Wynton Marsalis' rare musical versatility has long been a beacon in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Now the Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer brings those ...
After all the hype I tried to generate for Nicola Benedetti playing Wynton Marsalis’ Violin Concerto, I thought it would be good to revisit some of the traditional violin concerto repertoire. I will ...
Augustin Hadelich is steeped in the repertoire of classical violin concertos and travels the globe to perform them with the world's major orchestras. The cosmopolitan violinist — born in Italy to ...
Composer Lisa Bielawa's new work, a violin concerto titled PULSE, will be given its world premiere performances by the ...
The evening’s sociable setting, casual vibe and ready bar fuse into a hot ticket for this limited- capacity concert at Duling ...
Two of the country’s most accomplished chamber musicians – cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han – will perform ...
Sometimes, says virtuoso violinist Alexander Markov, life has a way of coming full circle. On Oct. 9, 1983, the Moscow-born, Connecticut-reared phenom made his Carnegie Hall debut on classical violin.
Classical violinists turned YouTubers Brett Yang and Eddy Chen (aka TwoSet Violin) collaborated with the virtual platform Moment House to broadcast a world tour virtually on December 28. Image: ...
Yehudi Menuhin saw Schumann’s D minor Violin Concerto of 1853 as a missing link between Beethoven and Brahms. The reason it had been missing was that the great Hungarian virtuoso Joseph Joachim, whose ...
Mike Mills invokes a Rolodex of metaphors to make sense of his latest post-R.E.M. venture. “If anything, it’s extreme because we’re moving away from the center of both rock and classical music and ...
“This is complete madness,” the maestro tells the orchestra. He glances to the soloist, the world-famous violinist Rachel Barton Pine, then says simply, “Let’s go.” You wouldn’t know from the title on ...
These concertos of baroque composer Josef Antonín Guretzky (1709-1769) are a joy! Picking a composer out of Moravian obscurity, the “Harmonious Society of Tickle-Fiddle Gentlemen” have put down world ...