Philip Glass News

Opera Parallèle's (OP) General and Artistic Director Nicole Paiement, today announced the 2021-22 season repertoire, casting and creative teams for the company's 12th anniversary.

Society for the Performing Arts presents Houston Artist Commissioning Project LIVE: Part One, on October 15 & 16 at Jones Hall.

ROME CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL all'AUDITORIUM DELLA CONCILIAZIONE Presentata la 18° edizione del prestigioso Festival di musica da camera

On October 1, The Azrieli Foundation and Analekta will release New Jewish Music, Vol. 3 - Azrieli Music Prizes, featuring the world premiere recordings of works by the 2020 Azrieli Music Prize laureates: Keiko Devaux, Yotam Haber and Yitzhak Yedid.

The Contemporary Circus and Immersive Arts Center, a nonprofit organization based in Troy, N.Y., will present awards to winning productions on Oct. 9 during an online video awards ceremony.

GatherNYC has announced its fall 2021 season, to be held at the series’ new home at Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) (2 Columbus Circle). The fall season will begin on October 10 and run through December 19, 2021, with weekly concerts held on Sundays at 11am in The Theater at MAD, which is fully restored to its original mid-century design.

Michael Capasso, General Director of the New York City Opera has announced that Rachel Blaustein, Brian James Myer, Mary Phillips, Stephen Powell, and Victor Starsky will be featured in the cast of its upcoming world premiere of Ricky Ian Gordon’s THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS, a co-production with the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene.

The nine-movement suite shares the bill with music by Philip Glass, Bolcom’s friend and contemporary. The two met in the 1960s in Paris while Glass studied with teaching great Nadia Boulanger, and Bolcom with composer Darius Milhaud and both will turn 85 next year. Lin will perform one of Glass’ recent works Passacaglia and selections from his soundtrack to the 2002 film The Hours. 

It shall also be the world premiere of Avant's Piano Sonata No. 1 with Avant performing selections from his forthcoming album, Pieces for Solo Piano (St. Magnus Records).

Jaap van Zweden will resign as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic at the end of the 2023-24 season. van Zweden began his tenure as the 26th Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in September 2018.

After more than three decades leading creative operations for one of America’s largest theaters, Tony Award-winner Robert Falls is ending his tenure as Artistic Director of Goodman Theatre. Today, Falls announced his intention to step down next summer at the completion of the current 2021/2022 Season.

In collaboration with Peabody Award winning broadcaster, producer, and director Elliott Forrest (WQXR), Myles Aronowitz, photographer and filmmaker, and internationally-exhibited photographer and environmental activist J Henry Fair, this cinematic experience transports listeners to a still, meditative space.

Award-winning choreographer Doug Varone's NYC-based dance company Doug Varone and Dancers comes to the Hammer Theatre Center in downtown San Jose October 29 & 30, to present an evening of three stunning works: Somewhere, Lux, and Octet.

Harlem Stage today announced the return of its fall 2021 season. Featured artists in Harlem Stage’s 2021 fall season include choreographer/dancer Drew Dollaz (a Harlem Stage WaterWorks Emerging Artist); jazz prodigy and pianist/organist Matthew Whitaker; and more.

The recording brings together nine pieces by Mozart with works by Cimarosa, Galuppi, C.P.E. Bach, and Haydn in a typically skilful and thought-provoking programme by Ólafsson – one that captures a moment of musical change and experimentation in the late eighteenth century.

This fall, pianist Simone Dinnerstein takes on new artistic challenges in three projects, expanding her role from performer to director in her first production, The Eye Is the First Circle, developed in residence at PEAK Performances at Montclair State University, and premiered at MSU's Alexander Kasser Theater, October 14-17, 2021.

Dr. Peter Simon, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO of The Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta, Executive Director of Performing Arts, and James Anagnoson, Dean of The Glenn Gould School, today revealed details of the diverse concerts that will make up the 13th concert season at The Royal Conservatory of Music.

The quartet was brought together especially for this event.

The Flynn is excited to announce that extraordinary composer/violinist/educator/activist Daniel Bernard Roumain has joined the Flynn team as creative chair. It's fitting and thrilling that the Flynn is launching this key role with the man who inspired its creation.

Stevens has more than 20 years of experience at the top of the international classical music world, and joins the Calgary Phil following seven years of positive transformation at the National Arts Centre (NAC) in Ottawa, where he was the Orchestra's General Manager.