The 2024 George Enescu International Competition announces preselection results and concert schedule, with 149 young artists from over 20 countries selected from a record 555 applicants in cello, violin, and piano divisions....
According various sources, Jaap van Zweden will step down as the music director of the New York Philharmonic after 6 seasons....
The Curtis Institute of Music is expanding its conducting program, offering unique mentorship to promising young conductors....
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....
Marin Alsop takes on new UK and Polish appointments, leading major productions in London, Vienna, and Katowice. Don't miss her all-American program with the Philharmonia Orchestra, rare performance of Penderecki's The Black Mask, and more....
Conductor James Gaffigan unveils his highly anticipated 23/24 season highlights and begins his tenure as Music Director of two prestigious European opera houses. Learn more about his inaugural season at Komische Oper Berlin and his third season at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía. P...
Violinist and Colburn School alumna Anne Akiko Meyers will be the featured keynote speaker on May 1 at the 2023 Conservatory of Music Commencement, where she will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the School. ...
Today, the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) announced it has extended Gianandrea Noseda's contract as Music Director for an additional two seasons, through the 2026–2027 season, his tenth at the helm of the NSO....
In another gesture of solidarity with the victims of the war in Ukraine, the Metropolitan Opera and the Polish National Opera will gather leading Ukrainian musicians into the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra for a European and American tour July 28–August 20, including stops in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the Netherlands, before culminating with concerts in New York and Washington, DC. ...
Available in the United States and internationally starting today on the Apple TV app, Carnegie Hall is introducing Carnegie Hall+, a new premium subscription video on-demand channel (SVOD), curated by Carnegie Hall, that offers instant access to unforgettable performances by celebrated artists from renowned stages all around the world....
Grammy Award-winning pianist Daniil Trifonov, recently announced as OPUS KLASSIK 2021 Instrumentalist of the Year, today releases his new Deutsche Grammophon solo recording, Bach – The Art of Life. Centered around Johann Sebastian Bach's late masterpiece The Art of Fugue, the new double album reflects Trifonov's insight into the family life and music-making of one of the greatest composers of all time....
12 of Antonio Stradivari's finest violins have traveled across the world for a ground-breaking new project with violin superstar Janine Jansen. The resulting album - 12 Stradivari, out September 10, 2021 on Decca Classics - captures the individual characters of each instrument in a specially-curated program accompanied by Sir Antonio Pappano at the piano....
The Dresden Music Festival announced its 2021 season with optimism today. Jan Vogler, Director of the Dresden Music Festival, has designated the 44th edition of the Festival, which will take place from May 14 to June 12, 2021, with the theme 'DIALOGUES.' ...
Yefim Bronfman performs Debussy’s “Claire de lune” during Live with Carnegie Hall on April 23, 2020. ...
Four American conductors-Ankush Kumar Bahl (Washington, D.C.), John Devlin (Wheeling, WV), Anna Edwards (Seattle, WA), and Enrico Lopez-Yañez (Nashville, TN)-announced today the launch of their joint venture, the new website EverythingConducting.com....
The Embrace Everything podcast series, created and hosted by award-winning radio producer Aaron Cohen, is an exploration and celebration of the music of Gustav Mahler (1860–1911) via a journey through his symphonies. Through commentary by Mr. Cohen, interviews with leading Mahler interpreters and scholars, readings from the letters of Mahler and his contemporaries, and through the sounds of the symphonies themselves, each season of the series will guide listeners through one of these landmark wo...
With live performances put on hold, theaters, operas and symphonies all over the country have brought their performances online for virtual viewing. Here is a list of classical performances to stream this week!...
As part of Carnegie Hall's 2020-2021 season, announced on January 28, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will perform three programs on October 26, 2020, and April 14 and 15, 2021, led by BSO Music Director Andris Nelsons. These programs will also be featured in the BSO's 2020-2021 season at Symphony Hall in Boston. Mr. Nelsons and the BSO will announce complete details of the 2020-21 season in April....
Orchestra of St. Luke's (OSL) today announced detailed programming for the second annual OSL Bach Festival, spanning three weeks from June 9-30, 2020, with concerts and masterclasses across four venues in Manhattan-including three orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall-and featuring guest artists cellist Pieter Wispelwey, harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, and soprano Amanda Forsythe. The OSL Bach Festival was launched last June to great success as part of the first season of esteemed Baroque and Clas...
The New York Times reports that world renowned conductor Mariss Jansons has passed away at age 76. He passed after after a longstanding battle with a heart condition. ...
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Demarre McGill, principal flute of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and his brother Anthony McGill, principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic, return to their early training ground, the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras (CYSO), for Winged Creatures, a homecoming album of duo concertos featuring world-premiere recordings of works by Michael Abels and Joel Puckett written expressly for the McGills and the CYSO's Symphony Orchestra....
The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is pleased to announce the appointment Shantanique Moore, flutist, as the next recipient of the symphony's two-year fellowship designed to enable one young African American musician the ability to dedicate him or herself to the pursuit of an orchestral career. Ms. Moore will be the eighth recipient of a fellowship from the symphony's EQT Orchestra Training Program for African American Musicians (OTPAAM)....
Bernard Labadie leads Les Violons du Roy and La Chapelle de Québec in Bach's Mass in B Minor on Tuesday, May 7 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. Soloists for the program include soprano Lydia Teuscher, countertenor Iestyn Davies, tenor Robin Tritschler, and bass-baritone Matthew Brook....
The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents The Tetzlaff Trio performing Schumann's consummate Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63, paired with Dvo k's remarkable masterpiece Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65, on Friday, April 26, 2019, 7:30 pm, at The Wallis' Bram Goldsmith Theater. The trio, featuring siblings Christian Tetzlaff, violin, and Tanja Tetzlaff, cello, and Lars Vogt, piano, are touring North America for the first time in three years. They bring polish and passion to every pe...
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