Composer

Lyrical and virtuosic in equal measure, Mendelssohn’s only Violin Concerto has long been one of the best-loved works in the classical repertoire.

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Benedetti

Southbank Centre

Royal Northern Sinfonia join Huddersfield Choral Society, conductor Gregory Batsleer and four dazzling singers on stage at Huddersfield Town Hall.

Mendelssohn's Elijah

Huddersfield Town Hall

Inspired by Handel’s Messiah, Mendelssohn’s Elijah is a towering creation of exquisite music for voices and orchestra.

Mendelssohn’s Elijah with Bryn Terfel

Sydney Opera House

French composer Cécile Chaminade composed over four hundred works in the shadows of her contemporaries Brahms and Saint-Saëns, yet her music was so popular that “Chaminade Clubs” sprang up in the United States during her lifetime. Debussy’s early trio, also overtly Romantic, is offered as a companion work, with both trios now increasingly heard in concert halls around the world. 

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Grand Rapids, MI 

St. Cecilia Music Center

Elim Chan conducts a quartet of works that delve into the great unknown: Choral works by Brahms and Arvo Pärt lay a meditative foundation, while Renaud Capuçon regales us with the lustrous melodies and glittering pyrotechnics of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony cloaks Nuclear Age anxiety in dark orchestral splendor.

Elim Chan Conducts Adams and Mendelssohn

Davies Symphony Hall

Elim Chan conducts the Symphony in a stunning quartet of works that delve into the great unknown. In Nänie, Brahms memorializes a beloved friend with a poignant choral funeral song, transforming sorrowful resignation into humble gratitude. Renaud Capuçon regales us with the lustrous melodies, vibrant textures, and glittering pyrotechnics of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Arvo Pärt’s shimmering a cappella Magnificat exemplifies the tintinnabuli style, which the composer invented and named after the bell-like resonance produced by a triad. John Adams’s Doctor Atomic Symphony, a condensed instrumental version of his 2005 opera, cloaks Nuclear Age anxiety in dark orchestral splendor.

Come behind the scenes as Chief Conductor Simone Young prepares the Orchestra, Sydney Philharmonia Choirs and this world-class cast of soloists to perform Mendelssohn’s powerful oratorio Elijah.

Open Rehearsal with Simone Young

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal and its brilliant music director Rafael Payare step onto the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage with Shostakovich’s powerful, energetic, and darkly intense Tenth Symphony.

Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal with Rafael Payare

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Nature, itself rich in sound, has always found its way into music – as onomatopoeic imitations of thunder, the lapping of water, or birdsong, but also as an expression of inner "feeling" in the face of its sublime beauty, power, and menace. In the grand opening concert, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra and Music Director Daniel Hope dedicate themselves to the work that stands out among musical depictions of nature like the highest mountain peak: Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral ." Beethoven masterfully gives expression to this inner experience of nature without merely "painting" it in sound, even when he has the nightingale, quail, and cuckoo imitated.

Saisoneröffnung mit Daniel Hope

Tonhalle Zurich

If Mahler’s first three world-encapsulating symphonies come from an adult’s point of view, his fourth wonders how a child’s perspective might be different. But the childhood dreams Mahler weaves are not all naïve. Though we eventually arrive at Mahler’s childlike vision of heaven – In Das himmlische Leben, the part he composed first – menace and terror are present too.

Mahler Symphony No. 4

The Bridgewater Hall

When Franz Liszt saw that the language of music was changing, he felt that forms should change, too. His Second Piano Concerto is constructed in six musical scenes. After Simon Trpčeski brings them to life, hear how Mendelssohn quotes Martin Luther in a symphony written to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession.

Haydn and Liszt

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

Anton Bruckner dismissed his Symphony in F minor as a mere “student work”. Yet it is far more than that. The first symphony he completed, it reveals a composer setting out with extraordinary ambition – yet it was never performed during his lifetime. For conductor Simone Young, it testifies to Bruckner’s hope of establishing himself as one of the great symphonists of the 19th century: “It promises that perseverance and dedication to one’s calling will ultimately prevail.” This will be the symphony’s first performance by the BRSO. The concert will open with Bach’s Ricercar a 6 in Anton Webern’s colourful orchestral arrangement. In between the two works will be one of the great classics of the repertoire, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor – performed by Augustin Hadelich, whose intensity and sensitivity have established him as one of the outstanding violinists of our time.

