Composer

Be there at Dominion Energy Center for intimate early evenings in Mooney Hall. Chamber music masterworks performed by members of the Richmond Symphony and friends. Settle into your seat for an enchanted hour of music. Then stroll downtown for dinner.

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Summer Serenades 3

Dominion Energy Center

With performances acclaimed for both “high-octane” excitement (The Strad) and “dusky lyricism” (New York Times), the Aeolus Quartet has been awarded prizes at nearly every major competition in the United States and performed across the globe with showings “worthy of a major-league quartet” (Dallas Morning News). Their program features works by Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Felix Mendelssohn, Grażyna Bacewicz, and a newly revised version of Joan Tower’s Wild Summer.

Aeolus Quartet

Fisher Center at Bard

The energetic ensemble performs Bacewicz's String Quartet no 3 and Shostakovich's much-loved eighth string quartet, alongside a new work by Oscar Jockel.

ECHO Rising Stars: Javus Quartett

St Giles Cripplegate

It has been called the symphony of symphonies – Beethoven’s Fifth. Perhaps the most frequently performed work in the classical repertoire. This is music that defies indifference, seemingly telling a story of a journey from darkness to light, of a struggle that leads to triumph. More than any other work, the “Fifth” embodies the Beethoven myth: the solitary figure confronting fate, fighting, and ultimately claiming his freedom. The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra is led by young Finnish conductor Kristian Sallinen, who has been described as an exceptional talent.

Beethoven’s Fifth

Stockholm City Hall

The Rogue Valley Symphony’s piano season is brought to a sparkling finish with the zenith of piano concertos: the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in the hands of the brilliantly talented young British pianist George Harliono. Silver medalist at the XVII International Tchaikovsky Competition, George has been performing in public since age nine. Acclaimed everywhere he performs, George will win our hearts with his brilliance, maturity, and sheer powerful performance. This finale of our season will leave you screaming for more as The Raven completes its debut!

Shining Star

Southern Oregon University

Grants Pass High School

Collier Center for the Performing Arts

The progressive 20th-century Polish Composer Witold Lutosławski was admired for his avant-garde works but he was also capable of creating immediately appealing music. His Little Suite of 1950, with its infectious energy and folk-inspired themes, has since become a popular concert opener. A century earlier, Lutosławski’s compatriot Chopin was considered a radical in his own Romantic fashion and his youthful Second Piano Concerto is an unashamed showpiece for the soloist who’s centre stage at all times to dazzle the audience with light-fingered lyricism. The effervescent Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu takes up the challenge.

Warsaw Philharmonic

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

Tchaikovsky never did anything by halves, and he poured all his heartache, his sorrow and his matchless gift for melody into a final symphony like no other. Don’t be misled by the name: ‘Pathétique’ means ‘full of feelings’ and when Krzysztof Urbański conducts the Warsaw Philharmonic, that’s exactly what they’ll bring – as well as glowing colours and some of the greatest tunes even Tchaikovsky ever composed.

These superb Polish musicians are always a big hit at Cadogan Hall; tonight they share a lost masterpiece by the postwar Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz and join pianist Alexandra Dariescu in the teenage Chopin’s Second Piano Concerto – true romance, played with love. Hear it, and feel your heart melt.

Cadogan Hall 

Angela Choi, violin

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Experience an unforgettable evening of music with the Allentown Symphony Orchestra on May 16 & 17, 2026, at Miller Symphony Hall! The program begins with an electrifying overture by Grazyna Bacewicz, the trailblazing Polish composer whose dynamic orchestral works are a feast for the senses. Next, renowned guest soloist Erik Ralske, principal horn of the Metropolitan Opera, will showcase his virtuosity in Strauss’s demanding and Romantic Horn Concerto No. 1. The night culminates in Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan,” a masterpiece bursting with youthful exuberance, introspection, and soaring melodies. Don’t miss this captivating concert—secure your tickets now!

