The Delaware Symphony Orchestra’s Opening Night launches a thrilling new era with a program overflowing with energy and emotion. The celebration begins with Shostakovich’s Festive Overture — a whirlwind of brass and brilliance that practically bursts with excitement. Then, brace yourself for the sheer virtuosity of Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, a piece so intense and powerful it’s become the ultimate test for pianists. Finally, Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony brings the drama, with heart-pounding intensity, soaring melodies, and a finale that feels like a victory lap.

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Virtuosity Unleashed: A New Era

The Grand Opera House

Infusing “intoxicating grace” with “exceptional musicality” and “inconceivable virtuosity,” pianist Fei-Fei conjures a special and undeniable connectivity with her audiences that brings joy, passion, and deep musical understanding (Badische Neueste Nachrichten). Her engaging and endearing personality shines through in every note, word, and expression—whether performing as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician on world stages or as an advocate for community engagement.

Key Collaborations

Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center

Returning to the podium for the first time since May of 2011, and after 25 years as IPO Music Director, IPO Conductor Laureate Carmon DeLeone will take the IPO baton again in a special, one night only return. Joining him on the program is internationally acclaimed pianist Fei-Fei, winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a top finalist at the 14thVan Cliburn International Piano Competition. An in-demand performer both in the US and internationally, Fei-Fei has been praised the world over for her “bountiful gifts and passionate immersion into the music she touches,” according to The Plain Dealer, and her “passion, piquancy and tenderness…winning stage presence,” by the Dallas Morning News.

Carmon Deleone Returns For Rachmaninoff

Trinity Christian College

As part of its Uptown Nights music series, Harlem Stage collaborates with Harlem-based Sugar Hill Salon — one of the first chamber music series and artistic collectives that centers on black and brown woodwind artistry in classical music — and Concert Artists Guild —which has, since 1951, launched the careers of hundreds of emerging classical artists and ensembles — to curate an evening of chamber music performed by musicians from each organization’s ranks including Sugar Hill Salon’s Alexander Davis (bassoon) and David Valbuena (clarinet),, and Concert Artists Guild’s Adam W. Sadberry (flute),  and Fei-Fei (piano).

Uptown Nights: An Evening Of Chamber Music Presented With Sugar Hill Salon & Concert Artists Guild

Harlem Stage

Manhattan School of Music’s public programs are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

MSM Faculty Emeritus Recital: Nils Vigeland

Manhattan School of Music

A concert featuring works by German-born American composer, MSM alumna, and former faculty member Ursula Mamlok (BM ’57, MM ’58) on the centennial year of her birth (b. 1923, d. 2016) performed by MSM doctoral of arts candidates.

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Events

Past events

Oct 10, 2025

Virtuosity Unleashed: A New Era · Delaware Symphony Orchestra

Sep 6, 2025

Key Collaborations · West Texas Symphony

Future and recently performed repertoire

Piano in Piano Concerto No. 3 by Rachmaninoff

Delaware Symphony Orchestra

Piano in Piano Concerto No. 2 by Chopin

West Texas Symphony

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