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"When I started reading this story, the only way to describe it is that the story started singing to me," says Williams, 53, to whom the books were gifted by the late arts administrator and of the museum, Steven Newsome. "I'm not really a…

Pasadena Chorale will announce that tickets are now available for its next performance, "Listening to the Future," Saturday, April 2 at 7 p.m. at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena.Spectators will discover 17 new pieces…

Professors from three Louisiana universities will perform in a tribute concert to composer Mauricio Kagel on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Magale Recital Hall. Attendees include, from left, Northwestern State professor Dr.…

KINGMAN, Ariz. – If US Route 66 was a symphony orchestra, what would it look like?It's a question that Dr.…

Adam Burnette is a pianist, bandleader and composer from Chatsworth, Georgia. He has worked across the United States, from the Kennedy Center to Indiana State University, and in Europe. His work was recently featured in NewMusicShelf…

Munich Mayor Dieter Reiter has threatened to remove Valery Gergiev as conductor of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra unless Gergiev says publicly by Monday!-->…

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…

Finnish musician Jaakko Kuusisto died on February 23, 2022. Diagnosed with a brain tumor in the summer of 2020, his condition deteriorated earlier this year and he was hospitalized. Kuusisto was born on January 17, 1974 into a family of…

(Photo credit: Ghadi Boustani) Finland Lahti Symphony Orchestra will be the first Kalevi AhoConcerto for viola, percussion and orchestra. Will be held at Sibelius House concert hall in the evening, this double concerto will be…

I just finished a new 8 minute work Heads or tails for the Britten Sinfonia, written entirely for string ensemble - 9 musicians (22221), but with the possibility of being performed with larger forces in the future. It's been at least…

Composer Lori Laitman is scheduled to visit the University of Oklahoma's…

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…

January 31, 2022 2:50 p.m. (UTC+04:00) 626 By Laman Ismayilova Russian composer Alexander Scriabin made history as the inventor of the first color keyboard and the notation of…

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In July 1936, composer, pianist, organist and pedagogue Florence B. Price was profiled again in the Chicago Defender. Since 1918, her affiliations and accomplishments had attracted the attention of publication, an…

Composer Scott Ordway was on a trip to Istanbul when he first heard the call to prayer in a Muslim…

John Kinsella Birth: April 8, 1932 Died: November 9, 2021…

WASHINGTON, DC — The Kennedy Center and the National Symphony Orchestra will host a three-day festival in June to honor composer John Williams as he celebrates his 90th birthday.Williams, a five-time Academy Award winner and 25-time Grammy…

There's a great new podcast called "Let's Talk to Lucy" which unearths short celebrity radio conversations…

Jackson became sub-organist on Easter Monday 1946; 10 days later, Bairstow passed away after 33 years of service and Jackson took his place; Bairstow's warning that his mission was to be a "musical generalist" or "jack of all trades"…

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Ever since living with a pandemic, Bernd Richard Deutsch has been waiting for this moment.He completed “Intensity,” a new piece for the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Most, in March 2020, days before…

Gabriella Smith, a Berkeley native who recently moved to Seattle, started piano lessons at a young age, then took up the violin at age 8. "I wasn't very good either," she said. "When I was 8 I started writing, and when I was 11 I…

Ukrainian Oksana Lyniv, one of the world's most exciting classical music talents, once again made history with a three-year position at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna. With her new job, which began this month, the superstar…

Do composers sometimes go to concerts with other people's music? In one case, the answer is definitely yes. Look among the faces of the audience standing in the arena for the BBC Proms and you'll often see Julian Anderson, one of…

Famous composer and conductor Tan Dun conducts the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra on Friday for the Shanghai Grand Theater New Year's concert. Their performance will include…

MU composer Stefan Freund is no longer interested in camping.“I always say I'm not going to camp because I…

There is something truly moving about standing in the center of the Roman ruins of the London Wall and looking at the city that has developed around it. Think about our past, present and future simultaneously. Over…

