Composer

Cello Concerto No. 1 in B minor (1895) Antonín Dvořák

Gateways (1993) Daniel Asia

Our annual visit to Mikkeli Music Festival in Finland is a highlight in the Philharmonia’s concert calendar.

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Mikkeli Music Festival 2026

Ilumina fully lives up to the meaning of its name, which comes from the Portuguese verb ‘to illuminate’ or ‘to enlighten’. Founded in 2015 by violist Jennifer Stumm to offer world-class training and opportunities to talented musicians from disadvantaged backgrounds, the ensemble travels far from its home on an organic coffee farm near Sao Paolo, Brazil to reach the world’s leading concert halls. Only a poet could do justice to the combustible energy, collective commitment and life-enhancing artistry cultivated by Ilumina’s amazing players.

Ilumina

Wigmore Hall

Rusalka feels trapped in a world from which there is no escape. She is ready to put her immortality on the line in return for a human soul, so she can gain the love of a handsome prince. But she must pay for it with her voice. Muted and liberated from her dark world, she is forced to watch as the prince rejects her in favor of a foreign princess – dooming them both. She cannot live, she cannot die, yet nevertheless at the end, she helps the prince find his death with a “rescuing” kiss.

Rusalka

Max-Joseph-Platz

4th Festival Chamber Concert: Rheingold Quartet

Munich Residence

Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out treasures hidden in our midst. The distinguished Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák, associated with musical nationalism through his works inspired by Czech folkloric sources, insisted that American composers must pay attention to the boundless riches of indigenous and Black American music. During his time as director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York City from 1892 to 1895, he worked with Harry Burleigh, a distinguished Black American composer who introduced Dvořák to spirituals, and encountered Native American music during a summertime visit to Spillville, Iowa, in 1893. In response, Dvořák produced some of his most popular, influential works—not only the celebrated “New World” Symphony, but also the “American” Quartet and Quintet he composed in Spillville. Completing this illuminating program is the delectable Sonatina, Op. 100—a work the great violinist Fritz Kreisler was known to play under the title Indian Lament.

Dvořák in America

Southern Vermont Arts Center

For years, our summer concert at Kleinhans Music Hall has been a thank you to our Donors and Subscribers. This year, we’re excited to welcome everyone because the BPO loves Buffalo and wants to share the music with the whole community! Led by JoAnn Falletta, this concert features a lively program with pieces the BPO musicians love but rarely perform. Celebrate the music, summer, and the community that makes it all possible!

Patron Appreciation Concert

Kleinhans Music Hall

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine. 

Summer Evenings IV 2026

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

A work of audacious technical demands and lyrical beauty, Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto was composed when he was just 17. Longtime Cleveland Orchestra friend Garrick Ohlsson revisits this work that helped put Rachmaninoff on the map as a composer and performer. Conductor Semyon Bychkov bookends the program with Smetana’s love letter to his homeland and Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony, which bursts with optimism from the first note to the last. 

Ohlsson Plays Rachmaninoff

Severance Music Center

Folk influences, a heartfelt literary connection and some inventive instrumentation make this suite of pieces a fascinating expansion of the typical chamber music soundworld. Don’t miss this chance to hear from GTMF musicians who don’t always get to share the spotlight.

Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Brahms & Dvořák

Jackson Hole High School

The concert begins with Mozart’s Trio in E major, a graceful and lyrical work highlighting his gift for chamber music. From there, the program moves to the Sonata for Violin and Piano by Maurice Ravel, the great French composer of the early 20th century, whose music shimmers with color and atmosphere.

Saratoga Springs, NY

Skidmore College

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine.

Summer Evenings II 2026

Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center

Concert for Unity

Elim Christian Fellowship

Cornelius Meister conducts Strauss, Dvořák and Brahms

Teatro La Fenice

The world we live in has rarely been as unstable as it is these days. Surrounded by crises and wars, the noticeable shift to the right is increasingly fueling fears for our democracy. If you ask young people on the street how they view their future, the majority answer is: worried. Starting with Antonín Dvořák's Symphony "From the New World," the Philharmonic State Orchestra asks in this concert: If we were allowed to dream, what would our world of tomorrow look like? How would our coexistence be shaped – between people, but also between people and the environment? As part of a one-year, participatory project, the musicians of the Philharmonic State Orchestra, together with students from two schools in Hamburg, are artistically searching for answers. They will present their results in this concert.

