Composer

Jake Westerbeke, viola

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Sergei Prokofiev was in New York when the Zimro Ensemble, a sextet of his former classmates from St. Petersburg, performed there. The group specialized in Jewish music and performed their program several times at Carnegie Hall. Asked to write an overture for the sextet, Prokofiev wrote a roughly ten-minute piece with the character of klezmer music—with a lively theme for the clarinet and a more contemplative theme for the cello. In 1934, Prokofiev also arranged the "Overture on Hebrew Themes" for a small orchestra.

What does my name mean to you?

Bochumer Symphoniker

A superb young Toronto pianist plays Beethoven's noble Emperor Concerto and  the season wraps with one of Shostakovich's most personal masterpieces and the eternal genius of Bach 

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The Emperor

Meridian Arts Centre

The superb young Toronto pianist Vanessa Yu joins the orchestra in one of the greatest concertos of all time, Beethoven’s noble Piano Concerto No. 5, the “Emperor.” Music director Nurhan Arman leads the orchestra in Dmitri Shostakovich’s poignant and personal Chamber Symphony in C minor Op. 110a and finishes with the powerful reassurance of J.S. Bach’s “Contrapunctus 1” and “Contrapunctus 2” in beautifully transparent orchestral versions.

Sinfonia Toronto: THE EMPEROR | Beethoven - Shostakovich - Bach

Elim Chan leads Rachmaninoff’s ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 3, performed by Lukáš Vondráček, along with Shostakovich’s playful and witty Ninth Symphony. The program also includes a moving World Première by Indigenous composer Cris Derksen, created in collaboration with the Centre for Addiction and MentalHealth (CAMH).

Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

David Pecaut Square

In turbo speed from the 18th to the 20th century: The Sonic.Art Saxophone Quartet moves effortlessly from Bach's B Minor Suite to Bernstein's West Side Story in the space of half an hour, condensing the sound colours of an entire orchestra onto soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones. In the lunchtime concert, the four musicians from Belarus, Australia, Japan and Germany show how these worlds can be brought together with virtuosity. Their stylistic confidence, joy of playing and technical as well as musical perfection have already earned these well-rehearsed musicians a number of important international awards. We are looking forward to their debut at the Alte Oper and combine the event with an invitation to a small lunch in our foyers after the concert.

sonic.art Saxophonquartett

Alte Oper

In the ensemble's final performance of the season, the KSUSO will perform the powerful and emotionally complex Symphony No. 5 by Dimitri Shostakovich. Join the KSUSO for this special performance on Thursday, April 30 at 7:30 p.m. in the McCain Auditorium. This concert is free and open to the public.

KSU Symphony Orchestra - Woven Facade

Kansas State University

Great things come in small packages! The prelude and fugue is a musical form as old as Bach – a concentrated work-out for mind, heart and (of course) fingers. Shostakovich was never more playful – or profound – than in his Preludes and Fugues for solo piano, and today RWCMD artist-in-association Llŷr Williams completes his personal adventure through all 24 of these jewels of 20th century piano music.

Llŷr Williams: Shostakovich Preludes & Fugues II

Bute Park

London Symphony Orchestra

Musikverein Wien

Chamber Concert No. 7 (2026)

Town Hall Hall

Life and Fate

Schauspielhaus Bochum

“Last week I gave a ball in my own rooms . . . we began at 6 in the evening and stopped at 7—what? only an hour?—no, no—at seven in the morning.” — W. A. Mozart 

Beginning with Mozart, who was an avid and reportedly expert dancer, this program offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the special synergy between music and dance: from composers who created dance music for social gatherings like the “Waltz King” Johann Strauss, Jr., to artistic representations of folk dances by Johannes Brahms and David Serkin Ludwig.

Invitation to the Dance

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, famed for its romantic 18th variation, features pianist Federico Colli. Conductor Case Scaglione leads this program including John Adams’ Short Ride in a Fast Machine, a thrilling orchestral sprint and the powerful and defiant Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5.

