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American Composers Orchestra Unveils 2024-2025 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - August 12, 2024

American Composers Orchestra revealed its 2024-2025 season, featuring works by Michael Abels, Kebra-Seyoun Charles, Curtis Stewart, Paul Novak, and Victoria Polevá. Learn more!...

Grammy Award-Winning Organist Paul Jacobs & Nashville Symphony to Release Organ Conce
by Josh Sharpe - June 27, 2024

GRAMMY Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs collaborates with the Nashville Symphony to release organ concertos by Wayne Oquin and Christopher Rouse on Naxos, dedicated to Jacobs' exceptional artistry....

Organist Paul Jacobs To Return To Chicago Symphony Orchestra in May
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 03, 2024

Join Grammy winner Paul Jacobs as he returns to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Learn how to purchase tickets. ...

MUSIC AT KOHL MANSION Welcomes The 2024 Winter/spring Season Of World Renowned Chambe
by A.A. Cristi - December 22, 2023

Experience the 2024 Winter/Spring Music Series at Kohl Mansion featuring world-renowned chamber musicians in 5 unforgettable concerts. Don't miss out on these exceptional performances. Tickets now on sale at musicatkohl.org....

Grammy Award-Winning Organist Paul Jacobs To Inaugurate Schoenstein Opus 183 Organ Wi
by Chloe Rabinowitz - November 21, 2023

GRAMMY Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs to inaugurate Schoenstein Opus 183 Organ with solo recital at St. Michael's Abbey, Silverado, CA on December 2, 2023. Program includes works by Franck, Mozart, Messiaen, Bach, and Liszt. Tickets available on St. Michael's Abbey's website....

Audience Favorite And Brahms Expert Markus Poschner Returns To Conduct Brahms' Sympho
by A.A. Cristi - November 10, 2023

As the season slowly shifts from the dappled colors of autumn to the softer shades of winter gray, the Utah Symphony presents Brahms' Symphony No. 2, led by the expert hand of returning guest conductor Markus Poschner—highlighting a vibrant program that mirrors the age-old cycle of the seasons....

GRAMMY-Winning Organist Paul Jacobs To Be Presented By Live At Winspear In Vital Orga
by A.A. Cristi - November 02, 2023

GRAMMY Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs will perform a solo organ recital at the Winspear Centre in Edmonton, Canada on November 21, 2023. Presented by Live at Winspear in their 'Vital Organs' series, Jacobs will perform works by Bach and Liszt. General admission tickets are available on the Winspear Centre's website. Don't miss this internationally celebrated organist in action!...

Itzhak Perlman Unveils 2023/2024 Season Highlights Featuring Tours of His Autobiograp
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 18, 2023

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....

League of American Orchestras Reveals New Board Members
by Stephi Wild - August 16, 2023

Pamela Carter, Jamei Haswell, John M. Loder, and Mitch Menchaca have joined the League of American Orchestras' Board of Directors; each will serve a three-year term. Marian Godfrey and Jesse Rosen were elected to the League’s Emeritus Board. The board’s officers for 2023-24 are Douglas M. Hagerman, Chair; Aaron A. Flagg and Alan Mason, Co-Vice Chairs; Chris Doerr, Treasurer, and Melanie Clarke, Secretary....

Solti Foundation U.S. Awards Largest Number Of Career Assistance Awards In Its Histor
by A.A. Cristi - May 31, 2023

Providing assistance to young conductors in the early stages of their careers and thereby helping to continue the art form, The Solti Foundation U.S. has selected a record 22 young conductors to receive a 2023 Career Assistance Award (CAA). ...

Organist Paul Jacobs To Perform Solo Organ Recital At Bach Festival Society Of Winter
by Chloe Rabinowitz - January 12, 2023

Grammy-award winning American organist Paul Jacobs will give a solo organ recital at 7:30 PM EST on Friday, February 3, 2023, in the Knowles Memorial Chapel at Winter Park, Florida. ...

Out Now: Mason Bates' PHILHARMONIA FANTASTIQUE, A New Animated Film By Gary Rydstrom
by A.A. Cristi - November 08, 2022

Platoon has released the new animated film for composer Mason Bates' Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra, a 25-minute concerto for orchestra and animated film, for rent or purchase in 4K and surround sound audio on the AppleTV app and to stream on Apple Music....

