Gustav Meier News

El Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA) celebrará el 90 aniversario de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN) y los 80 años del Coro del Teatro de Bellas Artes (CTBA) con un concierto especial que podrá disfrutarse los días 19 y 21 de octubre en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes.   

The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) and its Music Director Vinay Parameswaran today announced details of the 2018-19 season. The Youth Orchestra, under Mr. Parameswaran's direction, will perform a three-concert series at Severance Hall on November 16, 2018; March 3, 2019 (with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus); and May 10, 2019. Subscription packages are on sale now, with individual tickets available starting on September 4, 2018.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association has announced the four conductors who will participate in the 2018/19 Dudamel Fellowship Program: Nuno Coelho, Stephen Mulligan, Elena Schwarz, and Jesus Uzcategui. Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, together with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, created the Dudamel Fellowship Program in 2009 to provide a unique opportunity for promising young conductors from around the world to develop their craft and enrich their musical experience through personal mentorship and participation in the LA Phil's orchestral, education, and community programs.

Girls Inc. summer campers will preview the Houston Symphony's upcoming Mendelssohn's "Scottish" concert and meet the guest conductor, Elim Chan, one of the rising women conductors leading major symphonic orchestras around the world during rehearsal on Friday, June 22 at 10 a.m. The campers will meet Chan following rehearsal at 12:30 p.m.

New York Youth Symphony (NYYS), is proud to continue its mission of providing an outstanding music education and performance opportunities to students between the ages of 12-22 by launching a new Musical Theater Composition program aimed at diversifying the world of musical theater. The new director and performance information is expected to be announced in summer 2018. Also new in 2018/19 the NYYS Orchestra and Chamber Music Programs will tour together for the first time ever to Spain in 2019, where they will explore cities including Madrid, Granada, and Seville.

Conductor Jordan Randall Smith has recently been appointed to two new posts in the Baltimore area. Beginning April 2, Smith leads the choir, children's choir, and orchestra at Hunt's Church in Towson and will co-direct the church's new digital media department. In his blog, Jordan wrote, 'I am delighted to join the the staff of this special group of people as we look ahead to a range of new initiatives to expand our musical footprint and community impact.'

Imagine Ballet Theatre, an Ogden-based ballet company, is bringing spring to the stage of Peery's Egyptian Theatre, with their whimsical  production of Fairyopolis, Mad Rush, Bartok Dances and a special  performance by PALS on April 27and 28, 2018. Choreography by Artistic Director Raymond Van Mason and the magical score composed by Felix Mendelssohn will have live accompaniment by Chamber Orchestra Ogden under the direction of Gabriel Gordon, The story is loosely based off the books How to find Flower Fairies by Cicely Mary Barker.

Kahchun Wong returns to the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, where he is the Chief Conductor Designate, to conduct two concerts featuring Mahler's Symphony No. 5 on March 17 and 18, 2018. Wong will become the new Chief Conductor of the Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra beginning in the 2018/2019 season.

Celebrate the holiday of love with Lantz and Kargul as they journey back to La Belle Epoque, the most romantic era in French art and culture. Savor the lush pastoral scenes portrayed in Joseph Canteloube's evocative suite, Dans la montagne, and revel in the passion of Jacques de La Presle's rhapsodic Sonata for Violin and Piano. Click here to purchase tickets online from USM, or by phone at (207) 780-5555, or by phone from the LARK Society at (207) 761-1522, or at the door.

Celebrate the holiday of love with Lantz and Kargul as they journey back to La Belle Epoque, the most romantic era in French art and culture. Savor the lush pastoral scenes portrayed in Joseph Canteloube's evocative suite, Dans la montagne, and revel in the passion of Jacques de La Presle's rhapsodic Sonata for Violin and Piano.

Flutist Demarre McGill joins music director Michael Repper and the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra in their 55th season McCrindle Concert at Carnegie Hall on Sunday, March 18th, 2018 at 2PM. McGill is Principal Flutist at the Seattle Symphony, and has previously been principal flutist at the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Florida Orchestra, and Santa Fe Opera Orchestra.

Hollywood actor Bill Murray teams up with distinguished German cellist Jan Vogler in Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends: New Worlds, a spirited one-night-only celebration of music and literature presented by the OFJCC in Palo Alto.

Newly appointed music director Michael Repper leads the New York Youth Symphony Orchestra in its 55th season opening concert on Sunday, November 19, 2017 at 2:00pm at Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman stage. The program marks Mr. Repper's Carnegie Hall debut as conductor, and will feature Roy & Shirley Durst Debut Artist Christine Lamprea, performing Schumann's Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129. The program will also include Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2 in E minor, op. 27, and the world premiere of First Music award winner Hilary Purrington's Daylight.

Prompted by President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (GGSOC), led by Maestro Urs Leonhardt Steiner, Music Director, opens its 2017-2018 season with Viva Mexico! Beyond Border Walls, a special program of live classical music that celebrates the rich musical traditions and cultures of Mexico and beyond.

Prompted by President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, the Golden Gate Symphony Orchestra & Chorus (GGSOC), led by Maestro Urs Leonhardt Steiner, Music Director, opens its 2017-2018 season with Viva Mexico! Beyond Border Walls, a special program of live classical music that celebrates the rich musical traditions and cultures of Mexico and beyond. Featuring special guest conductor Martha Rodriguez-Salazar and a noteworthy variety of special guests from Mexico and the Bay Area, Viva Mexico! Beyond Border Walls will take place at the Herbst Theatre, 410 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco. To purchase tickets, please visit: www.cityboxoffice.com/ggsoc or call 415-392-4400.

The inspiring 30-year old Singaporean conductor Kahchun Wong, winner of the 2016 Mahler Competition, has an intense 2017/18 season illustrating the rapid ascent of his career. Wong opened the season with a return to the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra on October 5 and 6 and then made his debut at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi di Trieste on October 13 and 14.

This spring, the international music sensation ROCKTOPIA will rock Broadway for six epic weeks, March 20 - April 29, 2018 at The Broadway Theatre (1681 Broadway).

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.

Hollywood actor Bill Murray teams up with distinguished German cellist Jan Vogler in Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends: New Worlds, a spirited one-night-only celebration of music and literature presented by the OFJCC in Palo Alto.

The McCallum Theatre presents Bill Murray, Jan Vogler & Friends in New Worlds on Saturday, October 7, at 8:00pm. Bill Murray became friends with cellist Jan Vogler in New York. Curious about each other's artistic world and interests, they decided to work together on New Worlds, a project that showcases the core of American values in literature and music. Along with Mira Wang (violin) and Vanessa Perez (piano), Bill Murray and virtuoso cellist Jan Vogler perform a program that celebrates Bill's love for classical music and the strong artistic voices that have influenced generations of artists.