Composer

Praised by The Washington Post for combining “staggering technical prowess, a sense of command, and depth of expression,” pianist George Li showcases his effortless grace and brilliant virtuosity in a recital featuring a selection of picturesque masterpieces. 

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TSM presents George Li

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Experience the virtuosity of Interlochen Arts Camp’s youngest students! Enjoy a selection of concerti, sonatas, and other classical works by junior string and piano students.

Junior Honors Recital

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Anaïs Feller, from San Diego, a student of Midori, is the Tobe Amsterdam Fellow and entered Curtis in 2023.

Broadcast: Ponce, Beethoven, Schumann, and more

Extraordinary alumni and faculty from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music perform audience favorites – from beloved melodies from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs to pieces by Brahms, Liszt, and Schumann. Don’t miss these thrilling performances by current and future leading artists – mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, pianist Hanchien Lee, and Curtis President and violist Roberto Díaz.

Music of Gershwin, Britten, and more

St. Paul’s Church of Nantucket

Mozart, Beach, Schumann

Benaroya Hall

Schubert, who died young, had no idea while composing this sonata that it would be his penultimate piano sonata. Yet the A major sonata stands out for its poetic – some say prescient – ​​otherness. The piano recital begins accordingly lyrically and sensitively. Schumann's impetuous and sensitive Davidsbündlertänze glide and leap across the keyboard in rich contrast, ultimately evolving into exuberant Lisztian virtuosity. The Russian pianist Arcadi Volodos presents his three-part recital in the Forum am Schlosspark, with which he recently thrilled the Salzburg Festival audience, with a consummate performance. "Volodos wouldn't be Volodos if Liszt's sinfully difficult musical text weren't too easy for him. He needs his own, even more difficult version," says BR-Klassik, describing the keyboardist. In addition to his technical brilliance, for which he has been celebrated since the early 1990s, he also knows how to sensitively bring out the romantic nuances.

Arcadi Volodos

Forum at the Castle Park

2nd Festival Chamber Concert: Great Piano Quintet

Munich Residence

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its tenth anniversary. Get this year’s hottest ticket, featuring beloved chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine.

Summer Evenings I

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Fatma Said & Fazil Say

Nikolaikirche

It’s always exciting to catch a star on the rise, and at just 20 years of age Eva Gevorgyan is a phenomenon.

Eva Gevorgyan in Recital

City Recital Hall

Daniele Gatti brings his Schumann cycle to a close with the »Rhenish« symphony. The premiere in February 1851 was an unmitigated triumph; indeed, the work became the composer’s most popular piece during his lifetime. Some two years later, one of the most significant meetings in music history took place when the 20-year-old Johannes Brahms from Hamburg introduced himself to Schumann, then aged 43. The latter was moved to pick up his pen once again to praise his young colleague in the article »Neue Bahnen« (New Pathways). For many years this paean became something of an albatross for Brahms. But as a mature composer, he more than fulfilled the lofty prophecies with extraordinary works such as the violin concerto from 1878.

12th Symphony Concert

Semperoper Dresden

Danish cellist Jonathan Swensen—the recipient of multiple international awards, including the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant—will showcase his talent in the neoclassical brick church in the village of Nossentin. He will be accompanied by fellow Danish cellist Elias Holm. The Danish duo's program will take them on a journey through music history: from Johann Sebastian Bach to Ludwig van Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and Dmitri Shostakovich, they will perform significant works from the cello repertoire.

YOUNG ELITE Jonathan Swensen

Kirche Nossentin

At the chamber music evenings with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his musician friends, you'll get closer to the artists than ever before. The rows of chairs are arranged directly around the musicians on the Festspielhaus stage: This allows you to watch Yannick Nézet-Séguin's fingers as he sits down at the piano (a rare occurrence in public!). The program includes Schumann's Piano Quartet, whose slow movement is considered one of the most beautiful works of the Romantic period. Songs by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will then be performed.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin & Friends

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Surrounded by the ancient walls of the historic Eberbach Monastery, this evening will feature a selection of the most romantic piano works in music history. From Beethoven's melancholic "Moonlight Sonata" to the delicate sounds of Clara Schumann's First Romance and Brahms' lyrical Intermezzi – this program will make the heart of every piano lover beat faster. Few are better suited to deliver this soulful performance than pianist, conductor, and composer Fabian Müller, who has been a part of the festival family for several years. With intimacy and pianistic brilliance, the ARD Competition winner presents this program as part of a romantic piano night in the atmospheric setting of the Eberbach cloister.

