Continuing its survey of the music of Beethoven and Mozart, the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra performed a program last night that was both familiar and challenging, in all of the right […]
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra with Paul Lewis Read Post »
"This once-hopeless festival has become an unlikely model of change…It did not invent any of the principles that pulled them out of stagnation. They simply embraced them." — Anthony Tommasini, The
Mostly Mozart Festival Opens with Beethoven, Debussy, and Mozart Read Post »
by Melanie Wong Photo credit: Michelle V. Agins, The New York Times Earlier last month, Nikolay Khozyainov (Russian winner of the 2012 Dublin International Piano Competition) gave his Carnegie Hall debut.
Nikolay Khozyainov Makes Carnegie Hall Debut Read Post »
by Melanie Wong Many of today’s leading classical artists kicked off their careers by winning Concert Artists Guild's Victor Elmaleh Competition—the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet, Grammy-nominated wind quintet Imani Winds,
Amphion String Quartet Takes Carnegie Hall by Storm Read Post »
by Melanie Wong Photo credit: Benjamin Ealovega Last week on the intimate stage of Carnegie’s Zankel Hall, Jonathan Biss, in collaboration with the Elias String Quartet, explored the role of
Jonathan Biss and Elias String Quartet Come Together at Carnegie Hall Read Post »
Forget Duda: the most captivating conductor in America today is David Robertson, hands down. Whether it's his innovative programs with the St. Louis Symphony or his experiments with students at
New York Philharmonic Finds Life with David Robertson Read Post »
by Melanie Wong As if winning the Principal Clarinet position with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra last September wasn’t enough, 21-year-old Christopher Pell made headlines last month after stepping up to
Rising Clarinetist Christopher Pell Presents Muczynski, Brahms & Mozart Read Post »
by Michael Cirigliano II Few musical works are as emblematic of the time and circumstances of their composition as Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. Written in 1941
Ensemble ACJW Presents Mozart and Messiaen Read Post »
by Michael Cirigliano II Compared to the wealth of chamber music for string ensembles and piano, wind instruments have been woefully neglected in receiving any substantial repertoire from the canon
St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble Presents Wind Music of Ligeti and Mozart Read Post »
