Composer

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

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 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.

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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 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

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

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

Tchaikovsky Passion

Lesher Center for the Arts

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. 

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.

Mahler & Wagner

Miller Symphony Hall

Future first guest conductor Maxim Emelyanychev leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's last symphony number 41. The addition "Jupiter" was added after the composer's death and is believed to refer to the Roman god of the same name, whose lightning can be heard in the opening chord of the first movement. German-French cellist Nicolas Altstaedt performs Grażyna Bacewicz's Second Cello Concerto and the program also includes Sergei Prokofiev's imaginative suite The Love for the Three Oranges .

Mozart's Jupiter Symphony

SR Berwaldhallen

The Tesla Quartet formed at the Julliard School in New York in 2008. From 2009-2012 they were the Graduate Quartet in Residence with the famed Takacs Quartet at the University of Colorado Boulder. They have won top prizes in several competitions, tour widely, and commissioned 12 new works during the Covid pandemic in 2020. They will perform the popular Haydn “Joke” Quartet, Opus 33, No. 2, and the Dvorak String Quartet No. 10, Opus 51, as well as introducing us to String Quartet No. 3 by Polish/Lithuanian composer Grazina Bacewicz (1909-1969).

Tesla Quartet

Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church

With its fiery passions surging from icy evocations, Sibelius’ sole concerto is one of the most cherished works in the violin repertoire. SCO Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen has long been a committed and much-lauded Sibelian: he accompanies young, New Zealand-born Geneva Lewis – until recently a member of the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists project – in this intensely emotional masterpiece.

Sibelius Violin Concerto

The Queen's Hall

Buchanan Galleries

Drawing inspiration from Dvořák’s late 19th-century journey to the United States, his “New World Symphony” embodies the spirit of exploration and adventure.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra presents: Dvořák’s New World Symphony

Meridian Arts Centre

Drawing inspiration from Dvořák’s late 19th-century journey to the United States, his “New World Symphony” embodies the spirit of exploration and adventure. Its dynamic themes and rhythms brilliantly portray the diverse cultural tapestry and expansive terrains of the Americas. And, in a delightful program highlight, Principal Clarinet Eric Abramovitz performs an audience favourite, Mozart’s enchanting Clarinet Concerto.

Dvořák’s New World Symphony

David Pecaut Square

MainStage 2: Celebration and Hope

First United Methodist Church-Palo

First Congregational Church of Berkeley

San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center

Fall Academy Showcase

Benaroya Hall

There’s no limit to the stories that can be told by a string quartet. The Equilibrium Quartet, four members of the Orchestra who aim to re-balance inequality in music, present a chamber concert with a fascinating difference. They'll perform works from the first lady of Polish music, Grażyna Bacewicz, Panamanian folk, and the beautiful yet largely undiscovered music of Emilie Mayer, before easing gently into the Christmas season with Rebecca Clarke’s Combined Carols.

Equilibrium Advent

The Music Room

Renowned pianist Benjamin Hochman returns to the stage to play and conduct the orchestra.  This program will show a technical use of the piano and musical excellence that is sure to blow you away. Hear Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 as the harpsichord, violin, and flute take the spotlight.

Benjamin & Brandenburg

Colonial Plaza

“Joy and pain interweave in the light of the world…Thousands of years flash by with glory and strength, revealing that which is indestructible”. Extraordinary claims; but then extraordinary is the only word for the heaven-storming choral finale of Ferruccio Busoni’s colossal Piano Concerto: a masterpiece on the scale of a symphony, composed in 1904 by one of Mahler’s greatest fans.

Gerstein plays Busoni’s Piano Concerto

Barbican Centre

Tchaikovsky said his Serenade for Strings was ‘a piece from the heart’. Beloved by the composer and audiences alike, it’s a technicolour, opulent romance. Here, it’s given a Collective twist, blurring into music that lives closer to the present day.

Manchester Collective: Fever Dreams

RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music)

“Music begins where language ends.” Sibelius’s profound words echo deeply through this program steeped in nostalgia and emotional gravitas. Our Masterworks series begins with a defiantly optimistic WWII-era overture by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz as she lived through the war in Warsaw. Sibelius’s haunting and exquisite Violin Concerto follows, delivering an achingly beautiful tribute to a dream slipping just out of reach. Last is Dvořák’s sun-soaked Eighth Symphony, a nostalgic reflection of summertime bird calls, windswept trees, and happier times.

