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The Sphinx Organization revealed the 2024-2025 highlights, including the 2025 Sphinx Medals of Excellence. Learn how to purchase tickets....

Special guest conductor, Carl Topilow, and renowned pianist George Burton, will appear at the No Name Pops’ upcoming concert, Timeless: A Tribute to the Legacy of Peter Nero. ...

Discover the exciting new additions to the Aizuri Quartet as they welcome violist Brian Hong and cellist Caleb van der Swaagh for their highly anticipated 23/24 season. Get all the details on this talented quartet's upcoming performances and collaborations....

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 Wednesday, November 30th from 6:30-8:00 pm, The Strings of Modus Operandi Orchestra (MOO) will perform in their Merkin Hall debut. ...

The GRAMMY-nominated Aizuri Quartet will continue its innovative approach to programming and performance in the 2022-23 season, including featured debuts at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, Texas Performing Arts, and more....

The Sheku Kanneh-Mason story continues. Today, the celebrated cellist releases a brand new solo album, which reveals more about the young star and what inspires him than ever before. Song (referring to the unique singing tone of the cello) is out now on Decca Classics and is Sheku's most personal album yet, presenting a musical portrait of the gifted musician....

Karen Slack has announced her 2022-2023 season, featuring an expansive range of programming spanning the recital, orchestral, and operatic worlds. ...

On Monday, October 3, 2022 the multiple Grammy award-winning conductor, JoAnn Falletta, will conduct the Buffalo Philharmonic in their return to Carnegie Hall for a tribute to Lukas Foss, in honor of his 100th birthday (August 15, 1922 – Feb 1, 2009). Presented by Trinity Wall Street and Opus 3 Artists, the 7pm concert is a gift to New York City with free admission. ...

DACAMERA, a Houston-based presenter of chamber music and jazz concerts, will present Nathalie Joachim and the Spektral Quartet on Monday, April 25 and Tuesday, April 26, 2022, at the Menil Collection at 7:30 p.m.. Flautist and vocalist Joachim is joined by the Spektral Quartet for two performances of Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti), a celebration of some of Haiti’s most iconic female artists and an exploration of Haitian heritage....

On Friday, September 24, 2021, Deutsche Grammophon releases the Philadelphia Orchestra's recordings of Florence Price's Symphony No. 1 in E minor and Symphony No. 3 in C minor led by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. ...

On Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:30pm, violinist Kristin Lee and pianist Jeremy Jordan join forces for a virtual recital presented by Adelphi University. The program, entitled Americana, showcases a broad spectrum of illustrious composers and the American musical styles which influenced them....

Harmonia Mundi will be releasing a recording on May 28, 2021 of Samuel Barber's Toccata Festiva (catalog numberHMM902611) featuring GRAMMY award-winning organist Paul Jacobs as soloist with the Lucerne Symphony under conductor James Gaffigan. The performance was recorded live in concert in Lucerne, November 2018....

The Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra will open their 2019/2020 season on Sunday, December 15, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. at the Perelman Theater at The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. Maestra Rosalind Erwin, PYAO conductor, will lead this talented young orchestra in a program of music taken from the Romantic period lexicon of orchestral music....

Multi-GRAMMY® Award-winning composer/pianist/educator Arturo O'Farrill and the non-profit The Afro Latin Jazz Alliance (ALJA) announce a special Holiday Dance Concert featuring the 18-piece Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO) performing riveting compositions from its acclaimed repertoire at BRIC House on Thursday, December 5, 2019. The Holiday Dance Concert raises funds for the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance's Music Education Programs. The evening will be a retrospective of Latin Jazz Big Band music with...

The Philly POPS kicks off its Christmas concert series with the sixth annual Comcast NBCUniversal I'll Be Home for Christmas: A Salute to the Military and First Responders December 6, 2019 at 8 p.m. at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. At this annual benefit concert, the POPS hosts 2,000 members of the military, veterans, police and fire departments, and their families. The concert is presented in partnership with the USO, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the City of Philadelphia, and ...

Last night, at their performance in the David Rubenstein Atrium for Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the award-winning violinist Tessa Lark and virtuoso composer and bassist Michael Thurber  announced the release of Invention, their debut recording as a duo. Invention is anchored by J.S. Bach's Two-Part Inventions and fuses the pair's classical and American music influences into a wholly original sound....

To mark the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, artists across the world are celebrating his music with wide-ranging performances and projects—from Jonathan Biss's immersion in the composer's piano sonatas, to Stephen Hough's recording of the five piano concertos, to the Miró Quartet's surveys of the complete string quartets in concert and on recording. Even beyond cycles and series, the number of individual Beethoven performances expands next season in celebration of the anniversary. Highli...

Legendary music teacher Lee Snyder, 77, of Huntingdon Valley, PA, who has been teaching at Settlement Music School for 47 years and has private students, was named as the grand prize winner of the 6th Annual Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO) Ovation Award in a surprise presentation....

Concert Artists Guild has a long history of supporting innovative artists. This year, CAG is excited to continue this tradition with the new Richard S. Weinert Award for Innovation in Classical Music. Open to CAG roster artists and alumni, this $5,000 award is given annually to an artist or ensemble with an outstanding proposal for a distinctive project....