Romantic piano night

Eberbach Abbey

Chamber Concert No. 10

Historisches Rathaus Jena

Robert Schumann's Violin Concerto is characterized by turbulent emotions. This gives the music an incredible appeal. The composer himself was never able to experience the impressive impact of his work, as the concerto was not premiered until many decades after his early death. This meant that he was fatefully linked to his role model Franz Schubert: Schumann himself initiated the premiere of his so-called "Great" Symphony in C major - unfortunately long after the composer's death. With its depth and heartfelt and radiant sounds, Schubert's symphony became an innovative inspiration for romantic composers such as Robert Schumann.

8th Symphony Concert: Connectedness

Opernplatz

A protégé of András Schiff, this Hungarian pianist’s poetic musicianship has led to multiple appearances on our Schenectady series. He plays Czech and German masterworks for his only North American recital appearance in 2025.

Zoltán Fejérvári, piano Tannery Pond

Darrow School

Experience the pure brilliance of the most adored pianist of our time in this special solo recital.

Lang Lang in Recital

Arts Centre Melbourne

Lang Lang is a global phenomenon. He has performed for presidents, monarchs and on stage at the Grammy Awards, and now returns to Sydney for this very special recital.

Sydney Opera House

Under the Italian sun: Every year the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra heads south, more precisely to Montepulciano - a picturesque little town near Siena. At the local Academy of Music and Performing Arts, the musicians study selected chamber music works, which are then presented to the Duisburg audience after returning home: the result of a concentrated rehearsal phase in a unique environment, made possible by the generous support of the Friends and Sponsors of the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra. With Hugo Wolf's "Italian Serenade", a work is on the program this time that couldn't be more fitting. Complemented by string quartets by Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Montepulciano

Theater Duisburg

Festival Finale

Sarasota Opera House

Since 2019, Evgeni Bozhanov has been a professor at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen - in addition to his international career as a pianist - where he looks after the keyboard stars of tomorrow. The Bulgarian pianist, who has won the international Frédéric Chopin Competition in Varna, among other things, is now putting on a duo evening with one of these promising talents, his master student Hao Tian. Hao Tian, ​​who was born in China in 2002, can already look back on a number of successes in international competitions himself and joined Evgeni Bozhanov's master class in Essen in 2022. For the Piano Extra II, he has chosen two touchstones of piano literature. Robert Schumann's "Carnaval", for example, which is one of the composer's most important piano cycles. After the turbulent scenes of a masked ball in Schumann's Opus 9, Alexander Scriabin's two-movement sonata takes us out to sea: in the first movement of the "Sonata-Fantaisie" composed in Genoa, the composer evokes a calm evening atmosphere with nighttime moonlight, after which it becomes stormy - in the ocean whipped up by wave-like triplets.

Evgeni Bozhanov & Hao Tian

Philharmonie Mercatorhalle

Symphony Orchestra in the Palace

Tonhalle Düsseldorf

Sometimes you can say: more is more! Nine ensembles from the Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra perform well-known and lesser-known gems of chamber music. From duos to octets, from elegant to lively, everything is included.

Elisabeth Leonskaja, one of the great artists of our time, celebrates her 80th birthday in November a little ahead of schedule. For the portrait concert, the pianist has been given »carte blanche by agreement«, so to speak, by the Kammermusikfreunde Hamburg. She is coming to the Elbphilharmonie with close musical friends from the Staatskapelle Berlin and the young pianist Mihály Berecz.

Portrait concert Elisabeth Leonskaja

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet has earned acclaim for its extraordinary artistry. Joined by violist Roberto Díaz, the program features Schumann’s Quartet in A minor, Tchaikovsky’s Quartet No. 1 and Brahms’s String Quintet.

Dover Quartet & Roberto Díaz, viola

Rockport Music-Shalin Liu Performance Center

Robert Schumann: Genoveva

Museum Ludwig

concert

Gewandhaus

All three works are drumbeats in European music history. It starts with the energetic beats of the play overture that Beethoven composed for the drama "Coriolanus" by Heinrich Joseph von Collin. The musical picture of an ambivalent hero, his deep fall and tragic end. This is followed by the piano concerto by Schumann and finally the "Eroica", which Beethoven, as an ardent admirer

Beethoven & Beat

Berliner Philharmonie

Turkish Delight & Grand Finale

Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley

The Young Artists Concerts offer a platform for young musicians. The series is organized in cooperation with the German Music Council.

