Inon Barnatan News

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has unveiled its 2025–26 season running from September 17, 2025, through May 3, 2026. Learn more about the season programming here!

From July 4-22, 2025, the Newport Classical Music Festival offers an unparalleled experience, combining 29 intimate concerts featuring over 100 artists with the grandeur and opulence of 11 iconic venues.

The Ariel Quartet will release the complete Beethoven String Quartets over two years, culminating in 2027, the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s death. Listen to the first two singles now.

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra will celebrate its 125th anniversary in 2025–26. See full programming for the season and learn how to purchase tickets here!

The Minnesota Orchestra and Music Director Thomas Søndergård have announced plans for the Orchestra’s 2025-26 season, a year which includes performances by star artists from cellist Yo-Yo Ma to violinist Leila Josefowicz.

Seattle Chamber Music Society revealed the programming for its 2025 Summer Festival, the World's Largest Chamber Music Party. See the lineup and learn more!

Lyric Opera of Chicago has revealed the company’s 2025/26 Season, its first complete season featuring Medea, Salome and more. See full programming and learn how to purchase tickets.

The Ariel Quartet will release the complete Beethoven String Quartets over two years, culminating in 2027, the 200th  anniversary of Beethoven's death. The Quartet will release the first volume of the series on April 4.

The Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) will celebrate 76 years of performance and mentorship this summer with almost 200 public events.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County will present award-winning pianist Emanuel Ax and New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill in a special recital on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, at 8pm at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

This year’s final subscription concert at the new Jacobs Music Center began with Richard Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan and ended with his equally familiar Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. In between, Inon Barnatan was featured in two 20th Century piano concertos by Dimitri Shostakovich. The usual please-silence-the-phones admonition before the concert was more emphatic than usual. The audience was informed that this last of three performances would be recorded for possible commercial release. As you’ll see, that didn’t stop one competitive phone from auditioning. The familiar Don Juan lives up to its name. It’s a tone poem for orchestra with a mix of romance, heroism and tragedy. San Diego Symphony Music Director and conductor Rafael Payare was at his enthusiastic acrobatic best. The music’s many moods were reflected in his motions and facial expressions and then realized in the orchestra for an exciting performance.

Pianist Kiron Tellian and accordionist Radu Ratoi have been named the 2024 Jacobs Fellowship winners by Young Concert Artists, offering them career support, industry connections, and performance opportunities. Learn more!

Young Concert Artists has announced the winners of the 2024 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. 

Young Concert Artists has announced the finalists in the 2024 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. Of 37 semi-finalists, 12 artists will advance to the final round at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York City on Sunday, October 27, 2024.

The 92nd Street Y in New York will present the JUNCTION TRIO, featuring works by Shostakovich and a world premiere by John Zorn, both in-person and streaming online. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

Hailed by The Boston Globe as “simply the best,” the Quartet will perform an outstanding program of musical works by J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Sibelius, and the local premier of a work by Jamaican-born composer, Eleanor Alberga.

Young Concert Artists announced the semi-finalists and jury panel for the 2024 auditions, featuring a selection of emerging musicians and esteemed judges from the classical music community.

Young Concert Artists revealed the semi-finalists and jury panel for the 2024 auditions, featuring 37 early-career artists from 14 countries. Esteemed jury members include Susan Wadsworth, Daniel Kellogg, and Inon Barnatan.

What did our critic think of SAN DIEGO SYMPHONY SHINES AT NEW JACOBS MUSIC CENTER OPENING! Shortly after the waterfront’s Rady Shell opened in 2021, I was standing in a short line behind San Diego Symphony CEO Martha Gilmer and complimented her on the Rady’s awesome state-of-the-art sound system. Then, as an afterthought, I suggested the Rady’s sound was better than that of Symphony Hall. Her reply was a terse determined, “We’re fixing that.” And have they ever!

New Jersey Symphony will present the 2024–25 season’s Opening Weekend of classical concerts with Music Director Xian Zhang conducting three performances.