Simone Young & Augustin Hadelich

Munich Residence

Featuring restless arpeggios, furious tremolos, and a passage of warm, hymn-like chords, Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio No. 2 is a challenge for its performers and a delight for its listeners. Even the composer admitted it’s “a trifle nasty to play!”

Mendelssohn & Brahms

Denmark’s NOVO Quartet, founded in 2018, won international plaudits by taking top prizes at the Geneva, Heidelberg, Carl Nielsen and Trondheim competitions. It joined the latest crop of BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists in 2025 and confirmed its status among the top rank of young ensembles with a superb debut recording of works by Shostakovich, Matias Vestergård and Nielsen. ‘The Novo have already made their mark in Scandinavia’, noted Gramophone. ‘Judging from this album, it won’t be long before they are doing the same in the rest of Europe and beyond.’

NOVO Quartet

Wigmore Hall

In a program where music evolves from work to work, all roads lead to Mendelssohn, who assimilated and combined the best of his predecessors during the midst of the Romantic era. The wit of Haydn, the strength of Beethoven, and the lyricism of Schubert all found a home in Mendelssohn’s prolific pen. Join us for an exciting journey from the elegant Age of Reason into the turbulent 19th century. 

Mendelssohn's B-minor Piano Quartet

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

“Celebrate the opening of the 50th anniversary season of Chamber Music Rochester with a radiant program spanning generations of string masterworks, from the shimmering elegance of Richard Strauss’s Capriccio Sextet to the vibrant lyricism of young Spanish composer Javier Martínez Campos’s Serenata para Cuerdas. The afternoon concert culminates in the exuberant brilliance of Felix Mendelssohn’s beloved Octet, one of the most thrilling and joyous works in all chamber music.”

The Marvelous Mr. Mendelssohn

Glazer Music Performance Center

Valo Quartet was launched in 2022 by Maria Włoszczowska, Artistic Partner of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and three colleagues from the UK and Finland. Named for the Finnish word for ‘light’, it is known for performances hallmarked by arresting intensity and luminosity. Its programme includes the UK première of Soisin by Finnish composer Minna Leinonen, a short work that evokes the mysterious swamps of her homeland, and the teenaged Mendelssohn’s Op. 13, inspired by thoughts of romantic love.

Valo Quartet

In a program where music evolves from work to work, all roads lead to Mendelssohn, who assimilated and combined the best of his predecessors during the midst of the Romantic era. The wit of Haydn, the strength of Beethoven, and the lyricism of Schubert all found a home in Mendelssohn’s prolific pen. Join us for an exciting journey from the elegant Age of Reason into the turbulent 19th century.

Madison, NJ

Drew University

We’re “Rach”-ing the stage. Jessie Montgomery’s Banner kicks things off with a bold, thought-provoking take on a familiar anthem. Then it’s all eyes on Orchestra Iowa Concertmaster Julia Sakharova as she lights up the stage in Mendelssohn’s electrifying Violin Concerto. Lastly, Rachmaninov’s Symphony No. 3 brings big, bold, beautifully dramatic melodies to an already unforgettable musical experience.

Masterworks II – Symphony No. 3

Paramount Theatre Iowa

The University of Iowa School of Music - Voxman Building

Masterworks II – Symphony No. 3 (Paramount Theatre)

Bertrand Chamayou – Piano recital

Rudolfinum

Step into a world of romance, wit, and enchantment with Shakespeare and Love, where music brings the Bard’s most beloved stories to life. From the sparkling magic of A Midsummer Night’s Dream Overture to the passion and drama of Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466—featuring acclaimed pianist Adam Golka—this program weaves together humor, heartache, and timeless love. Suites inspired by Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing complete an evening of elegance, charm, and theatrical delight.

Shakespeare & Love

Butler University

An evening in the spirit of humanism. The Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra present three generations of composers in a magnificent evening of organ, choir and soloists. The finale is Mendelssohn’s spectacular Lobgesang.

Songs of Hope and Joy

Göteborgs Konserthus

Wynton Marsalis is America’s jazz ambassador. Always expanding his compositional language, Marsalis’ Violin Concerto* has become a work taken up by several outstanding artists.  And you'll never forget the night Kelly Hall-Tompkins played this piece in Nashville. It’s a work rooted in swing, blues, and the American fiddle tradition that sounds like nothing else. Hall-Tompkins, acclaimed by the New York Times as "the versatile violinist who makes the music come alive," brings her signature lyricism and verve to this performance. 

