Ludwig van Beethoven News

Renowned cellist Steven Isserlis will perform works by Beethoven, Schumann, and others at Shriver Hall, Baltimore, marking the end of the venue's 60th mainstage season.

Radu Paponiu has extended his contract as Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra through the 2028–29 season. The Wattis Foundation Music Director joined the SFSYO in 2024 and leads four concerts annually.

Springfield Chamber Players will present WINDSCAPE on Sunday, March 1 at 3 p.m. at 52 Sumner in Springfield. The all-woodwind concert will be led by Yeh-Chi Wang.

California Symphony, led by Artistic and Music Director Donato Cabrera and Executive Director Lisa Dell, has unveiled its 2026-2027 season, celebrating 40 years of bringing orchestral music to the Bay Area.

Check out photos from arts luminaries, trustees, benefactors, alumni, and students gathering at The Juilliard School’s annual Celebration: A Benefit for Scholarship on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, in New York City.

The San Francisco Symphony has unveiled its March programming lineup, which features three Orchestral Series programs, a concert with Itzhak Perlman and the SF Symphony, Aleksey Igudesman’s The Music Critic featuring actor John Malkovich, and more.

The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra will kick off its 2026 season with Flexible Sky, featuring guitarist Slava Grigoryan and two world premieres, showcasing a blend of classical innovation and virtuosity.

First, there was the 1962 song made famous by folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then, a 1979 juvenile fiction book adaptation by Romeo Muller. Now, Puff the Magic Dragon, the familiar children’s tale about childhood imagination and growing up, is being told as a multimedia ballet.

​The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has revealed its 2026–27 season, with 80 concerts of chamber music by 100 composers across 346 years. Concerts take place in Alice Tully Hall and the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony and his equally popular Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” will have six performances at New Jersey Symphony. Beethoven composed these symphonies in tandem, and both premiered at the same concert in 1808.

Two-time GRAMMY Award winner Michelle Cann, lauded champion of Florence Price's music, displays her versatility performing repertoire of the mid-Romantic period at Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) concerts February 7-8.

The Music Institute of Chicago Academy will present a series of free concerts showcasing its pre-college conservatory students. Performances will include chamber music programs, orchestral concerts, and a special event marking the Academy’s 20th anniversary. All concerts will take place at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston.

New York City Ballet’s 2026 Winter Season will feature a world premieres by Justin Peck and NYCB Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, two early ballets by Balanchine and more.

Long Beach Opera will present the bold Crash Out Queens: A Tiffany Townsend Recital on January 31 at 7:30pm and February 1 at 4pm,, developed in close collaboration with the company at the Altar Society, 230 Pine Avenue in Long Beach.  

The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra will present All My Memories on Saturday, January 17, at 2:00 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre, welcoming back guest pianist Maxim Lando while reflecting on the impact of the pandemic on the orchestra and its community.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival will return to New York in 2026 at the American Theatre of Actors. The festival has already accepted 21 productions and will utilize all three theatres at the venue.

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will present a Masterworks concert at the Morris Performing Arts Center. The program Jessica Carter's Hidden: In memory of Rosemary Sanders, Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica.'

John Malkovich will appear with the San Francisco Symphony in Aleksey Igudesman’s The Music Critic, a theatrical concert blending classical music with historic criticism.

New Jersey Repertory Company has announced its 2026 Mainstage Season — a year of intimate, muscular storytelling that dives into reinvention, reckoning, genius, and the tangled threads of family history.

Check out photos of the San Francisco Opera's one-night-only concert of music by Manuel de Falla and Ludwig van Beethoven on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Opera House.