Spotlight on the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique
In its 90th season, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal hopes to draw attention to the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique, the spectacular organ in its home all, the Maison Symphonique de Montréal. […]
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Special Projects
World Premiere Opens String Quartet Marathon
A world premiere by Annie Nikunen will be included on the June 30 program that opens an all-day String Quartet Marathon at Tanglewood. Also on the bill are works by […]
Owls Quartet Spreads Wings Across Styles at Caramoor
Owls are an exciting new quartet collective that shatters all expectations and throws labels out the window with their unmissable, lively, and deeply personal performances. Their July 11 program at Caramoor […]
McDermott and Friends Focus on Schubert’s Last Year
As part of the Immersive Experience series at Bravo! Vail, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the Dalí Quartet are joined by soprano Susanna Phillips and others to celebrate compositions from the […]
Coleman and León Headline Contemporary Music Festival
July 25 is opening night of Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music. The program includes Leila Adu-Gilmore’s United Underdog, Valerie Coleman’s Portraits of Josephine, and Tania León’s Indigena, along with works […]
NASA Lands at Ravinia
A space-themed concert complete with visuals and interviews with NASA specialists and world-leading experts continues the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 2024 season at Ravinia. On July 26, chief conductor Marin Alsop […]
Ambient Synth Music Brought to Life in Ottawa
Ottawa-based synth composer Nick Schofield’s latest release, Ambient Ensemble, was inspired by a series of concerts where special guests were invited to improvise. On Aug. 1, Ottawa ChamberFest will present a […]
Adès Schubert Tribute in Ottawa
The Danish String Quartet returns to Ottawa ChamberFest Aug. 2 for the fourth and final installment of their innovative Doppelgänger project, in which they pair one of Schubert’s string compositions with a newly […]
Denk Presents Work by ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins
Jeremy Denk, in an Aug. 11 solo piano recital at Tanglewood, will perform The Battle of Manassas by Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (1849-1908), a pianist and composer born into slavery […]
Audiences Invited to Watch Opera Creation
To inaugurate the Project Pipeline initiative at Glimmerglass, the opera-in-progress The House on Mango Street will have its first public performance on Aug. 12. The Pipeline’s purpose is to help […]
Dallas Celebrates Women in Music
As a lead-up to the Dallas Symphony’s sixth annual Women in Classical Music Symposium, the orchestra will play a program centering two women: Alisson Kruusmaa and Amy Beach. Anne-Maria McDermott […]
Bach Reimagined by Minnesota Orchestra
The Minnesota Orchestra’s Dec. 5-6 program focuses on transcriptions of the music of J.S. Bach. Mandolinist Avi Avital will perform versions of two Bach concertos, and Jordan De Souza will […]
Radiohead Meets Brahms in Detroit
On Jan. 8, the Detroit Symphony explores the potential symphonic grandeur of Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer with an orchestration of those celebrated tracks. With Steve Hackman at the podium, […]
Nelsons Begins Beethoven Cycle in Boston
To mark his 10th anniversary as music director of the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons will lead the orchestra in all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies. The cycle starts Jan. 9-11 in […]
Atlanta Concertmaster Conducts and Solos in Vivaldi
Atlanta Symphony concertmaster David Coucheron gets the solo spotlight on Jan. 12 when the orchestra performs Vivaldi’s effervescent masterpiece, The Four Seasons, which Coucheron will both play and conduct. The […]
Ortiz Work Headlines ‘Focus on Mexico’ in D.C.
As part of its Focus on Mexico series, the National Symphony will perform the D.C. premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s Téenek – Invenciones de Territorio. Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto takes […]
Symphonies Are Focus Of Atlanta’s Beethoven Project
The Atlanta Symphony is paying tribute to one of the greats in their 2024-25 season with a Beethoven Project featuring all of his symphonies. On March 6-9, music director Nathalie […]
Boston Symphony Explores Shostakovich’s Political Mind
As part of the Boston Symphony’s Shostakovich cycle, music director Andris Nelsons will lead Yo-Yo Ma in the composer’s politically fraught Cello Concerto on April 11. The second half of […]