The Three Ms: Marsalis, Mozart, and Mendelssohn

Shermerhorn Symphony Center

Apart from its vivid, romantic melodies, what makes Felix Mendelssohn’s Overture to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” a remarkable work is the composer was just 17 and a half years old when he wrote it, making it the most youthful work in the orchestral repertoire that’s regularly heard today. Arnold Schoenberg and Ludwig van Beethoven, conversely, both were 32 and at turning points in their development when they made their contributions to this program. Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 for just 15 musicians not only was his first effort for chamber orchestra, it also came at a pivotal stage in his transition from late-Romantic to atonal music. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 – bold and energetic with touches of humor – was one of his final pieces in a purely classical style. Though the optimistic and innovative work has hints of Haydn and Mozart, it also foreshadows the Beethoven yet to come.

Mendelssohn & Beethoven’s 2nd Symphony

Musical Instrument Museum

Arielle Beck was named Revelation Instrumental Soloist of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique 2026. She embodies a new generation of prodigies; after winning First Prize at the International Jeune Chopin Competition (with Martha Argerich as president) at the age of 9, she got into the Paris Conservatoire when she was 14, making her one of the most promising young pianists of her generation. Her virtuosic recital, mixing German and French Romanticism with Russian music, is perfectly fit to her talent and maturity.

Arielle Beck

Opéra National De Lyon

Artistic Partner Maria Włoszczowska joins Royal Northern Sinfonia to kick off a brand new season at the Fire Station.

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto

The Fire Station, Sunderland

The string quartet can be considered the principal formation of chamber music, ever since the writing for four solo strings became the real test on which the leading composers measured themselves in the second half of the 18th century.

Mendelssohn, Haydn, Mozart: String Quartets

Gaetano Donizetti Theater

Maestro John Mason Hodges opens the landmark 55th season with a full-orchestra program of European color and warmth, joined by the Marjorie Stricklin Emerging Artist Competition winner.

Italian Journey

Church of the Redeemer West Monroe

The Pulitzer prize-winning composer reveals all facets of her dynamic musicianship in this collaboration with the Grammy winning New York Quartet.

Attacca Quartet with Caroline Shaw: Sing On

Milton Court Concert Hall

Camerata at Forty. Programme: Chris Walden "More to Come" (commissioned work of the Förderverein 2026); Astor Piazzolla (arr. Christian Gerber) "Piazzolla Concertant" for quartet and string orchestra; Gioachino Rossini Overture to "The Barber of Seville"; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Symphony No. 4 "Italian" in A major op. 90. Conductor: Gianluca Febo.

More to Come – Camerata at Forty

Laeiszhalle Hamburg

The concert opens with one of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s symphonies from his youth, which still points back to the composer’s great role model – Mozart. And because our orchestra has extensive experience with them, we can expect a virtuoso experience. The counterpoint will be Bartók’s popular Romanian Folk Dances from Transylvania. The innovative dramaturgical treat of the evening will be the lesser-known works of our composers Antonín Dvořák and Leoš Janáček, which can be heard when next to one another.

Ludmila Pavlová

Prague Conservatory

Sol Gabetta, among the most eloquent of all advocates for Felix Mendelssohn’s cello works, devotes the first half of her recital with Kristian Bezuidenhout to music composed in the mid-1800s. Robert Schumann stipulated that his poetic Fantasiestücke, conceived for clarinet, could also be played on the cello, thereby adding three engrossing pieces to the instrument’s Romantic repertoire. The duo crowns its programme with the compelling dialogue of Brahms’s lyrical Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor Op. 38.

Sol Gabetta cello; Kristian Bezuidenhout piano

Pekka Kuusisto returns to the ACO after nearly a decade to direct music from four prodigious talents. Kuusisto is an artist unbound by convention, who embodies an artistic freedom that is unexpected and thrilling. As a renowned virtuoso and boundary-crossing composer, he pushes the limits of performance into exciting new realms, championing contemporary music with an openness and warmth that captivates audiences.

Pekka Kuusisto: Legends & Luminaries

ACO On The Pier

An evening celebrating the beauty, elegance, and versatility of the harp and orchestra.

