Composer

Martin Helmchen, “who brings both freshness and expressive depth to everything he plays” (Chicago Classical Review), takes on Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, a work of youthful bravura and pensive elegance. To open the program, Kazuki Yamada conducts Takemitsu’s shimmering How slow the Wind and Franck’s D Minor Symphony, featuring a mix of soaring lyricism and brooding intensity.

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Helmchen Plays Beethoven

Symphony Center

Prizewinner at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition and SONY Classical exclusive artist, Pablo Ferrández is hailed as a “new cello genius” (Le Figaro). A captivating performer, “Ferrández has the lot: technique, mettle, spirit, authority as a soloist, expressivity and charm” (El Pais).
He has turned into a cello phenomenon and one of the most in-demand instrumentalists of his generation.

Pablo Ferrández, cello

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

See another side of Daniel Hope in this charming recital program with pianist and frequent collaborator Simon Crawford-Phillips. Romantic showpieces for violin and piano share the evening with the US premiere of a new work by beloved San Francisco composer Jake Heggie, inspired by Beethoven’s 1803 residency at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien.

Daniel Hope In Recital

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Artistic powerhouses cellist Johannes Moser, "radiant playing" (The Baltimore Sun), and pianist Marc-André Hamelin, praised for his "Near superhuman technical prowess" (New York Times), join forces for a memorable and illuminating duo recital. They perform works by Hamelin himself and Nadia Boulanger, a paragon of 20th century classical music, plus sonatas by Debussy and Franck, two of the great masterworks of the cello-piano repertoire.  

Johannes Moser, cello Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Johns Hopkins University

Meet two of the international classical scene’s brightest shining stars in a high-flying collaboration on the stage at Bing Concert Hall. Daniel Lozakovich, a genius violinist and Behzod Abduraimov, a highly-renowned pianist in his own right, perform a program featuring Prokofieff, Schumann, and Beethoven.

Daniel Lozakovich and Behzod Abduraimov

Stanford University

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s multifaceted career is testament to his enduring belief in culture’s power to generate trust and understanding. He is joined by longtime collaborator Kathryn Stott, who is internationally recognized as one of Britain’s most versatile and imaginative pianists. 

Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Kathryn Stott, Piano

Carnegie Hall

Yo-Yo Ma is an icon around the world for his staggering talent and extraordinary technique, his warmth and charisma, and his zest for musical partnerships. Whether he’s appearing as an orchestral soloist, with any number of chamber music partners, or collaborating with the biggest stars in bluegrass, he draws audiences in with compelling, committed performances.

Yo-Yo Ma, cello and Kathryn Stott, piano

Symphony Hall

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott, longtime friends and collaborators, offer an afternoon filled with musical intimacy and expressive fireworks. Their program encompasses two contrasting cello sonatas by Franck and Shostakovich, the lilting warmth of Dvořák’s Songs My Mother Taught Me, the meditative beauty of Pärt’s “Mirror in Mirror” and lyrical gems by Fauré and Sérgio Assad.

Yo-Yo Ma & Kathryn Stott

Bucket-List Brilliance: Singular concerts with sublime artists.


Davies Symphony Hall

Even in an overwhelmingly impressive field of great pianists, Behzod Abduraimov earns such uncommonly high praise as “the most perfectly accomplished pianist of his generation” (The Independent). His concerts at Carnegie Hall have earned acclaim bordering on disbelief: “Wow. Just Wow.,” read the headline of The New Criterion’s review of his 2019 recital. Hear him in a varied program of Franck, Ravel, Price, and Prokofiev, plus the Carnegie Hall premiere of a late-20th-century piece by Dilorom Saidaminova.

Behzod Abduraimov, Piano

Boasting a powerful, accomplished style and the ability to perform practically anything, the Beijing Guitar Duo is credited with inspiring and energizing the next generation of classical guitarists. “The Beijing Guitar Duo’s performance was a model of elegant clarity, sumptuously beautiful tone production, and emotional contrast” (San Francisco Classical Voice). Legendary guitarist Manuel Barrueco proclaimed them “the best guitar duo in the world.”

