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American Chamber Music

Capri Theater

One of today’s most acclaimed violinists, Randall Goosby, and piano collaborator Zhu Wang play Beethoven’s Spring Sonata plus works by Harry Burleigh, Dvorak, Debussy, and Amy Beach in their PSC debut concert

Randall Goosby, Violin Zhu Wang, Piano

Public High School

Driven by a mission to broaden classical music’s reach and armed with the technical means and communicative powers necessary to do so, Randall Goosby has won audience ovations worldwide with the profound personal authenticity of his artistry. The American violinist and his regular duo partner Zhu Wang, gold medallist at the 2024 New Orleans International Piano Competition, explore evocative works from the Old and New Worlds including Harry Thacker Burleigh’s folk-inspired Southland Sketches.

Randall Goosby | Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall

As the nation marks 250 years since its founding, the Canton Symphony Orchestra closes its 2025–2026 MasterWorks season with a program that reflects the evolving American story through voices both historic and contemporary. We the People is an orchestral reckoning with identity, heritage, and the complexities of shared national memory.

MasterWorks VII: We The People - An American Celebration

Zimmermann Symphony Center

Concertini

La Monnaie - De Munt

Get ready for a musical road trip across the United States! As we near the USA’s 250th birthday in 2026, join us for a concert full of patriotic fun. Tap your toes to Copland’s Hoe Down, experience the vibrant colors of Angélica Negrón’s Tornasol, and savor the elegance of Florence Price’s Andante and Amy Beach’s Gaelic Symphony. Then, let John Williams’ Superman March send you out on a heroic flourish.

Symphonic Sounds of Home: Music of the United States

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

An engaging journey between the Old and New Worlds, with a program entirely dedicated to music written for violin and piano: from the luminous classicism of Beethoven to the new, evocative, twentieth-century classicism of Debussy, passing through the Bohemian lyricism of Dvořák and the surprising American sounds of Amy Beach and Harry Burleigh. Leading us on this journey through different styles and eras will be virtuoso violinist Randall Goosby—already recognized for his interpretative depth and commitment to the rediscovery of African-American composers—and pianist Zhu Wang.

Randall Goosby | Accademia Filarmonica Romana

Teatro Argentina

Superstar violinist Randall Goosby returns to Calderwood Hall for an intimate recital of epic music. Two major sonatas bookend the program: Debussy’s elusive and gorgeous sonata is paired with Beethoven’s sunny F major essay in the form. Harry Burleigh was key in forging a quintessential American musical language, which modified the gorgeous modal inflections of spirituals with the chromatic ambiguities of Wagner’s harmony. The Romance of Boston’s Amy Beach—the best of the "Second New England School" of composers—gorgeously drinks from a similar Wagnerian well.

Randall Goosby | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Featuring Abigail Nims, Mezzo-Soprano | This exciting program, inspired by vocal music, features a world premiere for large orchestra by the Italian composer Massimiliano Messieri. He will join Maestro Moore for a pre-concert talk at 6 PM. The concert also includes mezzo-soprano Abigail Nims performing Amy Beach’s Wand’ring Clouds, which was the first composition by a woman to be performed by the Symphony Society of New York in 1892. Additionally, Vaughan Williams' stunning and spiritual blend of ancient and modern elements is showcased in Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, which features two string orchestras. Finally, Respighi’s Pines of Rome promises to be a sonic spectacle not to be missed!

Pines of Rome & a World Premiere

Skyline High School

Dynamic and rapidly rising American conductor, Michelle Merrill, graces the Tulsa stage as she conducts our opening piece, Symphony in E minor, op."32, "Gaelic," which reflects composer Amy Beach’s Celtic heritage with themes of Irish and Scottish folk music—a perfect complement to the St. Patrick’s Day holiday! With Ravel’s Alborada del gracioso, expect to enjoy the vibrant contrast inspired by Spanish dance rhythms and melodies. The concert ends with the audible symphonic storytelling, colorful orchestration, and emotional intensity of Stravinsky’s The Firebird Suite (1919 version).