Utopia

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

The Hamburg State Orchestra's Philharmonic Concerts become time-plays, transcending the boundaries of the ordinary: This concert features Barbara Assiginaak's compositional interpretation of Max Bruch's sonic imagination – the first movement of his violin concerto is replaced by a new composition by her, inspired by the original. Bruch confronts us today as a mirror of the past and, through Assiginaak, as a part of the here and now. This unabashed musical interplay opens new perspectives on our musical culture, our thinking and being, and our way of receiving music.

Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra / Hilary Hahn / Omer Meir Wellber

The Hamburg State Orchestra's Philharmonic Concerts become ZeitSpielen and transcend the boundaries of the ordinary: In this concert, Barbara Assiginaak's compositional interpretation of Max Bruch's sonic imagination will be heard - for the first movement of his Violin Concerto will be replaced by a new composition from her pen, inspired by the original. Bruch meets us today as a mirror of the past and at the same time, through Assiginaak, as part of the here and now! 

10th Philharmonic Concert BRUCH / ASSIGINAAK

Elbphilharmonie

Praised for “…sparkling, taut performances” (New York Times), the Harlem Chamber Players are a collective of professional classical musicians dedicated to bringing high-caliber, affordable, accessible live classical music to people in the Harlem community and beyond. They have performed at Riverside Church, Apollo Theater, Merkin Concert Hall, The Greene Space at WNYC/WQXR, MET Museum, Brooklyn Public Library, Caramoor Festival, and Carnegie Hall.

In a program perfect for the weekend of our nation’s 250th anniversary, Dvořák’s evergreen “American” Quartet, with its echoing of American musical traditions, is performed here with two accessible yet overlooked quartet masterworks of American composers. Florence Price was a musical heroine of the Chicago Black Renaissance of the 1920s, while George Walker’s 1946 quartet has long been famous for its elegiac slow movement, often referred to as a counterpart to Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings. The Harlem Chamber Players give us a rare opportunity to hear the entire work complete.

Harlem Chamber Players

Maverick Concert Hall

Our programme will be giving a nod to mark the semiquincentennial (250th) anniversary of American Independence.

St Giles Orchestra July 2026 Concert

St Michael & All Angels Church Summertown

Česká filharmonie • Bad Kissingen

Regentenbau

Dvořák Henze Strawinsky

Gasteig HP8

4th Youth Concert

A chamber group of Leonidas Kavakos, Kirill Gerstein and members of The Apollon Ensemble unite for a richly-textured programme featuring Beethoven’s elegant String Trio, Dvořák’s spirited Terzetto and Elgar’s deeply expressive Piano Quintet.

Leonidas Kavakos violin; Kirill Gerstein piano; The Apollon Ensemble

The Cleveland Orchestra returns to Cain Park! Join us for a free community concert in the heart of Cleveland Heights, performed under the direction of Black Panther conductor Anthony Parnther. Enjoy classic favorites, from John Williams to Dvořák, as well as new pieces you might not have heard before.

The Cleveland Orchestra recognizes and thanks Jayne M. Zborowsky for her support of this concert.

2026 Cain Park Community Concert

The love for music is in Czech genes. There is good reason for the saying: Every Czech is a musician. Czech musicians are rightly considered to be the absolute best in the interpretation of classical music in the world. Do you want to meet them live?Come to a concert of the Prague Music Orchestra chamber ensemble, which originated in the beginning of the 21st century and is one of the most renowned Czech musical ensembles today. It is distinguished by a unique, cultivated sound and it is a representative of highly appreciated interpretation art.

The best of Mozart & Dvorak

Municipal House

Open-Air-Concert

Sechseläutenplatz

Open-air concert

Strauss, Mozart, Dvorak & Opera With Ballet

Outdoor Concert 2026

Redwood City Courthouse Square

To conclude the season, the hr Symphony Orchestra is once again invited to perform a guest concert at the Kissinger Sommer festival. Under the direction of chief conductor Alain Altinoglu, Christian Tetzlaff will present Dvořák's Violin Concerto. The main symphonic work of the evening, to be performed in the Max Littmann Hall of the Regentenbau, is Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.

