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Midori Orchestra Residencies Program announces 2013-14 recipients
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Midori’s Orchestra Residencies Program has chosen the recipients of its 2013-14 residencies. They are Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra and Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra in Michigan; and Santa Rosa Symphony ...
New ArtsEdSearch website charts benefits of arts education
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The Arts Education Partnership has launched ArtsEdSearch.org, a new online research and policy clearinghouse documenting educational outcomes of arts learning for students and teachers. The site is designed ...
New York Youth Symphony receives $500K grant
Monday, 21 May 2012
The New York Youth Symphony has received a $500,000 grant from the Joseph F. McCrindle Foundation to go toward the orchestra’s endowment fund. The Foundation also has pledged $50,000 ...
Petrushka Project to tour London, Mainz, New York, and Beijing in June and July
Friday, 18 May 2012
This June and July, pianists Michael Brown and Christopher McKiggan will perform during a the New York leg of a tour of the new Petrushka Project, 70 solo piano pieces inspired by Stravinsky’s Petrushka ...
Albany Symphony’s annual American Music Festival set for May 17-20
Thursday, 17 May 2012
The Albany Symphony Orchestra in New York is holding five events for this year’s American Music Festival of contemporary music. The festival runs from May 17 to 20 at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center ...
Orchestra in Amman, Jordan petitions for funds to continue operations
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Musicians from the Amman Symphony Orchestra in Jordan are collecting 5,000 signatures for an online petition to save their ensemble from folding due to proposed government budget cuts. The orchestra is ...
NEC announces members of next class of Sistema Fellows
Tuesday, 15 May 2012
The Sistema Fellows Program at New England Conservatory has announced the names of the ten musicians—eight women and two men—who will enter the fourth class of its postgraduate program ...
Entries invited for third annual Rapido! Composition Contest
Monday, 14 May 2012
For the third annual Rapido! Composition Contest, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is inviting composers to submit chamber-music compositions between four and six minutes in length. The registration deadline for the contest is June 1....
National Youth Orchestra of Iraq to visit U.K. in August
Friday, 11 May 2012
The National Youth Orchestra of Iraq has announced plans to travel to the U.K. to perform three concerts in August under its music director, Paul MacAlindin. The concerts will take place on August 25 ...
Bard Festival to focus on Saint-Saëns this summer
Thursday, 10 May 2012
The theme for this summer’s Bard Music Festival in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York is “Saint-Saëns and His World,” encompassing two August weekends of music by the composer and his contemporaries ...
Chamber Orchestra of N.Y. offers rare Respighi works
Wednesday, 09 May 2012
Music Director Salvatore Vittorio will lead the Chamber Orchestra of New York and mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack in the U.S. premiere of Respighi’s Tre Liriche (Three Art Songs) and Respighi’s 1908 orchestration ...
Detroit Symphony invites communities to request free concerts
Tuesday, 08 May 2012
For its annual series of free concerts throughout southeastern Michigan, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra has tweaked the process by which those communities are selected for the 2012-13 season. ...
Westmont College Orchestra embarks on ten-day China tour
Monday, 07 May 2012
The Westmont College Orchestra in California has announced that it will tour and perform in China from May 9 to 18, visiting the cities of Beijing, Suzhou, and Shanghai. Conductor Michael Shasberger ...
Germany’s Beethovenfest announces events for fall 2012
Friday, 04 May 2012
The theme of Germany’s Beethovenfest Bonn this year will be “Art has a mind of its own,” focusing on the artist in a global context, and will feature as its three orchestras in residence the Philharmonia Orchestra ...
Santa Barbara Symphony marks 60th season in 2012-13
Thursday, 03 May 2012
California’s Santa Barbara Symphony has announced details of its 2012-13 season, its 60th, which will open on October 20 with Nir Kabaretti leading Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony; Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 ...
Tanglewood gala, Kansas City Symphony documentary to air on PBS
Wednesday, 02 May 2012
The Tanglewood Festival and the Kansas City Symphony are among the arts groups featured on programming recently announced as part of PBS’s Arts Summer Festival. The Tanglewood Festival’s 75th-anniversary ...
