Christchurch Symphony Orchestra directed by Sophie Rowell perform at The Piano, Otautahi/Christchurch on 26 July 2024.

For the 19th Annual Bach Festival, expect a twist. “Mostly Mozart 2026” headlines a week of noon recitals accompanied by the famous Bach’s Lunch where music lovers convene over soup, salad and ...

Arcturus Winds, featuring musicians from the Oregon Symphony, offer a chamber concert celebrating iconic space-themed music including favorites from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Gustav Holst’s “The ...

The podium long seemed an exclusively male domain because conducting was believed to demand qualities traditionally attributed to men.

Auerbach’s Ludwigs Alptraum (Ludwig’s Nightmare), composed in 2007 for the International Beethoven Competition in Bonn, was a dark reflection on that composer’s two fantasy-sonatas of Op. 27, with ...

Sandra Coursey’s first piano teacher’s answer was blunt—there simply weren’t any. The composers, she was told, were men like ...

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Arts nonprofit Young Texas Artists (YTA) is pulling out all the stops to celebrate its home state. The 2026 Bach, Beethoven & ...

The Singapore International Piano Festival returns with international and local pianists, exploring themes of pianist, ...

The composer Franz Schubert ranks with the greatest of classical music composers – but it wasn’t always that way.

Marking György Kurtág’s 100th birthday, Elena Schwarz and Víkingur Ólafsson led a programme of hushed intensity and fleeting ferocity ...

Some composers have the rare gift of naivety. They don’t impress or stir us with complexity. They simply place a luminous chord here, a sad drooping phrase there, balanced with unerring rightness.