Tso On Air: Stravinsky's The Firebird

KWTU Classical 88.7 FM

Celebrate the ingenuity, independence, and pure joy of American music. In five concerts over four days, pianists-in-residence Peter Dugan, Avery Gagliano, and Jonathan Mamora will be joined by mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan and local musicians to explore the ways music reflects the American experience.

Cliburn Festival America 250: American Romantics

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Cliburn Festival America 250: American Mosaic

Join NWS Fellows and alumni in tracing the evolution of American chamber music from 18th century colonies to a tribute to Ellis Island. 

Ives, Monk, Cage & Eastman

New World Center

Female composers, cultural identities, contemporary music: Junyan Chen's interests are as broad as her talent is impressive. At the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, she not only won second prize, but also the Chamber Music Prize and the Alexandra Dariescu Award – a talent worth keeping an eye on! At ProArte, the young artist will search for connections between times and places with a multifaceted program: works by François Couperin will be presented alongside Maurice Ravel's homage to his fellow Baroque composer. Ravel's famous "La valse" and works by Olivier Messiaen reveal further facets of French soundscapes for solo piano. And with Amy Beach's "Variations on Balkan Themes," a transatlantic cultural encounter joins the pattern of connecting lines.

Discover Talent: Junyan Chen / Piano Recital

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

America’s 250th birthday is in 2026, and every celebration needs good music! In this program of early American music, we look back in time at the early cultural life of our nation and discover the composers who created a uniquely American sound.

Free Concert at Chandor Gardens

Chandor Gardens

Free Concert at Klyde Warren Park

Klyde Warren Park

Step into the dawn of the 20th century, a time of innovation and artistic exploration. This program brings to life the dynamic sounds of a new era. Claude Debussy’s Fêtes captures the shimmering, inventive spirit of French Impressionism, while Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto, featuring pianist Ying Li, blends classical form with American originality. The concert concludes with Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2, a powerful work filled with grandeur and emotional depth, reflecting the hopes and challenges of a rapidly changing world. This concert celebrates the creative revolution that defined the music of the time.

Dawn of the 20th Century: Debussy, Beach & Sibelius

The Maryland Theatre

V: Stravinsky's The Firebird

Tulsa Performing Arts Center

Liszt’s piano concertos challenge even the most virtuosic pianists, and his passionate Second is no exception, traversing the keyboard with knuckle-cramping, breakneck passages that render the player’s hands a blur. Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, a “marvelous, moving” artist (The New York Times) whose “technical finesse borders on the supernatural” (The Seattle Times), is more than equal to the challenge. Buckle up for a wild ride in this virtuoso display! 

Liszt’s Piano Fireworks

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Chicago’s own Deeply Rooted Dance Theater joins us in an unstoppable collaboration, bringing Florence Price’s vibrant Dances in the Canebrakes to life through original choreography—honoring the first Black woman to have her music performed by a major American orchestra.

Still I Rise

Harris Theater

North Central College

Free Concert for Special Needs Students and their Families

Hill School of Fort Worth

Counted among leading string quartets of the younger generation worldwide, Goldmund Quartet was recently named “Rising Stars” (2019-2020) by the European Concert Hall Organisation. The players debut with one of Schubert’s earliest works, unusually homotonal and popular with home musicians.  A notable highlight of Weinberg’s masterful #5 is its highly appealing and contrasting movements. Then pianist Gloria Chien (making her CMH debut) tackles Amy Beach’s landmark quintet which calls the piano to emerge victorious within the intensity of the strings.

Goldmund Quartet with Gloria Chien, piano

Rice University

The always-evolving Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble features musicians from the legendary Met Orchestra in a variety of unique programs. Together, along with special guest artists from the Metropolitan Opera and beyond, they explore a boundless world of chamber music, adapting to fit the instrumental needs of any piece—from all-time classics to hard-to-find hidden gems and standout works by many of today’s significant composers. In this Sunday matinee, they perform works by American composers Caroline Shaw, Copland, Beach, G. Walker, Barber, and John Adams, joined by Yannick Nézet-Séguin as pianist and conductor.