Make Music New York announces lineup for sixth year
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
Make Music New York, the one-day citywide festival of free outdoor music on the first day of summer, has announced details of its sixth annual event. Highlights throughout New York City’s five boroughs ...
Jerome Fund invites applications from emerging composers
Monday, 30 April 2012
The American Composers Forum’s Jerome Fund for New Music is seeking applications from emerging composers who reside in Minnesota or in the five boroughs of New York City. The program supports the creation ...
Play On, Philly! students to perform at Philadelphia Orchestra concert
Friday, 27 April 2012
Students in the Play On, Philly! afterschool music-education program will perform onstage at the beginning of the Philadelphia Orchestra’s April 28 subscription concert at Verizon Hall in Philadelphia. The young musicians ...
Seattle Symphony commissions Elliott Carter work for February 2013
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Seattle Symphony announced that it has commissioned Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Elliott Carter to write Instances, a twelve-minute work to be performed by the orchestra in February 2013. The piece is ...
Louisville Orchestra, musicians reach contract agreement
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, it was announced that the Louisville Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra Musicians Association, and American Federation of Musicians have agreed to a new multi-year contract. ...
New York Youth Symphony chooses composers for 2012-13 commissions
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
Through its First Music program, the New York Youth Symphony has commissioned seven young composers to write works for its 2012-13 season: Gabriel Zucker, Paul Dooley, John Glover, Andrew Evans McManus ...
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival launches record label
Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival in Long Island (N.Y.) will release bcmf premieres, the first recording on its own BCMF Records label, this June 1. The disc from the 29-year-old festival will feature ...
Boston Symphony Orchestra receives $7.5 million gift
Monday, 23 April 2012
The Boston Symphony Orchestra has received a $7.5 million gift from four longtime BSO supporters: Megan and Robert O’Block, Stephen B. Kay, and Lisbeth L. Tarlow. The gift is being recognized with the naming ...
“Downtown Express,” film featuring violinist Philippe Quint, opens in theaters
Friday, 20 April 2012
Downtown Express, a new film starring classical violinist Philippe Quint and singer-songwriter Nellie McKay, is set to open at New York City’s Quad Cinema on April 20....
Hartford Symphony’s “African American Sketches” at Wadsworth museum
Thursday, 19 April 2012
The Hartford Symphony Orchestra in Connecticut will present “African American Sketches,” a chamber program highlighting African-American music traditions, at Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on April 22. ...
New recordings from orchestras in Cleveland, Houston, New York, and San Francisco
Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Four orchestras—the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, The Knights, and New Century Chamber Orchestra—are among ensembles with new recordings this spring. On an eighteen-CD set ...
Conductors Macelaru and Trevino receive Solti Foundation awards
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The Solti Foundation has awarded its two major 2012 conducting prizes to Christian Macelaru and Robert Trevino. Macelaru, an assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra who previously ...
Beilman, Park, and Soumm are winners of London Music Masters awards
Monday, 16 April 2012
Violinists Benjamin Beilman, Hyeyoon Park, and Alexandra Soumm have won the three London Music Masters awards for 2012-15. The awards are given every three years to violinists between ...
South Carolina Philharmonic’s “home-grown” season finale
Friday, 13 April 2012
The South Carolina Philharmonic’s season-ending concert on April 28 highlighting musicians and vocalists who live in the orchestra’s home state is being billed as the state’s first Certified S.C. Grown ...
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra sets up 30 decorated pianos in L.A. County
Thursday, 12 April 2012
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra is hosting “Play Me, I’m Yours,” a three-week-long art installation this spring featuring 30 decorated pianos in 30 locations throughout Los Angeles County. ...
National Philharmonic to mark Debussy’s 150th birthday with May festival
Wednesday, 11 April 2012
The National Philharmonic will spotlight Claude Debussy (1862-1918) during a festival this May at the Music Center and Mansion at Strathmore in North Bethesda, Maryland. The festival opens ...
“The Sinking of the Titanic” at Le Poisson Rouge, 100 years after disaster
Tuesday, 10 April 2012
On April 15, Ensemble LPR and the Wordless Music Orchestra will perform Gavin Bryars’s The Sinking of the Titanic for orchestra and electronics at New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge—100 years ...