Mason Bates' PHILHARMONIA FANTASTIQUE to be Released With Animated Film By Gary Rydst
by Chloe Rabinowitz - October 19, 2022

On Friday, November 4, 2022, Platoon will release the new animated film for composer Mason Bates' Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra, a 25-minute concerto for orchestra and animated film described by John Williams 'the biggest step forward since Fantasia itself. A truly magnificent achievement.'...

Thirty Orchestras Selected To Join League of American Orchestras' Toulmin Foundation
by A.A. Cristi - October 06, 2022

​​​​​​​Thirty orchestras will take part in the League of American Orchestras’ Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program....

James M. Stephenson's VISIONS Symphony To Be Released Digitally August 5 On Cedille R
by A.A. Cristi - August 01, 2022

The world-premiere recording of James M. Stephenson's Symphony No. 3, 'Visions,' the prolific Chicago composer's largest orchestral work to date, will be released digitally August 5, 2022, on Cedille Records....

Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making Of The Orchestra Will Be Released in May
by Stephi Wild - April 27, 2022

The magical intersection between music and technology has been a central tenet of composer Mason Bates' career: from his Grammy-winning opera The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs to his work as a DJ and curator for series including San Francisco's Mercury Soul, and KC Jukebox at the Kennedy Center. Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra is no exception....

Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra Formed Will Tour Europe and the U.S. This Summer
by Stephi Wild - April 26, 2022

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. ...

Sony Classical Releases 'Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra by Mas
by Marissa Tomeo - April 09, 2022

Philharmonia Fantastique: The Making of the Orchestra, the most ambitious project to date from Grammy Award-winning composer, DJ, and curator MASON BATES, positions the modern orchestra as the perfect synthesis of art and technology. Co-commissioned by six of America’s top orchestras – Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and the American Youth Symphony – it is a 23-minute concerto accompanied by...

Out Tomorrow: The Claremont Trio Releases QUEEN OF HEARTS
by A.A. Cristi - February 24, 2022

The Claremont Trio (Emily Bruskin, violin; Julia Bruskin, cello; and Andrea Lam, piano) will release its next album, Queen of Hearts, on its Tria Records label on February 25, 2022 in celebration of its 20th anniversary. ...

League of American Orchestras Announces New Board Members
by Stephi Wild - August 03, 2021

The League's membership comprises more than 1,800 organizations and individuals across North America, ranging from world-renowned orchestras to community orchestras, from summer festivals to student and youth ensembles, from conservatories to libraries, from businesses serving orchestras to individuals who love symphonic music.  ...

Andrew Von Oeyen's New Bach And Beethoven Recording To Be Released By Warner Classics
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 13, 2021

Shaped by von Oeyen's experience of lockdown, this solo recital, recorded in France in September 2020, comprises Bach's eight-movement Overture in the French Style BWV 831, Beethoven's Piano Sonatas No. 13 in E flat and No. 23 in F minor, “Appassionata,” and and two Bach arrangements by Wilhelm Kempff....

Organist Paul Jacobs Performs as Featured Soloist In Barber's Toccata Festiva And Pou
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 09, 2021

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....

American Composers Orchestra Announces Two Commissions from the 2020 Underwood New Mu
by Chloe Rabinowitz - April 21, 2020

American Composers Orchestra (ACO) announced two commission awards for emerging composers Paul Novak and Dai Wei. They were chosen from six participants in ACO's 29th Underwood New Music Readings, one of the most coveted opportunities for emerging composers in the United States....

Organist Paul Jacobs Is Featured With The Cleveland Orchestra On World Premiere Recor
by Chloe Rabinowitz - March 23, 2020

Grammy-award winning American organist Paul Jacobs appears as the only soloist with the Cleveland Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst on the three-volume album 'The Cleveland Orchestra: A New Century.'...

Grand Teton Music Festival Announces 2020 Season
by A.A. Cristi - March 02, 2020

2020 marks two momentous events: Beethoven's 250th birthday and the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage....




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