The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble 2026 Concert 4

Carnegie Hall

No emotion is more universal, or more difficult to define, than love. From longing and devotion to betrayal, forgiveness, and renewed commitment, Songs About Love explores the many facets and stages of this complex emotion.

Songs About Love

Pasadena Conservatory of Music

Composers of the 19th century seized upon the violin’s ability to imitate the human voice and go straight to the heart; this program also shows the influence that skillful performers had on these composers and works. From Schubert’s masterful violin-piano duo, to American Amy Beach’s soul-searching Romance dedicated to violinist Maud Powell, to Brahms’s lyrical sonata inspired by his friendship with Joseph Joachim and Clara Schumann, and closing with Mendelssohn’s sonata that went unpublished for over 100 years until its revival by Yehudi Menuhin, the soulful sound of the violin resonates throughout this program.

The Age of Romance

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

An evening of chamber and solo repertoire performed by Guildhall postgraduate string students in an informal and intimate setting.

Postgraduate Strings Concert

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Pianist Jeremy Denk’s programming evokes a sense of “poetic logic” (Boston Classical Review) that has captivated PCMS audiences for decades. For this season’s appearance, Denk illuminates works by nine female composers from past and present.

Jeremy Denk, piano

Alexandra Dariescu has made it her mission to create concert programmes that give underrepresented female composers equal billing with their better-known male colleagues.

Alexandra Dariescu

Southbank Centre

Mihaela Martin, guest violin; Chih-Yi Chen, piano

Auer Hall

A glittering piece that evokes the excitement and sparkle of a lively celebration, Debussy’s Fêtes transports you to a magical world full of movement and light.

Celebration

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

Prokofiev, Gershwin & Beach

Strathmore

The American composer Amy Beach (1867–1944) was widely recognised during her lifetime, but like so many other women composers, she was not given the same opportunities as her male colleagues. Fortunately, her music is now enjoying a well-deserved revival. One example is her exquisite Romance, which was such a success at its premiere – performed by Beach herself together with violinist Maud Powell – that the audience demanded an immediate encore.

Soup with Violin and Piano

Stockholm Concert Hall

Ring in 2026 in style with The Syracuse Orchestra! With a program of rousing music in the Viennese tradition of New Year’s polkas, marches, and waltzes, you’ll be tapping your feet and inviting your neighbor to dance.

Viennese New Year

Inspiration Hall

The Trio Lumina III plays works by Joseph Haydn, Amy Beach and Walter Bricht.

Trio Lumina III @ Young Talents

Wien Museum Haydnhaus

The American Symphony

Heritage Middle School

Although it has been said that Mozart did not particularly appreciate the flute, he nevertheless dedicated to it, in addition to a concerto in which he married it to the harp, a Quartet that does not fit into any box: imitating a theme by Paisiello in the first movement then obeying hilarious indications in a Rondeau noted as "gracefully animated, but not too fast, not too slow either, moreover, like this... like that... with a lot of fire and expression", the flute stands out for its caprices. Emmanuel Pahud delights in it, before defending pieces by the Lyonnais Ferroud and the American Amy Beach.

National Sundays / Emmanuel Pahud

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

What connects all three compositions? The rebellious spirit, the premonition of new times, their courage!

Pioneer Piano Quintet

Das MuTh

Eric Luebke is a fourth year music education student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. As a singer, Eric has performed in the University Opera and in the community of Madison through solo and chamber performances with First United Methodist Church, Madison Youth Choirs, and Just Bach. Eric also plays piano, bass guitar, and percussion, and has worked at the UW–Madison Summer Music Clinic for three consecutive seasons. As a composer, Eric recently premiered his original work, “She Walks in Beauty,” featuring text by Lord Byron, with C8dence, a chamber ensemble at the university.