Shostakovich Symphony No. 5

Phoenix Convention Center

Samuel Lee conducts the Carlo Felice Foundation Orchestra. Alexander Gadjiev on piano. Music by Sergei Rachmaninoff and Dmitri Shostakovich

Rach 2

Carlo Felice Theater

Embark on a sweeping musical journey with the drama of Tchaikovsky’s magnificent Fifth Symphony, the gripping intensity of Shostakovich’s Second Violin Concerto with the brilliant Elina Vähälä, and an exciting World Première by RBC Affiliate Composer Liam Ritz.

Enhance your concert experience by arriving early for exquisite performances by the TSO Chamber Soloists, thoughtfully curated by Jonathan Crow. There will be a pre-concert performance at 1:45pm included with the price of your ticket to the Sunday, April 26 performance.

Tchaikovsky’s Fifth

"It'll be a really fun show with some of the most insanely talented musicians playing some of the best music ever written... All you have to know is - do you like a good tune? Because we're going to be playing a ton of those." - Chris Addison

Chris Addison’s Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music

Cast

We look forward to a grand concert with a small ensemble: The program features highly emotional soundscapes that at times explore the boundaries of chamber music. One biographer remarked that Shostakovich's Second Piano Trio is "probably the most tragic" work in the composer's oeuvre – and explained: "While he was previously familiar with the pathos of his own personal tragedy, here he expresses the tragedy of a generation that has endured death and suffering.

Chamber concert: Piano trio

Bamberger Symphoniker

Shostakovich, Saariaho, and Brahms

Curtis Institute of Music

The seventh chamber music concert will offer a cross-section of both less performed and notoriously known composers. The Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu, whose works are inspired by Romanian folk music, is one of the greatest composers of his country. The evening is also dedicated to Dmitri Shostakovich. Two of his works will be heard, one of which is the demanding String Quartet No. 8.

Shostakovich. Enescu. Reger

The Professed House, Prague

We close our 2025–26 season with a concert that will MOVE you—in every sense of the word.
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Pacific Northwest harpist Elizabeth Landis takes the spotlight in Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, a thrilling and percussive showpiece full of Latin American vibrance. A familiar face in the regional music scene, Landis performs regularly with Seattle Symphony, Symphony Tacoma, and Northwest Sinfonietta—and now steps center stage with the Olympia Symphony.

Move

Washington Center for the Performing Arts

Teatro alla Scala String Quartet

Teatro alla Scala

Hidden Heroines

Worthing Assembly Hall

A CMSFW favorite, this group is one of the most inspiring, dynamic and charismatic ensembles on the musical scene. They have establish themselves as performers of deep emotion, intellect, virtuosity and technical brilliance. To commemorate their 25th anniversary, the quartet will perform the same program from their first concert.

Subtle Connections Across the World - Atrium String Quartet - 25th Anniversary Concert

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Shostakovich’s immersive Second Cello Concerto weaves a wide-ranging rhapsody that is brooding and spooky with moments of levity from the least likely of sources: a bagel. Inspiration is nothing if unpredictable, and Shostakovich’s muse was the Ukrainian street vendor’s song “Who will buy my bagel?”, which he transformed into a challenging cello tour de force. On stage and in her celebrated 2016 album featuring the concerto, Alisa Weilerstein has been praised for her deft interpretation of the work, leading The Guardian to write, “Her playing ranged from tranquil passages of sensual beauty to rough, demotic outbursts performed with the furious expression of one who has been rudely awoken from a beautiful dream.”

