The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet/Kronos Performing Arts Association(KPAA) is pleased to present Kronos Festival 2019, Kronos' fifth annual, three-day music festival, at SFJAZZ Center on May 30-June 1. Kronos Festival 2019 will highlight the voices of singers, storytellers, and activists over three evening concerts, a Saturday morning family concert and Kronos Labs, free public events that are new this year. Kronos has long collaborated with vocal artists, including in its recent Grammy Award-winning album Landfall (Nonesuch Records) with Laurie Anderson and its new album Placeless (Kirkelig Kulturverksted) with Iranian singers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts welcomes the Center debut performance of the Grammy®-winning quartet Third Coast Percussion on April 5, 2019 at 8:00pm in a program that will feature the West Coast Premiere of a new work composed by Philip Glass. Quartet members include percussionists David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and Sean Connors.
Manchester International Festival today unveils its 2019 programme, which takes place across 18 extraordinary days (4-21 July 2019). Internationally-acclaimed artists from over 20 countries - many working in one-off creative collaborations - will present 20 UK and world premieres at the cross-art form biennial festival, the second with John McGrath as Artistic Director.
Pacific Symphony, in its ongoing quest to present a broad array of musical genres for diverse audiences, will celebrate the Iranian New Year festival of Nowruz, which marks the arrival of spring and has been celebrated since ancient times. Presented in collaboration with the Farhang Foundation, this special concert led by Music Director Carl St.Clair will take place on March 24 at 7 p.m.
Hailed by The New Yorker as bold, adventurous, and superb, Music from Copland House is the widely-acclaimed ensemble-in-residence based at the award-winning creative center for American music at Aaron Copland's National Historic Landmark home in Westchester County. Founding and Principal Artists featured at this concert are Derek Bermel, clarinet; Curtis Macomber, violin; Alexis Pia Gerlach, cello; and Michael Boriskin, piano.
On Thursday, March 14th, 2019, at 8pm, the fifth concert of the 2018-2019 Interpretations series' Thirtieth Anniversary Season presents striking music sets from both vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara, and mixed-instrumentation group Ensemble Metrix, led by violinist Tom Chiu. Held at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave, Brooklyn, NY
Invitado por la Secretaría de Cultura, a través del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), el violonchelista estadounidense Jeffrey Zeigler, ex miembro del afamado Kronos Quartet, estará en México para el concierto The Sound of Science, el viernes 1 de marzo a las 20:00 horas en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes y el sábado 2 a las 19:00 en el Ex Teresa Arte Actual.
This season's new Broadway production of William Shakespeare's King Lear, starring two-time Academy Award winner, two-time Emmy Award winner, and 2018 Tony Award winner Glenda Jackson and directed by Tony Award winner Sam Gold, will begin previews Thursday, February 28, 2019 and will open Thursday, April 4, 2019 at the Cort Theatre. The production will play a strictly limited engagement through Sunday, July 7, 2019.
New York composer, producer and singer Emily Wells debuts her new song “Come On Doom, Let's Party” today—listen/share here. The track is taken from Wells' forthcoming album, This World Is Too ____ For You, due March 22 on her label Thesis & Instinct—pre-order the albumhere.
Pacific Symphony has once again put together an entertaining SummerFest program for 2019 at Pacific Amphitheatre (located in the heart of Orange County). Pop open a bottle of wine, kick back, relax and enjoy the perfect soundtrack for summer evenings under the stars. This season features the classic rock'n'roll energy of "Hotel California: A Salute to the Eagles" (July 4); John Williams' thrilling soundtrack of "Star Wars: A New Hope In Concert" performed live to film (Aug. 17); and everyone's favorite summer finale: Tchaikovsky Spectacular (Sept. 7), with guest violinist Benjamin Beilman, first prize winner in the 2010 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the 2010 Montreal International Musical Competition.
Boston Ballet Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen announces programming for the 2019 2020 season at the Boston Opera House. The season opens with Giselle, a haunting tale of love, betrayal, and forgiveness. Nissinen's The Nutcracker returns to delight audiences with its beloved characters and brilliant dancing. The spring season includes a cutting-edge world premiere by Stephen Galloway and works by world-renowned choreographers George Balanchine, Jorma Elo, William Forsythe, Ji Kyli n, Helen Pickett, and Jerome Robbins. Mikko Nissinen's Swan Lake returns to captivate audiences with a tale of romance and enchantment. The Company's 56th season runs September 19, 2019 through May 31, 2020.
The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, will begin its 14th season on October 12, with the Met's production of Puccini's Turandot, starring Christine Goerke in the title role, led by the Met's Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
The Metropolitan Opera today announced its 2019 20 season, which opens on September 23 with a new production of the Gershwins' classic American opera Porgy and Bess, last performed at the Met in 1990, starring Eric Owens and Angel Blue, directed by James Robinson and conducted by David Robertson.
Juilliard Dance, led by director Alicia Graf Mack, continues its season with Spring Dances, a repertory program featuring Martha Graham's The Rite of Spring, Bill T. Jones' D-Man in the Waters (Part 1); and Alejandro Cerrudo's Little mortal jump.
Green Space is pleased to announce a diverse roster of artists for its signature programs this March. Take Root will present an evening of work by DeLucia Benson Dance and Six Degrees Dance, curated by Chris Ferris, on March 15th and 16th, and Fertile Ground showcases works-in-progress by multiple dance artists on March 17th.
The London Philharmonic Orchestra today announced its 2019/20 season at Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, confirming its reputation for bold, creative and distinctive programming that continues to inspire audiences on a journey of exploration and adventure. The London Philharmonic Orchestra has been performing at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall since it opened in 1951, becoming Resident Orchestra there in 1992.
The New School's Mannes School of Music announces their Spring 2019 concert season. The season continues to set Mannes apart as a music school with a distinct appetite and commitment to new and experimental work.
La Directora General del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL), doctora Lucina Jim nez, por acuerdo con la Secretaria de Cultura, licenciada Alejandra Frausto, en cumplimiento con la normatividad vigente, y luego de diversos di logos con comunidades art sticas, da a conocer nuevos nombramientos y confirmaciones de las personas que tendr n la responsabilidad de fortalecer la promoci n nacional e internacional de las compa as art sticas, as como la vocaci n de los 18 espacios muse sticos que dependen del INBAL, con especial nfasis en la recuperaci n del di logo entre el arte moderno y el arte contempor neo mexicano, el manejo de sus colecciones, as como las itinerancias nacionales e internacionales.
OPERA America, the national service organization for opera and the nation's leading champion for American opera, is pleased to announce the recipients of its first-ever Civic Practice Grants, supported by OPERA America's Opera Fund endowment.