Led by Dr. Jane K. Brown, the concert features renowned harp soloist Marina Roznitovsky Oster and the world premieres of the completed orchestral versions of the Paraguayan harp works Iguazú and Una Luz en el Mar by Alfredo Rolando Ortiz, orchestrated by Tyler Emerson.

The program will also include Handel’s Concerto in B-flat Major for Harp and Orchestra, Debussy’s Danses sacrée et profane, Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 1 in C Major, and more.

EFFERVESCENCE! Harp & Strings

Castro Valley Center for the Arts

Gade's Violin Concerto is a truly fantastic work – and a truly fantastic Danish work. Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay is both soloist and conductor in the concert, and he also conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 and leads Mendelssohn's Sinfonia No. 10 from the concertmaster's chair.

Tchaikovsky 5

Musikhuset Aarhus

Niels W. Gade's violin concerto is delightful and light – a lesson in uncomplicated melodiousness. Zsolt-Tihamér Visontay is both soloist and conductor in the concert, and he also conducts Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony and leads Mendelssohn's 10th Sinfonia from the concertmaster's chair.

Aarhus Music Hall

The overture to Don Giovanni was reportedly written the night before the opera’s premiere. According to the story, Mozart composed it in one evening while his wife helped keep him awake by telling him stories.

Paving the Way

Whitman College

This season, our Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles series is dedicated to Ludwig van Beethoven; 2027 marks the 200th anniversary of his death. Beethoven’s “Große Fuge” is a work of astonishing modernity and expressive power – qualities that many of his contemporaries found bewildering. Yet the work left a profound impression on the young Felix Mendelssohn: shortly after Beethoven’s death, the 18-year-old composed his Opus 13, in which he repeatedly alludes to the music of his great predecessor, including the Große Fuge. The programme opens with Beethoven in a lighter mood – with the Serenade in D major and the Duet with Two Obligato Eyeglasses.

Berliner Philharmoniker Ensembles

Berliner Philharmonie

Experience the vibrant energy of Quinn Mason’s A Joyous Trilogy, a fresh and uplifting opening to the season. Violinist Eunice Kim brings brilliance and lyricism to Mendelssohn’s beloved Violin Concerto. The evening culminates in Tchaikovsky’s powerful Symphony No. 6, a masterpiece of emotional depth and dramatic intensity.

Mendelssohn & Tchaik

Indiana State University

An impressive title role and magnificent choirs – from the mighty “Help, Lord!” to the famous double quartet “For he has commanded his angels” to the final chorus “Then your light will shine”: With his “Elijah,” Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed what is arguably the most important Romantic oratorio, one that still casts its timeless spell over us today.

Monastery Church of the Assumption of Mary, Aldersbach

Blaibach Concert Hall

Superstar violinist Hilary Hahn takes the stage with Giancarlo Guerrero and the San Francisco Symphony in a celebratory program to open the new season.

Opening Gala with Hilary Hahn

Hailed as a “skilled and stylish player” (The American Organist magazine), Nicole Keller serves as Chair of the Department of Organ at the School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan. She has earned a reputation for colorful, virtuosic performances praised by audiences and presenters alike. Ms. Keller has performed in historic venues including St. Patrick Cathedral, New York; Cathédrale Notre-Dame, Paris; Dom St. Stephan, Passau; St. Patrick Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland; and The Kazakh National University for the Arts, Astana, Kazakhstan.

Nicole Keller, organ

Groton Hill Music Center

Piteå stråkkvartett presents three string quartets by Mozart, Mendelssohn and Borodin.

Eine kleine Nachtmusik

Sara kulturhus

Four decades of musical excellence: 40 years ago, on 14 September 1986, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall opened its doors – with a programme featuring Romantic classics and contemporary music.

Anniversary concert Cologne Philharmonic Hall

Cologne Philharmonie

Four decades of musical excellence: 40 years ago, on September 14, 1986, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall was opened – with a program of romantic classics and contemporary music.

Anniversary concert - 40 years of the Cologne Philharmonic

Friendship and common bonds of artistic curiosity and empathy unite the outstandingly fine players of Trio Zadig. The Paris-based ensemble, who recently received a coveted five-star review from Diapason magazine for its Mendelssohn Legacy album, opens with an impassioned miniature by Lili Boulanger before traversing two mighty four-movement works from the 1840s, Robert Schumann’s intensely romantic Piano Trio No. 1 and Felix Mendelssohn’s dramatic Piano Trio in C minor.

