, comprised of new video streams of past performances.
Today Craft Recordings/Concord Theatricals released award-winning composer Drew Gasparini's new album, We Aren't Kids Anymore (Original Studio Cast), a new theatrical song cycle that will be licensed worldwide for live performances by professional and amateur theatres through Concord Theatricals.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced details of its 2020/21 Great Performers series. Now in its 55th year, the series is dedicated to presenting outstanding renowned and emerging artists from across the globe in the concert halls and theaters across the institution's iconic campus. The season features an array of the world's most accomplished and inventive orchestras, conductors, recitalists, and chamber ensembles, performing classical and bold, cutting-edge repertoire.
Houston Symphony Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada and CEO/Executive Director John Mangum, holder of the Margaret Alkek Williams Chair, announced the details of the 2020a?"21 season, Orozco-Estrada's seventh as music director. Orozco-Estrada and the Houston Symphony enter the next decade of music-making with works by Beethoven, in honor of his 250th birthday celebration; new music from contemporary composers; Symphony Specials with pianists Lang Lang and Leif Ove Andsnes; solo performances from Concertmaster Yoonshin Song and other Houston Symphony musicians; and a new, three-year Artistic Partnership with legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman.
The Raymond F. Kravis Center for the Performing Arts has announced the 2020/2021 Regional Arts MUSIC 'At Eight' and MUSIC 'At Two' Classical Concert Series, now in its 46th season. Leonard and Sophie Davis sponsor the popular series.
The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Xian Zhang present Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto with pianist George Li, December 5a?"8 in Newark and New Brunswick. The program opens with the NJSO premiere of Anna Clyne's Within Her Armsa?"a tender string work Clyne wrote after the loss of her mothera?"and closes with Dvorak's Eighth Symphony.
Two young American pianists, Misha Galant and Maxim Lando, have been named recipients of the 2020 Gilmore Young Artist Award. The Awards were announced today by Pierre van der Westhuizen, Director of the Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival and Awards, which conducts and funds the Gilmore Artist Award program. Mr. Galant and Mr. Lando will each receive a $15,000 stipend to further their musical careers and educational development, as well as $10,000 towards the commissioning of a new piano composition for which the artist will have exclusive performance rights for one year. They will also give solo recitals and orchestral performances during the 2020 Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Kalamazooa?"April 22 through May 10.
The La Jolla Music Society, which celebrates its 50th anniversary season this year, has announced the complete programming for its 34th SummerFest under the new musical direction of globally-renowned pianist Inon Barnatan. With its enormously varied concert offerings ranging from interdisciplinary collaborations to chamber arrangements of the orchestral canon and newly commissioned works to French Baroque, the La Jolla Music Society SummerFest carries on its tradition of world-class concert offerings, uniting a stellar roster of resident soloists, composers, ensembles, and artistic fellows in the San Diego area for the month of August.
Pianist George Li, like so many other kids, began piano lessons at age 4. Though it soon was clear he had a special gift, for years, it was just a hobby.
The BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop will present its top works at this year's showcase on Monday, April 1st at 3 PM and 6 PM. The shows will be held at The Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater in New York City (10 West 64th Street) and will premiere performances of the best of songs written and composed by recent members of this Drama League, Drama Desk and Tony honored workshop.
The artistry of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Xian Zhang is "Front & Center" in the Orchestra's 2019-20 season, announced today. Classical highlights include a Winter Festival featuring works from the stage-including Wagner's The Ring Without Words, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and Mozart's Don Giovanni-performances of co-commissions from Qigang Chen and Christopher Rouse, a weekend of Beethoven's complete piano concertos, key artistic partnerships with diverse organizations, return engagements by audience-favorite guest artists and solo turns by multiple NJSO musicians.
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