Mahler’s Titan

Miller Symphony Hall

Described as “superb” by the New York Times, violinist Tai Murray creates a special bond with listeners through her personal phrasing and subtle sweetness. Her PCMS return with pianist Gilles Vonsattel begins with Beethoven, followed by a pair of works by groundbreaking Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz. Concluding the program are Georges Enescu’s second violin sonata, which fuses Romanian folk elements into the classical sonata structure, and Karl Goldmark’s delightful Suite in E Major.

Tai Murray, violin Gilles Vonsattel, piano

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Since the flute of the 'Faun', music has breathed differently , said Pierre Boulez, referring to the new and beguilingly floating world of sound that made musical history in France at the end of the 19th century with the premiere of Debussy's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune . Decades later, his compatriot Albert Roussel composed the ballet Bacchus et Ariane and shaped the plot according to the old Ariadne myth with music full of unbridled energy and an overwhelming rush of sound.

8th Philharmonic Concert / New Tracks

Volkstheater Rostock

After a fiery overture by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, this concert centers on two of classical music’s greatest voices. While at its core an elegant and charming Classical-era composition, Beethoven’s second piano concerto includes delightful and innovative surprises that harken to his later Romantic roots. Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, on the other hand, is Romantic through and through. This orchestral masterwork is teeming with achingly beautiful melodies, luscious orchestral colors, and vivid emotions.

Lyrical Legends: Beethoven and Rachmaninoff

City of Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza

Bixby Kennedy is a winner of the 2024-2025 Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition.

MSM Symphony Orchestra conducted by George Manahan featuring Bixby Kennedy, clarinet

Manhattan School of Music

Bacewicz’s six-minute Overture for Orchestra, composed during the German occupation of Poland, offers a perpetually shifting palette of colors. Spaniard Joaquin Rodrigo’s animated Concierto de Aranjuez features elaborate orchestration for classical guitar. Lutosławski’s energetic Little Suite for Symphony Orchestra espouses Polish folk tunes, while Borodin’s colorful Symphony No. 2 evokes the exuberance of Russian folk dances.

Pablo’s Guitar

Kleinhans Music Hall

In continued support and nurturing of young soloists, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields performs with three exceptional soloists from the Orpheum Foundation, offering a space where young soloists can foster imperative musical encounters and providing a platform for those to build a career. This concert features violinist Seohyun Kim, viola player Sao Soulex Lariviere and pianist Eva Gevorgyan in a concert celebrating works by Mozart, Caroline Shaw and Bacewicz.

ASMF & Orpheum Foundation Soloists SWITZERLAND

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields present a stunning and varied programme of works by female composers, including a World Premiere from Eleanor Alberga, her Symphony No. 2 written for ASMF. The concert’s finale is with violinist Elena Urioste, who with ‘her airy, silvery tone and fine filigree detail’ (The Arts Desk) will perform Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The concerto in D Major, which despite its reference to Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in the violin’s solo entrance and references throughout, is distinctly Price’s own style and launches into new musical ideas with the last movement ending the evening on a flourish.

Bridging Worlds: Alberga, Price, Shaw & Bacewicz with Elena Urioste

St Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London

If you love a lush melody, this program is for you. After a lean and powerful showpiece for strings, you’ll hear how Rachmaninoff looks at a violin caprice by Paganini from 24 different angles as he reimagines it for piano and orchestra. We’ll send you home with epic storytelling from the well-read and clever Scheherazade.

Barnatan Plays Rachmaninoff

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

In this concert, Richard Strauss's monumental tone poem "Ein Heldenleben" meets two impressive female voices of the 20th century who asserted themselves forcefully in a male-dominated music world.

6th Symphony Concert

Georg-Friedrich-Händel-Halle

“For me, the sound of the violin reflects the soul,” says Lisa Batiashvili. 

