Tanglewood’s Fellows will present a new work by Composition Fellow Gala Flagello at the July 7 program, which also includes four works by Charles Ives. Strauss’ Serenade, Op. 7, completes the lineup. https://www.bso.org/events/tmc-chamber-july-7-2024
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1 event,To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Oregon Bach Festival’s Organi Institute, alum Greg Zelek will give a solo organ recital on July 8. Repertoire includes works of Bach, Florence Price, and Léon Boëllmann. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/greg_zelek_organ_recital | 1 event,The Akropolis Reed Quintet makes its Bravo! Vail debut on July 9. Their program includes works by two American composers: Marc Mellits’ Splinter and Jeff Scott’s Homage to Paradise Valley. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/community-concerts/communityconcerts-2/akropolis-reed-quintet/ | 1 event,John Luther Adams’ latest work for chamber ensemble, Prophecies of Fire, will receive its world premiere on July 10. Sandbox Percussion will perform the piece, under the auspices of Chamber Music Northwest, which co-commissioned it. Gabriela Lena Frank’s Luciérnagas and Zapatos de Chincha are also on the program. https://cmnw.org/concerts-events/2024-summer-festival/special-event-world-premiere-of-prophecies-of-fire/2029/ | 4 events,The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will play the Bravo! Vail Festival premiere of Mason Bates’ explosive Nomad Concerto, featuring violinist Gil Shaham. The July 11 program continues with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/the-philadelphia-orchestra-2/nezet-seguin-conducts-rachmaninoff/ 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 spans centuries and styles, from François Couperin to Terry Riley, and from Franghiz Ali-Zadeh to Chick Corea. https://caramoor.org/event/owls-summer-2024/ Billed as “a comedic romp through Hades,” Opera North’s July 11-14 production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld will be sung in French but include English dialogue. The work is presented as part of Summerfest 2024 at Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, NH. https://lebanonoperahouse.org/events/orpheus/ A new production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen opens the 2024 Toronto Summer Music on July 11. William Christie and Paul Agnew share the job of music director while Mourad Merzuki choreographs. With the Orchestre des Arts Florissants in the pit, the company features eight Baroque vocal specialists. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/opening-night-the-fairy-queen/ | 1 event,While the main draw on July 12-13 may be Stewart Goodyear playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto under Giancarlo Guerrero at the Grant Park Festival, the world-premiere opener by Chicago-based composer Jim Stephenson will be worth showing up for too. And stay for Duruflé’s powerful Requiem sung by the Grant Park Chorus. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/beethoven-emperor-concerto | 4 events,On July 13-18, Des Moines Metro Opera presents the world premiere of American Apollo, by Damien Geter and Lila Palmer. The main character is Thomas Eugene McKeller, a Black hotel worker who was also the model and muse for painter John Singer Sargent. Justin Austin and William Burden star, with stage director Shaun Patrick Tubbs […] The world premiere of The Righteous will take place July 13-Aug. 13 at Santa Fe Opera. The opera, composed by Gregory Spears with a libretto by Tracy K. Smith, follows a Texas man on his journey from preacher to governor, with all its moral development and decay. The cast will include baritone Michael Mayes, soprano […] Carlos Simon’s Warmth from Other Sons and two works by Duke Ellington will book-end Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 at Tanglewood on July 13. Yuja Wang is the piano soloist, while Andres Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony. https://www.bso.org/events/bso-yuja-wang-program-tba 2024 is the 100th anniversary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, and the Ravinia Festival will mark the occasion with a chamber-music tribute on July 13. This program matches Fauré’s timelessly serene Piano Quintet No. 2 to Ravel’s arrangement of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, as well as the Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn’s own Piano Quintet (featuring […] | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 2 events,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 final year of Schubert’s life. The July 16 program includes Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, the Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, and the Cello Quintet […] Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton will give the Canadian premiere of Night Thoughts by Errolyn Wallen on July 16 at Toronto Summer Music. The recital also includes songs by Barber, Schoenberg, Berg, and Weill. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/connolly-middleton/ | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,A new work by Augusta Read Thomas will receive its world premiere Sept. 19-21 when KenDavid Masur conducts a program curated by the musicians of New York Philharmonic. The eclectic lineup also includes Mahler’s arrangement of some movements by Bach, Duke Ellington’s Harlem, and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/masur-thomas/ | 3 events,The 2024 season opener on July 20 at Music@Menlo is titled Baroque Tableau. Festival chamber players will perform music of the late Baroque, from Buxtehude and F. Couperin to Rameau and Rebel. Telemann and J.S. Bach make an appearance too. https://musicatmenlo.org/cp/?evt=1745 Renowned for his fusion of classical influence and contemporary innovation, French-Algerian director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki has staged a new production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, with William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants. The July 20 performance at Caramoor features soloists from Les Jardins des Voix. https://caramoor.org/event/purcells-the-fairy-queen-summer-2024/ Witness the future of classical music in the making as the New Jersey Symphony performs works by four emerging composers selected for the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Institute Director Steven Mackey hosts the culminating concert, and Christopher Rountree takes the podium for this July 20 program. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/new-scores-2024-edward-t-cone-institute-concert | 0 events, |
1 event,Constantinople, an ensemble whose slogan is “Itinerant music, myriad encounters,” will perform on July 22 at Toronto Summer Music. The program is entitled Breathings, and it’s described as a concert that places the breath at the center of the musical act and a celebration of our intimate relationship with nature. Instrumentation includes Mi’kmaq drums, ney […] | 1 event,Finnish guest conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali makes his Bravo! Vail debut, leading the Philharmonic in Rossini’s Semiramide Overture, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, and Shostakovich’s virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 1, performed by Augustin Hadelich. (July 23) https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/new-york-philharmonic-2/augustin-hadelich-plays-shostakovich/ | 1 event,Haitian-American composer Nathalie Joachim loves to use the musical concepts from her heritage to inform her works. The world premiere of her latest composition is sure to bring fresh energy to the Grant Park Festival on July 24. Eric Jacobsen also conducts Grieg Holberg Suite and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/beethovens-fifth-symphony | 1 event,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 by Miya Masaoka, Trevor Weston, Nathalie Joachim, and Steven Mackey. https://www.bso.org/events/tmc-fcm-july-25-2024 | 2 events,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 leads the orchestra in Holst's The Planets followed by Amanda Lee Falkenberg's The Moons, a symphonic suite with visuals. Audiences will see science come alive to the sounds […] The July 26 program at Ottawa ChamberFest will feature four new commissions written for avant-garde string quartet Brooklyn Rider and soprano Ariadne Greif. Those five musicians will perform those new works by Clarice Assad, Gabriel Kahane, Giovanni Solima, and Tyshawn Sorey, as well as Schoenberg’s Quartet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10 and Colin Jacobsen’s Suite […] | 0 events, | 0 events, |
1 event,To open the 40th season of Sun Valley Music Festival, Timothy Higgins has composed Fanfare, which will receive its world premiere on July 29. Then soprano Meechot Marrero returns to Sun Valley to sing a few of her favorite arias. The concert closes with Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/opening-night-with-meechot-marrero/ | 1 event,Opera Saratoga will present the world premiere of a new opera by Inti Figgis-Vizuenta on June 30-July 5. The opera, not yet named, will be developed during a summer residency by the composer. https://tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/tmEvent/tmEvent34373.html | 0 events, | 1 event,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 concert version of the album. Schofield will be joined by Philippe Charbonneau, Mika Posen (Merganzer), and Yolande Laroche (Orchidae) to explore the blissful interaction between […] | 2 events,The Sun Valley Music Festival commissioned a new cello concerto from Andy Akiho, which will be given its world premiere on Aug. 2. The soloist will be Jeffrey Zeigler, the former cellist of the famed Kronos Quartet, for whom the concerto was written. Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks completes the program, conducted by Alasdair Neale. […] 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 commissioned work inspired by its Schubert original. This year’s new work is Thomas Adès’ Wreath for Franz Schubert, while the Schubert offering will be the […] | 0 events, | 0 events, |

