Shostakovich & Sibelius

Walt Disney Concert Hall

The German-American Augustin Hadelich is considered one of the world's most outstanding violinists. He has enjoyed a special friendship with the WDR Symphony Orchestra for a long time. Now, together, they will perform Dmitri Shostakovich's First Violin Concerto – a work full of gripping emotion, ranging from deep pain to grotesque humor and feverish energy. Dima Slobodeniouk will conduct from his adopted home of Finland, performing two magnificent orchestral works by Jean Sibelius: the enchanting tone poem "Pohjola's Daughter" opens the concert, before the Second Symphony concludes with a radiant finale.

Resonances - Hadelich & Shostakovich

Museum Ludwig

Esa Pekka-Salonen's Helix opens the program with a virtuoso orchestral whirlwind, where the sections intertwine in sonic spirals deploying a mechanical and organic energy. Then Dorota Anderszewska, our super-soloist concertmaster, takes on Prokofiev's formidable Concerto No. 2 , combining rhythmic harshness and tender lyricism, to achieve a perfect balance between sarcasm and melancholy. Her violin, by turns sharp in the diabolical scherzo, singing in the nostalgic theme of the first movement, reveals all the ambivalence of the Russian composer in exile. As for conductor Roderick Cox, his precise gesture sculpts Shostakovich's anger and hope in Symphony No. 10 , which majestically closes the evening. From the oppressed murmurs of the strings to the liberating explosion of the finale, it crystallizes his remarkable resilience in the face of Stalinist torment. A fascinating dialogue between instrumental virtuosity and human depth.

Virtuosity and Destiny

Opéra Berlioz

“In wars outside the blood runs red / Here is something far more deadly, ladies and gentlemen”. Duke Bluebeard’s castle has seven doors, and his new wife Judith is determined to open them all. But some questions are best left unanswered, and in Bartók’s gripping psychological thriller even the darkest secrets possess a terrible beauty.

Bartók’s Bluebeard's Castle

Music Hall, Aberdeen

City Halls

“To be or not to be?” This timeless question, which tormented Hamlet, continues to captivate minds. Ophelia, too, sought an answer, though hers ended tragically, culminating in one of literature’s most haunting scenes of madness. Shakespeare’s play—and Ophelia’s florid drowning—have inspired countless works of art, but it is the ambiguity of her mental state, coupled with her astonishing transition from speech to song, that has particularly intrigued composers.

Ophelia's Madness

Grand Théâtre de Québec

Up-and-coming Colburn School artists Martha Chan, Andrea Caputo, and Chi-Jo Lee come together for a stunning evening of flute, clarinet, and piano. Featuring Debussy’s Première rhapsodie, Weber’s Grand duo in Concertant, Shostakovich’s Four Waltzes, and more!

Colburn Concerts: Trio Aeris

Boston Court Pasadena

By the time Korngold had begun his 1945 Violin Concerto, the Austrian composer had scored the soundtracks for fifteen Hollywood films. You’ll hear that cinematic sheen in his wonderful concerto, from its sweeping opening to the helter-skelter hoe-down of the finale.

London Symphony Orchestra/Sir Antonio Pappano

Barbican Centre

Julia Fischer, Alexander Sitkovetsky, Nils Mönkemeyer and Benjamin Nyffenegger have been working together regularly for 15 years, devoting themselves to the royal genre of chamber music in intensive rehearsal and concert phases. Contrary to what the name might suggest, this is not a 'primaria' quartet, but a true chamber music ensemble in which four musicians work together as equals. Each of them is a gifted soloist. The combination of the highest virtuosity, a well-balanced ensemble spirit and great joy in playing results in quartet artistry of the highest order, which we can look forward to again this season. This time with Franz Schubert, Dmitri Shostakovich and Johannes Brahms.

Julia Fischer Quartett

Subscription Concert

Holzhausen Estate

Konzerthalle, Bad Salzuflen

Detmold University of Music

Stadthalle Gütersloh

Theater Hameln

Schützenhof city park

Itzehoe Theater

Minden City Theater

Paderhalle Paderborn

This program contrasts Beethoven’s vibrant Symphony No. 8 with Shostakovich’s powerful Leningrad Symphony, a poignant work that captures the spirit of resistance to oppression. The striking juxtaposition of Beethoven’s joy and Shostakovich’s depiction of a dramatic historical moment promises an intense and captivating concert experience.