Tchaikovsky may well have agreed. He wrote his Violin Concerto on holiday by Lake Geneva with the young student he hoped would premiere it, and poured equal parts emotion and virtuosity into his fiercely difficult and beautiful score. This afternoon it’s in the hands of exceptional violinist Lisa Batiashvili, whose last performance with the Philharmonia was acclaimed as ‘compelling from the very first bar’ (The Guardian). 

Lisa Batiashvili plays Tchaikovsky

Southbank Centre

László Fenyö has been among the world's elite cellists since winning the 2004 International Pablo Casals Competition in Kronberg. Together with one of Poland's most renowned ensembles, he brings a program full of surprises to the Konzerthaus, culminating in one of the most popular cello concertos in music history.

László Fenyö & Polish Chamber Orchestra

Blaibach Concert Hall

This program revolves almost entirely around William Shakespeare. After all, the English poet, with his immortal and timeless plays, has inspired more composers and genres in music history than almost anyone else. The American James Gaffigan, current General Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin, follows this trail in his return to the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra / Lawrence Power / James Gaffigan

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Experience stunning performances and sensational stories featuring remarkable women. Anna Sułkowska-Migoń—known in the orchestra world for her sensibility to nuance and detail—opens her SLSO debut with a dynamic overture by fellow Polish musician, Grażyna Bacewicz. Leila Josefowicz displays her formidable talent in Berg’s soul-searching Violin Concerto, written in remembrance of a lost friend. And the orchestra conjures the magic of Scheherazade’s 1,001 tales in Rimsky-Korsakov’s beloved interpretation of the centuries-old Middle Eastern legend.

Scheherazade

Powell Hall

An evening full of masterpieces awaits you at Amare, where the Residentie Orkest will be joined by two exceptional musical guests: the highly acclaimed conductor Elena Schwarz and world-renowned pianist Nelson Goerner. We'll explore the national identities of three composers, diving into Polish modernity, Finnish Romanticism and French sophistication.

Chopin & Sibelius

Amare

Winner of Third Prize and the Roslyn Lyons Bronze Medal at the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, Khanh Nhi Luong captivated audiences with her profoundly musical performances of a wide range of repertoire, including Ludwig van Beethoven, Henri Dutilleux and Gabriel Fauré, culminating in a brilliant performance of Sergei Prokofiev’s third piano concerto. To close the 2025/26 International Piano Series, she performs music by Joseph Haydn, Johannes Brahms and Franz Schubert, plus the rarely heard second piano sonata by Polish composer, Grażyna Bacewicz.

Khanh Nhi Luong

Leeds Conservatoire

Mendelssohn’s Joyful Blue Skies

New England Conservatory of Music

Journey through the expressive lens of the string quartet! Grażyna Bacewicz’s Quartet for Four Violins opens the program with a lively and modern twist on traditional form. Bedřich Smetana’s deeply personal From My Life quartet follows, blending romantic lyricism with Czech folk spirit. Beethoven’s luminous Harp quartet, nicknamed for its graceful, plucked passages, closes out the evening with warmth and elegance.  

Quartets Through Time

Cincinnati Music Hall

The Carnegie Mellon University Chamber Series brings together members of the CMU Faculty and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for outstanding music making in an intimate space.

Carnegie Mellon Chamber Series: The Dover Quartet @ CMU!

Carnegie Mellon University

This February, let the Modesto Symphony Orchestra whisk you away for an enchanting evening of dance, romance, and fantasy! Two-time Latin GRAMMY winner and violinist Anne Akiko Meyers will ignite the stage with her passionate performance of Marquez’s Fandango. Then, be swept away into the fantastic world of Arabian Nights as the MSO performs Rimsky-Korsakov’s mesmerizing Scheherazade!

