Franz Liszt News

Stanislav & Friends, an annual gala of classical music that showcases an all-star lineup of faculty, students, alumni and friends of the Park University International Center for Music, will be held on Saturday, March 1.

Max Lifchitz will perform a recital traversing one hundred fifty years of piano music at Manhattan's Klavierhaus. The program will feature Franz Liszt's prophetic Bagatelle Without Tonality. Learn how to attend the performance.

The piano duo P 4 2 (Piano for two), comprised of  Beata Pincetić and Christos Sakellaridis, one of the most dynamic forces in Greece’s modern art music scene, will present a musical portrait of the pioneer Afro-American composer Julius Eastman.

Pianist Alexandre Kantorow, winner of the 2024 Gilmore Artist Award, appears throughout the United States in both concerto performances and in recital from late January to early February 2025.

Hailed as one of this era’s most adventurous interpreters of the classical organ repertoire, leading female organist Gail Archer tours a Concert for Ukrainian Relief February-May 2025. 

GRAMMY Award-winning American organist Paul Jacobs will be presented by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a solo organ recital at Walt Disney Hall.

Technopolis 20 will present a flute and piano concert featuring Virginie Bove, sub-principal flautist of the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra, and pianist Nicolas Collinet.

The All-Star Orchestra, an ensemble comprising top musicians from the best orchestras across the country to perform under Music Director Gerard Schwarz, has received its 10th New York Emmy Award.

Tickets are now on sale for the Greek National Opera’s productions from January to March 2025 at the Stavros Niarchos Hall and the Alternative Stage at the SNFCC. Learn more about how to get tickets to the upcoming shows here!

Explore BOCA TUYA's thought-provoking dance works by Omar Román de Jesús at The 92nd Street Y, featuring the New York premiere of Caress them in a way that hurts a little. Learn more and see how to purchase tickets.

In collaboration with Ballet Hartford, Claire Kretzschmar Productions has announced the upcoming multi-state tour of A Ceremony of Carols, a Christmas program set to premiere in New York City, Philadelphia, and Winston-Salem.

RED BULL THEATER will present a live in-person and simulcast performance of SARDANAPALUS by Lord Byron, directed by Raz Golden on October 24. Learn more about the reading and see how to purchase tickets.

The National Chamber Ensemble (NCE) opens its 2024-2025 season on Saturday, November 9 at Gunston Arts Center's Theater One with Hungarian Musical Masterpieces. This program marks the company's 18th year of live performances under the season theme of 'Classical to Classics: 300 years of Memorable Music.” 

Five Park University International Center for Music students of globally renowned pianist Stanislav Ioudenitch will perform a recital concert on Thursday, Oct. 24, starting at 7:30 p.m. at the 1900 Building in Mission Woods, Kan.

Brick Presbyterian Church will launche its 2024-25 Worship & Arts concert series with a recital by world renowned organist Karol Mossakowski on Tuesday, October 29 at 7:00 PM at The Brick Presbyterian Church, 1140 Park Avenue, Manhattan.

The concert REFLECTIONS FROM VIVALDI TO RAVEL will feature performances of classical pieces by Vivaldi, Ravel, and other composers, offering a rich musical experience for attendees.

Mayerling is the name of the hunting lodge in which the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Rudolf, was found dead in 1889. Why did the son of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth (the famous Sissi) commit suicide in the company of his mistress, the young Mary Vetsera?

After acting as narrator for the Orpheus myth in Hadestown on Broadway, Tony-winner André De Shields will host Orchestra Lumos' 'Orpheus Sings'.

Park University International Center for Music graduate student Ilya Shmukler, who dazzled the jury and audience as the winner of the Concours Géza Anda Piano Competition in Zurich, Switzerland, earlier this summer, will perform his first concert in Kansas City since that victory on Saturday, Oct. 5.

Pianist Han Chen collaborates with clarinetist Eric Schultz on the recording Polyglot, featuring works by Iván Enrique Rodríguez, Johanny Navarro, Chia-Yu Hsu, Gabriel Bouche Caro, and Johannes Brahms.