Ray Chew News

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) announces the lineup and music director for the 23rd Annual More Music @ The Moore, a program that brings together young local musicians for a live performance on March 22, 2024, at the Moore Theatre.

Carnegie Hall has revealed its programming for its 2024–2025 season, including approximately 170 concerts. See full programing and learn how to purchase tickets!

Gospel legends Kathy Taylor, Hezekiah Walker, and Brian Courtney Wilson will perform on January 6. Don't miss this incredible concert!

MUSE/IQUE continues its yearlong concert series, MUSIC = POWER with CENTRAL AVENUE: OPEN HOUSE -- The Extraordinary Story of the South LA Music Legends Who Changed the World.

The Apollo today announced new additions to its 2023 Spring Benefit. The 'Empress of Soul,' Gladys Knight joins the line-up as an esteemed musical guest. Academy Award winning director Spike Lee is also confirmed to present the Impact Award to six-time NBA champion and the league's only six-time MVP, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Apollo Music Café alumni and esteemed vocalist, Stout, is slated to appear as a musical guest with a special Tina Turner tribute. The historic organization's largest annual fundraising event returns Monday, June 12 with an evening themed “The Next Movement!”  

The National Music Council of the United States will honor music visionaries Ray Chew and Vivian Scott Chew at the organization's 39th annual American Eagle Awards on Sunday, June 25, 2023, at the American Federation of Musicians Convention in Las Vegas.

UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents jazz piano virtuoso Matthew Whitaker on Sunday, May 21 at 7 pm at The Theatre at Ace Hotel.

The Apollo announced this year's Spring Benefit honorees. The historic organization's largest annual fundraising event will return on Monday, June 12, 2023 themed “The Next Movement”.

Stage Aurora Theatrical Company, Theatre that Enlightens, will celebrate Black History Month and Women's History Month and present 'Harlem of the South' a virtual Fundraiser featuring some of your favorite stars from Broadway, Film and Television.

The event features a mix of music, dance, and spoken word performances from diverse traditions. The production will be held Saturday, Dec. 10 at 8 p.m. in Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium and is led by acclaimed producer, composer, and music director Ray Chew, and co-produced with his wife and business partner Vivian Scott Chew, a global music marketing executive.

On Saturday, December 10 at 8:00 p.m. Carnegie Hall presents the highly anticipated return of A Night of Inspiration, an uplifting evening of music, dance, and spoken word from diverse traditions in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage.

This marks the first holiday album on her label for the beloved vocalist, whose venerated career spans R&B, Pop, Gospel, Jazz, including the chart-topping 'Make It Like It Was,' 'Baby Come To Me,' and the classic OSCAR and GRAMMY-winning theme song duet 'A Whole New World' (with Peabo Bryson), from Disney's Aladdin.

More than 800 guests filled NJPAC's Prudential Hall on Saturday, October 1, as the Arts Center hosted its first in-person Women@NJPAC Spotlight Gala in three years. The annual fundraiser drew arts lovers, Newark advocates and NJPAC supporters together to celebrate the Arts Center's 25th anniversary season and to raise $2.2 million for NJPAC's extensive arts education and community engagement programs.

Bergen Performing Arts Center has announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Trustees. Ray Chew, Vivian Scott Chew, Steven Goldstein, and Valerie Vainieri Huttle joined the board of bergenPAC at a critical time as the storied theater's $15 million Invest in the Arts Capital Campaign funds a comprehensive restoration and renovation of the historic venue.

The 48th annual HARLEM WEEK returns August 12-21 for a 10-day live and virtual experience celebrating the people, arts, culture, entertainment, and history that Harlem is known for throughout the world.

New York City performer Joe Gray, a mainstay of the iconic Apollo Theater for nearly 30 years, has found a new home as production manager at the Sacred Heart University Community Theatre.

Carnegie Hall today announced programming for its 2022–2023 season, including more than 150 concerts by many of the world’s leading artists and ensembles, plus a wide range of innovative education and social impact programs created by Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute, serving audiences in New York City and beyond.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Matthew Whitaker in his Center debut for two performances on Sunday, March 27 at 4:00pm and 7:00pm in the Jazz Club in Samueli Theatre. After demonstrating his prodigious talent while still a young child, 20-year-old composer and pianist Matthew Whitaker has established himself as one of the hottest new names in jazz.

Segerstrom Center for the Arts presents Matthew Whitaker in his Center debut for two performances on Sunday, March 27 at 4:00pm and 7:00pm in the Jazz Club in Samueli Theatre. After demonstrating his prodigious talent while still a young child, 20-year-old composer and pianist Matthew Whitaker has established himself as one of the hottest new names in jazz.

Today’s subject Kenny Seymour is currently living his theatre life being immersed with the Motown Sound as the Musical Supervisor and Arranger for the US National Tour of Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations while still serving as the show’s Musical Director on Broadway. The touring version can be seen through January 16th in the Opera House at Kennedy Center. Coincidentally, the show closes on Broadway the same day.