Kissinger Summer

A stage for tomorrow’s most exciting performers.

Queensland Symphony Orchestra presents Rising Stars

Queensland Conservatorium

Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid, this fairytale opera tells the story of the luminous water nymph Rusalka. Seduced by a Prince, Rusalka abandons her family and everything she knows in the hope of finding true freedom. But all that glitters is not gold. 

Dvořák’s score shimmers with sweeping romance and the many colours of glorious folk music, anchored by the spellbinding and much loved aria ‘Song to the Moon’. 

A breathtaking production of grand scale, by the award-winning team who created La Traviata.

Queensland Performing Arts Centre

The best of Tchaikovsky, Dvořák & Grieg

Tonight’s event “reconstructs” the programme of a concert on 7 March 1897. It was the last time Brahms attended a public performance of his own music. That evening the Vienna Philharmonic, conducted by Hans Richter, were to play the three pieces here in what may seem like a curious order to modern audiences (particularly given the ending of ‘La Chasse’…)

Vienna 1897: Brahms’ Last Concert

Southbank Centre

Brahms’ Fourth Symphony is music that ‘is some of the darkest and deepest in the 19th century’ according to The Guardian. In fact, Brahms’ inner circle had advised him against releasing it publicly. However, at the concert in 1897, there was reportedly rapturous applause after each movement.

Vienna 1897: Brahms' Last Concert

An attractive concert offering a selection of the most famous choral scenes from operas by Bohuslav Martinů, Leoš Janáček, Antonín Dvořák, and from no fewer than six stage works by Bedřich Smetana.

Smetana: Opera Choruses… AND MORE!

Litomyšl Castle

Vyšehrad is a sacred place where our people go on festive occasions. For the first time, the Prague Symphony went here in June 2024 for its 90th birthday. For the second time, the FOK will fly here from the Municipal House on Dvořák's wings. With its chief conductor Tomáš Netopil, it will perform the New World.

Open air Concert in Vyšehrad

Vyšehrad Garden

June 2026 Concert

Reading Concert Hall

Dvořák

Poštovní dvůr Karlovy Vary

Celebrate Father’s Day and the American spirit through music with Bay Phil’s powerful classical program — a vibrant fusion of tradition, rhythm, and innovation.

This extraordinary concert blends beloved classics, blues, and American heritage in honor of our sesquicentennial year. 

It’s the perfect way to celebrate Father’s Day — with fathers, family, friends, and unforgettable music.

America in Rhythm & Rhapsody

Chabot College

“Dreams of a New World” opens our American Adventures season with music that captures the optimism and imagination at the heart of the American spirit. Bernstein’s Candide Overture sparkles with wit and high-voltage energy, launching the evening in a blaze of brilliance. Anchoring the program, Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” crowns the evening with sweeping melodies and spiritual-inflected themes, reflecting both a European composer’s fascination with America and the enduring promise of possibility that defines it. 

Dreams of a New World

Riverwalk Center

Landmarks’ fourth annual Juneteenth concert celebrates music of Scott Joplin, Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, Michael Abels, Julia Perry, and P.I. Tchaikovsky. This year, we are thrilled to collaborate with talented young musicians from the Sphinx Performance Academy intensive summer program, which will be in residence at Boston Conservatory in June.

A Juneteenth Celebration

Ray & Joan Kroc Corps Community Center

Start your weekend with our must-see Friday night concert series and social experience, Symphonic Piazza. Prepare to escape, mingle, and be entertained as you enjoy the perfect combination of a shorter format concert with enjoyable and engaging lobby activities to share with family, friends, and our musicians. It’s your new go-to date night! The fun continues in the lobby after the concert, as we’ll have even more memorable things for you to experience.

