Former Music Director Peter Bay Returns to the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra November 12 & 13 with the second of our Masterworks Concerts. Our program featurs the sonic splendor of the ASO’s Low Brass in a special concerto just for them (and you). Plus Dvořák’s first big hit symphony (originally listed as #1 but now known as #6) Date & Time: Friday […]
Celebrated mandolin player Avi Avital performs the U.S. premiere of Jennifer Higdon‘s (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) Mandolin Concerto, commissioned jointly by the Mobile Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and Chicago Philharmonic. Dates & Times: Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 2:30 PM CT Program: Rossini | La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) […]
Celebrated mandolin player Avi Avital performs the U.S. premiere of Jennifer Higdon‘s (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer) Mandolin Concerto, commissioned jointly by the Mobile Symphony, Munich Philharmonic and Chicago Philharmonic. Dates & Times: Saturday, November 13, 2021 at 7:30 PM CT Sunday, November 14, 2021 at 2:30 PM CT Program: Rossini | La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) […]
The Omaha Area Youth Orchestra will start the season with a program featuring all of its ensembles: Youth Symphony, Youth Philharmonic, Youth Concert Strings and the new Percussion Ensemble. Pieces include Dances in the Canebrakes, composed by Florence Price and arranged by William Grant Still, and A Joyous Trilogy by a young composer named Quinn Mason ( a […]
The Omaha Area Youth Orchestra will start the season with a program featuring all of its ensembles: Youth Symphony, Youth Philharmonic, Youth Concert Strings and the new Percussion Ensemble. Pieces include Dances in the Canebrakes, composed by Florence Price and arranged by William Grant Still, and A Joyous Trilogy by a young composer named Quinn Mason ( a […]
Resonance Works returns to live performance with music by some of today’s most important living composers: Missy Mazzoli, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jessie Montgomery, and Chen Yi (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer). Guest soloist Jeffrey Turner, former principal double bassist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, joins the Resonance Chamber Orchestra and conductor Maria Sensi Sellner for […]
The Lewis Prize for Music has teamed up with Save The Music Foundation to host youth-led weekly conversations with today’s music leaders starting on Mondays, October 18, 2021 through December 20, 2021 at 5 PM CT | 3 PM PT Music Monday LIVE is an exciting opportunity for youth across the United States to connect with music industry […]
With host Sean Hartley and musical director Greg Jarrett Featuring Farah Alvin, Kate Baldwin, Eric Comstock, Eddie Cooper, Barbara Fasano, Charlotte Maltby, Jason Robinson, Kirsten Scott, Matthew Scott, Gabrielle Stravelli, Michael Winther and Karen Ziemba Celebrate the great community of musical theatre as NYC re-opens! In the 1920s and 30s, George and Ira Gershwin threw […]
Three renowned visionary artists combine talents in this eclectic new piano trio with WQXR Propulsion Lab artists Conrad Tao, piano, Stefan Jackiw, violin and Jay Campbell, cello. The program includes a public masterclass and performances of recent and new works for the piano trio including a new piece by Special Music School High School composer […]
Conceived by acclaimed concert pianist Anthony de Mare, LIAISONS is a landmark commissioning and concert project that brings together today’s leading classical, jazz, theater, film and indie composers to re-imagine Stephen Sondheim’s songs as solo piano pieces. This remarkable compendium of new music breaks open the boundaries between musical theater and concert music while making […]
Mezzo-soprano Sun-Ly Pierce and pianist Chien-Lin Lu, the 2019 Marilyn Horne Song Competition winners, will premiere a song cycle written expressly for them by Pulitzer Prize– and Grammy-winning American composer Jennifer Higdon (a BandQuest and ChoralQuest composer). Wise Moon sets five short poems about the moon in music intended to bring out the unique talents of […]
Join the African American Choral Ensemble and the UGA Wind Ensemble as they share the stage in a combined concert on Friday, November 19, 2021 at 6:30 PM CT | 7:30 PM ET in Hodgson Concert Hall. Part of UGA’s Spotlight on the Arts festival, the program features works by composers Adolphus Hailstork (a BandQuest […]