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Factory International has announced the 2023 edition of Manchester International Festival (MIF) from 29 June to 16 July. Working with partners regionally and across the globe, the wide-ranging programme of original new work by an array of international artists will take place in venues and spaces around the city and at Factory International's much-anticipated new home, which opens its doors for the first time for the Festival, in advance of its official opening in October. 

The Seattle Symphony's 2023/2024 season marks the orchestra's 120th season and the 25th anniversary of Benaroya Hall's opening. The season launches with recreations of the Symphony's and the Hall's first-ever concerts; featuring Seattle Symphony Conductor Emeritus Ludovic Morlot and soprano Alexandra LoBianco.

Produced by Ted Hutt (Old Crow Medicine Show, Dropkick Murphys) and recorded at Los Angeles’ Kingsize Soundlabs, Traveling Wildfire is Flemons’ most personal album to-date as he refocuses on songwriting. Watch the music video directed, produced and edited by Weird Life Films now!

Early Music Vancouver (EMV) has announced the dates for this year's summer festival along with a  new name. The 2023 Early Music Vancouver Summer Festival (previously named Vancouver Bach Festival) will take place  July 27 to August 5 at various venues including SFU Goldcorp Centre for the Arts, Christ Church Cathedral, Pyatt Hall, The Orpheum Annex, West Vancouver United Church, and St. James Community Square. 

The New York City-based Riverside Choral Society, led by director Patrick Gardner, will present A Celebration of Love and Joy on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage.

The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance has announced its 20th anniversary season, bringing pioneering artists from around the globe to Chicago and continuing to champion the world-class ensembles and arts organizations that call the city home.

The Bath Festival 2023 focuses on the theme Opening Up for its internationally renowned annual celebration of music and books in May. The festival will hold over 130 events in more than 50 of Bath's distinctive buildings and spaces.

The Chicago area's 50th annual Bach Week Festival will present five distinctly different Baroque concert programs in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, April 28 to May 14, 2023.

​​​​​​​Coro Allegro, Boston's award-winning LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus, kicks off its centennial celebration of Daniel Pinkham on March 12 with performances of the late local composer's fanfares and works for double choir, brass quartet, and organ. The celebration culminates with a performance of  Pinkham's “The White Raven,” a Coro Allegro commission, on May 7. 

Buckingham Palace has confirmed that Andrew Lloyd Webber has been chosen to compose King Charles III's Coronation Anthem.

Season highlights include the ¡VIVA MEXICO! concert celebrating Mexican music and dance on Mexican Independence Day, a nostalgic viewing of the classic movie Ghostbusters screened live as the PSO performs Elmer Bernstein's Grammy-nominated score, and a concert with multiple Grammy Award-winning jazz artist Branford Marsalis.

The Cathedral Of St. John The Divine's 2022-2023 Season Of Great Music In A Great Space Continues With LIGHT OF PARADISE, featuring the world premiere of British composer David Briggs's Stabat Mater along with works by George Walker and Morten Lauridsen, on Wednesday, March 8 at 7:30pm, at the Cathedral of St.

The internationally acclaimed American pianists Ursula Oppens and Jerome Lowenthal will perform in an Music Academy concert on Thursday evening, March 9, 2023, at 7 PM, PST, at Music Academy of the West's Hahn Hall (1070 Fairway Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108). This concert, entitled 'Lowenthal's Legend,' honors and celebrates the extraordinary pianist and preeminent pedagogue Jerome Lowenthal, who has served as a Music Academy teaching artist for half a century.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street), presents Sunday evening organ recitals under the direction of Kent Tritle, Director of Cathedral Music and Organist. From iconic works of J. S. Bach, to the mystical harmonies of Jeanne Demessieux and Maurice Duruflé, to new compositions by our own Cathedral organists, these programs explore a diverse array of musical traditions inside the Gothic interior of our Cathedral.

The Onassis Foundation will present 'Archive of Desire': A Festival Inspired by the Poet C.P. Cavafy, a momentous gathering of artists responding to a poet’s legacy that stretches across every facet of the arts, yet remains widely undiscovered in the U.S.

The San Diego Symphony has announced the wide-ranging programs of its 2023-24 Jacobs Music Center season that will introduce audiences to the organization's renovated and revitalized indoor home, Copley Symphony Hall at Jacobs Music Center, beginning November 4, 2023.

GRAMMY Award-winning musician and scholar Dom Flemons, also known as “The American Songster,” will release his anticipated new album, Traveling Wildfire, on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. In advance of the release, the new song, “Slow Dance With You,” is debuting now with an ATMOS mix.

Billy Nomates, the project of the Bristol-based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, has shared new track, “vertigo”. The track follows the release of three BBC Radio 6 Music A-listed singles including the gentle, '80s-influenced, synth-pop bop “blue bones” which was a celebration of life.

New York's Smoke Jazz Club presents a stellar line-up of some of jazz's greatest artists during February.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is thrilled to announce 20 mainstage programmes and a selection of chamber music concerts for the second phase of its 2022/23 Season from January to July 2023.

On Friday, January 20, 2023 (8 pm), The Town Hall continues its 2022/23 concert series spotlighting women composers who have shaped American culture with a celebration of Grammy Award-winning Gospel legend Dr. Elbernita “Twinkie” Clark.

Further additions to Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Programme including FREE New Year’s Day Sprogmanay and First Footin’ events

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) is thrilled to announce 20 mainstage programmes and a selection of chamber music concerts for the second phase of its 2022/23 Season from January to July 2023.

Get all the details on all of the exciting jazz programming at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater running December 6 through December 18.

Billy Nomates, the project of the Bristol-based songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, shares a new track and video, “spite”, with an accompanying video directed by nwspk. The spiky, synth-powered single’s refrain, “Don’t you act like I ain’t the f**king man”, serves as both a reproach to anyone underestimating her.