Eric Luebke – Senior Voice Recital

Hamel Music Center

“Taste What You Hear” as North America’s top concertmasters perform works paired to the finest in wine. Featuring Kansas City Symphony concertmaster Jun Iwasaki and pianist Sean Chen.

Jun Iwasaki & Sean Chen

Fairbanks Ranch Country Club

Take a sweeping musical voyage with Echoes from the Isles: Mendelssohn & Beach, a vibrant evening of orchestral storytelling presented by the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra on Friday, November 14, 2025 at 8pm at the Arts and Culture Centre. Conducted by the ever-charismatic Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser and presented byRed Door Hearing, part of HearingLife, this concert is part of the NSO’s Masterworks Series.

Echoes from the Isles: Mendelssohn & Beach

Memorial University of Newfoundland

This annual event features one of your very own orchestra musicians, co-principal trumpet Eric Baker!

Wts Spotlight

Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center

The Manassas Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of Maestro James Villani, proudly launches its 33rd season with the return of renowned American pianist Thomas Pandolfi.

Last dazzling MSO audiences with Liszt in 2022, Pandolfi returns to the stage to perform Rachmaninoff’s iconic Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. Celebrated by The Washington Post as “a master of both the grand gesture and the sensual line” and lauded by D.C. Metro Arts for his “exhilarating… rare mix of technical accuracy and cool confidence,” Pandolfi promises an evening of unparalleled artistry.

The program includes Alexander Glazunov’s enchanting Autumn from The Seasons and Amy Beach’s trailblazing Gaelic Symphony in E Minor, a cornerstone of American classical music.

Romantic Impressions

Hylton Performing Arts Center

Under the baton of Maestro James Villani, the Manassas Symphony Orchestra proudly launches its 33rd season with the return of renowned American pianist Thomas Pandolfi performing Rachmaninoff’s iconic “Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor.” Celebrated by the Washington Post as “a master of both the grand gesture and the sensual line,” and lauded by D.C. Metro Arts for his “exhilarating...rare mix of technical accuracy and cool confidence,” Pandolfi promises an evening of unparalleled artistry. The program includes Alexander Glazunov’s enchanting “Autumn” from The Four Seasons and Amy Beach’s trailblazing “Gaelic Symphony in E Minor,” a cornerstone of American classical music.

Romantic Impressions With Thomas Pandolfi, piano

Start with J.S. Bach and Mozart, undoubtedly among music’s most well-known composers.  Learn how Mozart (a musical prodigy) inspired Amy Beach, an American prodigy born in 1867, to become the first successful American female composer with her first symphony premiered by the Boston Symphony in 1896.

A Tale of Two Prodigies

Darien Arts Center

This unforgettable evening is rooted in the past—its struggles, its stories, and the ways composers reflect on what came before. We begin with Brahms’ Tragic Overture—a storm of drama and complexity, full of weight and philosophical tension. From there, cellist Tae-Yeon Kim, winner of the Lutosławski Competition and not yet 20, brings lyrical fire to one of the cornerstones of the Cello Repertoire -  Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor. Towering and intimate, this is Romanticism at its most human. The program closes with Amy Beach’s “Gaelic Symphony”—a groundbreaking work rich in lush harmonies and folk-inspired themes. Written as a response to Dvořák’s New World Symphony, Beach chose to honor her own roots, weaving the songs and spirit of Irish immigrants into a sweeping symphonic landscape filled with all that we love about the Romantic Period. It’s music that remembers, reimagines, and reclaims.

Dvořák & Beach

Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium

Demarre McGill is internationally recognized as one of today's most compelling flutists as well as celebrated for his lyrical expressiveness and technical prowess. Currently serving as the principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, McGill has also appeared as a soloist with many of the nation’s leading orchestras. This performance is presented in collaboration with SFCM alumni, faculty, and students.