Trio Zadig

Allegro vivace ed impetuoso. Andante misurato. A little more lively. Allegro vivace assai con grande forza. Slower. A little more lively. A little more animated. Più mosso

Hérold/Donizetti/De Falla/Mendelssohn

Villa Piccolo - Fondazione Famiglia Piccolo Di Calanovella

Proudly bringing the next generation of exceptional talent to northern Michigan! Experience the brilliance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major, featuring the Gilmore Young Artist Elliot Wuu.

Ravel & Mendelssohn

John M. Hall Auditorium

Allegro vivace ed impetuoso. Andante misurato. A little more lively. Allegro vivace assai con grande forza. Slower. A little more lively. A little more animated. Più lively.

The program opened with an unexpected Vivaldi: his Concerto for Two Cellos RV 531 , reimagined for cello (Cyrille Tricoire De Haro) and bassoon (Rodolphe Bernard). A rare dialogue between two instruments, between Baroque virtuosity and the complicity of the soloists. Mendelssohn then unfolded the legend of La Belle Mélusine , a fairy-tale overture with melodious waves. Ravel, with his Menuet antique , revived the grace of a bygone era, while Debussy, in Nuages ​​(from the Nocturnes ), suspended the sky in its luminous grays. As a grand finale, Mozart's "Haffner" Symphony burst forth in vibrant fanfares and majestic dances. A night of stars, breaths, and strings.

Under the stars

Agora Theatre

Jordi Savall, the winner of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 2026, has made a substantial contribution to shedding new light on repertoire from the Classical and Romantic periods with his magnificent original-sound orchestra Le Concert des Nations. His intensely trenchant and sharply focused interpretations have produced incredible performances of symphonic works by Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann and Bruckner which can hardly be surpassed. Following the homage to Jordi Savall organised by the Berliner Philharmoniker Foundation during the season 2025/26, the visionary conductor who is renowned for his meticulous approach will be presenting an evening of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Musikfest Berlin featuring the “Scottish” and “Italian” symphonies alongside his overture The Hebrides.

Le Concert des Nations

Berliner Philharmoniker

Mendelssohn’s evocative Scottish Symphony caps this concert which also features brand new music inspired by Maggi Hambling’s art as she marks her eightieth year, alongside the exuberant Dances of Galánta by Kodály.

Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony

Snape Maltings

The American Chamber Music Society is deeply invested in inspiring and connecting with our local community. As one of the most intimate classical music experiences in Chicago, it is our honor to enrich our culture by performing repertoire ranging from centuries ago to the present, providing a variety of educational opportunities and offering tickets at a discounted price. There is nothing like sitting a few feet away from the best musicians in the world, especially when many of them are from your home town. I am confident the diverse and innovative programming of our events will leave you moved, exhilarated, and eager to return.

AMERICAN CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY with REED TETZLOFF, piano

Maverick Concert Hall

The Bard is back at the historic bandshell in Centennial Park! Magic, mischief, and moonlight fill the Athenian forest in this joyful tangle of love, laughter, and theatrical mayhem. When mischievous fairies meddle with runaway lovers and an unsuspecting troupe of amateur actors, dreams blur with reality and anything can happen. Full of wonder, whimsy, and enchantment, A Midsummer Night’s Dream is Shakespeare at his most playful. This production is sure to delight audiences of all ages!

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Centennial Park Bandshell

The renowned Dover Quartet, named by BBC Music Magazine as one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years, makes its first appearance of the season on this two-work program, which includes Mendelssohn’s last chamber music work—the passionate String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80, which the composer wrote while consumed with grief over the sudden loss of his beloved sister Fanny and just two months before his own sudden death at the age of 38. The Dover also plays the less-well-known but also powerful String Quartet No. 4 by the 20th-century Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, who saw her reputation grow after World War II. The quartet is at once forward-looking (a stance Bacewicz was firmly dedicated to) and folkloristic.

Dover Quartet

New Mexico Museum of Art

Felix Mendelssohn celebrated as a Romantic composer, virtuoso performer and early modern conductor. Program includes Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, selected Songs Without Words, and String Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20.

Composer Focus: Mendelssohn – The Master Architect

Akershus slottskirke

Chamber music by Shulamit Ran, Brahms - and the Mendelssohn Octet.