Rhapsody in Blue and Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

In Pēteris Vasks's Musica serena , the strings engage in an intimate meditation and dialogue as if they were a single, perfectly coordinated instrument, reacting to the conductor's every move. In the Sinfonia concertante , a new creation by the Franco-Argentine composer Strasnoy, Alexandre Tharaud and Jean-Guihen Queyras invent a bold play of mirrors, sometimes fused thanks to unsettling unisons, sometimes rivalry through rhythmic jousts. In the midst of this conversation on the border between concerto and symphony, the orchestra intrudes and establishes itself as a third partner, reacting to each of their phrasings. Finally, Dvořák's Symphony No. 5 reveals its Czech roots, from the folk dances of the scherzo to the incredible rhythmic energy of the finale. Poga and the orchestra will highlight its warm colors and spring-like vitality.

Complicity

Opéra Comédie

The Best of Classics

For his guest appearance with his Hamburg colleagues, Stanislav Kochanovsky, Chief Conductor of the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra from Hanover, has brought a program featuring three Slavic composers. Nikolai Lugansky, a renowned Rachmaninoff expert who has released a highly acclaimed complete recording of his piano concertos, will be at the piano.

GDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Nikolai Lugansky / Stanislav Kochanovsky

The European Orchestra Academy is a joint initiative between the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) and the European Union Youth Orchestra, founded under the visionary guidance of Iván Fischer. This prestigious program provides talented young musicians from around Europe with invaluable orchestral experience alongside the BFO, while also offering them the opportunity to perform as chamber ensembles across numerous European countries.

Masterclass of the European Orchestra Academy – Closing Concert

BFO Rehearsal Hall

Sunday Matinee 05: Dalia Stasevska & Boris Giltburg

Great Festival House

The spirit of innovation and cultural fusion shines in this program of chamber music masterpieces. Mozart’s Quintet in C minor, originally composed as a wind octet, takes on new depth and intensity in the composer’s own reworking for strings, blending the Classical style with bold harmonic exploration. Kodály’s Serenade, a strikingly original piece for two violins and viola, pulses with Hungarian folk rhythms and an exhilarating sense of dialogue.

Brookville, NY

Krasnoff Theatre

Join us for an unforgettable performance as the acclaimed conductor Daniel Harding leads the Orchestra in a programme that promises to blend musical depth with dramatic flair. Harding, known for his dynamic interpretations, brings fresh energy to this prestigious ensemble, creating a perfect fusion of talent and tradition. ‘First-rate talent’ (Cadenza NYC) Tony Siqi Yun takes to the stage for the Tchaikovsky’s iconic first piano concerto, followed by the joyful and triumphant Symphony No. 8 by Dvořák.

Daniel Harding conducts

University of Oxford

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

String quartet and flute

Saint Vincent Church

The Apollo Orchestra with principal Conductor David Chan welcomes Susanna Phillips, soprano, as our featured soloist in Strauss’s Four Last Songs.

New World

Montgomery College Catherine F. Scott Commons

A sextet? A chamber concerto, rather, which Felix Mendelssohn completed in about ten days, in the spring of 1824 – he was only fifteen years old. The music flows like pure water, the general tone, both light and virtuoso, draws an evanescent Andante, escaped from the generous muse of an adolescent who would say: "I would gladly exchange my virtues for the sins of Mozart." Clarity, transparency, generosity are also the qualities of the third of Dvořák's string quintets, breathing far from his native Bohemia, the fresh air of the Midwest, where the composer was staying at the time: pure enchantment.

National Sundays / Marie-Ange Nguci

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

What is good orchestral playing other than great chamber music? We are proud that the Philharmonic State Orchestra's chamber music series has been a fixture in our concert calendar for years, managed and brought to life each year anew by the passion of our musicians. Today, it is an integral and indispensable part of Mainz's musical life! With great attention to programming and musical detail , a wide variety of ensembles come together to perform for you.

Sunday matinee in June

Staatstheater Mainz

Each year from January until June, about 60 young people meet at the Rudolfinum to create a beautiful joint concert under the guidance of players from the Czech Philharmonic (and with support from their teachers). This time, the project participants are from the regions of Hradec Králové, Moravian Silesia, Pilsen, Zlín, and Prague. The charismatic conductor Petr Altrichter will lead the concluding concert.