Chamber Music Tuesday with Demarre McGill

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Mozart joins forces with two twentieth-century composers in this unique programme, united by their inventive sound combinations. Amy Beach’s Theme and Variations exudes Romantic lyricism, while Arthur Bliss’s expressive chamber music sparks vivid imagery with its evocative titles. Mozart’s Oboe Quartet remains a cornerstone of the oboe repertoire, showcasing his flair for chamber music. Experience the distinctive interplay of strings and winds as Antwerp Symphony Orchestra musicians bring these works to life.

Chamber music: Mozart, Beach and Bliss

AMUZ (Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerpen)

“In its beginnings, all music was pure ‘chamber music,’ meaning it was intended for a small space and a small audience.”
Gustav Mahler
The members of our orchestra present chamber music! Hear passionate and finely curated programs in which we combine well-known repertoire with works by female composers that are absolutely worth discovering. Towards a new sense of normality, towards a new, genuine diversity!

Second Chamber Concert

New Town Hall

To parallel our celebrations of Symphony Hall’s 125th anniversary, frequent guest pianist Randall Hodgkinson joins the Chamber Players for a program featuring composers active at the time of the hall’s opening in 1900. Amy Beach and Charles Martin Loeffler were both prominent in Boston’s musical community at the turn of the last century. Charles Koechlin and Camille Saint-Saëns represent two generations of Parisian music, while Mahler (and his younger colleague Schoenberg) were both active in Vienna.

Boston Symphony Chamber Players | Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900

New England Conservatory of Music

Grażyna Bacewicz’s astonishing quartet for four violins starts our season, and the concert concludes with Franz Schubert’s masterful Trout quintet, all performed by Marin Symphony all-stars.

Chamber Music 1: Schubert’s Trout Quintet

Mt. Tamalpais United Methodist Church

Let's celebrate the musical diversity of the Americas together on September 21 with an event full of incredible rhythms and melodies!

Music of the Americas

Maryland Hall

September’s chamber concert will be headlined by acclaimed Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu, who will also appear as soloist in the Orchestra’s season-opening concert the previous evening. The programme presents a diverse selection of solo and chamber music, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach and Clara Schumann to James Lee III and Missy Mazzoli. Audiences will also have the rare opportunity to hear works by lesser-known composers such as Emmy Schäfer Klein and Leokadiya Kashperova. The ERSO Chamber Ensemble will be joined by a chamber arrangement of Wolfgang Amadus Mozart’s well-known Rondo in D major for piano and orchestra. Additional featured composers include Amy Beach, Florence Price, and Nadia Boulanger.

Alexandra Dariescu and Chamber Musicians of the ERSO

Tallinna Muusika- ja Balletikool / MUBA

The HSO Wind Quintet presents a program of American Landscapes:  music of composers Amy Beach, Eric Ewazen, and Valerie Coleman evokes the calm of a New Hampshire forest, the grandeur of the Roaring Fork river in Colorado, and the bluesy southern charm along the Mississippi River.  The program concludes in Michigan, with a piece commissioned and premiered in the state: Samuel Barber’s famous Summer Music.

Free Chamber Music – HSO Wind Quintet

Harderwyk Ministries

Second Reformed Church

JoAnna Farrer is the Concertmaster of the Savannah Philharmonic, and a member of the New Jersey Symphony. She has performed as a soloist with many ensembles, including the GoteborgsSymfoniker, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic. As a concertmaster, she has worked with conductors such as James Conlon, James DePreist, and Lorin Maazel, including performances of Britten’s “The Turn of the Screw” at the Kennedy Center with Maestro Maazel. In previous seasons, Farrer has served as guest concertmaster of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and toured with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and National Arts Centre Orchestra of Canada.

Opening Weekend

Lucas Theatre For the Arts

Set sail on a season of breathtaking music with a concert that sweeps from the stormy seas to the grandeur of the opera stage. Rossini’s William Tell Overture launches the evening with cinematic energy, followed by Amy Beach’s Bal Masqué, a dazzling orchestral dance. Acclaimed baritone Kenneth Overton joins us once again for selections from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro and Don Giovanni, bringing wit, drama, and passion to these operatic masterpieces. Finally, Debussy’s La Mer immerses us in the ever-shifting beauty of the sea, painting an orchestral canvas of movement and light. With sweeping melodies, captivating drama, and a touch of the unexpected, this season opener promises an evening where music dances, waves crash, and imagination soars.

