Composer

Each year, the Friends of Grayshott Concerts enjoy a very special musical gathering, and this year’s event promises to be an unforgettable highlight. Our Patron, Howard Shelley OBE, one of Britain’s most distinguished pianists and conductors, will join members of the London Mozart Players for an evening of music, conversation and celebration.

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Friends Evening: Grayshott Concerts

St Luke's Church, Grayshott

Contrasting colours and textures abound in Alexander Gadjiev’s consummate choice of works. The Slovenian pianist has built an impressive international career including recent recitals at Manchester, Tokyo and Beethoven-Haus Bonn. His latest Wigmore Hall performance sets the ornate melodies of Haydn’s Piano Sonata in A flat together with meditative Takemitsu and Debussy’s exotic L’isle joyeuse, before moving to Liszt’s vivid images of Switzerland and the rich sonorities of Robert Schumann’s First Piano Sonata.

Alexander Gadjiev piano

Wigmore Hall

Hold on tight for Anna Clyne’s Stride, a wild ride through the rural backroads of Beethoven’s Pathétique sonata. Lose yourself in the romantic landscapes of Robert Schumann’s only Piano Concerto, featuring Canadian pianist Teo Gheorghiu’s Symphony Nova Scotia debut. Then, wander through the idyllic countryside of Beethoven’s epic Pastoral Symphony.

Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony

Dalhousie Arts Centre

This recital is a rare opportunity to hear Bryn up close, performing music that means a lot to him – from traditional Welsh folk tunes that echo of home to hits from musical theatre and classical lieder. His extraordinary voice will fill the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, every facet of his extraordinary instrument shining bright.

The Voice of Bryn Terfel

Sydney Opera House

The supremely talented Soloists of the Kronberg Academy present Wigmore Hall audiences with the chance to hear the next generation of world-class chamber musicians. Their choice of repertoire includes two movements from the F-A-E Sonata, a collaborative work by Robert Schumann, the young Brahms and Schumann’s pupil Albert Dietrich. The concert is framed by Debussy’s mature, ravishingly beautiful Cello Sonata and his late Violin Sonata, a luminous and harmonically daring work that crowns his final creative period.

Soloists of the Kronberg Academy; Kirill Gerstein piano

Polly Ives of Concerteenies is back, and she’s teaming up with our cello and piano duo to take you on a roar-some journey: 
 Our feisty heroine Eliza Jane isn’t your average child. Instead of a cute, fluffy bunny, she has her heart firmly set on a prehistoric pet. Join Eliza Jane and her parents on a marvellous magical tour of their local dinosaur department store.

Dinosaur Department Store

St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood

Midori’s penetrating artistry, rich in insight and profound musical maturity, and special gifts as teacher and communicator have touched audiences far beyond the world’s leading concert halls, thanks to the reach of her acclaimed Midori and Friends education programme. She is also a firm supporter of music by living composers, reflected in the presence in her latest Wigmore Hall programme of a new work by Thierry Escaich, one of the four titular organists of Notre-Dame de Paris. A diverse trio of sonatas completes the Japanese American violinist’s alluring menu of works.

Midori violin; Özgür Aydin piano

Composed in 1807 for Heinrich Joseph von Collin's tragedy Coriolanus , the overture was the only piece from an original project that included composing an entire cycle of incidental music for this play. Like other Beethoven overtures, this one immediately found a permanent place in the symphonic repertoire, regardless of the performance of the play for which it was conceived. The overture was most likely performed only at the tragedy's premiere, on April 24, 1807, although its music had already been appreciated a month earlier at a concert held at Prince Lobkowitz's palace under Beethoven himself, during which the Fourth Symphony and the Fourth Piano Concerto were also performed . This overture reveals the tragic grandeur of Coriolanus, a character whose historical reality is uncertain. After conquering the Volscian city of Corioli, the hero was exiled by the Romans for his despotic rule. Taking refuge with the Volscians, he decided to take revenge by leading the enemy army against his homeland. As he approached the gates of the city, Coriolanus was joined by his mother Veturia and his wife Volumnia, carrying their two young children in their arms. The two women begged him not to raise arms against Rome. Heeding their fervent prayer, the leader then decided to retreat, but was executed by the Volscians on charges of treason. The entire overture, which opens on a tragic C minor with three celebrated crescendos of string unisons that pave the way for the full orchestral explosion, thrives on the contrast between Coriolanus's fighting spirit, effectively captured in the first theme, and his wife Volumnia's imploring spirit, equally powerfully expressed in the strongly lyrical second theme. The coda is very evocative, where, after the resumption of the introductory lines, the theme slowly dissolves, almost as if to foreshadow the protagonist's tragic end.