The Intense Leningrad Symphony by Shostakovich

Place des Arts

Season Finale – Palladium Chamber Players Jeffrey Multer and Marika Bournaki are joined by The Florida Orchestra’s Principal Cellist, Yonia Draiblate for a thrilling close to the 2025–26 Chamber Series, featuring Schubert’s lyricism, Shostakovich’s intensity, and Mendelssohn’s brilliance.

Palladium Chamber Series – Intimate Connection, Bold Expression: Schubert, Shostakovich, & Mendelssohn

Hough Concert Hall

Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5 was begun in 1937, a year after Stalin condemned the composer’s opera Lady Macbeth as ‘muddle instead of music’. On the surface, the Fifth falls back into Soviet line with its clear sense of structure and abundance of tunes. But there’s an underlying menace to the opening movement, a brooding darkness to the Largo, while the surging finale is surely nothing short of Shostakovich at his most bitingly ironic.

London Symphony Orchestra: Half Six Fix – Shostakovich

Russian pianist Yulianna Avdeeva was the First Prize winner of the 2010 International Chopin Piano Competition, which launched her to international fame as audiences discovered her passionate and virtuoso interpretations of Chopin’s music. Following celebrated recitals at the Salzburg Festival, Carnegie Hall and London’s Wigmore Hall, she comes to Houston with a fascinating program of Chopin’s revolutionary and poetic 24 Preludes juxtaposed with Shostakovich’s monumental Preludes and Fugues, the composer’s homage to J.S. Bach.

Yulianna Avdeeva, piano

Wortham Theater Center

Chamber Concert No. 6

Join us in celebration for the retirement of Prof. Jerry Luckhardt and his tenure at the University of Minnesota-TC. This concert will feature guest speakers, archival materials, and a performance filled with repertoire that is special to Prof. Luckhardt, including: Giovanni Gabrieli’s Canzona per Sonare No. 2, Shelley Hanson’s Albanian Dance, H. Owen Reed’s Michigan Morn, Gustav Holst’s Second Suite in F, Alex Shapiro’s Depth, Jonathan Newman’s Blow It Up and Start Again, J. P Sousa’s Minnesota March, Frank Ticheli’s Rest, and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Folk Dances, transcribed by H. Robert Reynolds. This performance will be one you will not want to miss.

Symphonic Band

University of Minnesota

Tualatin Valley Symphony presents a riveting program including Sibelius' Finlandia, Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, and Symphony No. 1 by 19-year-old Dmitri Shostakovich..

Music for Our Lives

Tigard Friends Church

Known for his bold programming and artistic vision, Artistic Director finalist Michael Lewanski leads a powerful and eclectic program that bridges cultures, eras, and emotions. The evening begins with Carlos Chávez’s energetic Sinfonia India, followed by Jessie Montgomery’s luminous Hymn for Everyone. Acclaimed violinist MingHuan Xu takes center stage in John Corigliano’s haunting Red Violin Chaconne, a work of cinematic beauty and emotional depth. The concert concludes with the striking wit and youthful brilliance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1—a landmark debut from one of the 20th century’s most iconic voices.

Lewanski Conducts Shostakovich

Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

A »Long Night of the String Quartet« brought them together: the great, universally acclaimed saxophonist Asya Fateyeva and the Aris Quartet, which has made an equally brilliant start in the concert world, immediately felt a special artistic attraction and promptly made plans together. They are now celebrating their quintet debut with the Hamburg Chamber Music Friends at the Elbphilharmonie and are preparing a highly exciting programme with a distinctly jazzy flavour.