Gassenhauer. Trio Risonante plays Debussy, Pärt, Brahms and more

NDR Concert Hall | Small Broadcasting Hall

Whether in the 19th or 20th century: The string quartet is the supreme genre of chamber music, and every composer must consider it. Robert Schumann’s quartet cycle op. 41 is a stroke of genius; members of the Berliner Philharmoniker play numbers 1 and 3. Inspired by the quartets of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, Schumann created his own musical cosmos, full of poetry and instrumental song. Our late Composer in Residence Wolfgang Rihm, on the other hand, favours contrasts in his Fourth String Quartet. On the one hand, his work appears brusque, passionate and effervescent; on the other, tender, intimate and poetic.

String quartets by Schumann and Rihm

The rebellious son of the gods Prometheus, who brought fire to mankind and was cruelly punished for it, inspired Beethoven to write the ballet “The Creatures of Prometheus”. The Promethean spark in the piece marks Beethoven’s first stage success in Vienna in 1801, and the stormy overture contributed significantly to this.

More Than Beethoven!

Zeughaus Neuss

Strauss’s Don Juan erupts with line after line of angst and virtuosity for every member of the DSO and Till Eulenspiegel gives us the quintessential soundtrack to fooling around and finding out. Liszt’s Préludes tell a different story of deep worlds and big moods. Guest soloist Steven Isserlis brings his “profoundly moving” playing (Los Angeles Times) to Schumann’s Cello Concerto.

Schumann & Strauss

Orchestra Hall

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

For this special edition series of Piano Explored, Howard Shelley will be taking you through a selection of popular piano concerts from Grieg, Mozart, Mendelssohn and more. Each concert will feature two piano concertos, accompanied by Howard’s spoken insights which reveal the secrets and nuances behind the music.

Anyone studying or working at school or university can get an ‘Education ticket’ for £10. Please bring suitable ID with you on the day to show at the door. All tickets can be bought on the door, as well as online.

Piano Explored: Mozart and Schumann

St Paul's Knightsbridge

Named one of the greatest string quartets of the last 100 years by BBC Music Magazine, the two-time GRAMMY-nominated Dover Quartet is one of the world’s most in-demand chamber ensembles. The group’s awards include a stunning sweep of all prizes at the 2013 Banff International String Quartet Competition, grand and first prizes at the Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, and prizes at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. Making their SCMS debut, the Dover Quartet is an aural experience of the highest caliber.

Dover Quartet

We will conclude our concert season with a special treat, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, featuring David Savage, PSO’s principal bassoonist as the soloist, performing this expressive and technically demanding concerto.

The concert will also include Robert Schumann’s lovely Symphony No. 1 (also known as the “Spring”), a celebration of springtime and renewal, as well as Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Egmont Overture, Op. 84,” an intensely dramatic piece symbolizing the fight for freedom.

Timeless Treasures

Poway Center for the Performing Arts

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

The remarkable Sir András Schiff sprinkles fantasy and magic as he performs the most romantic of piano concertos. Schumann's only concerto for his own instrument is inspired by his wife Clara's supernatural virtuosity. Conjured up alongside is Felix Mendelssohn's impish music for A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Schumann’s Piano Concerto

Southbank Centre

In 1853, the 20-year-old Johannes Brahms was traveling along the Rhine on foot, and he stopped to visit the Schumanns in Düsseldorf. »Robert loves him. He is a great joy to him, both as a human and an artist«, Clara noted with enthusiasm. The close friendship between the young composer and the older married artists survived even difficult times. After Robert Schumann entered the insane asylum, Brahms supported Clara, pregnant at the time, and her six children.

 Martina Gedeck & Schumann Quartett

Stadtkirche St. Marien

Tommy Clarke ’25, cello presents various works showcasing his work

Tommy Clarke '25, cello

Williams College

Graduating Student Recital | Ying Li, mezzo-soprano | Whispers of the Heart

Longy School of Music of Bard College

6th Chamber Concert: Polyphony from Five Centuries

Allerheiligen Hofkirche

This recital explores the emotional journey of human experience through song, framed around the themes of sleep, dreams, love, heartbreak, and inner strength.

