Yo-Yo Ma News

Live @ Benaroya Hall dazzles with more than a dozen new lectures and concerts this winter and spring. Tickets for Alan Cumming, Ang lique Kidjo, Fran Lebowitz, Jake Shimabukuro, The Wailin' Jennys, Howard Jones and L nasa will go on sale Friday, November 3, at 10am. All other tickets are available now. Additional spring and summer shows for the 2018 season will be announced in late January. Tickets for most shows listed are on sale now, prices vary. Visit www.benaroyahall.org or call (206) 215-4747.

Today, Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC) announced four new live music events to go on sale on Friday, November 3, days before the Center reopens its doors on Monday, November 6.

On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 8:00 p.m., the American Classical Orchestra, the nation's premier orchestra dedicated to period instrument performance (Vulture), presents a holiday program featuring the acclaimed ACO Chorus in the Christmas portion of Handel's Messiah, performed in the sacred setting of St. Ignatius of Antioch Church.

Mr. Trifonov has already developed an international career as a solo artist, a champion of the concerto repertoire, a collaborator at the keyboard in chamber music and song, and as a composer artistic facets that will all be showcased in his seven-concert Perspectives series this season, beginning with a solo recital in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage today, October 28. At 26 years of age, Mr. Trifonov is the youngest artist ever to curate a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall.

The Open Source Music Festival, November 16-18, 2017 at the Abrons Arts Center, takes its inspiration from the collaborations and connections between artists. The groundbreaking event explores the phenomenon of Open Source through a musical lens.

Shaped by her experience coming of age during the Cultural Revolution, Chen Yi's early influences included Chinese traditional music and Western classical music. She is a master of contemporary technique and a strong advocate for music's power to connect audiences of different cultural backgrounds. In the words of The New York Times, Chen Yi's music is about storytelling and theater, and a search for striking and original effects. The spirited Curtis 20/21 Ensemble will take on Chen's impressive chamber works, including the evocative Happy Rain on a Spring Night. ?

The New York Philharmonic will celebrate the Lunar New Year, welcoming the Year of the Dog with a Gala and Concert led by Long Yu on Tuesday, February 20, 2018, at 7:30 p.m.

On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 7:30 p.m. in the Machine Shop in Minneapolis, The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series presents Emily Wells' The World Is Too ______ For You with violinist/composer Michi Wiancko, percussionist Greg Fox and musicians of the SPCO. This world premiere was commissioned by the SPCO's Liquid Music Series.

Acknowledged by The New York Times for his 'exquisitely sensitive playing' and stunning agility, Grammy-nominated mandolinist Avi Avital is one of the world's most exciting and adventurous musicians. He will perform in concert at the Eli and Edythe Broad Stage with the bold and vibrant chamber musicians The Knights and the soulful Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh for an extraordinary collaboration on Wednesday, November 8 at 7:30pm.

Edo de Waart will replace Christoph von Dohn nyi in concerts featuring the World Premiere-New York Philharmonic commission of Bent S rensen's Evening Land; Emanuel Ax as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 (replacing the previously announced Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27); and Brahms's Symphony No. 2.

The National Philharmonic's 2017-2018 season at The Music Center at Strathmore commences with star-studded performances by some of today's most famous classical musicians.

The New York Philharmonic's Marie-Josee Kravis Composer-in-Residence Esa-Pekka Salonen and Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Leif Ove Andsnes will both launch their 2017-18 Philharmonic residencies in a Scandinavian-themed program led by Paavo Jarvi.

Pittsburgh CLO has announced the cast of the Pittsburgh premiere of XANADU, October 12-December 17 at the CLO Cabaret.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC) presents an evening with master trumpeter the world's best-selling jazz instrumentalist Chris Botti, returning to Prudential Hall for a concert as cool as it is romantic, drawing from his wide-ranging repertoire of pop, jazz and classical music

The National Philharmonic's 2017-2018 season at The Music Center at Strathmore commences with star-studded performances by some of today's most famous classical musicians.

Mr. Trifonov has already developed an international career as a solo artist, a champion of the concerto repertoire, a collaborator at the keyboard in chamber music and song, and as a composer artistic facets that will all be showcased in his seven-concert Perspectives series this season, beginning with a solo recital in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage on Saturday, October 28. At 26 years of age, Mr. Trifonov is the youngest artist ever to curate a Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall.

Baryshnikov Arts Center's (BAC) Fall 2017 music presentations include BAC Salon: Telemann, Farrin, Wolfe + Prokofiev featuring the New York premiere of a work by Julia Wolfe (October 5 and 6); violin virtuoso Gidon Kremer performing Mieczyslaw Weinberg's 24 Preludes, Op. 100 (October 31 and November 1); and BAC Salon: Pauline Oliveros featuring IONE and International Contemporary Ensemble (November 28).

The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at the University of British Columbia (UBC) presents Ruthie Foster, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Carrie Rodriguez, the Lone Star State's diverse and celebrated songwriters, on November 8 at 8pm in the Chan Shun Concert Hall. Performing as part of of the Texas Troubadours project, these three distinctive voices come together for the first time to swap songs and collaborate.

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Music Center's famed acoustics will be put to the test when PREformances with Allison Charney fills the celebrated New York City concert hall with the sound of music on October 16 at 1PM.

BAM presents The New York premiere of Matthew Aucoin's acclaimed opera Crossing, an American Repertory Theater production directed by Diane Paulus, running tonight, October 3, through October 8, 2017 at BAM Howard Gilman Opera House (30 Lafayette Ave).