Asya Fateyeva / Aris Quartett

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

The dialogue of time unfurls in this resplendent program of harmonious exchange, bridging generations. Music Director Jaime Martín illuminates voices of exquisite correspondence, opening with Juhi Bansal’s orchestral missive celebrating 25 years of Sound Investment. Featuring violin soloist Anne Akiko Meyers, Eric Whitacre offers a meditation on the resilience of Angelenos in the face of the historic 2025 wildfires in the West Coast premiere of THE PACIFIC HAS NO MEMORY. The raw expressivity of Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony and the irresistible sparkle of Prokofiev’s “Classical” symphony conclude the program. Truly, a musical correspondence for the ages.

Temporal Echoes: Martín + Bansal + Shostakovich

One California Plaza

We begin with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1, celebrating the 100th anniversary of its premiere. In the second half, William Grant Still’s Serenade reflects American folk music. Then, listen for elements of jazz, blues, and ragtime as pianist Terrence Wilson performs Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Major.

Shostakovich, Still, & Gershwin

The Oncenter Civic Center Theaters

Nearly every musician can point to a teacher who inspired them to keep going and follow their dream. The Salt Lake Symphony is pleased to continue our tradition of inviting talented high school musicians to play alongside us for a piece every year. Young musicians come from a variety of places, including area youth orchestras, high schools, and private studios. This year, we welcome the students to play Danzon No. 2, an exciting work by Mexican composer, Arturo Marquez. Also on the program is a unique first for the SLS, a Concerto for Contrabassoon and Orchestra by Victor Bruns. We are thrilled to have Utah Symphony contrabassoonist, Leon Chodos, joining us as soloist. Leon is a great supporter of our orcheatra and can sometimes be seen volunteering his talents in our bassoon section. The concert will close with a powerful “first symphony”, a student composition by the great Russian composer, Dmitri Shostakovich. The Symphony No. 1 was Shostakovich’s graduation piece from his conservatory studies, launching him into instant fame as a Russian symphonist at age 19.

Teachers and Students: Leon Chodos, contrabassoon, invited side-by-side high school students

University of Utah

“This is an artist we need to hear more of,” says The New York Times of pianist David Fray; Fray joins the MSO to perform Mozart’s sprightly “Jeunehomme” concerto, dedicated to the talented young pianist who inspired its music. Guest conductor Katharina Wincor leads a masterwork by another bright young talent, Shostakovich — his mischievous First Symphony, penned when he was a conservatory student, launched the composer’s career and remains one of his most celebrated contributions to music.

Wincor Conducts Shostakovich No. 1

Warner Grand Theater

A program of rhythm, color, and contrast, this concert brings together the energy of jazz-infused Ravel, the striking modernity of Gabriela Ortiz, and the raw power of Shostakovich.

Inspired by the dynamic cultural life of Mexico City, Grammy award-winning composer Gabriela Ortiz’ Antrópolis is a thrilling contemporary piece that showcases the percussion section, with ASO Principal Timpanist Curt Armbruster taking a featured role.

Rhythm to Revolution

Maryland Hall

Legacy of Sound

McAllen Performing Arts Center

Haydn played a key role in the evolution of the string quartet, and his final Quartet Op. 77  No. 2 is full of subtle experimentation that is both inventive and elegant. Meanwhile, Shostakovich reinterprets classical forms in his Quintet, infusing it with his deeply personal language and profound emotional intensity.

Haydn and Shostakovich: A Striking Contrast

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

LSO welcomes the Lincoln Youth Symphony to the stage for a side-by-side performance of Kenji Bunch’s Supermaximum, a work inspired by the rich tradition of chain gang songs. Next, LSO is joined by rising star pianist Tony Siqi Yun to perform Dmitry Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2. The program closes with Johannes Brahms’ deeply emotional Symphony No. 3.