Joint Orchestra of Music School Pupils and the Czech Philharmonic Musicians

Rudolfinum

Join us for a season finale of bold contrasts and artistic innovation at Dvorák & Firebird, a celebration of sound and emotion that transcends time and culture. The program opens with Strauss’s Death and Transfiguration, a profound depiction of life’s final journey. We welcome back Curtis Stewart, the 2025/2026 Joyce C. Willis Artist in Residence, presenting a juxtaposition of his work The Famous People with Dvorák ‘s Slavonic Dances. Experience a unique interplay as the orchestra performs three original movements from Slavonic Dances, each followed by Stewart’s imaginative recompositions, creating a dynamic dialogue between Dvorák’s timeless melodies and Stewart’s contemporary interpretations. Marvel at Stewart’s virtuosic artistry as he performs Sarasate’s dazzling violin showpiece Zigeunerweisen.

Dvorák & Firebird

The Bushnell

Michelle Cann, a champion of American composers and “pianist of sterling artistry” (Gramophone), returns to perform a world premiere by Valerie Coleman—named one of the “Top 35 Women Composers” by The Washington Post. Conductor Kellen Gray frames the evening with works reflecting the breadth of our nation’s story: Dvořák’s American Suite, inspired by his time in the U.S., and the Catfish Row suite from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess.

Cann plays Coleman

Kennedy Center

The prodigiously gifted Euan Shields signs off his tour of duty as the Hallé’s Assistant Conductor with this red-blooded Slavic programme, beginning with Janáček’s atmospheric rhapsody for orchestra, Taras Bulba. Inspired by Gogol’s novella, this gritty portrait of the Cossack leader and his ill-fated sons vividly captures their battle-scarred lives and loves. Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma, whose dazzling artistry blew us all away last season, makes a welcome return with Tchaikovsky’s ardent Violin Concerto. It was written amidst the wreckage of his ill-advised marriage but the composer found inspiration in his friendship with violinist Yosif Kotek and completed the score in less than a month. The result was a triumph; unashamedly virtuosic yet fresh and lyrical, with a heartfelt slow movement and a whirling gypsy finale.

The Hallé

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

For the final concert of the season, the UN Symphony Orchestra brings together two towering masterpieces of the Romantic repertoire. Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 unfolds with sweeping lyricism and virtuosic brilliance, its unforgettable melodies moving from intimate reflection to triumphant grandeur. Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World,” completes the evening with music inspired by the American folklore. Join us on June 4 for these delightful crowd-pleasers, filled with passion, drama, and symphonic splendor.

From Piano Passion to Sounds of the New World

Peter Jay Sharp Theatre at Symphony Space

To open this concert, Wagner conceived his Sigfried-Idyll as a gift to his wife Cosima, blending pastoral tenderness and miniature Wagnerian leitmotifs. An intimate dialogue woven by horns and woodwinds already imbued with nostalgia. In his Serenade Opus 44 , a jewel of spontaneity straight out of Czech folklore, Dvořák alternates joyful village dances with more nostalgic melodies. They showcase bassoons and oboes with a subtle art of counterpoint. As for Brahms, his Serenade No. 1 marks his symphonic debut and deploys his classical architecture refreshed by romantic colors. The Orchestre National Montpellier reveals the full palette of melodies that seem blown by the wind – from the transparency of the minuets to the majesty of the finales. A sensitive homage to the instruments that sing, converse, and dance.

Montpellier Occitanie National Orchestra

Collégiale Saint-Étienne

Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Music, Florence

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

For our final program, Maestro Haimor has chosen Valerie Coleman’s anthem of unity Umoja to begin, followed by the return of Bay Area native and Marin favorite, cellist Oliver Herbert, performing Shostakovich’s virtuosic and exciting Cello Concerto No.1. We close our season with Dvořák’s optimistic, triumphant Eighth Symphony.

Masterworks 4: Shostakovich & Dvořák

College of Marin

To open this concert, Wagner conceived his Sigfried-Idyll as a gift to his wife Cosima, blending pastoral tenderness and miniature Wagnerian leitmotifs. An intimate dialogue woven by the horns and woodwinds already imbued with nostalgia. In his Serenade Opus 44 , a jewel of spontaneity straight out of Czech folklore, Dvořák alternates joyful village dances with more nostalgic melodies. They highlight bassoons and oboes with a subtle art of counterpoint. As for Brahms, his Serenade No. 1 marks his symphonic debut and deploys his classical architecture refreshed by romantic colors. A sensitive homage to the instruments that sing, dialogue and dance.