Modesto Symphony Orchestra - Marquez’s Fandango & Scheherazade

Gallo Center for the Arts

Praised by Third Coast Review for their “astonishing and virtuosic” playing and “magnificent melding of talent,” the two-time Grammy-nominated Dover Quartet is among the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The quartet’s numerous awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. The group’s 2024-25 season included collaborative performances with preeminent artists including pianists Michelle Cann, Marc-André Hamelin, and Haochen Zhang, as well as premiere performances of works by Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate (‘90), a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a leading composer of American Indian classical music.

Dover Quartet

Northwestern University

Scheherazade & Marquez's Fandango

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto is a mighty mammoth of the violin repertoire, renowned for its sheer scale and serene, spacious elegance. Symphony Nova Scotia proudly presents this monumental work together with virtuoso violinist Blake Pouliot – one of Canada’s most in demand young violinists and “a player who is clearly going to be a major force in the violin world” (Whole Note). Don’t miss the show stopping performance of this exhilarating orchestral triumph alongside Sibelius’ dreamy, enchanting Pelléas and Mélisande – an emotional exploration of forbidden love, deep turmoil, and the power of fate and destiny.

Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Dalhousie University

In declining physical and mental health, Tchaikovsky struggled with profound inner turmoil while composing his intensely introspective and emotionally charged Sixth Symphony. Using music as an outlet for his anguish, longing, and profound despair, he poured his soul into a work that is as far-reaching as it is personal. His death just nine days after its premiere only added weight to this defining work of the Romantic period. One of the many legends that surround the work is that Tchaikovsky’s brother Modest came up with the name "Pathétique" which in his native Russian suggests “impassioned suffering.” Whether or not the composer acquiesced to this christening before his sudden death, it is uncannily suitable for the devastating psychological drama the symphony lays bare. In the hands of Jaime Martín, time-worn scores like Tchaikovsky’s quickly turn into fresh, spellbinding moments, an ability which has quickly cemented him as a favorite guest collaborator of your Colorado Symphony.

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 "Pathétique"

Denver Performing Arts Complex

In the 20th century, the nations of Central Europe experienced both glory and terror – and composers responded with music that blazes with energy and imaginative power. For LPO Principal Conductor Edward Gardner, it’s a source of pure inspiration, and tonight, in the first of two Phoenix Lands concerts, he shares his passion. Janáček retells bloody folktales, Grażyna Bacewicz strikes a note of defiance, and Lutosławski and Martinů each do their own deliriously imaginative thing. These composers have a thousand tales to tell, and with the aid of the superb young Czech violinist Josef Špaček, their story starts here.

Bohemian Rhapsodies

Finally, world star Vilde Frang is back on stage in Olavshallen with us in TSO and with Adam Hickox on the podium. This time to delight the audience with one of the great violin concertos of the 20th century.

Vilde Frang plays Bartók

Olavskvartalet

Frank Peter Zimmermann is one of the great violinists of our time, renowned for his beautiful tone and dazzling virtuosity. He has graced the stage at Konserthuset Stockholm many times before, and is always a warmly welcomed guest. On this occasion, he performs the stunning Violin Concerto by Swiss composer Frank Martin – a work brimming with lyrical beauty, vivid orchestral colours and rhythmic vitality.

Martin and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

From the depths of longing to the heights of euphoria, the Reno Phil and guest conductor Nicholas Hersh embark on a stirring pursuit of peace, where every note seeks solace, strength, and triumph. The journey begins with Grażyna Bacewicz’s Overture, a dazzling burst of orchestral brilliance that crackles with energy. She broke new ground as she continued writing music while war threatened to destroy her country. Davidson Fellow Zlatomir Fung takes center stage for Elgar's Cello Concerto, a soul-baring masterpiece that speaks in whispers and echoes in eternity. Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 brings the evening to a jubilant close, its relentless rhythms and soaring melodies sweeping us toward a finale that dances with unshakable joy.

Elgar Cello Concerto

Pioneer Center for the Performing Arts

Acclaimed tenor Nicholas Phan returns to PCMS with an ensemble of gifted instrumentalists. This event also spotlights the Philadelphia Orchestra’s esteemed Principal Oboist, Philippe Tondre, in performances of seldom-heard works that set poetry to music.

