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Bravo! Vail Valley to celebrate 25th anniversary this summer

Thursday, 09 February 2012

The Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Colorado will celebrate its 25th season this summer, under the direction of pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, in her second season as artistic director. ...

U.S. orchestras embark on innovative programs, with NEA support

Wednesday, 08 February 2012

During the second half of the 2011-12 season and beyond, American orchestras are embarking on a wide variety of innovative programming, community-engagement, and education initiatives ...

Tucson Symphony to celebrate Arizona’s 100th with Native American-themed work

Tuesday, 07 February 2012

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming “Arizona Centennial Celebration” will feature the world premiere of Desert Solitude, a suite for Native American flute and orchestra ...

Conductor James Conlon launches blog

Monday, 06 February 2012

Conductor James Conlon has launched a blog, A Rich Possession, addressing issues facing classical music today. In his inaugural post, “A Peculiarly American Paradox,” Conlon writes of the U.S. ...

Dudamel to lead “Americas & Americans” festival at Hollywood Bowl

Friday, 03 February 2012

The Hollywood Bowl’s fourteen-week 2012 summer series will feature “Americas & Americans,” a two-week festival directed by Los Angeles Philharmonic Music Director Gustavo Dudamel. ...

Cincinnati Symphony’s 2012-13 season to feature three creative directors

Thursday, 02 February 2012

The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s 2012-13 season will feature creative directors Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Branford Marsalis, and Jennifer Higdon, as the orchestra continues ...

ArtsReady receives $225K to promote emergency preparedness for arts groups

Wednesday, 01 February 2012

ArtsReady, a nonprofit that provides arts organizations with business continuity plans for post-crisis sustainability, has received a $225,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation that ...

Albuquerque Youth Symphony gets its own home

Tuesday, 31 January 2012

The Albuquerque Youth Symphony Program in New Mexico has purchased a building, marking the first time in the organization’s 57-year history that it will have a permanent home rather than ...

Applications now being accepted for scholarships to attend League Conference

Monday, 30 January 2012

The Corporation for International Business is now accepting applications from orchestra executive directors and operations managers for five scholarships to help defray the costs of attending ...

American Composers Orchestra’s new 6-month CoLABoratory program

Friday, 27 January 2012

The American Composers Orchestra is inviting composers to submit proposals for CoLABoratory: Playing it Unsafe, an extended series of rehearsals and public workshop/readings during the 2012-13 season. ...

New Haven Symphony launches unusual partnership with power company

Thursday, 26 January 2012

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has formed a partnership with Discount Power, Inc., a low-cost electricity provider in deregulated electrical energy markets in Connecticut. ...

San Francisco Symphony’s Tilson Thomas to speak at TED2012 conference

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony and Miami’s New World Symphony, will be among the presenters at the TED2012 conference in Long Beach, California ...

Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s free webcasts for 2012

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

The Detroit Symphony Orchestra has announced details of its 2012 “Live from Orchestra Hall” webcasts from January through May. The webcasts began in September 2011, with initial funding ...

Inaugural Georgia Music Day set for January 24 in Atlanta

Monday, 23 January 2012

In Georgia, musicians and music-business leaders will convene at the Georgia State Capitol in Atlanta on January 24 for the state’s first-ever Georgia Music Day. Among the assembled forces ...

Juilliard celebrates John Cage’s 100th with free concerts

Friday, 20 January 2012

For its annual FOCUS! new-music festival, the Juilliard School in New York will offer six free concerts this year celebrating the 100th birthday of John Cage (1912-1992), from January 27 through February 3. ...

From the Top to showcase accomplishments of new arts-leadership program

Friday, 20 January 2012

From the Top, the organization best known for producing NPR and PBS broadcasts spotlighting young classical musicians, will showcase the work of teenagers participating in the first year of ...

Musical America’s “Ask Edna” column holds career-advice contest

Wednesday, 18 January 2012

Edna Landau, whose “Ask Edna” career-advice column for musicians and arts administrators appears weekly at the Musical America website, will celebrate its first anniversary by holding a contest. ...

Sphinx Performance Academy and Ansbacher Fellowship accepting applications

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

The Sphinx Organization and the American Austrian Foundation have announced application details for two separate programs for young string players and for conductors. ...

Winning composers announced for Copland, Koussevitzky, and Mizzou organizations

Friday, 13 January 2012

Composers have been selected to participate in separate programs run by three organizations: the Copland House, Koussevitzky Foundation, and Mizzou New Music Summer Festival. ...

Spoleto Festival USA 2012 season announcement

Thursday, 12 January 2012

General Director Nigel Redden has announced programming for the 36th annual Spoleto Festival USA, set for May 25 to June 10 in Charleston, South Carolina. Among musical highlights ...

Composers Now Festival set for NYC in February

Wednesday, 11 January 2012

The third annual Composers Now Festival is set to take place from February 4 through 28 in venues throughout New York City, beginning with an eight-hour Music of Now Marathon ...

Paducah Symphony accepting applications for young-artist competition

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

The deadline is January 15 for submitting applications to the 2012 Young Artist Concerto Competition of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra, based in Kentucky. Musicians in grades ...