Dominick Argento, April 3, 2016.Although he originally hoped to take a job on the East or West Coast, American musician-composer Dominick Argento began his career in 1958 at the University of Minnesota, where he taught composition…

The Miller Theater at Columbia University School of the Arts continues its 2021-22 Portrait of Composers series with Luca Francesconi. The Signal Ensemble, in their first live ensemble concert since COVID, presents two full-scale premieres…

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!-->…

Andy Baker, UIC Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Theater and Music. When Andy Baker, an assistant clinical professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, came up with the idea to record Leo Sowerby's early work, he…

The following excerpt is from the May issue of The Strad on soloists' changing approach to encores. To read it in its entirety, click here to subscribe and log in. The month of May 2021 digital magazine and print edition are on sale now…

Larry Hoffman is working on a composition in his Baltimore home. Photo by Michael G. Stewart OXFORD, Mississippi - Baltimore composer Larry Hoffman donated a dozen of his musical scores to the Archives des Bleus to University of…

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Abuzahra will compete with two other finalists: violinists Franz Ludwig Seraffin Kraggerud (8) from Norway and Sofia Demitriades (13) representing Great Britain and Russia. Born to a Hungarian mother Nóra Emödy and an Egyptian father Ahmed…

TEHRAN - A book presenting joint studies by Iranian scholar Amir-Hossein Ramezani and American music critic and author David Hurwitz has been published. Ramezani and a large number of academics and musicians, including Nader…

HOLLAND - The Holland Bach Society, a music project led by Scott Vanden Berg, seeks to bring the sacred compositions of Johann Sebastian Bach to more audiences in the Netherlands region.Bach, widely regarded as one of the greatest composers…

The Cobar Sound Chapel was due to be completed in the first semester and officially opened in early October. Then came the confinements.But in this rugged part of the world, another six months makes little difference for a graffiti-covered…

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Broman, concertmaster of the Swedish Radio Symphony, came to Britta Bystrom with the idea of ​​a room in which she could "play with herself". Byström immediately thought of Virginia Woolf's 1929 in-depth essay "A Room of One's Own".…

Internationally renowned violinist Padma Bhushan Dr. L. Subramaniam, left, his granddaughter Mahati, center, and Indian Ambassador to the United States Taranjit Singh Sandhu at a recent meeting in Washington , DC Photo: Courtesy of Dr.L.…

SINGAPORE - Norwegian composer and researcher Peter Tornquist will be the new dean of the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music (YST) at the National University of Singapore from February (2022). He replaces Professor Bernard Lanskey, who…

I started taking piano lessons at the age of six in 1966. The year the England men's soccer team won the World Cup. It's a fancy notion, but maybe these two important events in my life were forever linked. My family weren't a football…

CHICAGO - Elijah Daniel Smith grew up with music in town, going to concerts at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and studying classical music at the Chicago High School for the Arts.Today, the composer premieres an original piece in his…

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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…

Posted October 26, 2021 in Featured | First page | New Thomas the Tank Engine and his friend Nia are featured in the reboot of the series "Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go!"…

After the immense success of the first two editions, Ricordi Berlin has decided to relaunch its ricordilab composers competition. The program will provide the opportunity for emerging composers to participate in a three-year collaboration…

The Armenia International Music Festival hosted violinist Fumiaki Miura and conductor Conrad van Alphen to perform Alexey Shor's "The Four Seasons of Manhattan" for violin and orchestra and the suite "Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky with the…

It's Wes Anderson Week at EW! Ahead of the October 22 release of The French dispatch, we celebrate the author's singular filmography with a series of flashbacks celebrating his most beloved titles. Here, the composer Alexandre Desplat,…

Broman, first violin of Swedish Radio Symphony, came to Britta Byström with the idea of ​​a room in which she could "play with herself". Byström immediately thought of Virginia Woolf's detailed 1929 essay "A Room of Your Own."…