Powerful Perseverance

University of Nebraska - Lincoln

Schubert’s orchestral writing reached its peak in his forward-looking Ninth Symphony, which was almost lost to history but luckily resurfaced after Schubert’s death. The Cleveland Orchestra demonstrates the symphony’s depth and passion under the baton of Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, and cellist Sol Gabetta brings her rich tone and impeccable technique to Shostakovich’s captivating and rarely performed Second Cello Concerto.

Schubert & Shostakovich

Severance Music Center

Concert Band

University of Michigan

Chamber music as an intimate diary: Shostakovich dedicated his Seventh String Quartet to his recently deceased wife Nina. Johannes Brahms, on the other hand, made a characteristic statement on this topic in his Second Quartet. The work begins with the notes F–A–E – "Frei aber einsam" (“Free but lonely”). The German composer remained unmarried throughout his life.

Early Bird

Museum Frieder Burda

It was a close call for American Gabriella Smith to pursue a career in marine biology rather than composition – it's no coincidence that her music references flora and fauna. Nature also inspires Dvořák in a serene Eighth : "At dawn, he wanders through the fields, moors, and forests surrounding the hamlet. It is in their intimacy that his musical ideas are born," noted his first biographer. This contrasts sharply with Shostakovich's First Concerto , completed in the midst of Stalinist terror, performed by the young Ukrainian Dmytro Udovychenko and his compatriot Oksana Lyniv for their National debuts.

Dvořák, Symphony No. 8 / Oksana Lyniv

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Andrés Orozco-Estrada visits the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen, to perform Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra, inspired by the composer's idol Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, together with the Radio Symphony Orchestra and their own solo cellist Aleksei Kiseliov. Ottorino Respighi in turn composed the orchestral music for the ballet La boutique fantasque, based on piano pieces by Gioachino Rossini. In tonight's concert, we will hear a suite from the ballet, described as a mix between The Nutcracker and Toy Story. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9 concludes the concert.

Shostakovich's Symphony No. 9

Berwaldhallen

Sumin Kim, viola

A child of separation, the American Steve Reich, a pioneer of minimalist music, regularly traveled back and forth by train between New York and Los Angeles. During these long journeys, one thought constantly preoccupied him: had he been born a little earlier in Europe, with his Jewish heritage, he would undoubtedly have traveled on different trains. This is what gave rise in 1988 to Different Trains , a string quartet with a soundtrack.

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Lille Opera

3rd Chamber Concert

Reithalle

WhenThe Prince's Music Corpsinvites you to a concert with the American-Swedish sopranoBarbara Hendricks, a world-class musical event is planned. Hendricks is one of the 20th century's most brilliant opera stars whose voice fascinates audiences to this day.

Barbara HendricksandThe Prince's Music Corps

Aarhus Music Hall

British violinist Callum Smart returns by popular demand to Lexington Symphony to perform Shostakovich’s evocative Violin Concerto No. 1. Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra was commissioned by Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Serge Koussevitsky in 1943. This popular piece is filled with opportunities for each section of the orchestra to shine as the piece builds to an exuberant conclusion.

Pushing the Limits

Isaac Harris Cary Memorial Building

This evocative concert begins with the Grammy-nominated ensemble Sandbox Percussion’s performance of Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al—for percussion quartet and orchestra full of eclectic soundscapes that explore themes of transformation and resilience. Shostakovich’s Symphony No.8 is a powerful work reflecting on war as a force of destruction and suffering, while juxtaposing it with the endurance and resilience of the human spirit.

Shostakovich 8

Ohio Theatre

Unleash your inner detective as the Philharmonic unravels an interactive murder mystery piece by piece.

Murder at the Philharmonic

Zimmerli Plaza

Music straight from the heart and to the heart! Experience our heart's blood: Music created by love – and love created by music.
The first four-night concert of the spring is all about love. “It’s a work of sunshine!” says Marianna Shirinyan about Shostakovich’s second piano concerto. “Shostakovich wrote it for his son, and it’s a concert filled with love.”

