Leon Kirchner News

Celebrating their 25th Anniversary season, the Orion String Quartet joins the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company for a highly anticipated two-week engagement at The Joyce Theater from tongiht, March 26th-April 7th.

Violinist Laurie Carney and pianist David Friend will give the world premiere of Robert Sirota's Violin Sonata No. 2 as part of a free concert at the Manhattan School of Music's Greenfield Hall (120 Claremont Ave.) on Tuesday, April 2 at 7:30pm. Sirota wrote the sonata for Carney, a founding member of the American String Quartet (ASQ), and dedicated it to their mothers who both passed away recently. The concert will also include Brahms' Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2 in A Major; Messiaen's Theme and Variations; and Faure's Piano Quartet in C Minor with violist Daniel Avshalomov (also of the ASQ) and cellist William Grubb (Carney's husband).

This April, Carnegie Hall presents the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in three performances led by two outstanding maestros, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos and Daniele Gatti (pictured at right), in its annual visit to Carnegie Hall. The BSO begins its series on Wednesday, April 3 at 8:00 p.m. with Mr. Fruhbeck de Burgos conducting Paul Hindemith's Concert Music for Strings and Brass and Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson joins the orchestra for Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini.

Celebrating their 25th Anniversary season, the Orion String Quartet joins the Bill T. Jones/ Arnie Zane Dance Company for a highly anticipated two-week engagement at The Joyce Theater from March 26th-April 7th.

Fort Worth Opera revealed today the names of the composers whose works have been selected for participation in the first season of the company's exciting, annual new works program, Frontiers, making its debut May 6 - 11, 2013. The showcase will present eight unpublished works by composers from the Americas during the last week of the 2013 Opera Festival in the McDavid Studio across from Bass Hall in downtown Fort Worth.

360° Dance Company presents an evening including the World Premieres of Regular Chain of Being, choreographed by Lauri Stallings, and Near Dark, choreographed by Artistic Director Martin Lofsnes, from October 18-20, 2012 at Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, 405 West 55th Street, NYC. Performances: Thursday at 7:30pm (Opening Night Gala), Friday at 8pm, Saturday at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and are available at www.360fullcircle.net or at the door.

On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8pm, composer Robert Sirota's Ecstatic Sunrise will receive its world premiere at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall by members of the Catholic University of America Symphony Orchestra, David Searle, conductor.

On Wednesday, November 2, 2011 at 8pm, composer Robert Sirota's Ecstatic Sunrise will receive its world premiere at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall by members of the Catholic University of America Symphony Orchestra, David Searle, conductor.

Tonight at 7:30pm, Holy Women: Lives of the Women Saints in the Stained Glass Windows of St. Bede's Chapel will have its New York premiere at Corpus Christi Church (529 West 121st Street, NYC).

American pianist Joel Fan joins Ravinia Festival's 2011-2012 Rising Stars series with a concert on Saturday, Nov. 19. Fan has embraced traditional literature as well as an eclectic range of repertoire, including new music commissioned especially for him, world music and his own transcriptions.

On Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 7:30pm, Holy Women: Lives of the Women Saints in the Stained Glass Windows of St. Bede's Chapel will have its New York premiere at Corpus Christi Church (529 West 121st Street, NYC).

On Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 8pm the Chiara String Quartet (Rebecca Fischer and Julie Yoon, violins; Jonah Sirota, viola; and Gregory Beaver, cello) will perform at Trinity Wall Street Church (Broadway at Wall Street, NYC).

Two High Profile Premieres at The Barns at Wolf Trap with Canadian Folk Duo, Dala, and 2009 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition Winners, Trio Cavatina

Two High Profile Premieres at The Barns at Wolf Trap with Canadian Folk Duo, Dala, and 2009 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition Winners, Trio Cavatina

Two High Profile Premieres at The Barns at Wolf Trap with Canadian Folk Duo, Dala, and 2009 Naumburg Chamber Music Competition Winners, Trio Cavatina

Texas Performing Arts presents an exquisite evening of Mozart performed by the incomparable Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra with renowned pianist Jonathan Biss October 22 at Bass Concert Hall.

Texas Performing Arts presents an exquisite evening of Mozart performed by the incomparable Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Orchestra with renowned pianist Jonathan Biss October 22 at Bass Concert Hall.

Renowned pianist Jonathan Biss will join violinists Miriam Fried and Ida Kavafian, violist Paul Biss and cellist Laurence Lesser in a performance of he Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major on the July 7 Barber, Brahms and Mozart recital in Ravinia Festival's Martin Theatre. Biss replaces a Leon Fleisher, who is suffering from a respiratory illness. Fleisher had been scheduled to join the strings players in the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor. The other repertoire, Barber's String Quartet and Mozart's String Quartet in G Minor, will remain the same. Violist Kim Kashkashian is also on the roster.

Renowned pianist Jonathan Biss will join violinists Miriam Fried and Ida Kavafian, violist Paul Biss and cellist Laurence Lesser in a performance of he Brahms Piano Quartet in A Major on the July 7 Barber, Brahms and Mozart recital in Ravinia Festival's Martin Theatre. Biss replaces a Leon Fleisher, who is suffering from a respiratory illness. Fleisher had been scheduled to join the strings players in the Brahms Piano Quartet in C Minor. The other repertoire, Barber's String Quartet and Mozart's String Quartet in G Minor, will remain the same. Violist Kim Kashkashian is also on the roster.