The Voice of the Winds

Théâtre de Mende

From the pen of the composer who pioneered the art of original film music, making it symphonic in scope and sophisticated in feel, comes Korngold’s glorious Violin Concerto that, not surprisingly, includes allusions to those movie scores. In the spotlight is Maria Dueñas, an in-demand star of the violin world. The concerto is lyrical, rapturous, with a finale alive with spectacular pyrotechnics. To conclude the concert, Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, filled with Bohemian rhythms (like the exciting sounds of the “furiant,” an aptly named dance in the third movement), is one of his most beloved works.

Dvořák & Korngold

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Our season finale features music guaranteed to lift your spirits. The concert opens with Maurice Ravel’s orchestration of Claude Debussy’s lighthearted “Danse” (“Tarantella Styrienne”) and continues with the world premiere of the Music Guild’s latest commissioned work – “Raíces” (“Roots”) by Los Angeles-based composer, María Eugenia León. Highlighting the musical traditions of both her native Canary Islands as well as Spain, “Raíces” features the timple, a five-string guitar described as “the pinnacle of Canarian music.” The evening concludes with Dvořák’s virtuosic Violin Concerto in A minor, featuring YuEun Gemma Kim.

Season Finale – YuEun Gemma Kim plays Dvořák

St. Matthew's Music Guild

The Montpellier Occitanie Orchestra is pleased to present a series of open-air concerts, in the parks and gardens of Montpellier, but also in the heart of neighborhoods, in the Maisons pour tous. Whether you come alone, as a couple, with family, or with friends, these concerts will offer you the opportunity to share unique musical moments, outside of our traditional concert halls.

In garden and in courtyard #3

Jardin des plantes de Montpellier

Just how American is the New World Symphony? Although many listeners swear that they hear snatches of such classic folk tunes as “Turkey in the Straw,” “Three Blind Mice,” and “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” Dvořák later claimed that the Ninth’s title was meant only to describe “impressions and greetings from the New World.” Kicking things off with a commissioned premiere by Tyler Taylor—the 2024 winner of the Emerging Black Composers Project—Romanian conductor Cristian Măcelaru leads the San Francisco Symphony in a rousing and profound program that also boasts Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto, No. 1, spotlighting Macedonian pianist Simon Trpčeski. The piano tumbles recklessly, sings ardently, mimics, mocks, and pounds until the meter-juggling finale drives home the happy ending.

Măcelaru Conducts Dvořák’s New World

Davies Symphony Hall

To open this concert, Wagner conceived his Sigfried-Idyll as a gift to his wife Cosima, blending pastoral tenderness and miniature Wagnerian leitmotifs. An intimate dialogue woven by horns and woodwinds already imbued with nostalgia. In his Serenade Opus 44 , a jewel of spontaneity straight out of Czech folklore, Dvořák alternates joyful village dances with more nostalgic melodies. They showcase bassoons and oboes with a subtle art of counterpoint. As for Brahms, his Serenade No. 1 marks his symphonic debut and deploys his classical architecture refreshed by romantic colors. Under the expert direction of Jean-François Verdier, the Orchestre National Montpellier reveals the full palette of melodies that seem blown by the wind – from the transparency of the minuets to the majesty of the finales. A sensitive tribute to the instruments that sing, dialogue and dance.

Gorgeous melodies, richly satisfying musical textures, and a solo part that leaves you open-mouthed with wonder – Brahms’ Violin Concerto stops you in your tracks and it’s no wonder that it’s been an audience favourite pretty much since its premiere. A selection of music with a strongly central-European character starts the night; punchy, bold, and at times, sweetly romantic.

