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The centrepiece is Valerie Coleman's Concerto for Wind Quintet and Orchestra, Phenomenal Women. The piece is a profound tribute to women who have stepped into treacherous spaces, inspired the world, and moved the course of history; shining a bright light and opening doors, especially for women of colour.

Southbank Centre: Phenomenal Women

Southbank Centre

The Chineke! Orchestra honours women composers whose powerful music resonates through the ages, ending with a UK premiere of a rediscovered Florence Price work.

Chineke! Orchestra: Phenomenal Women

Hot-property conductor Daniele Rustioni brings his Ulster Orchestra to London for a Prom concluding with Dvořák’s stirring Symphony No. 7, in which dark clouds and bright sunshine jostle for supremacy throughout a melody-fuelled, rhythm-buoyed journey that ends in triumph. 

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BBC Proms: Prom 39 – Dvořák’s 7th Symphony

Royal Albert Hall

Music teachers inspire their students every single day. The young musicians involved in this program are living proof of all the good that music teachers foster in the lives of their students and the Minnesota Orchestra is honored to share the stage with them. This exciting program features the 2022 and 2023 Young People’s Symphony Concert Association (YPSCA) Concerto competition winners.

Students Center Stage

Minnesota Orchestra

CYSO ‘s Concert Orchestra and Jazz Orchestra present their Fall concert.

Concert Orchestra & Jazz Orchestra Fall Concert

Northwestern University

HOW HAS THE PAST SHAPED US? Anne-Marie McDermott and LACO musicians trace the familial and musical lineage of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his daughter, pianist/composer Avril Coleridge-Taylor.

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The Walls Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts

Colburn School

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra opens its Chamber Series with an intimate program curated by Concertmaster and Director of Chamber Music Margaret Batjer. Celebrated pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, who “plays with both technical virtuosity and evident joy” (The New York Times), joins LACO artists to trace the familial and musical lineage of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his only daughter, Avril Coleridge-Taylor, a pianist/composer who followed in her father’s musical footsteps.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra: Lineage Coleridge-taylor Chausson

Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, Chineke! Orchestra makes its Orange County debut. Brian Raphael Nabors’ Pulse is an episodic rhapsody that explores several phases and colorful variants of rhythm. Experience two works by father-daughter composers, Avril and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Aaron Azunda Akugbo performing Haydn's grand Trumpet Concerto.

Avril Coleridge-Taylor

Composer, Pianist

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 4, 2025

Chineke! Orchestra Haydn and Coleridge-Taylor · Philharmonic Society of Orange County

Past events

Oct 9, 2024

Southbank Centre: Phenomenal Women · Chineke! Orchestra

Oct 9, 2024

Chineke! Orchestra: Phenomenal Women · Southbank Centre

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