Also featured is Grace Williams’s Elegy for Strings, and Carl Nielsen’s Violin Concerto with violinist Liya Petrova.

Respected Italian conductor Fabio Luisi continues a survey of Carl Nielsen symphonies.

Alan Gilbert conducts works by Ravel, Nielsen, and Tchaikovsky.

Armstrong is Oakland’s first music director since the unexpected death of Michael Morgan in 2021.

It’s been a strange, difficult year for the music world, which is all the more reason to celebrate musical excellence.

On February 10, some of the biggest names in the music industry convened at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles. R&B and soul singer Alicia Keys hosted the ceremony, as winners were announced in 30 fields and 84 categories. Here are the nominees and winners for the classical music categories.

The summer festival’s 2018 season of concerts runs for 10 weeks from June 13 to August 18.