HOUSTON SYMPHONY

Arts leader Lee Koonce, who transformed Gateways Music Festival from an all-volunteer local festival into an organization of national significance, will receive the Gold Baton, the League of American Orchestras has announced. ...

The Sun Valley Music Festival has announced its landmark 40th-anniversary season, from July 29 to August 22, at the Sun Valley Pavilion, in the beautiful, natural surroundings of Sun Valley - the country's original destination ski resort. ...

Internationally renowned musician, teacher, author, and longstanding Cleveland Orchestra Principal to join the faculty in fall 2024....

Young Concert Artists has announced the winners of the 2023 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. The winners will perform in the 2023 Winners Concert on November 12, 2023, at Gilder Lehrman Hall, The Morgan Library & Museum....

St. Luke's United Methodist Church presents Christmas Festival on Dec. 17 featuring original arrangements by composer Taylor Scott Davis....

In an exciting 2023-2024 season, GRAMMY-winning virtuoso violinist and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Itzhak Perlman engages with audiences across the world as he builds on his career as one of the most distinguished classical musicians of our era....

An international cohort of thirty-six orchestra and arts professionals will participate in Essentials of Orchestra Management, the League of American Orchestras’ premier leadership development program. The ten-day program, running from July 26-August 4, 2023, is presented in collaboration with Juilliard Extension and will take place in New York at Juilliard’s Lincoln Center Campus....

 An international cohort of thirty-six orchestra and arts professionals will participate in Essentials of Orchestra Management, the League of American Orchestras’ premier leadership development program. The ten-day program, running from July 26-August 4, 2023, is presented in collaboration with Juilliard Extension and will take place in New York at Juilliard’s Lincoln Center Campus....

On Friday, June 23, 2023, baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer will release A Left Coast on Bridge Records. In a heartfelt playlist for their home of British Columbia, Duncan and Switzer share their fondness for the Vancouver communities, geography, and spirit that continue to nourish them as artists....

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) has announced seven composers selected from a competitive nationwide call for scores, who will participate in Spring 2023 EarShot Readings with the Naples Philharmonic (May 15-16, 2023), and Dallas Symphony Orchestra (June 21, 2023)....

On February 4th, Baroque music organization Ars Lyrica Houston welcomed guests to the Houston Museum of Natural Science for their 2023 Gala benefiting Ars Lyrica Opera Circle and their 20th anniversary season opera, Handel's Amadigi di Gaula. This spectacular evening honoring Connie Kwan-Wong, Zoe Wong, and Elly Wong, featured a progressive experience culminating with an opera performance among the dinosaurs!...

 American Composers Orchestra (ACO) continues its commitment to the creation and development of new orchestra music, and to the next generation of composers, through its spring 2023 EarShot Readings program. ...

The Greenwich Village Orchestra (GVO) presents Arias and Spirituals, led by Music Director Barbara Yahr and Associate Conductor Eric Mahl, on Sunday February 5, 2023 at 3:00p at All Saints Church, featuring Grammy Award-winning operatic bass-baritone Mark S. Doss, who makes his Lincoln Center debut in April in a concert celebrating the legacy of Paul Robeson....

On Sunday, December 12, 2022 at 8:00pm, Roy Thomson Hall presents Itzhak Perlman and Friends, a once-in-a-lifetime program featuring the legendary violinist alongside piano superstars Emanuel Ax and Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the Juilliard String Quartet. ...

The Cassatt String Quartet will return to the Music Mountain Summer Festival for an in-person recital on Sunday afternoon, September 18, 2022, 3 p.m., EDT, at Gordon Hall....

Acclaimed conductor Gemma New announces her global 2022-2023 season, featuring performances throughout the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Australia, Sweden, and Switzerland. ...

A select cohort of 35 orchestra and arts professionals have been chosen from the United States and Canada to participate in Essentials of Orchestra Management, the League of American Orchestras’ premier leadership development program. ...

The Grammy Award-winning Houston Chamber Choir, under the direction of Founder and Artistic Director Robert Simpson, announces the appointment of Brian Miller to the new position of Executive Director of the renowned choral group....

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) continues its commitment to the creation and development of new orchestra music, and to the next generation of composers, through its 2022 ACO EarShot Readings program. ...

Apollo Chamber Players today releases their fifth studio album, With Malice Toward None, on Azica Records. The album is a breathtaking collection of globally-inspired compositions and collaborations, with each composer sharing their own personal interpretations of folk music. ...

'Cien Años' is not only an exquisitely expressive celebration marking the centennial of Piazzolla's birth, the CD honors more than one man's immeasurable musical contributions. ...

Multiple GRAMMY-nominated harpist Yolanda Kondonassis and The Cleveland Orchestra's principal trumpet Michael Sachs announce the world premiere video performance of Aaron Jay Kernis' Elegy . . . for those we lost. Kernis wrote this work just one year ago offering music to reflect, mourn, and remember those lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is presented for the first time in this arrangement created especially for Sachs and Kondonassis....

The largest admission-free classical music festival in the United States presents its 37th Summer Season with live concerts featuring classical mainstays and a special celebration honoring frontline heroes....

Jazz headliner and star vocalist/pianist/composer Tony DeSare is the featured guest vocalist in “In the Mood: A Big Band New Year,” joining Houston Symphony Principal POPS conductor Steven Reineke for the first Houston Symphony performance of 2021 in the Houston Symphony’s Bank of America POPS series....

Quodlibet Ensemble and countertenor Reginald Mobley are featured in Coming Together, a digital world premiere film available to watch Thursday, October 1, 2020 at 5pm ET through Election Day, Tuesday, November 3, 2020 at 5pm ET, that traces a journey from struggle to hope amidst challenging times....