Nicholas Phan, tenor Philippe Tondre, oboe Geneva Lewis, violin Emma Wernig, viola Jay Campbell, cello Evren Ozel, piano

 Benjamin Franklin Hall

We're bringing you the biggest January yet in our orchesrta's history with the Andy Armstrong Festival! Northern Lights marks the first of three concert events featuring the celebrated director of the Andy & Friends Chamber Series. 

Northern Lights

University of South Carolina

who's music's being performed for the first time in this series of concerts, presented by the conductor Anja Bihlmaier. Grażyna Bacewicz, who was born in Poland, was a violinist, pianist and composer who taught at various conservatoires and wrote stories and books – an all-rounder and important representative of Polish music. Her concerto for strings draws an arc from neo-baroque to neo-classic, but is unmistakably 20th century music.

4th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts

Alte Oper

Once upon a time… Love Story. Love… a passionate and oh-so-human impulse. The common thread of our destinies. The one for which we live and die, the true driving force of all existence. For centuries, no subject has so inflamed minds as love. The Ensemble Émeraude, formed within the OPRL, explores its various aspects through works by German, Czech, Hungarian, Polish, and Russian composers. The concert is passionately presented by Stéphane Dado, art and music historian and OPRL Project Manager.

Love Story

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet is one of the most romantic pieces ever composed. The elegant and virtuosic piano part was written for his wife, Clara, and the slow movement offers what may be one of the most beautiful melodies in all of musical Romanticism.

Romantic and Cinematic

Stockholm Concert Hall

Ben Campbell – Master’s Recital

Hamel Music Center

Drive and Power:
Grażyna Bacewicz is not only one of Poland's greatest composers, she was also an outstanding violinist, serving as concertmaster of the Polish Radio Orchestra in the years before World War II and performing throughout Europe in the postwar period. This skill and experience are evident in Bacewicz's Uwertura in every one of its gripping seven minutes: an orchestral firework whose drive and power effortlessly surpasses many of its more famous (male) competitors.

1. Congress Park Symphony 2025/2026

Congress Park Hanau

The rugged coastline of Northern California was the inspiration for this similarly jagged piece for singing cellist and orchestra by American composer Gabriella Smith. A five-day solo backpacking trip on the Lost Coast Trail found her scrambling up slopes and skipping past huge drops. Smith describes the piece as a ‘raw emotional expression of the grief, loss, rage, and fear experienced as a result of climate change – as well as the joy, beauty, and wonder I have felt in the world’s last wild places.’ Join us for the UK premiere of this extraordinary, vital work.

BBC Philharmonic - Lost Coast

The Bridgewater Hall

The rugged coastline of Northern California was the inspiration for this similarly jagged piece for singing cellist and orchestra by American composer Gabriella Smith. A fiveday solo backpacking trip on the Lost Coast Trail found her scrambling up slopes and skipping past huge drops. Smith describes the piece as a ‘raw emotional expression of the grief, loss, rage, and fear experienced as a result of climate change – as well as the joy, beauty, and wonder I have felt in the world’s last wild places.’ Join us for the UK premiere of this extraordinary, vital work.

Lost Coast

An ambassador for living and inclusive music, Alizé Léhon graduated brilliantly from the Paris Conservatoire (CNSMD) in 2024, the same year she was selected for Malko's young conductors' competition and awarded the Neeme Järvi Prize at the Gstaad Conducting Academy.

Orchestra for All #1

Opéra Comédie

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.

To garden and to courtyard #2

Maison Pour Tous Albert Camus

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. These events are a privileged opportunity for our musicians to strengthen the bonds forged with the public over the years and to meet new spectators by making music ever more accessible to all.