Debussy: La Mer

Converse University

and Amy Beach, one of the first American female composers to reach notoriety. This performance also includes the world premiere of Two Pastorals for Violin and Piano – the ninth of ten works commissioned by Tippet Rise in 2022 from Valentyn Silvestrov, Ukraine’s leading living composer.

Angela Chan, violin; Aubree Oliverson, violin; Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Zlatomir Fung, cello; Chaeyoung Park, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

“The rich diversity of American society has fostered a vibrant tapestry of musical voices, each shaped by their own distinct backgrounds. Michael and I curated this program for violin and piano to celebrate that spirit of innovation and cultural exchange, highlighting works composed during the twentieth century. We begin with Fritz Kreisler’s Praeludium and Allegro, a lush reimagining of Baroque melody. Charles Ives follows with his inventive Violin Sonata no. 4, blending hymns, folk tunes, and bold harmonies to create a vibrantly eclectic soundscape of American life. The first half closes with Ernest Bloch’s Violin Sonata no. 2, Poème mystique, which shifts to a more introspective tone, offering profound emotional depth rooted in his Jewish heritage. The second half opens with John Adams’s Road Movies, a rhythmic portrayal of contemporary life, and continues with Amy Beach’s Romance for Violin and Piano, honoring one of America’s pioneering female composers. We conclude with Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Suite, a brilliant fusion of classical and jazz traditions–a testament to the cultural mosaic of twentieth-century American music.”

Kristin Lee, violin; and Michael Stephen Brown, piano

Menlo School Campus

Experience the "Young Elite" in a personal and immersive way: Two days of Bothmer Music make it possible. Together with foundations, personalities, and academies dedicated to supporting young musicians, the MV Festival selects participants who will present themselves to the public in solo and ensemble concerts in the unique ambience of the baroque palace complex.

Magpie Trio

Schloss Bothmer

In celebration of our 25th season, Best of Boston showcases some of Boston’s most celebrated composers of the past and present, including familiar music by Leonard Bernstein and John Williams, gems by Florence Price and John Harbison, and featuring the Hatch Shell premiere of Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto, a rarely-heard masterpiece.  

The Best of Boston

Hatch Memorial Shell

Mozart, Beach, Schumann

Benaroya Hall

Mary Bevan released her debut solo disc, Voyages, in 2017 (with pianist Joseph Middleton on the Signum label), which explores the music of eminent French composers and the settings they wrote for the poems of Charles Baudelaire. For this recital, Mary revisits her favourite repertoire from Voyages, including songs by Duparc, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, and more, but this time, each song is paired with another by a female composer writing around the same time. In this way, the recital seeks to bring the female composers from out of the shadow of their male counterparts and restore them to their rightful places as composers of equal quality and interest.

TSM presents Bevan & Vignoles

The Royal Conservatory of Music

TMC Chamber Music

Tanglewood Music Center

Celebrate 80 years of musical excellence with the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra.

Join us for a landmark evening as the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra celebrates its 80th Anniversary with a special concert at Victoria Hall.  This event promises a captivating programme that honors our rich musical heritage and showcases exceptional talent.

From Acorn to Oak

Victoria Hall

This delightful piece for NTSO Strings captures the essence of summer. Kenneth Atkins’ arrangement brings a fresh orchestral perspective to Beach’s original work.

Summertime

Central Commons

After two musical bicycle tours, the journey isn't over yet: The French chamber orchestra Les Forces Majeures hops from their bikes onto the stage and rounds off their visit to our region with a concert in Bietigheim. The musicians also continue the themes of travel and mobility dramaturgically, selecting suitable works by mostly French composers: With Poulenc, we travel by train and on foot; with Haydn, Debussy, and Ravel, we continue on a boat; Schumann whisks us away into the forest; and Josef Strauss dances a bicycle polka with us. Whether on foot, at sea, or on wheels: Les Forces Majeures are bustling and inspire a spirit of mobilization and departure—literally and figuratively.