Beijing Guitar Duo

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

Hailed by critics as a “superior poet” (Vancouver Sun) and praised for his “heart and indomitable will” (Gramophone), Grigory Kalinovsky has performed at some of the world’s major venues, from all three stages of Carnegie Hall in New York to Musikhalle Grosser Saal in Hamburg. As a recitalist and avid chamber musician, he has appeared at numerous concert series and festivals, including the Asheville Chamber Music Series, Lyric Chamber Music Society of New York, Lucas Foss’s Festival at the Hamptons, Newport Music Festival, and Pavel Vernikov's festival, “Il Violino Magico” in Italy, collaborating with such renowned musicians as Pinchas Zukerman, Shmuel Ashkeniasi, Ralph Kirshbaum, Miriam Fried, James Buswell, Dora Schwarzberg, and Paul Coletti, among others.

Grigory Kalinovsky Violin Masterclass

New England Conservatory

Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Concertmaster Jessica Lee and pianist Juho Pohjonen play Franck’s emotional A-major Sonata—which ranges from songlike to mournful—and, along with cellist Zlatomir Fung, give the world premiere of a brand-new, Festival-commissioned trio by contemporary composer Christopher Stark, who describes his music as being “deeply rooted in the American West.”

Stark & Dvořák

New Mexico Museum of Art

Luisi leads the DSO in the first Bravo! Vail Symphonic Commissioning Project premiere—Angélica Negrón’s Arquitecta featuring Columbian-Canadian vocalist Lido Pimienta—in addition to the Bravo! Vail debut of cellist Jan Vogler in Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C major and Franck’s Symphony in D minor.   

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra delivers uplifting, entertaining, and enriching musical experiences worldwide. This summer, the Orchestra returns to Bravo! Vail with a rich lineup that includes classical favorites and exciting pops programs.

Haydn Cello Concerto

Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater

Legendary pianist Marc-André Hamelin teams up with the sensational Balourdet Quartet, for a program of Mendelssohn, Al-Zand and Franck’s popular PIano Quintet. The Balourdet Quartet received Grand Prize at the 2021 Concert Artists Guild Competition, the Gold Medal at the 2020 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and is currently in residence at the New England Conservatory.

Marc-André Hamelin & Balourdet Quartet

Shalin Liu Performance Center

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Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center

Great Lakes Chamber Orchestra presents The Hummel Trio with Maestro Libor Ondras, as the finale to this season’s Sunday Series. The program will include works by César Franck, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Johann Hummel.  The trio includes Dr. Libor Ondras, violin, viola; Emily Grabinski Conklin, piano; and Andrew Laven, cello. The Hummel Trio is also the ensemble-in-residence at Grand Rapids Community College.

Sunday Series: The Hummel Trio

First Presbyterian Church

What began as a virtual recital team-up in 2020 became the blueprint for a tour that will unite two of today’s greats in one epic performance. Two of the most brilliant and awarded artists in classical music, Joshua Bell and Daniil Trifonov each command the stage, yet complement each other as a duo.  



Joshua Bell, violin, and Daniil Trifonov, piano

Curtis Institute of Music is thrilled to partner with All Hallows Episcopal Church in Wyncote to bring the current group of Curtis organ students to All Hallows in a series of concerts during the 2022–2023 season.

Curtis at All Hallows

All Hallows Episcopal Church

Holland Symphony presents two traditional Holiday Concerts of classics, seasonal classics and carols as a gift to the community as we celebrate the season.  Operatic soprano Michelle Areyzaga from the Chicago area joins the HSO sharing her gifts with us.  The two concerts are at 3:30 and 7:30 pm.

Holiday: Celebrate the Season

Dimnent Memorial Chapel

An original repertoire for trombone and piano, ranging
between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. A dialogue between two solo instruments, each with its own particular aroma, which go at times to merge in an alternation of delicate timbres and broad, marked sonorities, of rhythmic pulsation and expressive warmth.
While the role of the piano as a solo instrument is universally
known and recognized, that of the member of the family
of brass is much less so. However, there is a specific literature
combining the two instruments since the 18th century. Reviewing styles and languages from different eras, the program aims to analyze this repertoire up to the height of the twentieth century. The alternation between pieces for trombone and piano and pieces in which the two instruments are separated composes this interesting mosaic of sounds, colors and... flavors.

Composer

César Franck

Events

Past events

16 - 21 May, 2024

Helmchen Plays Beethoven · Chicago Symphony Orchestra

May 16, 2024

Pablo Ferrández, cello · La Jolla Music Society

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