New ArtsFwd site to track innovation in the arts

Monday, 09 January 2012

EmcArts, the nonprofit organization devoted to learning and innovation in the arts, has launched ArtsFwd.org. The new site includes video and written profiles of innovative projects; blogs ...

Philadelphia Orchestra’s “Star-Spangled Banner” at 76ers games

Friday, 06 January 2012

The Philadelphia 76ers basketball team has announced that the Philadelphia Orchestra will be heard at home games at the Wells Fargo Center this season. At each home game, vocalist Ayla Brown, a finalist in the fifth season of American Idol, …

Mozart as Guitar Hero for New Haven Symphony youth concerts

Thursday, 05 January 2012

At the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s next family concerts, some members of the audience—born decades after groups the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin first arrived on the scene—may be hearing music by those bands and others for the…

Emmanuel Music’s Bach Institute set for two weeks in January

Wednesday, 04 January 2012

The Boston-based music series Emmanuel Music has announced plans for its 2012 Bach Institute this month. During the Institute, which takes place at Emmanuel Church from January 8 to 24, ten college and conservatory students will learn about and perform Bach...

Multicultural Music Day at Carnegie to feature world premieres

Tuesday, 03 January 2012

Musicians from Israel, Syria, and Jordan will perform together at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on January 8, 2012, as part of Multicultural Music Day, an event organized by the nonprofit organization Listen for Life. The Carnegie Hall concert…

At New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace in NYC, Tippett’s “Child of Our Time”

Friday, 23 December 2011

The musical centerpiece of the annual New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine will be Michael Tippett’s oratorio A Child of Our Time, a choral meditation ...

Pianists Biss and Denk to perform in new “Safe Space” series in NYC

Thursday, 22 December 2011

The Housing Works Bookstore Cafe in New York City will be the venue for the first event in a new series called Safe Space, in which classical musicians and authors perform, read, and conduct open conversations. ...

Reno Chamber Orchestra holds eighth annual December chamber-music festival

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

The Reno Chamber Orchestra in Nevada is presenting its eighth annual Nevada Chamber Music Festival this December at the South Reno United Methodist Church and the Nightingale Concert Hall ...

January deadline for New York Youth Symphony composer competition

Tuesday, 20 December 2011

The New York Youth Symphony is accepting applications for its young composer competition through January 6, 2012. The competition, initiated in 1984, commissions emerging orchestra ...

Next EarShot readings set for San Diego in April

Monday, 19 December 2011

EarShot, the National Orchestral Composition Discovery Network, has announced that its San Diego Symphony New Music Readings will take place at Copley Symphony Hall in San Diego, California ...

Charleston Symphony launches contest for high-school musicians

Friday, 16 December 2011

South Carolina’s Charleston Symphony Orchestra has announced its inaugural Share the Stage Contest for violinists, violists, cellists, and bassists in grades 9 through 12. Students wishing to audition ...

Carmel Bach Festival’s 75th season to range from Baroque to bluegrass

Thursday, 15 December 2011

In July, the Carmel Bach Festival in California will mark its 75th anniversary with the theme “Bach: Spheres of Influence” under Music Director Paul Goodwin. Festival programs will explore ...

Andrew Norman settles in as Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s composer-in-residence

Wednesday, 14 December 2011

Andrew Norman, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s new Music Alive composer-in-Residence, is settling in to his two-year residency that runs from 2011 to 2013. During his residency ...

New ME2/orchestra to perform debut concert in Burlington, VT

Tuesday, 13 December 2011

ME2/orchestra, a Vermont-based classical-music ensemble for individuals with mental-health issues and the people who support them, will perform its first concert on December 14 at North End Studios in Burlington, Vermont. Ronald Braunstein is…

Dutilleux named first recipient of NY Philharmonic’s $200K new-music prize

Monday, 12 December 2011

The eminent French composer Henri Dutilleux has been announced as the inaugural recipient of the New York Philharmonic’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music. Dutilleux received the award ...

Pulitzer Foundation and St. Louis Symphony’s “Retrospectives” festival set for June 2012

Friday, 09 December 2011

The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra have announced details of the Pulitzer Contemporary Music Festival, Retrospectives and Innovations: A Celebration of…

Matheson receives $200K Charles Ives Living award

Thursday, 08 December 2011

The American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced that composer James Matheson is winner of its $200,000 Charles Ives Living award. The award covers a two-year period ...

Cleveland Institute video-streams live concert—on internet and mobile apps

Wednesday, 07 December 2011

The Cleveland Institute of Music live-streamed the second half of its sold-out November 30 concert at Mixon Hall, a solo recital featuring Russian-born pianist and CIM student Daniil Trifonov. The Institute video-streamed the concert…

Applications being accepted for Nestlé/Salzburg conducting award

Tuesday, 06 December 2011

The deadline is January 10, 2012 to apply for the Nestlé and Salzburg Festival Young Conductors Award for conductors between ages 21 and 35. The winner of the award, now in its third year, will receive a prize of 15,000 euros; conduct the Gustav Mahler…

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