To garden and to courtyard #1

Kiosque Bosc

Viviane Hagner presents

The Grand Ducal Salon Building

Jasper Quartet and Joel Fuller + GNPQ

Garth Newel Music Center

This programme spans deep emotion and playful ingenuity, performed by the distinguished NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra under the direction of virtuoso violinist Alexander Sitkovetsky.

NFM Leopoldinum: Bizet’s Carmen Suite

Usher Hall

YCA Award Concert Weekend 1

Mozarteum Foundation

A Romantic classic meets two 20th-century masterworks in a concert of widescreen orchestral drama. From its thunderous opening chords to its heartbreaking slow movement, Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 is an emotional tour de force. Ukraine-born Vadym Kholodenko joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Conductor Laureate Tadaaki Otaka. Framing the concerto are two orchestral showpieces: Bacewicz’s vibrant Concerto for String Orchestra – whose motoric outer movements contrast with a sublime Andante – and the daring invention of Lutosławski’s folk-inspired Concerto for Orchestra.

Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto

Royal Albert Hall

We're delighted to have Élisabeth Pion at The New School for a recital as part of the Mannes Summer Piano Festival!

Élisabeth Pion Piano Concert

The New School University Center

Principal Conductor Dinis Sousa brings the season to a close, alongside pianist Benjamin Grosvenor and our very own Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Benjamin Grosvenor plays Shostakovich

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Featuring the esteemed pianist Daniela Mineva, we will perform Grażyna Bacewicz’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, a late-Romantic style work inspired by Polish folk songs. Professor of Music at Cal Poly Humboldt, Dr. Mineva has been hailed as a “vibrant and expressive performer” (New York Times). The season concludes with one of the monuments of classical music: Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A Major. Beethoven himself fondly considered this symphony among his best works. The exquisite second movement was so popular that the audience demanded an encore at the premiere.

A Grand Finale

Arkley Center for the Performing Arts

Light in all its colors is the focus of our spring symphony concert – in the month in which the trees glow in all shades of green: »In the beautiful month of May … «! Few symphonies are as radiant as Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s so-called Italian Symphony, in which he musically processes his journey to Italy, just as he did with his trip to Scotland. However, the Italian Symphony is not a program symphony, but rather takes up the moods and attitude to life of the country south of the Alps and transforms them into music: there is the cheerful verve of the opening movement, the Sicilian furor of the final tarantella and the pastoral smile of the scherzo. And as a contrast: the evocation of a Good Friday procession, the pacing, the memory of beloved dead people – with only occasional rays of sunlight breaking through the clouds. This distant light is the main component of Pēteris Vasks dreamlike violin concerto Distant Light, which he wrote for Gidon Kremer towards the end of the 20th century. The violinist Vadim Gluzman, who has already made a breathtaking recording of the concerto, will be our guest again. The concert opens with the playful Concerto for Strings by Polish composer Graz˙yna Bacewicz – just made for our virtuoso string players!

Lichter

Theater Bonn Opera House

String instruments are capable of so much, from lush, sweeping crescendos to urgent, driving rhythms. Experience the full expressive potential of these beloved instruments as the strings of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra take centre stage.

Stirring Strings in the City

Newcastle City Hall

City Recital Hall

The violist Lawrence Power is visiting OS again, and he is the soloist in Grazyna Bacewicz's Viola Concerto. Bacewicz was one of the most significant Polish composers of the 20th century, and although she is not heard that often in Denmark, she was one of the main names at the Musikhøst festival here in Odense in the mid-1990s. The concerto is divided into three movements – two lively ones and a beautiful, dark middle movement. Here, the contrast to the joie de vivre comes in the slow tempo, which carries more obscure feelings with it.

Beethoven's 6th Symphony

Odense Concert Hall

Join BBC Radio 3 for a FREE lunchtime invitation concert with the Ulster Orchestra, featuring codes, variations and fresh musical perspectives on 08 May 2025 at the Ulster Hall, Belfast.

