Yo-Yo Ma News

Duduka Da Fonseca and Helio Alves will appear in a week of performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center entitled 'Samba Jazz and the Music of Jobim' from April 27th to May 2nd.

Houston Ballet will close its current production, American at Heart, featuring two ballets that are significant to the history American dance (George Balanchine's Apollo and Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free) and one work inspired by American popular culture and created specifically for an American company (Christopher Bruce's Hush, choreographed for Houston Ballet in 2006). The production will close March 21st.

Keali'i Reichel, the most popular and best-selling Hawaiian singer-songwriter-musician in history, debuts at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8 p.m. Reichel's music, chant and hula represent the best of traditional and contemporary poetry and dance in Hawaii today.

Northrop Music at the University of Minnesota presents Grammy® nominated Panamanian jazz pianist Danilo Perez, as he joins together some of the brightest lights of the current modern jazz scene to pay tribute to the jazz legend.

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford. Hartt offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre.

Armed with astounding technical virtuosity and a rare gift for composition, singer, pianist and composer Gabriel Kahane is at the forefront of a generation of musicians who find their voices, outlets and audiences in unexpected and exciting places. On the heels of his Lincoln Center American Songbook debut, Kahane brings his 'music for the ears, the intellect and the soul' (Prefix Magazine) to the Southern Theater by way of For the Union Dead, a song cycle on poems by Robert Lowell, written specifically for yMusic

Offering up greater variety, including more than 50 debuts from Sting to Wagnerian tenor John Treleaven, Ravinia Festival Chairperson Pamela B. Strobel and President and CEO Welz Kauffman today announced details of the 2010 season, including a Chicago Symphony Orchestra residency that celebrates major anniversaries of Mahler, Chopin, Schumann, Barber, Bernstein and Copland, as well as milestone birthdays of Music Director James Conlon, Christoph Eschenbach and Stephen Sondheim. The season, featuring 117 separate events, runs from June 3 through September 7.

Houston Ballet presents American at Heart, featuring two ballets that are significant to the history American dance (George Balanchine's Apollo and Jerome Robbins's Fancy Free) and one work inspired by American popular culture and created specifically for an American company (Christopher Bruce's Hush, choreographed for Houston Ballet in 2006). The production will run March 11th through March 21st, 2010.

Seattle Theatre Group (STG) presents the third annual collaboration of Mark Morris Dance Group with Seattle Symphony on May 21-23 at The Paramount Theatre. This year's engagement includes Seattle Symphony performing Haydn's Horn Concerto No. 2 in D major, A Lake; Bach's Jesu, Meine Freude; and Vivaldi's Gloria. The Tudor Choir will join Seattle Symphony for the Bach and Vivaldi pieces, and Gloria will feature special guest conductor, Seattle-native Mark Morris.

Keali'i Reichel, the most popular and best-selling Hawaiian singer-songwriter-musician in history, debuts at Walt Disney Concert Hall on Friday, March 19, 2010 at 8 p.m. Reichel's music, chant and hula represent the best of traditional and contemporary poetry and dance in Hawaii today.

Symphony Space has invited Gina Gibney and David Parker to weave together an evening of dances at Peter Norton Symphony Space from March 5-6, 2010, thus inaugurating Symphony Space's Short Form Weave Series.

Symphony Space has invited Gina Gibney and David Parker to weave together an evening of dances at Peter Norton Symphony Space from March 5-6, 2010, thus inaugurating Symphony Space's Short Form Weave Series.

The Hartt School welcomes world renowned artists who are sharing their talents with Hartt students and the community.

Opera Boston announces the company's first commissioned work- the world premiere of Madame White Snake, a new opera based on a beloved ancient Chinese legend, by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. Co-commissioned with the Beijing Music Festival (BMF), it is the first world premiere by the BMF and an American company.

Opera Boston announces the company's first commissioned work- the world premiere of Madame White Snake, a new opera based on a beloved ancient Chinese legend, by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. Co-commissioned with the Beijing Music Festival (BMF), it is the first world premiere by the BMF and an American company.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, former stage mother-daughter duo, Patti LuPone and Laura Benanti, may get a round two. Like thier Gypsy counterparts, LuPone has reportedly signed on to star as Benanti's tough-loving mother in the new CBS pilot, Open Books, to which Benanti has been long attached.

Opera Boston presents the company's first commissioned work- the world premiere of Madame White Snake, an opera by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs, based on a beloved ancient Chinese legend.

Opera Boston announces the company's first commissioned work- the world premiere of Madame White Snake, a new opera based on a beloved ancient Chinese legend, by composer Zhou Long and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. Co-commissioned with the Beijing Music Festival (BMF), it is the first world premiere by the BMF and an American company.

Symphony Space has invited Gina Gibney and David Parker to weave together an evening of dances at Peter Norton Symphony Space from March 5-6, 2010, thus inaugurating Symphony Space's Short Form Weave Series.

Patti LuPone is giving fans the chance to name her new book. This statement has been posted on her website.