North Shore Chamber Music Fest Returns
Across four programs, performers including violinist Paul Huang, pianist Alessio Bax, and the festival’s co-founders explore a range of chamber music rep.
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Meet CSO Solti Conducting Apprentice Erina Yashima
For ten weeks each year, Erina Yashima works directly with Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Riccardo Muti and leads the Civic Orchestra.
Chicago Opera Theater Announces 17-18 Season Including World Premiere by Pulitzer-Winning Team
Chicago Opera Theater announced its 2017-18 season: three operas, including a world-premiere co-production with Opera Philadelphia, to be staged at the newly-renovated Studebaker Theater in the Fine Arts Building.
Chicago Sinfonietta’s 30th Anniversary Season Showcases ‘Full Spectrum of Voices and Identities’
The Chicago Sinfonietta recently announced its 30th season line-up, as well as the launch of its Commissions by Women Composers Project, a season-long effort to close music’s gender equality gap by commissioning, performing, and recording, works by women composers.
Boston Pops Violinist Dorothy Han Returns to Alma Mater to Teach Kenwood Students About Music & More
Returning to her alma mater for the first time in nearly 40 years, Dorothy Han performed and led a workshop in the very same Kenwood Academy classroom she once rehearsed in.
Composer Creates Music Major for Persecuted Bahá’ís in Iran Despite No Classrooms, Teachers, Piano
Growing up in Kerman, Iran, composer Badie Khaleghian received his first music lessons from his father. “When I was six or seven years old, he taught me how to play the recorder, then violin, and later piano.” As a young adult, Khaleghian wanted desperately to study music at the university level. “But because of my religion, I was not allowed ...
VIDEO: How a Holocaust Survivor Changed a Young Musician’s Life by Donating His Violin
After Joe Feingold could no longer play his violin, he decided to donate it. He didn't realize that this simple act of kindness would change Brianna Perez's life.
Sitarist Anoushka Shankar on Sexism, Collaboration, Her Return “Home” to the United States
"The word 'collaboration' is an umbrella term, really. One doesn't just get up on stage and 'jam' with an orchestra the way you might with a guitarist or someone else."
Watch ‘Invitation to a Die-In,’ A Moving Musical Memorial to Unarmed Black Men Killed by Police
"My heart began to race when I was listening to this piece for the first time. It’s upsetting for me to listen to. I don’t like this piece,” composer Nkeiru Okoye said.
This Classical Music-Inspired Cocktail Is A “Ravelation”
If you like to accompany your favorite pieces of classical music with a cocktail, try this drink that pairs perfectly with a sonata by Ravel.
Defiant Requiem Honors Holocaust Victims, Reminds Us: “The Arts Are Critically Important”
"What the Jews did at Terezín was reach for the best of mankind to help them endure the worst of mankind. This is what the arts can do. This is what the arts do do," says conductor Murry Sidlin