The programme opens with the Variations for Orchestra by Grażyna Bacewicz: a groundbreaking female composer, who studied composition in Paris with Nadia Boulanger in the 1930s. She wrote it in 1957, and while its 8 variations aren’t based on a conventional melody, 3 motives standout for development In its opening section. Over the course of 10 minutes these are used to embrace a gamut of sound worlds and characters, with the composer’s well-documented humour amply on show.

Old Wine New Bottles – BBC Radio 3 Invitation Concert

Ulster Hall Belfast

There is a bittersweet note in the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that people have been struggling to describe for centuries. Is it the happiness in the depths? Or the melancholy in the sweetness? Parallel to Le nozze di Figaro, the Piano Concerto No. 22 is a work that has exactly that character tone and which the Norwegian pianist Christian Ihle Hadland takes on: gripping and dance-like - and not banal for a second. Elena Kats-Chernin's Dance of the Paper Umbrellas opens the program just as light-footed as Mozart. Franz Schubert's 4th Symphony is nicknamed "Tragic", but takes the audience on a dramatic, musically stirring journey. Grażyna Bacewicz's fast-paced overture for orchestra sets the stage. A rollercoaster of (spring) emotions!

Symphony Concert: Spring Feelings

Ernst Reuter Hall

Komische Oper Berlin @Schillertheater

In their first collaboration, Flinders Quartet and Paavali Jumpannen explore two powerful piano quintets that blend introspective depth with the intensity of their composers’ complex political landscapes. 

Quintessence

High Court of Australia

Emerging conductor Ruth Reinhardt makes her SLSO debut in a program that burns with radiance. Warmth emanates from Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler Symphony, a statement of defiance in troubled times. Longing sings through the unforgettable melodies of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, performed by rising star Andrei Ioniță. Soulful darkness touches the SLSO’s strings in Bacewicz’s long-forgotten Concerto for Strings.  

Dvořák's Cello Concerto 

Enterprise Center

Eleanor Sturm presents her master's recital in collaboration with pianist Alexei Ulitin.

Student Degree Recital: Eleanor Sturm M.M. violin recital

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

### Event Description: Beethoven Symphony No. 6 - Minnesota Orchestra

**Event Title:** Beethoven Symphony No. 6 - Minnesota Orchestra

**Date & Time:** 
- Thursday, April 3, 2025
- Friday, April 4, 2025

**Venue:** Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403

**Duration:** 2 hours, including intermission

**Program:**
1. **Grażyna Bacewicz** - Overture
2. **Frédéric Chopin** - Piano Concerto No. 2
3. **Ludwig van Beethoven** - Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

**Artists:**
- **Conductor:** Marta Gardolińska
- **Piano:** Behzod Abduraimov

**Event Highlights:**
Join the Minnesota Orchestra for an enchanting evening featuring Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, also known as the "Pastoral Symphony." The concert will open with the energetic Overture by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, followed by Chopin's soulful Piano Concerto No. 2, performed by the renowned pianist Behzod Abduraimov. The evening will culminate with Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, a masterpiece that evokes the beauty and tranquility of the countryside.

**Additional Information:**
- **Tickets:** Available now as part of a concert package. Individual tickets go on sale July 29.
- **Pre-concert Activities:** Enjoy pre-concert activities and valet parking.
- **Accessibility Services:** Armless & bariatric chairs, assistive listening devices, large-print programs, noise-cancelling headphones, service animals, and wheelchair & accessible seating are available upon request.
- **Mobile App:** Download the MinnOrch App to pre-order intermission drinks, scan your ticket for entry, and access exclusive deals.

**Presented by:** Ameriprise Financial

**Plan Your Visit:**
- **Directions & Parking:** Convenient parking is available just steps away from Orchestra Hall in the city-owned and skyway-connected 11th and Marquette Ramp.
- **Venue Info:** Orchestra Hall, 1111 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403

Experience the magic of Beethoven's Symphony No. 6 with the Minnesota Orchestra, under the baton of Marta Gardolińska, and featuring the extraordinary talents of pianist Behzod Abduraimov. Secure your tickets now and prepare for an unforgettable musical journey.