Chances are you've never heard the classical music of Florence Price.This is largely due to the fact that Price (1887-1953) lived in an era when men were dominant both as classical musicians and as composers.Another reason…

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.…

Born in london Anna clyne is a GRAMMY nominated acoustic and electro-acoustic music composer. Since her stint as Mead's composer-in-residence for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (2010-2015), Clyne has been one of the most acclaimed and…

An American violinist of Korean descent has been appointed Principal Violin of the Hamburg State Philharmonic Orchestra (Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg), an internationally renowned symphony orchestra based in Germany. A solo…

To help celebrate today's United Nations' International Day of the Girl, The string of the violin, in collaboration with our good friends from Dallas Symphony Orchestra, is giving away five composer packs this week in addition to…

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…

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…

The air was filled with the sounds of high-quality Armenian music at the Dubai Opera on September 5th. The Armenian State Symphony Orchestra (ASSO), led by its artistic director and principal conductor Sergey Smbatyan, and…

Sally Beamish recently spoke with The violin chain on his new job. “My first idea was to tap into folk music from three countries: Sweden (Martin Fröst), the Netherlands (Janine Jansen) and Scotland (my adopted homeland for thirty…

The jury still doesn't know where Loki will rank in the growing Marvel TV universe, but Natalie Holt's musical score has been a mind-blowing highlight since Episode 1. British composer who grew up playing the violin, Holt gives Loki a…

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France - “Innocence”, Kaija Saariaho's new opera, begins in soft, gloomy darkness. A dark cymbal mist rises from long sepulchral tones in the bass and contrabassoon, before a dazzling bassoon fragment pierces the silence…

Filipino violinist Ramon "Chino" Soberano pays homage to his musical roots, and one way is to organize free virtual masterclasses and lectures for future generations of violinists. In a recent series of virtual courses through the…

The following excerpt is from the May issue of The Strad about soloists' changing approach to callbacks. To read it in full, click here to register and log in. The digital magazine and the print edition of May 2021 are on sale now…

When Nurit Bar-Josef gives four concerts driving the Festival of primarily Mozart orchestras this week at the Del Mar Exhibition Center, it will be several premieres for the accomplished violinist.This will be the first time that the…

A violinist who lost all her job when the pandemic struck has now found a new string in her bow - thanks to her beloved companion dogs. When Covid struck last year, Charlotte Moseley saw all of her gigs and concerts for the next two years!-->…

On March 4 at 7 p.m., the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra will present a live concert on Facebook featuring the…

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…

Norman Lebrecht January 28, 2021 The family of Daniel Kobialka, former second principal violinist of the San Francisco Symphony, have released the news of his passing: Daniel Kobialka of San Antonio, Texas, at the…

A VERY accomplished violinist from Bolton who started playing the instrument at the age of seven and has gone to perform across Europe has passed away. Professor Jennifer Nuttall-Wolf died at the Royal Bolton…

Hungarian-born violinist Anton Kontra, one of the main soloists of his adopted Scandinavia, has died. He was 88 years old. Trained in Budapest at the Liszt Academy, Kontra moved to Denmark in 1965. He was principal violin of the…

JOHAN DALENE (Nikolaj Lund)The album received rave reviews and was named Record of the Week by the BBC's Record Review.Johan Dalene joins the Worthing Symphony Orchestra at Worthing Assembly Hall on Sunday 23 February.Spokeswoman Jennie…

BRI Records announced the release of the Swedish violinist Ulf Wallinthe new album by: Violin Concerto No. 2 by Allan Pettersson. Recorded with conductor Christian Lindberg and the Norrkoping Symphony Orchestra, the disc presents the…

The BBC has announced the 2019 participants of its New Generation Artists program, a platform for emerging classical and jazz musicians broadcast by Radio 3. Among them are several prominent string players, including British violist…

Gidon Kremer, the Latvian Russian-trained violin virtuoso who turns 70 next month, has never shied away from linking his art and politics.On a North American tour that just started with concerts in Boston and arrives at 92nd Street Y with a…

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