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.
For the latest release in their series of recordings on Recursive Classics, the Park Avenue Chamber Symphony under Music Director David Bernard stay closer to home in repertoire terms, with their new album 'Sounds Of America'.
Consolidating tradition and renewal, the Festival de Lanaudière has announced its programming under the theme The Thrill of Enchantment, and joyfully reconnects with its audiences this summer from July 17 to August 8.
The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2021–22 season, marking the Orchestra’s long-awaited return to subscription performances following an 18-month period of cancellations due to the pandemic. For the first time in modern history the Philharmonic will be performing outside its home for an entire season.
The biggest surprise about the surprise program at the Kennedy Center by the National Symphony Orchestra under the direction fo Gianandrea Noseda may have been that it was happening at all.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has announced programming for the 2021–2022 season of Fortas Chamber Music Concerts, the series’s 40th season and 25th under the leadership of artistic director and pianist Joseph Kalichstein.
The Royal Swedish Opera invites you to a series of concerts during spring of 2021. Every Wednesday they present a concert that can be enjoyed as a classic lunch concert, or when it suits you, on the company's digital stage Operan Play.
New York City Ballet has announced programming for their 2021 Digital Season for the week of May 3-8, and programming and casting details for NYCB’s 2021 Spring Gala film, premiering on Wednesday, May 5 at the Company’s first-ever virtual gala.
In the final episode in the BSO’s 2020-21 BSO NOW streaming season, releasing tomorrow at noon, BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons will return to a focus of his recent conducting activity: music of Richard Strauss. Strauss was only 18 when his Serenade for Winds, Op. 7, was premiered in Dresden.
WQXR, New York City's classical music station, today announced the launch of a second season of “New York in Concert” — a guide to the city's classical scene featuring exclusive, locally-sourced performances, and the artists, ensembles, and institutions that make New York a leader in music.
BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons leads works by two closely associated composers, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms, in the first of three programs in 'Pathways of Romanticism,' the final series of the BSO’s 2020-21 streaming season.
Ember the critically acclaimed choral ensemble of Schola Cantorum on Hudson will present a live and virtual concert this weekend entitled “Release,” where we examine this period in our life between what was and what will be.