Brahms' Violin Concerto

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

The fourth annual Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival wraps up as Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Dvořák’s Hero’s Song, a symphony in miniature that bears the composer’s distinctive style and irrepressible Bohemian spirit. Jüri Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin, Harp, and Orchestra receives its world premiere with virtuoso violinist Leila Josefowicz and TCO’s own Principal Harp Trina Struble alongside Bacewicz’s stormy Fourth Symphony and Adolphus Hailstork’s moving elegy for Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hero’s Song

Truls Mørk is the soloist in Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto as the Oslo Philharmonic and Chief conductor Klaus Mäkelä bring the concert season to a close. Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg made his international breakthrough as an orchestral composer with the massive work Kraft, scored for soloist ensemble, electronics, and orchestra.

Season Finale Klaus Mäkelä

Oslo Concert Hall

The last but one concert of the Chamber Music Series focuses on the folklore inspired works by the Slovak composer Ilya Zeljenka; as well as Antonín Dvořák, who used the subtitle “Slavonic” in his String Quartet No. 10 in E flat major, Op. 51. The ninth concert, featuring the Kaprálová Quartet, will also offer Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, with Petr Jiříkovský at the piano.

Schumann. Zeljenka. Dvořák

The Professed House, Prague

Angela Choi, violin

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Helaine Liebman, soprano

The always-evolving Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble features musicians from the legendary Met Orchestra in a variety of unique programs. Together, along with special guest artists from the Metropolitan Opera and beyond, they explore a boundless world of chamber music, adapting to fit the instrumental needs of any piece—from all-time classics to hard-to-find hidden gems and standout works by many of today’s significant composers. Tonight, as part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival, the ensemble performs works by American composers Valerie Coleman, Gabriela Lena Frank, Bernstein, and Steve Reich, plus Dvořák’s String Quintet, written alongside the “American” Quartet while the composer was living in Iowa.

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble 2026 Concert 6

Carnegie Hall

This concert opens Outcry: New World, a series exploring music shaped by the idea of America — its landscapes, its energy, and its cultural imagination.

The programme brings together three works written in the United States, spanning more than a century of American musical life. Celestis by Aaron Jay Kernis opens the evening with a glowing, expansive soundworld, its slow-moving textures and rich orchestration reflecting the breadth and confidence of contemporary American orchestral writing. 

That sense of space and clarity continues in Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring, a work that has become inseparable from the sound of America itself. Its open harmonies, folk-inflected melodies, and rhythmic vitality evoke community, movement, and possibility. 

Outcry – New World

Smith Square Hall

Maestro JoAnn Falletta concludes the Symphony Joslyn series with Concertmaster Susanna Perry Gilmore and a sweeping program of new and old favorites.

Falletta & Perry Gilmore

Joslyn Art Museum

Experience the extraordinary sounds of chamber music in the beautiful and vibrant setting of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, under the artistic direction of HSO Concertmaster Leonid Sigal and featuring Hartford Symphony Orchestra musicians. Concerts are presented in collaboration with the Wadsworth Atheneum’s special exhibitions and permanent collections.

America 250

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

Robert Schumann's Piano Quartet in E-flat major showcases the brilliant chamber music composer at the end of his famous "chamber music year" of 1842. The piece is permeated with musical references in all its movements and exudes a broad Romantic mood, ranging from hesitant contemplation to exuberance. Antonín Dvořák 's Piano Quintet No. 2 in A major is another fascinating chamber music work by the Bohemian composer, brimming with musical enthusiasm, rich melodies, and folk influences, and is one of his most frequently performed works.

Composer

Antonín Dvořák

Events

Upcoming events

Jun 18 - Aug 31, 2026

The Best of Classics · Prague Music Orchestra

Jun 24 - Aug 16, 2026

The best of Tchaikovsky, Dvořák & Grieg · Prague Music Orchestra

Jun 27 - Aug 27, 2026

Strauss, Mozart, Dvorak & Opera With Ballet · Prague Music Orchestra

Jun 29 - Aug 29, 2026

The best of Mozart & Dvorak · Prague Music Orchestra

5 - 8 Aug, 2026

Mikkeli Music Festival 2026 · Philharmonia Orchestra

Past events

5 - 8 Aug, 2026

Mikkeli Music Festival 2026 · Philharmonia Orchestra

Jul 25, 2026

Ilumina · Wigmore Hall

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