Galvin Cello Quartet Completes Spring Tour, with More Coming This Summer
The Galvin Cello Quartet has wrapped a full spring run of their "Voice of the Piano" program, bringing cello quartet arrangements of Mussorgsky, Schumann, Gershwin, and more to venues including the Vilar Performing Arts Center in Beaver Creek, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, the Ashe County Arts Council's Ed Perzel Chamber Music Series in West Jefferson, the Enchanted Mountains series in St. Bonaventure, NY, the Greater Miami Youth Symphony's Miami Cello Institute, the Telluride Chamber Music Association, and Chamber Music in Yellow Springs. Looking ahead to summer, the Quartet will take up residencies at the Ascent International Cello Festival in mid-June, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival later that month, followed by Texas Cellos in August. Additional engagements throughout the summer include concerts with Princeton University on June 22, Austin Chamber Music Center on July 25, the Abbey Bach Festival on July 31, and Classical Music Chicago on August 18.
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Borromeo String Quartet Returns to Gardner Museum, Tours Virginia, and Heads West
The Borromeo String Quartet had a packed March and April, opening with a sold-out appearance at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on March 15 before heading to Virginia for back-to-back concerts at the Feldman Chamber Music Society in Norfolk on March 16 — joined by Feldman artist-in-residence Alex Beyer — and the Chamber Music Society of Williamsburg on March 17. The Quartet returned to the Feldman on April 13 for the society's season finale, this time for a special octet program of Shostakovich, Enescu, and Mendelssohn at the Chrysler Museum of Art, co-presented with the Virginia Arts Festival; the same octet collaboration then traveled west for a performance at Southern Oregon University's Music Recital Hall in Ashland on April 18, presented by Chamber Music Concerts, followed by a performance in Brookings with the Partnership for the Performing Arts.
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Tommy Mesa Gives Premiere Performance of Wynton Marsalis New Cello Concerto
Cellist Tommy Mesa performs Wynton Marsalis' newly commissioned cello concerto on March 10 at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, alongside Interlochen Arts Academy students and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under conductor Cristian Măcelaru. The concerto received its world premiere on March 7 at Interlochen with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist, with Mesa taking the baton for the Detroit leg of the "Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250" tour. This program marking both the U.S. semiquincentennial and a century of partnership between Interlochen and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
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Stewart Goodyear's Upcoming Concerts with the Phoenix Symphony, Greenwich Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony
Pianist Stewart Goodyear will be performing alongside three American orchestras this season. He returns to the Phoenix Symphony under Mélisse Brunet from February 27 to March 1, performing Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, a 100 year old work weaving together jazz, ragtime, and classical idioms, as part of a program celebrating American music. On March 7 and 8, he joins the Greenwich Symphony under Stuart Malina for Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Egyptian"). He then returns to the Baltimore Symphony under Jun Märkl, again performing the Saint-Saëns "Egyptian" Concerto, this time alongside works by Pépin, Debussy, and Ravel.
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Lysander Piano Trio Concludes West Coast Tour
The Lysander Piano Trio concluded its winter West Coast tour, starting with performances at Chamber Music Monterey Bay and Music in Corrales in January and concluding with a debut at Camerata Musica in the Tri-Cities in Washington state and a return to Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, California.
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High Praise for Melissa White's Dallas Symphony Debut & World Premiere
Melissa White gave four stunning performances of the new Violin Concerto by Sophia Jani, the Dallas Symphony's composer-in-residence, in her Dallas Symphony debut. Rave reviews came from several local news outlets, including The Dallas Morning Sun and Texas Classical Review (see here). These performances will be aired on MediciTV.
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Tommy Mesa Releases New Album, 17(67)
Cellist Tommy Mesa releases his second solo album on February 13, 2026, titled ‘17(67),' pairing together the year the artist’s Nicolò Gagliano cello was made with a popular modern slang term. The album’s title reflects the bridge created between the traditional and the innovative through this wide-ranging program, played alongside pianist Yoon Lee. With recordings from the Romantic canon, an early 20th century Brazilian composition, to contemporary voices and even some of Mesa’s own arrangements, Mesa’s repertoire spans eras and styles. The album has been praised by the CBC as their Album of the Week (see here).
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Merz Trio Returns to Houston, San Miguel de Allende
The Merz Trio just concluded their Winter 2026 tour, returning to Chamber Music Houston and Pro Musica San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, and appearing for the first time on other series such as Chamber Music Society of Louisville and The Forum on the Virgin Islands. A concert with Philadelphia Chamber Music Society was cancelled due to the blizzard in late January.
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Harlem Quartet Performs in Telluride, Continues ASU residency
The Harlem Quartet performs in Telluride on January 24th at the Historic Sheridan Opera House. Presented by Telluride Chamber Music, the concert features a diverse program ranging from Classical to Latin and jazz. From January 27th through 30th, the Quartet visited Arizona State University for the second time this season, performing both a “Jazz Inspirations” program in addition to performing with the ASU Symphony Orchestra. The Quartet will conclude its residency with a final visit to ASU in April.
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Lysander Trio Touring Monterey Bay, Lake Superior, and Corrales, NM
The Lysander Piano Trio, in their first winter tour since cellist James Kim joined last spring, will tour several unique locales in January. This includes their debut with Chamber Music Monterey Bay on January 10 (details here), Lake Superior State University in Michigan on January 16 (details here), and a sold-out return to Chamber Music Corrales in New Mexico (details here) on January 26 (details here).
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Roman Rabinovich's Upcoming New Mexico Phil Debut
On January 24, pianist Roman Rabinovich will give his New Mexico Philharmonic debut in Albuquerque. With Music Director Roberto Minczuk conducting, Roman will perform Prokofiev’s fiery Piano Concerto No. 3. He will stay the following day to give a fundraising performance for the Philharmonic.
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Melissa White Featured with Alvin Ailey at Opening Night Gala
On December 3, violinist Melissa White was a featured soloist collaborating with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for their Opening Night and Company Premiere of Blink of an Eye, choreographed by Medhi Walerski.
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Dinin Arts Returns as Independent Entity
After a one-year trial merger with the agency EFP, Dinin Arts Director ended its agency partnership. As of January 4, 2026, Dinin Arts is operating again as an independent, full-service artist management firm in its 10th year of operations. The artists who were on Dinin Arts’ roster prior to the partnership are back, exclusively with Dinin Arts, and we look forward to welcoming more soloists and ensembles to the roster this week. We are thrilled to be back!
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Verona Quartet Reunites with Wu Man on Pipa
Following their successful first collaboration at Oberlin Conservatory in 2023, the Verona Quartet reunites with Wu Man for a performance at San Antonio Chamber Music Society on November 17. Their interdisciplinary program shines a light on the complex fabric of “what is home” and cultural identity in the modern age through a nostalgic and visionary exploration of both ancient and contemporary repertoire from traditions across the globe. Their collaborations continue in spring and summer 2025, at venues including the Eastman School of Music and the National Museum of Asian Art (and more to be announced soon)!
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Melissa White Delights at Fall Orchestra Debuts
Melissa White opened the 2024-25 orchestral season with debuts at the Plymouth Philharmonic in September and the Hilton Head Symphony in October. Following these successful appearances, featuring concerti by Florence Price and Max Bruch, Ms. White heads to the Baton Rouge Symphony, Jackson (MI) Symphony, and Orchestra Iowa in November for performances of Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy.
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