Samuel Barber News

On January 22nd, the Anchorage Symphony Orchestra begins the second half of its 76th Classic Concert season with American Voices, an evening of musical stories by American composers.

Due to close contact tracing requiring the quarantining of some musicians, the SLSO has made the decision to cancel this weekend’s concerts, January 15-16. 

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is proud to celebrate the 44th Honorees for lifetime artistic achievements: operatic bass-baritone Justino Díaz, Motown founder, songwriter, producer, and director Berry Gordy, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, legendary stage and screen icon Bette Midler, and singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell.

Programmed by long-standing Artistic & Music Director, Brett Weymark OAM, this richly diverse season traverses choral classics by Mozart, Bach, Haydn and Handel; the glorious colours of Puccini; living repertoire by Pēteris Vasks and Eric Whitacre; and six newly commissioned short works from local Sydney composers Jessica Wells, Aija Draguns, Tomas Parrish-Cheynoweth, Aiden Rosa, Maria Lopes, and Melbourne’s Stuart Greenbaum.

Returning for the sixth season, Repertory Dance Theatre presents an evening of choreography by the RDT dancers and Artistic Staff, along with the winner of REGALIA 2021. EMERGE: SOUNDS DELIGHTFUL, presented in the Leona Wagner Black Box Theatre, will feature all-new choreography using lively and upbeat music from the 1930s and 40s. 

Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada leads the full orchestra in favorite highlights from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker to kick off the Houston Symphony's 2021 Holiday concerts (December 3–5, 2021) followed by the return of two Symphony holiday traditions: Handel's Messiah  (December 10–12, 2021) and Very Merry POPS (December 18–19, 2021).

November brings Sarasota Orchestra to the Van Wezel for its first Masterworks program since March 2020. The Orchestra also presents its third Chamber Soirée.

Grammy-nominated baritone Stephen Powell demonstrates that this can be accomplished in the classical genre

Dallas Chamber Symphony has announced its 2021-22 season lineup. The season kicks off on Tuesday, October 19 with Schumann 4 at Moody Performance Hall.

Newton's New Philharmonia Orchestra (New Phil) will kick off its 27th season of “Music for All” with New Phil Reawakens October 30th at 7:30PM  and October 31st at 3:30PM at Newton North High School. The concert marks the organization's return to live performances following a break during the pandemic and is sponsored in part by the Newton Cultural Council and The Village Bank.

Over 90 concerts in uniquely curated series, including Quiet Please There's a Lady on Stage and TD Jazz Concerts: Jazz From Around the World to piano, vocal, chamber, and string concerts, featuring the world's top musicians, are planned for 2021.22.

The collaboration involved numerous groups from KSU's Bailey School of Music (BSOM), including the KSU Chamber Singers, conducted by Dr. Samuel Miller; the KSU Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Dr. Nathaniel Parker; and the Wind Ensemble Brass & Percussion, conducted by Dr. David Kehler.

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 Sonoran Desert Chorale opens its season with NATURE'S ARIA, a selection of pieces celebrating the wondrous manifestations of nature throughout our world. 

Barbara Quintiliani was the first American woman in twenty-five years to be awarded First Prize in the Francisco Viñas Singing Competition in Barcelona. She was also the recipient of the Grand Prize in the National Metropolitan Opera Council Auditions, First Place in the Marian Anderson International Vocal Arts Competition, First Place in the Eleanor McCollum Competition at The Houston Grand Opera, First Place of the Licia Albanese-Puccini Foundation Competition in New York, and a Sarah Tucker Study Grant from the Richard Tucker Foundation.

All four members of the Quartet – Eugene Drucker, Philip Setzer, Lawrence Dutton and Paul Watkins – will continue to perform and teach individually; as a group, they will continue to coach and mentor young ensembles through the Emerson String Quartet Institute at Stony Brook University, along with cellist David Finckel, who was a member of the quartet for 34 years. 

Shokat Projects will welcome the world-premiere recording of Georgia Stitt’s Hold Fast Your Dreams, performed by the wife-and-husband team, soprano Zoe Allen and conductor/pianist Christopher Allen. Hold Fast Your Dreams is the first single from the Allens’ upcoming album (out September 7, 2021), Beneath the Sky.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts today announced artistic works celebrating iconic civil rights leaders, accessibility in the arts, and the rich history of dance in New York City coming to Restart Stages this September—the outdoor performing arts center created to champion the revival and recovery of New York City arts.

Individual tickets to all the announced Houston Symphony 2021–22 Classical and POPS concerts are now available via houstonsymhony.org and 713.224.7575. Single tickets to the Symphony's BBVA Family Series are currently only on sale to subscribers.

On Saturday, August 21, 2021 at 8:00 p.m., Pacific Chorale's original concert film “The Wayfaring Project” will receive its world premiere in an outdoor screening on the Julianne and George Argyros Plaza at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.