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Wigmore Hall Reveals 2024/25 Concert Season & Launches the Director's Fund
by Stephi Wild - Mar 28, 2024

Wigmore Hall Director John Gilhooly has announced the 2024/25 Season. With more than 550 concerts, featuring more than 2,600 musicians, spanning September 2024 to July 2025, Wigmore Hall presents the largest classical music programme in the UK.

Ben Platt, Norm Lewis, and More Set For The Ravinia Festival's 2024 Summer Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Mar 14, 2024

The Ravinia Festival has revealed its complete 2024 summer lineup. Among this year's Broadway names taking the stage at The Ravinia Festival are Ben Platt, Jessie Mueller, Norm Lewis, Michael Feinstein, and more! Learn more about the full lineup here!

Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute Enters 2024 With Innovative Education And Social Impact Programs For All Ages
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 17, 2024

Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute enters 2024 with innovative education and social impact programs for all ages.

Soprano Renée Fleming To Return For A Sixth Year To Lead SongStudio
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 5, 2023

Soprano Renée Fleming returns for the sixth year to lead SongStudio, an innovative workshop exploring the future of the vocal recital. Public master classes will be led by Ms. Fleming, Angel Blue, Graham Johnson, and Nicholas Phan. Will Liverman joins as creative advisor.

Joyce DiDonato Returns To Lead Public Master Class For Young Singers, October 22â€"24
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 26, 2023

Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato returns to Carnegie Hall's Resnick Education Wing for her popular series of master classes for young professional opera singers from Sunday, October 22 through Tuesday, October 24, 2023.

Out Today: Baritone Tyler Duncan And Pianist Erika Switzer Release 'A Left Coast'
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 23, 2023

Today baritone Tyler Duncan and pianist Erika Switzer 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. View the trailer for A Left Coast here.

Baritone Tyler Duncan & Pianist Erika Switzer to Release New Album 'A LEFT COAST'
by Blair Ingenthron - May 13, 2023

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.

Wigmore Hall Announces Over 500 Concerts For The New Season
by Stephi Wild - Mar 29, 2023

Wigmore Hall's 2023/24 season was announced by John Gilhooly, the Hall's Director. With more than 500 concerts from September 2023 to July 2024 featuring some 2500 artists performing music from the past six centuries, it is the largest programme of classical music concerts in the UK. 

Wigmore Hall Releases 7-Hour Film on Schubert Songs By Graham Johnson
by Stephi Wild - Jan 31, 2023

Marking the birthday of Franz Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828), Wigmore Hall has released a seminal series of four lectures on Schubert songs by their foremost exponent, the pianist, scholar and author Graham Johnson.

Interview: Chatting With Cora Hemphill & Tim Arts of Firebox Theatre Company
by Jeffrey Kare - Dec 3, 2022

One of the newer theatre companies in the Triangle Area is Firebox Theatre Company. It's located in Wake Forest, North Carolina. I had the great pleasure of interviewing both of the founders, Cora Hemphill & Tim Artz, about all of this and more.

Wigmore Hall Announces Full Details Of Spring 2023 Concerts
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 12, 2022

Tickets for Wigmore Hall's January – March 2023 concerts go on general sale on Tuesday 1 November, 2022 at 10.00 GMT.

MoBBallet Adds Four New Orbits To The Constellation Project: Mapping The Dark Stars Of Ballet
by Stephi Wild - Feb 3, 2022

Starting February 5th Memoirs of Blacks in Ballet (MoBBallet.org) will launch four new orbits to its popular The Constellation Project: Mapping the Dark Stars of Ballet: Raven Wilkinson, the First Negro Classic Ballet Company, American Ballet Theatre's Negro Unit and Agne de Mille's The Four Marys, and Janet Collins. 

Renée Fleming to Lead SongStudio Workshop Celebrating the Art of the Vocal Recital
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Dec 15, 2021

From January 17–22, 2022, renowned soprano Renée Fleming will mentor 10 aspiring young singers and 10 collaborative pianists from around the world in the fourth year of SongStudio, an innovative program exploring the future of the vocal recital.

Vancouver Opera Announces Artists For the 2021-2022 Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program
by Stephi Wild - Sep 7, 2021

Vancouver Opera is proud to welcome two new participants to the 2021-2022 Yulanda M. Faris Young Artists Program. Hillary Tufford and Amanda Testini will join returning artists Ian Cleary, Luka Kawabata, Amy Seulky Lee, and Jonelle Sills.

'In The Footsteps Of Chopin' Virtual Discussion to Take Place With Dr. Alan Walker And Daniel Vnukowski
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jun 4, 2021

Artistic Director of Collingwood Summer Music Festival Daniel Vnukowski will host Summer Solstice Series this month. The four-part presentation will include Celebrating Robert Burns with R.H. Thomson and Mr. Vnukowski (June 16, 7 p.m. EDT) and more.

Wigmore Hall To Re-open With 120th Anniversary Festival in May
by Stephi Wild - Apr 13, 2021

Wigmore Hall will welcome the return of live audiences on 17 May with a 25-concert re-opening festival culminating in a major celebration of the Hall's 120th Anniversary on the 31 May.

What's Streaming: Classical - Week Of January 25â€"31
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 21, 2021

See what classical events are streaming the week Of January 25–31:

Renée Fleming Leads Third Year of SongStudio Workshop for Young Singers
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jan 14, 2021

From January 18–23, 2021, renowned soprano Renée Fleming will mentor six pairs of aspiring young singers and pianists from around the world in the third year of SongStudio, an innovative program exploring the future of the vocal recital.

London Song Festival Presents GHOST LIGHTS: Ivor Novello and His Leading Ladies
by Stephi Wild - Nov 29, 2020

Ghost Lights is set on the empty stage of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on the 5th September 1939 when all theatres were closed due to the outbreak of WW2. Novello meets Mary Ellis, Dorothy Dickson and Elisabeth Welch to reminisce about their work and also their concerns for theatre and its survival.

Music Educator Award Semifinalists Announced By The Recording Academy
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Oct 13, 2020

A total of 25 music teachers from 24 cities across 16 states, have been announced as semifinalists for the Music Educator Award™ presented by the Recording Academy® and GRAMMY Museum®.