Sweet and Spicy

Lincoln City Cultural Center

This is the first of three concerts devoted to Mendelssohn's music, with young musicians from the string quartet Opus13, pianist Elisabeth Brauß and clarinetist Pablo Barragán.

Composer Focus: Mendelssohn – The Child Prodigy and the Virtuoso

Akershus festning

Second concert in the Composer Focus: Mendelssohn series, celebrating Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn, with works by Bach and Mendelssohn siblings.

Composer Focus: Mendelssohn – The Poets and the Music

Murten Classics: Bitte um Frieden

Schloss Murten

The annual tradition of opera at the Grand Teton Music Festival continues with an evening of arias, duets and orchestral interludes from none other than Giacomo Puccini, featuring soprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Daniel Luis Espinal.

Festival Orchestra Finale: Night at the Opera

Jackson Hole High School

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look as Sir Donald Runnicles and the orchestra rehearse for the weekend Festival Orchestra concerts with soprano Eleni Calenos and tenor Daniel Luis Espinal.

Open Rehearsal: Night at the Opera

Landmarks’ 25th Anniversary season concludes with a celebratory program featuring Saint-Saëns’ majestic “Organ Symphony” and Beethoven’s triumphant Leonore Overture No. 3. Presented in partnership with the Esplanade Association, the concert also includes Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides, setting the stage for an unforgettable evening of music in this jewel of a public park.

Organ Symphony & Fountains of Rome

Hatch Memorial Shell

The 1036th Subscription Concert in Bunkamura Orchard Hall

Bunkamura

At the Château de l'Empéri, Buffet Crampon unveils Seo Yebin, a shining light of the Korean school, in a journey of youth and discovery from Yun to Beethoven and then Mendelssohn.

_20. Buffet Crampon Presents Yebin Seo

Château de l'Empéri

Keen-eyed observers will notice a common thread running through this summer’s program. Four composers feature throughout: Haydn, Mendelssohn, Shostakovich, and Jon Deak. Together, they paint a broad, if not comprehensive, history of classical music. Josef Haydn (1732 – 1809), widely acknowledged as the inventor of both the symphony and the string quartet, codified much of the classical era. Felix Mendelssohn (1809 – 1847) was a true romantic and wore his heart on his sleeve. Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 – 1975) typified the complexities and contradictions of the 20th Century, his music touching upon emotions like irony or despair. Finally, Jon Deak (b. 1943), our Composer-in-Residence, has, in his unique and very 21st Century manner, blurred the line between music and theater.

Piano Recital

St. Paul’s Church

Piano recital by Vincent Ong, laureate of the 2025 International Chopin Piano Competition. Program: Bartók, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev.

6 p.m. Recital: Vincent Ong

Parc de Florans

Schubert's The Trout, perhaps the most beloved chamber music piece in the world.

The Trout at the Abbey

Abbaye de Montmajour

The 176th Subscription Concert in Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall

Tokyo Opera City Tower

Louis Langrée leads a lyrical night of Austrian and German delights, including Mendelssohn’s ingenious Violin Concerto with Marc Bouchkov.

Mendelssohn & Haydn

Hollywood Bowl

Château Populaire, at the Château de l'Empéri: did you know that von Weber was the cousin of Constance, Mozart's wife?

Château Populaire

Music Director Sir Donald Runnicles celebrates his home islands with two distinct visions of Great Britain. Violinist Maria Ioudenitch makes her GTMF debut with Mendelssohn’s “jewel of the heart,” the moving Violin Concerto.

Festival Orchestra: Melodies of Britain

Enjoy a behind-the-scenes look as Sir Donald Runnicles and the orchestra rehearse for the weekend Festival Orchestra concerts with violinist Maria Ioudenitch.

Composer

Felix Mendelssohn

Events

Upcoming events

Oct 17 - Dec 12, 2026

Madison, NJ · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Oct 29, 2026 - Apr 22, 2027

Grand Rapids, MI · Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Nov 5, 2026

Study Concert - Organ · The Royal Danish Academy of Music

Nov 7, 2026

Music From the Mind’s Eye – Concert Time May Change · Salt Lake Symphony Orchestra

Nov 8, 2026

Timeless Melodies · WV Symphony Orchestra - Parkersburg

Past events

Nov 1, 2026

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Benedetti · Southbank Centre

Oct 31, 2026

Mendelssohn's Elijah · Royal Northern Sinfonia

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