Yo-Yo Ma News

Riccardo Muti's sixth season as music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) begins with a multi-faceted celebration as the CSO kicks off its 125th anniversary season in 2015/16.

Bergen Performing Arts Center located at 30 North Van Brunt Street in Englewood, New Jersey presents Itzhak Perlman as part of the Wilmington Trust Cultural Arts Series, Sunday, October 11, 2015 at 7PM. Purchase tickets to see the reigning violin virtuoso at www.ticketmaster.com or Box Office at 201.227.1030. 

The CSO launches its 2015-16 Masterworks season with the beloved and electrifying Carmina Burana conducted by Music Director Rossen Milanov in his first full season at the helm of the orchestra.

Single tickets for more than 30 of Omaha Performing Arts' 2015-2016 performances will go on sale Thursday, September 3. The performances, scheduled for October 2015 through June 2016, include several shows added after the season announcement, including Mavis Staples with special guest, Nick Lowe, Wild Kratts - Live!, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott in Recital.

With their trademark wit, virtuosity and irreverence for traditional genre demarcations, the members of the Turtle Island Quartet are the perfect candidates to put a thoroughly unique spin on the works of Jelly Roll Morton, Scott Joplin and Thelonious Monk, drawing out surprising connections along the way. On their brand new program, Jelly, Rags & Monk, the Turtle Island Quartet reunites for the third time with the extraordinary jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut, after a series of special performances for TIQ's 25th anniversary season with mandolinist Mike Marshall that featured “astonishing versatility,” according to The Washington Post.

Omaha Performing Arts announced today the addition of Yo-Yo Ma and Kathryn Stott in Recital to its 2015-2016 season. The performance will be Tuesday, May 17, 2016, at 7:30 p.m. in the Kiewit Concert Hall of the Holland Performing Arts Center, 1200 Douglas St. The rectangular shape of the hall – inspired by the 100-year-old Musikverein in Vienna – is ideal for the concert: Allowing superior quality of sound with acoustical clarity and a rich reverberation.

The Music Institute of Chicago presents Syrian musician and composer Issam Rafea and his Trio October 18 at 3 p.m. at Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Ave., Evanston. The Trio plays an astonishingly emotional and virtuosic repertoire of traditional Syrian music and new compositions for oud, tabla, and voice.

Texas Performing Arts opens the 2015-2016 season with Grammy Award-winning pianist/composer Billy Childs' Map to the Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro featuring vocalists Dianne Reeves, Becca Stevens, and Alicia Olatuja, September 10 at Bass Concert Hall. The Cordova Quartet, the Butler School of Music's graduate quartet, will perform with Childs and his band for this special performance that delves into the expansive catalogue of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer/songwriter Laura Nyro.

Accomplished arts executive Scott Harrison has been appointed Executive Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (LACO), announces LACO Board President Dana Newman. Harrison, who assumes his post on October 6, 2015, handles responsibility for providing the vision, strategic direction and oversight of the organization.  Led by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane, LACO is considered one of the world's premier chamber orchestras.  Harrison comes to LACO from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) where he served as Vice President for Advancement and External Relations.  Having joined DSO in 2010 as Senior Director of Patron Engagement and Loyalty Programs, he was promoted to Executive Director of Board Engagement and Strategy in 2013 and to the Vice President role in 2014.  Harrison's extensive background with major orchestras also includes work with the symphony orchestras of Indianapolis, New Jersey, Dallas and Boston.  A bassoonist earlier in his career, Harrison performed with the Indianapolis Symphony, Shreveport Symphony and Dallas Wind Symphony, among others, in addition to performing on tour in the United Kingdom, Europe and Latin America.   He has taught bassoon in the US, Haiti, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

Music Director Alan Gilbert will conduct the New York Philharmonic in the World Premiere- Philharmonic Commission of Marc Neikrug's Canta-Concerto, featuring mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke; Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Emanuel Ax as soloist; and Brahms's Tragic Overture. The performances take place Thursday, October 1, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, October 3, at 8:00 p.m. Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic will also perform Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Emanuel Ax as soloist, on a program that includes Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, on September 30, 2015, at 7:30 p.m., as well as at Long Island University's Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in Brookville, New York, on October 2, 2015, at 8:00 p.m.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate and Pope Francis' visit to the United States, Salon/Sanctuary Concerts explores the cross-fertilization of Jewish and Catholic musical cultures that enriched the music of both Synagogue and Sanctuary.

The Chicago Humanities Festival (CHF) announced today the complete schedule for the 26th Fall Festival, 130 events which will explore the theme of Citizens, Oct. 24-Nov. 8, 2015 at venues across Chicago.

Jake Shimabukuro will play The Paramount in Seattle on Friday, October 23, 2015 at 8:00PM.

Ma and Emanuel Ax performed all five Beethoven cello sonatas in one evening at Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Shed

It's a double billing of out-of-this stratosphere musicianship as two renowned Grammy winners - jazz trumpeter Chris Botti and classical violinist Joshua Bell - take to the stage tonight, August 15. Botti and Bell deliver impassioned, ageless, genre-crossing music to St. Regis Big|Brave Stars, Bright Nights concertgoers, beginning at 7 p.m.

Benzel-Busch Motor Car Corp., New Jersey's premier Mercedes-Benz, Audi and smart dealership and longtime supporter of the Bergen Performing Arts Center (bergenPAC), presents the “Benzel-Busch Concert Series.”   As part of the series, Chris Botti is set to perform tonight, August 7 at 8pm. Prior to the performance; Benzel-Busch will be on-site showcasing (XX, YY and ZZ) where patrons can get the first look at these newest cars.

Rite of Summer Music Festival concludes its fifth, most musically and culturally diverse season yet with Imani Winds performing two free shows at 1 & 3pm today, August 1st.

In the summer of 2015 the New York Philharmonic will undertake its first performance residencies in Shanghai, as part of the Shanghai Orchestra Academy and Residency Partnership, and at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will be live-streaming eleven concerts this summer from its Out of Doors series and Mostly Mozart Festival, making concerts from the world's leading performing arts center more accessible to fans around the globe. We are excited to bring you one of them right here at BroadwayWorld.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts will be live-streaming eleven concerts this summer from its Out of Doors series and Mostly Mozart Festival, making concerts from the world's leading performing arts center more accessible to fans around the globe. We are excited to bring you one of them right here at BroadwayWorld.  Tonight at 7PM, tune in right here for Randy Newman, Wycliffe Gordon and His International All-Stars and Lil Buck. With songs that run the gamut from heartbreaking to satirical, plus a host of unforgettable film scores, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Randy Newman has created musical masterpieces widely recognized by generations of audiences. Master trombonist Wycliffe Gordon and his jet-setting band will bring their signature sound to a set of New Orleans tunes. And the jaw-droppingly virtuosic Lil Buck starts the evening with the blend of Memphis street style (jookin') and contemporary dance that sparked collaborations with Yo-Yo Ma, Madonna, and Mikhail Baryshnikov.