Orchestra Engagement Lab invites participants for August event in Vermont
Monday, 09 April 2012
The inaugural Orchestra Engagement Lab, organized by conductor Paul Gambill and arts consultant Eric Booth, will convene this August 5-11 in Burlington, Vermont. At the Lab, representatives ...
Sphinx medal recipients honored at formal dinner in Washington, D.C.
Friday, 06 April 2012
The Sphinx Organization honored musicians Anthony McGill, Tai Murray, and Elena Urioste—its inaugural three Sphinx Medals of Excellence recipients—at a black-tie dinner at the Supreme Court ...
Philadelphia Orchestra begins Stokowski celebrations
Thursday, 05 April 2012
The Philadelphia Orchestra has announced several events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Leopold Stokowski’s inaugural concert with the orchestra on October 11, 1912. ...
Charleston Symphony’s 2012-13 season: new venue, more chamber music, music-director search
Wednesday, 04 April 2012
The Charleston Symphony Orchestra in South Carolina will opens its 2012-13 season with a program of Verdi’s Overture to La Forza del Destino, Holst’s The Planets, and Brahms’s Shicksalslied ...
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras partner with local arts groups
Tuesday, 03 April 2012
The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras has embarked on several partnerships with Seattle-area arts organizations, including a just-completed Oklahoma Project with the 5th Avenue Theatre. ...
Conductor-training workshops set for this June-August in Maryland, California
Monday, 02 April 2012
The Conductors Guild, the national nonprofit organization for conductors, has announced that its next two conductor-training workshops will be held this spring and summer in Baltimore, Maryland ...
Indianapolis Symphony world premiere is occasion for live Twitter event in April
Friday, 30 March 2012
Nicholas McGegan will lead the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Indianapolis Symphonic Choir in the world premiere of Stephen Hough’s Missa Mirabilis for orchestra and chorus on April 6 ...
Rochester Symphony concert will raise funds for Japan’s Sendai Philharmonic
Thursday, 29 March 2012
The Rochester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale in Minnesota has announced that it will perform “A Song for Sendai,” a free outdoor community concert on June 15, to raise funds for the Sendai Philharmonic ...
League announces Fellows for intensive management training program in 2012-13
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
The League of American Orchestras announced that the participants in its Orchestra Management Fellowship Program for 2012-13 are Agnieszka (Eska) Laskus and Agnieszka Rakhmatullaev. ...
Symposium on music and healing set for Santa Fe this summer
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
In association with its 40th anniversary this summer, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will hold a three-day symposium, “Music, the Brain, Medicine and Wellness: A Scientific Dialogue,” in August. ...
Carnegie Hall museum focuses on American composers through May
Monday, 26 March 2012
At Carnegie Hall’s Rose Museum in New York City, an exhibit devoted to American composers Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Edgard Varèse, Harry Partch, and John Cage is on display from March 26-May 26. ...
Honens competition quarterfinals set for NYC in April and May
Friday, 23 March 2012
New York City will be the site for the third round of the quarterfinals of the 2012 Honens International Piano Competition on April 30 and May 1. Nineteen pianists will each give a 40-minute recital ...
Rare staging of Korngold’s “Much Ado About Nothing” in N.C.
Thursday, 22 March 2012
The University of North Carolina School of the Arts will present Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing with the newly released edition of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s complete score, which was ...
Orchestra of St. Luke’s new principal conductor to make debut at Caramoor
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Pablo Heras-Casado, announced as principal conductor of the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in December 2011, will make his debut in that role at the Caramoor International Music Festival in Katonah ...
Nashville Symphony’s teen concerto competition winners
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The Nashville Symphony has announced the winners of its 2012 Curb Records Young Musicians Concerto Competition for musicians between ages 14 and 18, held on March 10 and 11 at the Schermerhorn ...
New York Philharmonic expands digital archive, hosts online discussion
Monday, 19 March 2012
The next installment of the New York Philharmonic’s online digital archives will go live on March 22, focusing on the orchestra’s international tours under Leonard Bernstein from 1943 to 1970. ...
Music of the Baroque to focus on Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn in 2012-13
Friday, 16 March 2012
Music of the Baroque, based in Chicago, has announced that its 2012-13 concert season under Music Director Jane Glover will comprise seven programs featuring large-scale works by J.S. Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn. The season opens in…
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