Major Forces

Old winery

This program offers an intimate journey through the heart of chamber music, blending Romantic lyricism and classical elegance. Glière’s Ten Duos for Two Cellos highlights a rich interplay of resonant melodies between the two instruments. Amy Beach’s Romance for Violin and Piano envelops listeners in lush, lyrical beauty, while Schumann’s Märchenbilder paints a series of fantastical scenes for viola and piano. The program concludes with Beethoven’s Piano Quartet in E-flat major, a work that embodies both balance and charm. It marks a transitional moment in Beethoven’s career, bridging the Classical elegance of his early works with the bold, expressive style that would define his Romantic-era compositions.

Chamber Music Festival of the Bluegrass Concert I

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill

Conducting students from all piano classes at the Institute for Music Conducting will play piano concertos and conduct each other.

Piano Concertos Joint Venture

University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

Amy Beach rose to prominence as a composer with her “Gaelic” Symphony, a work which celebrates diverse legacies in America.

The OSM Performs Rachmaninoff and Amy Beach

Place des Arts

Join us for an exquisite chamber music concert titled "Mendelssohn, Barber, and Music for Two Pianists," featuring the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Music Director Robert Spano, with the talented Pedja Mužijević as a guest artist. This event promises an afternoon of enchanting melodies and sophisticated harmonies, showcasing the brilliance of Felix Mendelssohn, the evocative tones of Samuel Barber, and the innovative compositions for two pianists by Ligeti, Debussy, and Amy Beach.

**Event Details:**

- **Date and Time:** Sunday, May 4, 2025, at 3:00 PM
- **Location:** Kimbell Art Museum
- **Program:**
  - MENDELSSOHN: Octet in E-flat Major, Op. 20
  - BARBER: Summer Music, Op. 31
  - DEBUSSY: En blanc et noir
- **Featured Artists:** Robert Spano and Pedja Mužijević

**Overview:**
Felix Mendelssohn, a child prodigy often compared to Mozart, composed his Octet at the tender age of 16, a piece that combines youthful exuberance with a mature and sophisticated style. This piece, particularly known for its Faust-inspired scherzo, helped launch Mendelssohn's international career. Samuel Barber's "Summer Music" adds a hazy, atmospheric quality to the program, while the pieces for two pianists by Ligeti, Debussy, and Amy Beach will showcase the exceptional synergy between Robert Spano and Pedja Mužijević.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the magic of chamber music performed by world-class musicians in the beautiful setting of the Kimbell Art Museum.

Mendelssohn, Barber, and music for two pianists

Kimbell Art Museum

Pianist Audrey Vardanaga joins strings from the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra bringing music from the Romantic period, including Amy Beach's stunning Piano Quintet.

Songs Without Words (Brainerd)

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

Founded in 2001, Meta4 is one of Finland’s most celebrated string quartets. Their Polarkr(e)is Drifting North program explores works from the sound worlds of the Arctic Circle, from the Inuit themes of American composer Amy Beach’s String Quartet, to works of their fellow Finns Kaija Saarhiaho and Jean Sibelius, paired with Italo-Indian composer Krishna Nagaraja’s Stringar, a piece that combines old and new through Nordic folk dance tunes.

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Events

Upcoming events

Apr 24 - Jun 19, 2026

Concertini · La Monnaie / De Munt

May 13, 2026

Orli Shaham Plays Dvořák & Beach · Orchestra of St. Luke's

May 15, 2026

Clara Kim, violin · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

16 - 17 May, 2026

Rachmaninov with Alexander Melnikov · Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

May 17, 2026

Escher Quartet w. Brandon Patrick George · Chamber Music San Francisco

Past events

May 8, 2026

American Chamber Music · Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

May 2, 2026

Randall Goosby, Violin Zhu Wang, Piano · Peoples' Symphony Concerts

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