MASTERWORKS 1 Echoes

First Baptist Church

Swedish pianist Peter Jablonski is also half Polish, and the Polish connections in this programme are strong: Scottish piano virtuoso Ronald Stevenson’s suite on Paderewski’s sole opera (Jablonski’s recording of selected piano works by Stevenson is released on Ondine on 4 October 2024), a selection of works by Szymanowski, and the intricate Second Sonata (1953) of Grażyna Bacewicz, whose works for piano and piano and orchestra he recently recorded to great critical acclaim.

Peter Jablonski piano

Wigmore Hall

SPCO Artistic Partner and violist extraordinaire Tabea Zimmermann returns to open the SPCO’s 66th season with the dramatic overture to Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni and Mozart’s beloved Sinfonia Concertante alongside SPCO Concertmaster, Steven Copes. The program also features Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony, a celebratory launch to the season, akin to the uncorking of a bottle of champagne.

Opening Weekend: Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante with Tabea Zimmermann

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Sergey Prokofiev hoped his musical retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet would have ‘immediate appeal yet sound like nothing written before’. Even now, his score delivers on both fronts, showing the composer’s gift for melody and his ability to reconcile his music’s hard edge with a soft, romantic core. Jaime Martín conducts dramatic highlights from Prokofiev’s ballet score after charismatic Franco-Serbian soloist Nemanja Radulović sets off fireworks in the ultimate Romantic violin concerto. And, to begin, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales unleashes the strident energies of Grażyna Bacewicz’s thrilling Overture, which quotes the famous ‘V for Victory’ motif from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.

Prom 70: Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet

Sergey Prokofiev hoped his musical retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet would have ‘immediate appeal yet sound like nothing written before’. Even now, his score delivers on both fronts, showing the composer’s gift for melody and his ability to reconcile his music’s hard edge with a soft, romantic core.

For the show My Heart Wants Out, young students have written poetry, and readings are interspersed with classical music. This is a collaboration with Läsfrämjarinstitutet (”The Reading Promotion Institute”) and the community group Livet Bitch! Scenkonst, with whom the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra has previously worked on the production of Romeo and Juliet (2021 and 2022).

My Heart Wants Out

Stockholm City Hall

Sweden's Radio Symphony Orchestra meets Ukrainian musician colleagues on Ukraine's Independence Day. We will feel the presence of Ukrainian folk music, including in the newly composed Reflections on a Folk Song by Leonid Desyatnikov, but also experience music that borrows tones from completely different times and places, as in the modern classic Der Bote , where Valentin Silvestrov weaved together music by Mozart with a contemporary tonality. The music knows no borders, but the heart of this concert is in Ukraine.

Looking towards Ukraine

Eclectic Series: Bach, Kreisler, Grażyna Bacewicz, Karen Naifeh Harmon, Ysaÿe

Bargemusic

### Event Description: Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Appalachian Spring

**Event:** Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Appalachian Spring  
**Date:** Wednesday, July 17, 2024  
**Time:** 7:00 PM - 8:15 PM  
**Venue:** Walk Festival Hall, 3330 W. Cody Lane, Teton Village, WY 83025, United States  
**Organizer:** Grand Teton Music Festival  
**Contact:**  
- **Phone:** 307.733.1128  
- **Email:** ticketoffice@gtmf.org  

**Program:**
- **Viet Cuong:** Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine  
  - Performers: Riely Francis, Craig Hauschildt, John Kinzie, and Eric Hopkins (percussion)
- **Copland:** Appalachian Spring  
  - Performers: Tomoko Iguchi, Ami Campbell, Jessica Mathaes, and Barbara Scowcroft (violins), Allyson Goodman and Kayla Williams (violas), Thalia Moore and Charae Krueger (cellos), Joseph McFadden (bass), Julia Bogorad-Kogan (flute), Stephanie Key (clarinet), Rudi Heinrich (bassoon), Kimi Kawashima (piano), Benjamin Manis (conductor)
- **Bacewicz:** Piano Quintet No. 1  
  - Performers: Jeffrey Dyrda and Ling Ling Huang (violins), Chiara Kingsley Dieguez (viola), Grace An (cello), Kimi Kawashima (piano)

**Additional Information:**
- The performance will be approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes long and will be presented without intermission.
- A reception with GTMF musicians will follow the concert at the Pavilion.
- **Tickets:** $30 for adults, $5 for children/students.
- **Note:** Please purchase tickets directly from the Grand Teton Music Festival website to avoid unauthorized resellers.

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Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Appalachian Spring

Walk Festival Hall

Delve into the intimate world of chamber music with two exceptional concerts at the Recital Hall. Featuring repertoire from the romantic period to contemporary works, these performances promise to captivate audiences with their exquisite harmonies.