Pleasure play

The first four-night concert of the spring is all about love. “It’s a work of sunshine!” says Marianna Shirinyan about Shostakovich’s second piano concerto. “Shostakovich wrote it for his son, and it’s a concert filled with love.”

Thursday Evening Concert: Comedy

Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto is subtle, playful music, full of love – literally: the concerto was written for the composer's young son. It is teasing rather than harsh – a rare example of Shostakovich in a good mood! And who better to convey music of the most loving kind than Aarhus Symphony Orchestra's Artist in Residence, Marianna Shirinyan?

Rachmaninoff 2

Praised as “technically flawless and impeccably musical” (International Piano), 23-year-old Ukrainian pianist Illia Ovcharenko has taken the piano world by storm with his technical genius, winning the prestigious Honens International Piano Competition in 2022. Now, he makes his Symphony Nova Scotia debut performing Shostakovich’s bright, virtuosic Piano Concerto – considered a crowning achievement of his orchestral works – spotlighting our very own Curtis Dietz. Plus, our orchestra performs Ashdla’ from Raven Chacon – a Diné (or Navajo) composer and the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Music winner – and a chamber orchestra version of Mahler’s mighty, miraculous “Titan” Symphony for the first time in almost a decade.

Mahler’s Titan Symphony

Dalhousie University

Marianna Shirinyan sparkles in Shostakovich – and the orchestra revels in Rachmaninov.
An entire concert of classical music when it's at its easiest to love!

In demand since its formation in 2017, the Victoria String Quartet has performed for chamber music societies and festivals throughout the UK and has been hailed as an ensemble ‘brim full with pedigree and wide experience’.

Victoria String Quartet

Leeds Conservatoire

This program brings together three landmark works, each a defining moment in its composer’s journey. Brahms’ electrifying Scherzo, his first published piece, bursts with youthful fire. Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2, written during World War II and at the midpoint of his life, stands at the center of the piano trio repertoire—an intense and haunting testament to the human spirit.

rahms, Shostakovich, and Schubert

Trinity Episcopal Church of Vero Beach

Lukas Stepp has been concertmaster of the 2nd violins of the Staatskapelle Dresden since the beginning of 2019.

Chamber Music Evening N° 6

Semperoper Dresden

Opening

Wallraf-Richartz Museum

This concert celebrates music faculty from Ohio's universities. COS Concertmaster (and Wright State faculty) Tom Sobieski will perform the solo part in A Tempered Wish by Ching-chu Hu (Denison University). Bruce Murray (Miami University) will perform Ravel's sparkling Piano Concerto in G, and join with principal trumpeter Dale Nawrocki for Shostakovich's tongue-in-cheek Piano Concerto #1. Music Director Jaime Morales-Matos (Miami University) will lead the orchestra in Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.

Beethoven's 4th Symphony

Ohio Wesleyan University

The Viano Quartet continues to amaze listeners nationwide, and their program at CMS shows the remarkable range of their repertoire. After firmly establishing their Classical and Romantic credentials with delightful Haydn and effervescent Mendelssohn, the Viano moves to the 20th century with Webern’s hyper-expressive single movement, followed by Shostakovich’s 9th Quartet, which builds through five interconnected sections to a pinnacle of orchestral intensity.

Composer

Dmitri Shostakovich

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 21, 2025 - May 10, 2026

Chamber Concert / Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra · Elbphilharmonie

Jan 22 - Jun 16, 2026

Subscription Concert · Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie

Feb 20 - May 9, 2026

UC Berkeley Symphony Orchestra 2026 · UC Berkeley Department of Music

Apr 15 - Jun 28, 2026

Subscription Concert · Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie

7 - 9 May, 2026

BULLYACHE A Good Man is Hard to Find · Sadler’s Wells Theatre

Past events

May 3, 2026

Jake Westerbeke, viola · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

2 - 3 May, 2026

What does my name mean to you? · Bochumer Symphoniker

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