Beethoven Symphony No. 6

Minnesota Orchestra

Two of the most romantic artistic souls are on the program when the young Danish pianist Gustav Piekut again visits the Odense Symphony Orchestra. This time we will hear his nimble fingers in Chopin's romantic masterpiece, the endlessly sonorous 2nd Piano Concerto in an evening that also offers Schumann's brave 4th Symphony, which in many ways set new standards for the symphony as an art form, as well as a powerful overture of the unfairly forgotten Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.

Chopin's 2nd Piano Concert

Sergei Rachmaninov was born in imperial Russia, but he died in Beverly Hills, and his Symphonic Dances fuse the melancholy of exile with the rhythm, the glamour and the sheer verve of the jazz-age USA. Dream ballet? Showpiece for orchestra? Or simply the most personal symphony Rachmaninov never wrote? However you hear them, guest conductor Teresa Riveiro Böhm has made them the climax of a concert filled with powerful voices and dark poetry. Grażyna Bacewicz’s Overture gets things off to an electrifying start. Then BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Johanna Wallroth turns the leaves of the Richard Strauss songbook: miniature worlds of tenderness, melody and romance, perfectly suited to what one critic called the “pure magic” of her voice.

Afternoon Performance: Rachmaninov's Symphonic Dances

Glasgow City Hall

California Symphony’s Young American Composer-in-Residence (2023-26) Saad Haddad presents his second commission for the orchestra. 
Grażyna Bacewicz incorporates Polish folk themes in a piece that features intense moments of drama and a demanding and virtuosic lead role for piano, played here by internationally acclaimed pianist David Fung.
Tchaikovsky’s sixth and final symphony is also known as the Pathétique, but the composer originally called it the Passionate. Grand, sweeping, and with themes you’ll recognize from movies and pop culture, it’s one of the Russian melody master’s most popular and frequently performed works. 

Tchaikovsky Passion

Lesher Center for the Arts

Stirring music that’s full of emotion and drama, with Tchaikovsky’s powerful final symphony as its conclusion.

2025 Winter Warmer I

University of Southern Maine

Soprano Sherezade Panthaki enjoys ongoing international collaborations with many of the world’s leading conductors including Nicholas McGegan, Masaaki Suzuki, Martin Haselböck, Mark Morris, Nicholas Kraemer, Matthew Halls, Stephen Stubbs, and Gary Wedow. Celebrated for her “full, luxuriously toned upper range” (The Los Angeles Times), and “astonishing coloratura with radiant top notes” (Calgary Herald) particularly in the music of Bach and Handel, recent seasons have included performances with the New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium Japan, Wiener Akademie (Austria), NDR Hannover Radiophilharmonie (Germany), the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Early Music Festival, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra (Canada), Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Mark Morris Dance Group, St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue New York, The Choir and Orchestra of Trinity Wall Street, and Voices of Music. Ms. Panthaki is no stranger to classical and modern concert repertoire; she is in high demand for her interpretations of Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Poulenc, and Orff, as well as numerous new music premieres. Her discography includes the recently released recording of Handel’s Joseph and his Brethren with Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque, solo Bach cantatas with the Cantata Collective, and Graupner’s opera Antiochus und Stratonica with the Boston Early Music Festival.

Composer

Grażyna Bacewicz

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 23, 2026

Clare Hammond piano · Wigmore Hall

Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2026

Romeo, Juliet and the Struggles of an Era · Orchestre Métropolitain

1 - 21 Oct, 2026

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Cadogan Hall

7 - 8 Oct, 2026

From cello glow to Slavonic dances · Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Oct 8, 2026

Sibelius Violin Concerto · Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

Jul 23, 2026

Summer Serenades 3 · Richmond Symphony

Jun 7, 2026

Aeolus Quartet · Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College

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