Graduating Student Recital | Yifan Pan, soprano | Beyond the Dream: A Journey of Strength

Join the Peoria Symphony Orchestra for an unforgettable evening of music and storytelling with the "Star-Crossed Letters" concert. This grand finale of the 2024-2025 concert season unfolds the poignant love triangle between Clara Schumann, Robert Schumann, and Johannes Brahms through an exquisite selection of their compositions. Under the baton of conductor George Stelluto, experience the emotional depth and beauty of works such as Clara Schumann's Scherzo, Op. 10, Johannes Brahms' Tragic Overture, Op. 81, Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4, Op. 120, and Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 83.

This musical love story from long ago will be brought to life on Friday, May 16, 2025, at the Peoria Civic Center Theater, located at 201 SW Jefferson Ave, Peoria, Illinois 61602. The evening begins at 6:30 pm with the lobby opening, followed by the concert start at 7:30 pm. 

Tickets for this captivating concert will be on sale soon. Don't miss your chance to be part of this historic season closer, where the past and present merge in a celebration of love, loss, and the timeless power of music.

Star-Crossed Letters

Peoria Civic Center Theater

Composed in Russia during one if its darkest times, Prokofiev’s ‘Classical Symphony’ is a glimpse of light, channelling his influences from Classical-era composers Haydn and Mozart. Aptly paired with Prokofiev’s First Symphony is Haydn’s last of 12 ‘London’ symphonies, which brims with all the invention, wit, drama and surprises that characterise the music of the ‘Father of the Symphony’.

Prokofiev, Schumann and Haydn

Huddersfield Town Hall

Composed in Russia during one if its darkest times, Prokofiev’s ‘Classical Symphony’ is a glimpse of light, channelling his influences from Classical-era composers Haydn and Mozart.

Making music together in the Amaris Quartet is like a refreshing breath of air for my artistic work in the orchestra. These concerts are without doubt the most musically gratifying moments that I am allowed to experience as a musician. They sharpen my hearing and subtly inspire my love of music.

6th Chamber Concert

Where

The premiere of a new work by Unsuk Chin unfortunately had to be postponed. Instead, we will open the concert with the Adagio for string orchestra by Periklis Koukos. At the end, we will hear »Five Greek dances for string orchestra« by Nikos Skalkottas, replacing his »Four Images« which were originally planned.

Experience the depth of Romantic genius in a breathtaking programme that unites Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, ‘Rhenish’, two masterpieces brimming with passion, lyricism, and bold orchestral colour.

Schumann & Chopin at Cadogan Hall

Cadogan Hall 

The trio Johannes Brahms - Robert Schumann - Clara Schumann has inspired each other artistically and, in some parts, erotically since 1853. But this concert is not just about the question of who, why and whether at all. Rather, the alliance of three expands into a pentagonal story. Mendelssohn is added, whom Brahms greatly admired. And the composer Aribert Reimann, who died in 2024 and who felt a close connection with Schumann, also joins for a short time. Schumann's first and Brahms' third string quartets form the framework for a program rich in relationships, the intertwined paths of which are lined with excerpts from Peter Härtling's Schumann novel and letters from the Schumann couple, read by the actress Martina Gedeck. The Schumann Quartet is responsible for the music, although it is not named that because of Robert or Clara, but because of the three brothers Erik, Ken and Mark who play along. The violist is an external player, but that is another (square) story.

Martina Gedeck & Schumann Quartett

Hall Schwetzingen Castle

This concert is a competition for young musicians! The program features three groups of high school musicians, each of whom is a finalist in the Elmhurst Symphony Orchestra's 2025 annual Stanger Young Artist Competition.

Rising stars of stanger

Elmhurst Christian Reformed Church

Winner of the 2020 Rome Prize at the American Academy, Katherine Balch is a composer of uncannily expressive and technical prowess whose work has been heard from London to Tokyo to Los Angeles and beyond.

Open Music with Katherine Balch

Alberta Rose Theatre of Portland

Sibelius' Violin Concerto is one of the most performed violin concertos of the 20th century. However, its tonal language belongs to the late 19th century, and the music is warm and lyrical, dramatic and melancholic. Sibelius, himself a violinist, possibly wrote the concerto he himself would have wanted to play – albeit on a technical level far beyond his own. It is among the more challenging in the genre, as many violinists have attested.

Sibelius and Schumann

Stockholm City Hall

Full of inspiration, Robert Schumann began work on his second symphony in early December 1845. However, his depressions, poor health, and constant tinnitus meant that it wasn't until the following autumn that the symphony was completed. Yet, his severe personal condition has not left its mark on the music at all; instead, the symphony is bright and forward-looking, a resounding triumph over the darker aspects of life.