Penn's Woods Music Festival: Chamber Music

Penn State School of Music

“Our final concert of the season is a diverse mix of gorgeous works from the Baroque era, juxtaposed with modern showpieces and romantic expression. We are delighted to introduce some performers who may be relative newcomers to our audience and are sure to impress with their versatility and charm!”

Old and New

Glazer Music Performance Center

Two, Three, Four

Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center

Combine these 20th-century works for two, three, and four musicians, and the result is an intriguing concert that expands horizons. Written in 1994, Jean Françaix’s lighthearted Trio for Oboe, Bassoon, and Piano is charming and witty. Folk and classical idioms intertwine in Erwin Schulhoff’s 1925 Duo for Violin and Cello, while Maurice Ravel’s revolutionary encounter with jazz reverberates throughout his electrifying second Sonata for Violin and Piano. The Borromeo String Quartet, heralded for their “edge-of-the-seat performances” (Boston Globe), takes on the intelligent intensity of the String Quartet No. 6 by Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz.

Sarasota Orchestra

Debuting conductor Marta Gardolińska leads the San Francisco Symphony in Felix Mendelssohn's evocative travelogue, inspired by a visit to the ruins of Holyrood Chapel in Edinburgh. Grażyna Bacewic wrote her Overture in 1943, during the German occupation of her native Poland. The premiere was delayed until her homeland was liberated from the Nazis two years later. Written in the aftermath of World War I, Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto is an urgent elegy, a late-life affirmation of Englishness.

Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony

Davies Symphony Hall

Prolific Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who was also a violinist, pianist, and accomplished author, is represented with her contemplative Partita for Orchestra. Internationally-acclaimed Russian violinist Nikita Boriso-Glebsky joins TŌN for Hungarian composer Joseph Joachim’s Variations for Violin and Orchestra. Then the orchestra gives the U.S. premiere of a recently discovered concerto by famed Belgian violinist and composer Eugène Ysaÿe. The program concludes with the energetic and passionate Second Symphony of Romanian composer George Enescu, written at a time when he was also one of the most in-demand concert violinists in the world.

Violinist as Composer

Fisher Center at Bard

Come celebrate Anton Bruckner’s 200th birthday as we perform one of the most important romantic composers of all time. Bruckner’s heroic 4th symphony premiered 150 years ago and has since become his most famous. Also joining us is the 2024 Gilmore Young Artist winner, Kasey Shao, presented in collaboration with the Gilmore Piano Festival, to perform Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto. The program will open with an overture by composer Grażyna Bacewicz.

Greetings from Austria

Jackson College

LACO presents music that unifies us during times of dissonance with Bacewicz’s Overture and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9. Meanwhile, Derrick Skye’s multicultural exploration, Prisms, Cycles, Leaps engages in an endless pursuit of connection in order to deconstruct musical and cultural divides.

Horizons

Alex Theatre

University of California, Los Angeles

Internationally recognized for their “fearless, yet probingly beautiful” (The Strad) performances, the Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet has rapidly distinguished itself as one of the preeminent ensembles of its generation, dedicated purely to the sound and depth of their music. Inspired performances and exceptional musicianship are hallmarks of the Quartet, having appeared at the world’s most illustrious venues since its founding in 2002.

Blodgett Chamber Music Series Presents: Parker Quartet

Harvard University

Pianist Michelle Cann makes her ISO debut with some of the most popular melodies in Western music in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.  ISO Assistant Conductor Su-Han Yang conducts Rachmaninoff’s expressive Third Symphony. 

Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Don’t miss out on guest conductor, 3-time Grammy winner, and vocalist Michelle DeYoung conducting the PSO during the first half. Maestro George Stelluto will lead the PSO during the second half as Michelle delights us with Gustav Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. Enjoy an evening of live music featuring pieces by Grazyna Bacewicz, Marianna Martinez, Wolfgang Mozart, Gustav Mahler, Anna Clyne, and Lili Boulanger.

New Horizons Concert

Grace Presbyterian Church

Geradezu manisch beginnt Witold Lutosławskis klanggewaltiges »Konzert für Orchester« mit den immer gleichen Paukenschlägen über 38 Takte hinweg, und Samuel Barbers Violinkonzert endet in einem rasend schnellen, mechanistischem Perpetuum mobile. Eine atemraubende Tour de Force in Tönen. Gut, dass da die Dirigentin dieses Programms vom Leistungssport kommt – dem hatte sich die Polin Marta Gardolinska jedenfalls gewidmet, bevor die Musik ihre Profession wurde. »Unsere Arbeit ist der von Sportlern sehr ähnlich«, sagt sie. »Sie ist sehr intensiv, und für ein langes Konzert braucht man einfach viel Körperkraft.« Doch bevor sie das hr-Sinfonieorchester durch das kratzbürstige Barber-Finale steuert, wird erst einmal kräftig spätromantisch eingeseift. Als sein »Seifenkonzert« hat Samuel Barber sein Violinkonzert ja selbst bezeichnet, aber nicht wegen des lyrisch-gesanglichen Schäumens der ersten beiden Sätze. Vielmehr weil es finanziert wurde von einem amerikanischen Industriellen, dem Produzenten der Fels-Naptha-Haushaltsseife. Als Solistin kann man hier die junge Geigerin Maria Ioudenitch erleben, die derzeit bei Christian Tetzlaff an der Kronberg Academy studiert.

