The 2018 McCammon Voice Competition judges have chosen the semi-finalists for the eighteenth biennial competition, to be held on March 16, 2018 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The finals will be held March 17, 2018 at Bass Performance Hall. This year's competitors are David Araujo, Amanda Blue, Nicolette Book, Ryan Bradford, Rachael Braustein, Kathleen Buccleugh, Chelsea Coyne, Danielle Davis, Peter Scott Drackley, Helen Huang, Hao Hu, Emily Michiko Jensen, Abigail Kempson, Chonghwa Kim, Abigail Levis, Brandon Morales, Elizabeth Moran, Langelihle Mngxati, Chong Yoon Noh, Brittany Nickell, Yulan Piao, Anthony Reed, Michael St. Peter and Andrew Wannigman.
Concert Artists Guild is pleased to present double bassist Sam Suggs in his New York solo recital debut at The Sheen Center, 18 Bleecker Street, on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:30pm.
Camerata Pacifica today announced the ensemble's 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 seasons which, in collaboration with The Calder Quartet, will explore the three creative periods of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Ars Lyrica Houston presents the 2017/2018 Artful Women season concert, Long Live the Queen on Saturday, April 7th 2018 at 7:30pm in Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts. This regal program commemorates two beloved female patrons with J. S. Bach's rarely heard Trauerode, written for the 1717 funeral of Christiane Eberhardine of Saxony, and Handel's 1713 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne. Both works call for multiple soloists, chorus, and unusually expressive orchestral forces, including two violas da gamba and lutes in the Bach cantata and an echo trumpet at the beginning of Handel's ode.
MusicaNova Orchestra (MNO) presents an innovative performance of J. S. Bach's great Eastertide oratorio 'St. John Passion' on Palm Sunday, March 25, 2018, 3:00 PM at Scottsdale Presbyterian Church, 3421 North Hayden Road.
The Cecilia Chorus of New York, Mark Shapiro, Music Director, will present the U.S. Premiere of Thierry Escaich's Messe Romane plus works by Fauré, Gounod and Messiaen on Sunday, March 4 @ 3:30 PM at Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 E. 88th St. The concert, directed by Shapiro, will be performed by (double) chorus and organist Bàlint Karosi.
92nd Street Y inaugurates three engaging new series - Chamber Orchestras, a Vocal Series, and Garrick Ohlsson: Brahms Exploration - ushering in a host of original concepts, artists, compositions, and collaborations, in keeping with 92Y's enduring traditions of cultural discovery, intellectual curiosity, and artistic experimentation. Additionally, 92Y commences Inflection, its first interdisciplinary festival, a six-concert exploration of music in relation to other art forms, including spoken word, photography, sculpture, and dance. This season also features the World Premieres of Phyllis's Portrait by Sergio Assad and Jonathan Berger's new opera Leonardo, the US premiere of a symphony by Hans Rott, the New York premieres of Wynton Marsalis's new work for solo violin, a new string quartet by Martin Bresnick, and Andreia Pinto Correia's String Quartet No. 1 "Unvanquished Space"; five major international artists making their 92Y performance debuts: Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov, German cellist Alban Gerhardt, Bulgarian violinist Gergana Gergova, the Danish String Quartet, and the Artemis String Quartet; several young musicians also give their 92Y debut performances in the pristine acoustics of Buttenwieser Hall for the Soundspace Series: Jessica Xylina Osborne, Einav Yarden, Conrad Tao (with violinist Stefan Jackiw), the Horszowski Trio, Juho Pohjonen, and Orion Weiss.
Cameron Carpenter performs a mixed classical and modern program on the Marshall & Ogletree Digital Touring Organ at Poway OnStage Saturday, February 17, 2018 a 8:00pm. The New York Times says he is a player with extraordinarily glib fingers and Astaire-like footwork... a first-rate talent with a sense of how phrases move."
Concert Artists Guild announces that Jiji, First Prize Winner of the 2016 CAG Competition, will become the first Korean female guitarist to perform solo at Carnegie Hall with her Weill Recital Hall debut on Tuesday, February 13 at 7:30pm.
MusicaNova Orchestra (MNO) starts 2018 with 'A Day With Papa Haydn, the 'Day Trilogy' of Morning, Mid-Day, and Evening Symphonies, by Franz Josef Haydn.
Praised by Epoch Times a very welcome addition to the chamber music landscape of New York, the Aspect Foundation for Music & Arts eagerly presents the latter half of its second New York City season, with illuminating performances, underscoring a different thematic concept each evening. With appearances by many of the most prominent performers and musical scholars of today, the Aspect Foundation has quickly become a favorite series among New York's classical concert-goers. The Foundation is housed by the elegant Italian Academy at Columbia University, further instilling Aspect's core sentiments of curiosity, intellectualism, and deriving pleasure from art.
Guitarist Eliot Fisk, known worldwide as a charismatic performer famed for his adventurous and virtuosic repertoire, will perform the J. S. Bach cello Suites 1, 3, and 6 as he has transcribed for guitar onstage at the Valley Performing Arts Center (The Soraya) on Wednesday, December 6 at 8:00 pm.
Cameron Carpenter performs a mixed classical and modern program on the Marshall & Ogletree Digital Touring Organ at Poway OnStage Saturday, February 17, 2018 a 8:00pm. The New York Times says he is a player with extraordinarily glib fingers and Astaire-like footwork... a first-rate talent with a sense of how phrases move.
Concerts at Christ Church North Adelaide, 62-72 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide presents the unique collaboration of Simon Cobcroft, Principal Cellist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Christ Church's organist Andrew Georg.
At 2.30pm Sunday 5 November Concerts at Christ Church North Adelaide, 62-72 Jeffcott Street, North Adelaide presents the unique collaboration of Simon Cobcroft, Principal Cellist with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Christ Church's organist Andrew Georg.
From the moving and powerful Afghanistan: Requiem for a Generation to the family fun of Wall-to-Wall Percussion, November at the TSO explores the gamut of human emotions. Additional musical offerings include the rich music of Vaughan Williams and Mahler, the pure interpretations of Angela Hewitt, and Stravinsky's rousing Firebird suite.
Ann Arbor-based pianist Ling-Ju Lai will open the Chamber Music Society of Detroit's 2017-18 Midtown Series with Bach's keyboard masterpiece, the 'Goldberg' Variations, Friday, October 13, 2017 at 8:00 PM. The concert takes place at Schaver Music Recital Hall, located at 480 W. Hancock (between Cass & Second Avenues), Detroit, on the campus of Wayne State University.
In its 2017-18 season, the Grammy-nominated chamber music collective A Far Cry joins pianist Simone Dinnerstein to premiere a new concerto for piano and strings by Philip Glass.
