Juliana D'Agostini Celebrates Her Birthday In Style
17 September, 2020
This past September 11, renowned Brazilian pianist and concert artist, Juliana D'Agostini, celebrated her birthday in São Paulo at the Terrazza Rooftop restaurant, a setting at the height of elegance and good taste that enabled the artist to greet her guests with all the protocols of the so-called ...
| Top 8 Beautiful Piano Ballads You Need To Listen To This Autumn
13 September, 2020
As we transit from summer to winter, the longer nights need something to listen to. Piano music is soothing and reaches every part of the soul that can't be explored by any other piece. Piano tones give powerful and tender techniques to everyone who listens to its tunes.
The good thing about these ...
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South African Composer Making Waves In The US
11 September, 2020
Jonathan Smithers is an internationally renowned musician, composer, songwriter and guitarist whose work spans multiple platforms. Originally from South Africa, the Summa Cum Laude graduate of Berklee College of Music has contributed to innovative music productions and live performances alike. On YouTube ...
| Celebrate Arvo Part's 85th Birthday With His Glorious Choral Works On This New Album By Gloriae Dei Cantores
11 September, 2020
On the threshold of Arvo Pärt's 85th Birthday - we take a moment to celebrate this incredible composer whose music is a gift in our times. Modest about his achievements yet authentically convinced about the role of his music in today's world, Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) is today's most performed "classical" ...
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Shenyang: The 6th Hun River Symphonic Music Festival Opened Grandly
08 September, 2020
The 6th Hun River Symphony Music Festival opened grandly in Shenyang on the evening of September 4th.
The theme of the festival is "Winning the overall well-off, sharing a better life". Four performances are arranged from 4th to 9th in September, according to the Publicity Department of Shenyang ...
| Katrina Suroveca Recipient Of The Scheer Foundation Musical Scholarship For 2020/2021
08 September, 2020
Today Maddy Cross Parkin, Director of Musical Grants, announced that Katrina Suroveca is a recipient of the Scheer Foundation Scholarship for the year 2020/2021
"Katrina Suroveca from Riga, Latvia is a recipient of a scholarship and we are proud to support her career. It is a privilege to support ...
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Bass Hall Management Decides To Extend Closure; Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra's Fall Symphonic Series Moved To Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium
07 September, 2020
The Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra (FWSO) announced today it was recently notified by Performing Arts Fort Worth (PAFW) - the management company for Bass Performance Hall - that PAFW will extend its closure of Bass Hall through at least December 2020. Given the extremely short notice, the FWSO approached ...
| Tigran Hamasyan Releases Video For "The Dream Voyager" From New Album, "The Call Within"
01 September, 2020
Pianist/composer Tigran Hamasyan, whose new album, The Call Within, was released on Nonesuch this past Friday, has released a video for the album track "The Dream Voyager." The video features collages by Nanuka Tchitchoua and animation by T. Wade Ivy.
"This song is dedicated to my father, who has ...
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Lawrence Brownlee And Michael Spyres To Release New Erato Album 'Amici E Rivali'
26 August, 2020
Two of today's most brilliant tenors, Michael Spyres and Lawrence Brownlee, celebrate the art of the trailblazing star singers of Rossini's time. Amici e Rivali - 'Friends and Rivals' - comprises arias, duets, and trios from seven of the composer's operas, written between 1815 and 1826: the most famous ...
| BBC Proms Announce Programme For Last Night Of The Proms
26 August, 2020
In light of the recent speculation about the Last Night Of The Proms, we are today announcing the programme for the concert. We very much regret the unjustified personal attacks on Dalia Stasevska, BBC Symphony Orchestra Principal Guest Conductor made on social media and elsewhere. As ever, decisions ...
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Helene Grimaud Announces Her Latest Album The Messenger With Works By Mozart And Silvestrov, Out October 2
24 August, 2020
It's been nine and ten years respectively since Hélène Grimaud made her only two Mozart recordings. One might almost think there simply hasn't been room for his music in her multifaceted repertoire, and the pianist does confess that her younger self found the "lightness of being" she associated with ...
| For A Complete Roster Of Composers And Artists, And Information About Project And Festival 20x2020
18 August, 2020
Apollo Chamber Players concludes its six-year multicultural commissioning project with 20x2020 Virtual Festival, twenty video episodes featuring two digital world premieres and new studio performances recorded specifically for this series, previous concerts, of the 20 commissioned works, curated with ...
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Martina Consonni Recipient Of The Scheer Foundation Musical Scholarship For 2020/2021
17 August, 2020
Today Maddy Cross Parkin, Director of Musical Grants, announced that Martina Consonni is the very First Recipient of the Scheer Foundation Scholarship for the year 2020/2021.
"Martina Consonni from Como, Italy is the very first recipient and we are proud to support her career. It is a privilege ...
| BBC Proms Announce Laura Marling, Benjamin Grosvenor And Philharmonia Orchestra To Join Live Line-up
12 August, 2020
Award-winning British singer-songwriter Laura Marling will be part of the live Proms this summer! Marling will be performing songs from her recently acclaimed, Mercury-nominated album Song for Our Daughter, as well as selected songs from her previous albums, in brand-new string arrangements by American ...
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Joshua Bell To Star In New PBS Special 'Joshua Bell: At Home With Music'
12 August, 2020
Joshua Bell will star in a new PBS nationwide broadcast special, "Joshua Bell: At Home With Music," airing August 16, 2020, at 7PM ET/6PM CT, and available to stream here via the PBS website in the U.S. for two weeks afterwards. The program centers around a musical soirée of intimate performances from ...
| Falu & Karyshma Share The Solace And Spirit Of Traditional Indian Music For Our Current Moment On Someday (August 28)
11 August, 2020
Falu & Karyshma have announced (August 28), their interpretations of traditional Indian songs that span centuries and center on themes of oneness and universal human experience. One of the band members, Falu, is the first Indian female singer-songwriter to be nominated for a GRAMMY. Falu & Karyshma ...
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Austrian Composer Oliver Ostermann And American Tenor Brian Cheney Collaborate Across Borders To Create Music In The Time Of Corona
11 August, 2020
Austrian Composer Oliver Ostermann and American Tenor Brian Cheney have teamed up during the global pandemic to create "I Sang My Heart to the Moon". The album of eight pieces beautifully displays Ostermann's rich melodic landscape showing why he is considered one of Europe's most exciting composers ...
| Vikingur Olafsson Surpasses 112 Million Streams, Including 17 Million Streams For Critically-Acclaimed New Album "Debussy - Rameau"
11 August, 2020
"He's got the keys to brighten the darkness," commented The Times following the release of Víkingur Ólafsson's latest album Debussy • Rameau back in March, when many countries were in lockdown and international concerts were cancelled. Determined to continue sharing his love of music, the celebrated ...
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New - Arvo Part Album By Gloriae Dei Cantores Who "Emerge As Prominent Champions Of Arvo Part's Music With A Distinctive Sound To Match"
29 July, 2020
"Utterly Captivating" - Fanfare
"Pärt's sound world, exemplified here by his choral music, demands performers with pure and beautiful tone, and impeccable intonation...The singing is unfailingly secure, lovely, and expressive" - Fanfare
"Top five (Classical BILLBOARD) in one of the largest classical ...
| Renee Fleming & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Present Stunning New Track "When You Wish Upon A Star"
22 July, 2020
Four-time Grammy-winning American soprano Renée Fleming shares her beautiful rendition of 'When You Wish Upon a Star' from the 1940 animated classic Pinocchio, released in a unique collaboration with Decca Records/Universal Music Canada, the country's leading music company and Disney Music Group's ...
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