Schumann's second symphony

The Stern/Andrist Duo traverses characteristically French, American and German idioms in a program that combines deep pathos, exotic atmosphere and high-octane entertainment. This performance features works by Lili Boulanger, Claude Debussy, Pinchas Schoenfeld and Robert Schumann.

Faculty Artist Series: Stern/Andrist Duo

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

After Robert Schumann's Manfred Overture, which has already established itself as an independent orchestral work to such an extent that its literary basis (Lord Byron) has almost been forgotten, we hear a very current premiere. The young German composer Clemens K. Thomas says of his work: "'Girls und Panzer' is not a piece about war, but about its consumability in Central Europe." It is about "politics as a balancing act full of compromises and contradictions." This is followed by Composer in Focus Matthew Hindson with "Maralinga", which also has political references: that was the name of a British nuclear test site in Australia in the 1950s. And finally, Arthur Honegger provides a conciliatory conclusion with his fourth symphony "Basler Freuden", which was written shortly after the end of the Second World War.

Girls und Panzer

Stadthalle Göttingen

Angela Metzger

Get ready to dive into the intense emotions of Robert Schumann’s Manfred Overture. Based on a poem by Lord Byron, you’ll feel the great suffering from supernatural forces that he detailed in his dramatic 1817 work.

The Search for Beauty

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

2024-2025 May Concert

The War Memorial

Experience the evocative power of music with "Echoes of Time," a captivating performance by the La Jolla Symphony & Chorus. Under the masterful direction of conductor Sameer Patel, this concert promises to be a profound auditory journey, exploring the intricate interplay between past and present through a carefully curated selection of compositions. The La Jolla Symphony & Chorus, renowned for their artistic excellence and innovative programming, will bring to life a repertoire that resonates with timeless themes and contemporary relevance. Set in the acoustically rich Mandeville Auditorium, the performance will envelop the audience in a sonic tapestry that highlights the ensemble's dynamic range and expressive depth. "Echoes of Time" is an opportunity to witness the convergence of tradition and modernity, as the musicians interpret works that reflect the enduring human spirit and its myriad expressions through time.

Echoes of Time

University of California San Diego

Special concert on the 65th birthday of Steffen Schleiermacher

In this exquisite program, we present a rare side-by-side concert with two international piano powerhouses: Paavali Jumpannen (FIN) and Konstantin Shamray (RUS). These pianists are formidable, fearless and flawless interpreters of epic solo piano works. Double Klavier centres around two landmark works showcasing their extraordinary talent and virtuosity. 

Double Klavier

Snow Concert Hall

Timo-Veikko Valve, Principal Cello of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performs and directs this program of music arranged for string orchestra.

The Soul of the Cello: Timo-Veikko Valve

Melbourne Recital Centre

West Gippsland Arts Centre

Over two decades, CMS Founding Artistic Director Charles Wadsworth expanded the awareness of chamber music at Lincoln Center and beyond. CMS pays tribute to its founder with a program crafted in Wadsworth’s signature style, featuring a super-star vocal quartet with pianist Ken Noda and current CMS Co-Artistic Director Wu Han in Schumann’s Spanische Liebeslieder.

Schumann and Saint-Saëns

Lincoln Center

Steven Isserlis — praised by The Strad for the “mastery and sheer joy” of his playing — joins the NY Phil for Robert Schumann’s Cello Concerto. On the podium is Simone Young, one of today’s top interpreters of Bruckner symphonies, leading  the monumental Sixth. The concert opens with Schoenberg’s Notturno for strings and harp, a lush, youthful work in the late-Romantic style.

Simone Young Conducts Schumann and Bruckner 

David Geffen Hall

For more than 50 years, music lovers have flocked to Carnegie Hall for the chance to hear Emanuel Ax in recital. In this performance, he treats listeners to musical fantasies by Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and more. Beethoven’s experimental pair of Op. 27 sonatas includes what is most popularly known as the “Moonlight” Sonata—but both pieces were originally marked “Sonata quasi una fantasia” by the composer. Between these sonatas, Ax performs John Corigliano’s Fantasia on an Ostinato, an explorative piece based on an unusual passage from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. The program’s second half comprises works by Robert Schumann, including the ever-popular Arabeske in C Major and the Fantasy in C Major—dedicated to fellow virtuoso Franz Liszt—which is one of the Romantic repertoire’s most demanding masterpieces, featuring a movement the composer professed as being “the most passionate I have ever composed.”

