Martin West News

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm and Perrault fairy tales, world-renowned San Francisco Ballet returns to the Kennedy Center with the visually stunning and magical adaption of Christopher Wheeldon's Cinderella©, October 26-30 for seven performances in the Opera House. Choreographed by the Tony Award® and two-time Olivier Award-winning British choreographer, Wheeldon and his acclaimed creative team bring this imaginative production to the stage featuring a powerful score by Sergei Prokofiev. Co-produced with the Dutch National Ballet, it made its world premiere in Amsterdam on December 13, 2012 and its U.S. premiere on May 3, 2013 with San Francisco Ballet. The Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra will accompany this production, led by conductor Martin West.

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra will release Moszkowski: From Foreign Lands, Rediscovered Orchestral Works, a new recording, on September 9, 2016 via Reference Recordings. This delightful program is the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra's fourth release with Reference Recordings.

San Francisco Ballet Orchestra will release Moszkowski: From Foreign Lands, Rediscovered Orchestral Works, a new recording, on September 9, 2016 via Reference Recordings. This delightful program is the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra's fourth release with Reference Recordings.

Lincoln Center at the Movies, the new cinema series recently announced by Lincoln Center in partnership with Fathom Events, will open in fall 2015 with Great American Dance presenting performances by four of America's leading companies: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Ballet Hispanico, New York City Ballet, and San Francisco Ballet. Each event will be shown in select cinemas nationwide at nearly 400 locations.

Get set for the excited voices of 1600 school children to drift across the River Torrens and the Riverbank Precinct tomorrow when Come Out Children's Festival opens with enthusiasm, song and ceremony.

Adelaide Festival Centre today launched its 2015 Come Out Children's Festival program with hundreds of shows that promise to engage, stimulate, challenge, educate and entertain young minds.

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein returns to Bargemusic to perform works for clarinet and piano by Chausson, Messiaen, Weinberg, and Weber with pianist Michael Brown today, July 5, 2014 at 7:00 pm. The program also features the world premiere of longtime collaborator Ronn Yedidia's Sparx 2 for solo clarinet. The following day, the duo travels to Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT, joining cellist Nicholas Canellakis and violinist Miranda Cuckson to perform Beethoven's Op. 11 Trio and Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps at 3:00 pm.

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein returns to Bargemusic to perform works for clarinet and piano by Chausson, Messiaen, Weinberg, and Weber with pianist Michael Brown on Saturday, July 5, 2014 at 7:00 pm. The program also features the world premiere of longtime collaborator Ronn Yedidia's Sparx 2 for solo clarinet. The following day, the duo travels to Music Mountain in Falls Village, CT, joining cellist Nicholas Canellakis and violinist Miranda Cuckson to perform Beethoven's Op. 11 Trio and Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps at 3:00 pm.

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein will join conductor Vladimir Lande and the Washington Soloists Chamber Orchestra for a performance of Sean Hickey's Clarinet Concerto in what will be Mr. Fiterstein's first live performance of the concerto in North America after recording the piece for the 2013 album Sean Hickey: Concertos. Also on the program is Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 performed by Xiayin Wang as part of her five-concert series at Merkin Concert Hall. The concert will take place at Merkin Hall in the Kaufman Music Center on Monday, November 25 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available through the Kaufman Music Center website at www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch or by calling 212.501.3330.

San Francisco Ballet's mixed rep program showed off its strong dancers from top to bottom featuring the star power of resident prima ballerina, Maria Kotchetkova.

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein has recorded an all-Weber album with conductor Martin West and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra for his debut solo album on the Bridge label, to be released today, October 1, 2013. The album features Weber's two clarinet concertos and his Concertino in E-flat major, and was recorded at Skywalker Sound on George Lukas' Skywalker Ranch outside of San Francisco in March 2011. The album (BRIDGE 9416) is available for purchase from BRIDGE RECORDS, INC. and at Amazon and iTunes.

Reference Recordings is proud to present these works of Georges Bizet, beautifully performed by the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, conducted by Martin West. The recording was made at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California by Grammy-winning engineer Keith O. Johnson.

Clarinetist Alexander Fiterstein has recorded an all-Weber album with conductor Martin West and the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra for his debut solo album on the Bridge label, to be released onTuesday, October 1, 2013.

Food Network's long-running hit primetime series FOOD NETWORK STAR returns to New York City this month with fifteen talented hopefuls and completely new twists for season eight - this year, returning stars Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis move from behind the judge's table to square off with culinary favorite Alton Brown for a three-way team competition to find the next Food Network Star, beginning with a special two-hour premiere episode tonight, May 13th at 9pm ET/PT.

Food Network's long-running hit primetime series FOOD NETWORK STAR returns to New York City this May with fifteen talented hopefuls and completely new twists for season eight - this year, returning stars Bobby Flay and Giada De Laurentiis move from behind the judge's table to square off with culinary favorite Alton Brown for a three-way team competition to find the next Food Network Star, beginning with a special two-hour premiere episode on Sunday, May 13th at 9pm ET/PT.