Perpetuum mobile

Bertramstraße 8

Join the Kalamazoo Symphony string orchestra for a concert celebrating women composers!

Music, She Wrote

Western Michigan University

A number of Polish students from the Jutland Conservatory of Music and from the conservatory in Gdansk play works for various instruments by Polish composers.

Polish concert

Royal Academy of Music Aarhus

You will want to be present as we highlight one of our own—principal horn, Richard Britsch—who will take the limelight for Glière’s Horn Concerto with YOUR Grand Rapids Symphony. Considered the most important work for horn of the 20th Century, you will be mesmerized by the beautiful melodies and colorful orchestration. The program opens with Grażyna Bacewicz's Overture—an energizing work that was written in 1943, during World War II. Its bold melodies, driving rhythms, and expressive orchestration evoke hope and resilience in the face of adversity. The evening will close with Prokofiev’s last symphony—written when the composer was 61 years old.

Prokofiev Symphony No. 7

DeVos Performance Hall

Schubert slipped a double bass into his Quintet for piano and strings "The Trout"  : no doubt to give more warmth and bonhomie to these 40 minutes filled with energy and gaiety, composed at the request of an amateur musician. The musicians of the National reunite with Alice Sara Ott, then branch off, as a quartet, into the otherwise tense world of the Polish Grażyna Bacewicz.

The Mornings of the National

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

We are in the world of poetry. And in Opus Zoo also in the world of animals, where the musicians recite stories from the animal kingdom while they play.

Poetry

Southern Danish Conservatory of Music

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Warren Atherton Auditorium

Parker Quartet

Northwestern University

With its fiery passions surging from icy evocations, Sibelius’ sole concerto is one of the most cherished works in the violin repertoire. SCO Conductor Emeritus Joseph Swensen has long been a committed and much-lauded Sibelian: he accompanies young, New Zealand-born Geneva Lewis – until recently a member of the prestigious BBC New Generation Artists project – in this intensely emotional masterpiece.  

SCO 24/25: Sibelius Violin Concerto

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra proudly presents "Resplendent Revival: Polish Renaissance of the 20th Century," a captivating concert that promises to be an unforgettable journey through the vibrant music of Eastern Europe. This exceptional event is scheduled for Sunday, January 14, at 7:30 pm, taking place at the prestigious Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

The evening's program features an exquisite selection of works by composers who have significantly influenced the contemporary music landscape of Eastern Europe. Highlights include Edvard Grieg's "Suite, Op. 40, From Holberg’s Time," Grażyna Bacewicz's "Concerto for String Orchestra," the American Premiere of Roman Palester's "Nocturne for Strings," and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola in E major, K. 364."

This concert not only showcases the virtuosity and passion of the performers but also celebrates the brilliance of these composers’ works, promising to leave a lasting impression on all who attend. The event is a must-see for any music lover eager to immerse themselves in the rich musical heritage of Eastern Europe.

Tickets for this extraordinary musical experience are priced between $30 and $40, making it accessible for all to enjoy. For more details and to secure your attendance at this not-to-be-missed event, please visit the official website at https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/01/14/connecticut-virtuosi-chamber-orchestra-0730pm.

Join the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra for an evening of resplendent music that revives the Polish Renaissance of the 20th Century and celebrates the enduring spirit of Eastern European classical music.

Composer

Grażyna Bacewicz

Events

Upcoming events

14 - 15 Dec, 2025

4th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts · Oper Frankfurt

Jan 10, 2026

Northern Lights · South Carolina Philharmonic

Jan 21, 2026

Nicholas Phan, tenor Philippe Tondre, oboe Geneva Lewis, violin Emma Wernig, viola Jay Campbell, cello Evren Ozel, piano · Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

25 - 26 Jan, 2026

Elgar Cello Concerto · Reno Philharmonic Orchestra

28 - 29 Jan, 2026

Martin and Mendelssohn-Bartholdy · Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra

Past events

Dec 2, 2025

Love Story · Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège

Oct 18, 2025

1. Congress Park Symphony 2025/2026 · Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt

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