Emanuel Ax, Piano

Carnegie Hall

Musicians from the Oslo Philharmonic invite you to a relaxed and informal concert at Trekanten. We play with a small orchestra that performs minimalist music.

Chillout Chamber Concert

Oslo Concert Hall

The world premiere of a DCS-commissioned concert work from Award-winning composer Joseph Kraemer opens this program which also features the winner of the Dallas International Piano Competition 2024. After intermission, the orchestra will perform Robert Schumann’s exuberant First Symphony; Richard McKay conducts.

Schumann's Symphony Nº 1

Moody Performance Hall

Sie möchte am liebsten »Bilder auf dem Flügel malen«. Dafür lässt sie ihr Instrument in den obersten Tonlagen schillern und schimmern, mal crystallrein, mal sanft et milde. Anna Vinnitskaya lies, Geschichten in Tönen zu erzählen.

Anna Vinnitskaya

Hardly anything is more fitting for the spring days than Bruch's famous violin concerto - first performed in Cologne at Whitsun 1868 - and Robert Schumann's 1st Symphony, which he himself called his "Spring Symphony". Both works are characterized by blissful and edifying sounds with unmistakable genius.

Bruch's Violin Concerto | Schumann's "Spring Symphony"

Guest performance by the Cologne Philharmonic

Emanuel Ax, praised for “his seemingly effortless dexterity and the unnerving clarity of his artistic vision” (San Francisco Chronicle), navigates the intricate melodies of timeless compositions. Delve into the romantic depths of Beethoven’s hauntingly beautiful Moonlight Sonata and Schumann’s bold, soul-searching C Major Fantasy.

Emanuel Ax

Symphony Center

A mesmerizing journey through enchanted forests, impassioned piano solos, coastal serenity, and a celestial ode to the magic of musical harmony.

Classics V: Dreams & Serenades

Broadway in Hollywood

Experience the profound beauty of classical music as the Philadelphia Orchestra presents "Bronfman Plays Schumann" at the prestigious Verizon Hall. This unforgettable program features the legendary pianist Yefim Bronfman, under the baton of internationally renowned conductor Tugan Sokhiev, performing two lyrically beautiful masterworks that promise to enchant and inspire.

The highlight of the evening, Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto, thrills audiences with its bravura passages and moments of quiet grace. Celebrated for its rich invention and captivating beauty, the concerto showcases Bronfman's exceptional artistry, ensuring that every note resonates with perfection. Following this, Beethoven's radiant Fourth Symphony fills the hall with its joyful and charming melodies, standing as a testament to Beethoven's genius between his monumental Eroica and the beloved Fifth Symphony.

This series of performances takes place on:
- Friday, April 25, 2025, at 2:00 PM
- Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 8:00 PM
- Sunday, April 27, 2025, at 2:00 PM

Located in the newly rededicated Marian Anderson Hall, home of The Philadelphia Orchestra, Verizon Hall provides the perfect backdrop for these masterpieces. This performance is part of the 2024-25 Subscription Package, offering magnificent programming and exclusive subscriber benefits.

Don't miss this opportunity to witness the synergy of Sokhiev's clear and graceful conducting with Bronfman's enchanting piano performance, making "Bronfman Plays Schumann" a must-see event for classical music enthusiasts.

Bronfman Plays Schumann

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kenari Quartet's sold-out concerts in Tulsa in 2009 were a revelation! Their exhilerating performances shattered assumptions about saxophones and their place in chamber music. Join us to celebrate their return! 

During our Friday concerts, patrons enjoy an up-close musical experience in the vibrant atmosphere of uniquely Tulsa venues. Wine and hors d’oeuvres are available.

Composer

Robert Schumann

Events

Upcoming events

May 11, 2025 - May 10, 2026

6th Chamber Concert · Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg

16 - 30 Jul, 2025

Junior Honors Recital · Interlochen Center for the Arts

Jul 18, 2025

Leonard Bernstein Award · Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

Jul 19, 2025

George Li, piano · Caramoor

Jul 19, 2025

Hayato Sumino · Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival

Past events

Jul 17, 2025

TSM presents George Li · The Royal Conservatory of Music

16 - 30 Jul, 2025

Junior Honors Recital · Interlochen Center for the Arts

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