Jon Manasse News

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival is back on stage, August 3 through 13, 2021. The venerable chamber music festival's 42nd season features performances by Artistic Directors Jon Manasse and Jon Nakamatsu, the Escher Quartet with Brian Zeger, and Imani Winds.

Palm Beach Symphony has announced its upcoming 2021-22 Season featuring many of today’s most celebrated musicians as pianists Hélène Grimaud, Yefim Bronfman, Maria João Pires, violinist Midori and clarinetist Jon Manasse join Music Director Gerard Schwarz at the podium and the Symphony in a season of five Masterwork Series concerts.

In partnership with the Steven R. Gerber Trust, The English Symphony Orchestra, Kenneth Woods, conductor, will present a special Composer Portrait concert celebrating the music of the late Steven Gerber on Friday, February 26 @ 7:30PM GMT, originating from Wyastone Concert Hall in Monmouth, England.

In light of sustained disruption due to the Covid-19 crisis, Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF) announces that its 2020 summer season as Cape Cod's premiere presenter of summer chamber music will be held as a three-part virtual experience, extending its reach beyond Cape audiences. 

Hear the last two works composed by Mozart, Requiem and Clarinet Concerto, as Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale on Saturday, March 21, at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore. Special guests include clarinetist Jon Manasse, who The New York Times calls a?oean absolutely first-rate clarinet soloista??. He was the youngest winner of the International Clarinet Society Competition.

Hear two iconic works of Mozart, Requiem and Clarinet Concerto, as Piotr Gajewski conducts the National Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorale. Special guests include Jon Manasse, clarinet along with Suzanne Karpov, soprano; Magdalena Wór, mezzo-soprano; Norman Shankle, tenor; and Kevin Deas, bass on Saturday, March 21, at 8 p.m. at the Music Center at Strathmore.

Audience to sit amongst the orchestra for Park Avenue Chamber Symphony's 'Sounds Of America' concerts, November 23rd - launching anniversary season American classics played in the popular, experiential InsideOut Concerts format Jon Manasse, one of the world's leading clarinettists, returns to PACS for Aaron Copland's engaging and rarely-heard Clarinet Concerto WQXR's Elliott Forrest creates stunning original visuals to accompany Copland's famous Appalachian Spring suite

A Baroque composer, albeit the most important of his time (or of all time, as many are of the opinion) on the same program as a Romantic composer, one of the plethora of musical innovators of the 19th century? How could such music possibly be of interest?

The Park Avenue Chamber Symphony (PACS) is riding high these days, its Music Director David Bernard and musicians alike so full of energy and vigour that it comes perhaps as a mild shock to learn that this beloved New York orchestra marks its twentieth year with the 2019/20 season. At a time when some orchestras have settled into a routine, a 'that's the way we've always done it' attitude, PACS seems to be reinventing - if not the wheel, then themselves - almost with every season. Recent years have seen - and continue - a partnership with the pioneering InsideOut Concerts with their immersive orchestra experiences (to feature in two programs this PACS season - see below), the launching of a series of recordings on Recursive Classics that have been applauded by critics in Gramophone, The Arts Desk and elsewhere, and compelling stand-alone events such as their Tribute to Veterans (an event that saw more than 300 musicians on the Carnegie Hall stage, and the New York premiere of Dreams Of The Fallen by Jake Runestad and poet and military veteran Brian Turner). There are more, many more, achievements one could cite, but the coming anniversary season has its own share of fascinations:

I have seen the future of Classical Concert-Going and it is called INSIDE OUT! Two years ago, Maestro David Bernard began an experiment in classical concert-going. He had a bold new idea to intimately integrate the audience directly into the concert by literally seating them within the orchestra among the musicians -the idea being to create a totally immersive symphonic experience. Two years and more than a dozen performances later, the experiment has been a success on every level. Thousands of spellbound audience members can attest to the visceral power of live music performed by a 60-piece orchestra on all sides of you.

The culminating week of Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival's (CCCMF) 40th anniversary season as Cape Cod's premiere presenter of summer chamber music brings a trio of concerts with the residency of The Miro Quartet.

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF) celebrating its 40th anniversary season as Cape Cod's premiere presenter of summer chamber music, presents the centenary celebration concertLeonard Bernstein at 100, honoring the composer and conductor's prolific life and career, on Friday, August 16, 7:30 pm, First Congregational Church, 200 Main Street, Wellfleet.

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF) celebrating its 40th anniversary season as Cape Cod's premiere presenter of summer chamber music, presents its concert Borromeo, Manasse and Icarus on Wednesday, August 14, 7:30 pm, Dennis Union Church: 713 Main Street, Rte. 6A, Dennis.

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF) celebrating its 40th anniversary season as Cape Cod's premiere presenter of summer chamber music, presents its two-concert series Mostly Mostly Mozart on Monday, August 12, 7:30 pm, Church of the Holy Spirit, 204 Monument Road, Orleans, and on Tuesday, August 13, Cotuit Center for the Arts: 4404 Falmouth Road (Route 28), Cotuit.

Tickets are now on sale for Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF)'s 40th anniversary season as Cape Cod's premiere presenter of summer chamber music. Twelve compelling concerts are slated for venues across the Cape from August 1 through 23. Advance purchase is recommended for discount tickets (available through June 30) and packages, limited to capacity.

The Colburn School, one of the country's leading performing arts institutions, and Primephonic, a premiere streaming service dedicated to classical music, have partnered to offer dedicated playlists featuring recordings of Colburn School's esteemed alumni, faculty and students.

Distinguished pianist Jon Nakamatsu will appear as soloist with Symphony Silicon Valley in its program, 'Petrushka & Rach 2,' Saturday evening, May 4, 2019, 8:00 pm and Sunday afternoon, May 5, 2019, 2:30 pm at the California Theatre (325 S 1st St, San Jose, CA 95113). Mr. Nakamatsu will perform Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2; the program will also include works by Igor Stravinsky.

On Saturday, May 18th at 8PM at CMT Auditorium in New York City, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony led by Maestro David Bernard, will perform the New York Premiere of an animated interpretation of Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition' set to live music.

The Massapequa Philharmonic, under the direction of its music director David Bernard, continues its 2018-2019 season with a selection of dramatic works, including Beethoven's Overture to King Stefan, Schumann's Symphony No. 2 and Lalo's Cello Concerto featuring noted cellist Adrian Daurov.

Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival (CCCMF) announces the celebration of 40 years as Cape Cod's premiere presenter of summer chamber music with its 2019 summer season, presenting 12 compelling concerts from August 1 through 23, 7:30 pm, at locations throughout the region.  The Festival is programmed under the leadership of Artistic Directors Jon Nakamatsu and Jon Manasse, and Executive Director Elaine Lipton.