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WABASH — A concert will pay tribute to a historic black composer. The Manchester Symphony Orchestra celebrates the "Trailblazers" at their first concert of 2022. It will be at 3pm on Sunday March 13 at the Honeywell Center in Wabash. The…

In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts and Concert Theater Works, Music of the Baroque presents the Midwest premiere of "The Chevalier," a new concert play written and…

Producer Judith Sherman has been nominated for the 64th Grammy Awards with the album "Dances of The Yogurt Maker", featuring pieces by Turkish composer Erberk Eryılmaz. The album, which earned Sherman a Grammy Award…

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Grammy Award-winning violinist Mark O'Connor will celebrate "An Appalachian Christmas" with Park City on Tuesday at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts.Photo by Diana Rose!-->…

Doha: Qatari contemporary composer, Dana Al Fardan, will headline to perform seven songs from her fourth album, Indigo, at the first-ever D'reesha Performing Arts Festival 2021 in Doha. The live performance is set to feature a chamber…

Dr Peter Tornquist is an influential voice in higher music education. (Photo: Kyrre Lien) The National University of Singapore (NUS) has appointed Norwegian composer and researcher Peter Tornquist as the new dean to lead the Yong Siew Toh…

The Illinois Symphony Orchestra recently resumed its concerts and will be playing a dynamic program for its second concert of the season on November 7. have not experienced live music for over 18…

In April, violinist and composer Jessie Montgomery was named the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's new composer-in-residence. Montgomery will split her time between New York and Chicago throughout her residency, which began July 1 and…

The Georgia Youth Symphony Orchestra will create a composition by Marietta's teenage composer Will Weaver. The concert will take place on October 17, 2021 at the Bailey Center for the Performing Arts at Kennesaw State University.…

Conrad Tao. Photo by Brantley Gutierrez. New York magazine described pianist and composer Conrad Tao as "the kind of musician who shapes the future of classical music". He previously performed with the Seattle Symphony, but…

Paul Anka will return to the Mayo Performing Arts Center to perform music from the Sinatra catalog and more on Tuesday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for Anka Sings Sinatra: His Songs, My Songs, My Way are Sunday, October 24 at 7 p.m.…

Tai Murray joined the list of Colbert artists for general performance, with immediate effect. The new assistant professor of violin at the Yale School of Music plans to split her time between New Haven and her home in Berlin. Murray's…

NEW YORK (AP) - “We bend, we don't break. We're wavering! ”Sings the choir in the second act of Terence Blanchard's“ Fire Shut Up in My Bones ”.This is how the nearly 4,000 spectators of the Metropolitan Opera felt as they watched Monday…

After an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic and prolonged labor disputes with its musicians and team, the Metropolitan Opera reopens on Monday with a historic debut - the first work by a black composer. America's premier…

(Bloomberg) - Karen Toulon hosts Black in Focus on Bloomberg Television. Here, she chats with Terence Blanchard, six-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer for film and television. On September 27, an opera he wrote based on the…

Lindsey Stirling could hardly have known a more abrupt and dramatic end to her musical activities than what happened when the pandemic struck in early 2020. The violin star was on a plane with his dancers, band and crew en route to South…

After the start of the pandemic, Hardy began writing and performing new music that reflected the news. Photo by Javon Conaway, courtesy of Javon Conaway (ARTBYJCON). The United States is the world's largest music…

Violinist Kim Dong-hyun (Kumho Asiana Cultural Foundation)Violinist Kim Dong-hyun will kick off the 2021 Kumho Instrument Bank series with a recital on February 4 at Kumho Art Hall Yonsei in western Seoul.The Kumho Asiana Cultural…