On Sunday, June 21 at 11am EST (5pm CET), pianist Einav Yarden gives a full recital to an empty audience at Villa Seligmann in Hannover, Germany. The video-stream of the program, including works by Bach, Mendelssohn, Schoenberg, and Lior Navok, will be available worldwide for 24 hours. You can find it on Villa Seligmann’s YouTube page here.
Read MorePianist David Fung will be featured on the WQXR’s Second Annual Pride Show on June 18. Originally scheduled as an event at The Greene Space in NYC, the program will now be video-streamed with an impressive list of artists including, among others, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Sara Davis Buechner, Davóne Tines, and MazzMuse. One of Fung’s featured works will include a performance together with his partner, countertenor Daniel Moody. Explore more here and view the performance here.
Read MoreThe Amernet String Quartet enjoyed a mini residency with students at Tufts University March 9-10. While the quartet’s open rehearsal and final concert on March 11 was canceled due to the campus closure for the COVID-19 pandemic, it was scheduled to include Benjamin Britten's String Quartet No. 2 (1945), Bernard Rands String Quartet No. 2 (1994), and the Boston Premiere of Tufts faculty member Kareem Roustom's String Quartet No. 1: Shades of Night (2018).
Read MoreJonathan Leshnoff’s new work for symphony and chorus, Of Thee I Sing, had its world premiere by the Oklahoma City Philharmonic with Music Director Alexander Mickelthwaite on February 1st, 2020. The work was commissioned by the Oklahoma City Philharmonic (its first ever commission) together with the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing.
Read MoreOn January 29, violinist Danbi Um performed a recital for the esteemed Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts at the Chicago Cultural Center. Joined by pianist Kuang-Hao Huang, Um’s recital consisted of works by Korngold, Bloch, Saint-Saëns, and Ravel and was aired and livestreamed on Chicago classical station WFMT.
Read MorePianist David Fung joined the esteemed Brentano String Quartet for performances of sonatas by Hindemith. Following a performance at Yale University on January 28, Fung graced the stage of Carnegie Hall’s Weill Hall on January 29 for a fantastic collaborative performance presented by Yale in New York.
Read MoreViolinist Arnaud Sussmann and violist Paul Neubauer returned this week from a tour throughout China and Taiwan with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. With performances in Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Nanjing, Sussmann and Neubauer were featured together with CMS Co-Artistic Directors Wu Han and David Finckel and violinist Paul Huang (who performed with Dinin Arts’ Danbi Um last month in Brevard). The November 30 Taipei performance featured Paul Neubauer giving the Taiwan Premiere of Shostakovich’s Impromptu for Viola and Piano, which was written in 1931.
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