Eroi E Passioni

Politeama Garibaldi - Palermo

Recipients of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and many other international prizes, pianist Evren Ozel and violinist Joshua Brown perform a program exploring the writer Marcel Proust’s assertion that music alone can access what language leaves unsaid. The works on the program bear a direct literary imprint: Chausson's Poème translates a short story by Turgenev into musical form, while Schumann's Kreisleriana depicts E.T.A. Hoffmann's fictional musician Johannes Kreisler. Debussy’s Preludes for piano include literature references from Baudelaire to Shakespeare and more. The movements from the F.A.E. Sonata and Ysaÿe's Ballade, meanwhile, were inspired by their composers’ close friendships with poets and literary figures of their time. Finally, perhaps the most remarkable connection on this program belongs to Fauré's Violin Sonata and Proust. Through his In Search of Lost Time, Proust immortalizes Fauré as the fictional composer Vinteuil, whose violin sonata becomes a recurring symbol of longing and lost love. That a real piece of music could be so thoroughly absorbed into one of literature's greatest novels speaks to exactly the kind of alchemy this program sets out to explore.

Evren Ozel, piano & Joshua Brown, violin

Kaufman Music Center

Robert Schumann’s life, short by modern measures, mirrored the emotional extremes and poetic refinement respectively cultivated by his alter egos, the impulsive, heart-on-sleeve ‘Florestan’ and the introspective ‘Eusebius’. Ian Bostridge and Vadym Kholodenko, Gold Medallist of the 2014 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, bring the cavernous expressive scope of his music to life in a programme that pairs two masterworks for piano solo with ideally matched song settings.

Ian Bostridge tenor; Vadym Kholodenko piano

Hear the evolution of keyboard fantasias — stretching from the 17th century to today — with works by Telemann, Mozart, Chopin, and Billy Joel.

Robert Blocker plays Telemann and Schumann

Yale University

Academy clarinettists perform premieres of works written for clarinet quartet, alongside arrangements of pieces by Schumann and Brahms.

Clāritās Clarinet Quartet

Royal Academy of Music

Memory’s power to free the imagination stands behind countless works of art, with recollections of the four seasons occupying a special status among the most potent of creative catalysts. Louise Alder, acclaimed by The Times as ‘a terrific talent, combining a big lustrous voice with flawless intonation and a keen intelligence’, and Joseph Middleton take a voyage around the cosmos of songs inspired by ever-changing seasonal landscapes, moods and states of mind.

Louise Alder soprano; Joseph Middleton piano

Inbal Segev is “a cellist with something to say” (Gramophone). Combining rich tone and technical mastery with rare dedication and intelligence, she has appeared with orchestras including the Baltimore Symphony, Bamberg Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony, Dortmund Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Lyon, Pittsburgh Symphony, Polish National Radio Symphony, and St. Louis Symphony, collaborating with such prominent conductors as Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, Edward Gardner, Kirill Karabits, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Măcelaru, and Zubin Mehta. Committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire, she has commissioned and premiered new cello concertos from Timo Andres, Anna Clyne, Avner Dorman, Fernando Otero, Victoria Poleva, and Dan Visconti. Recorded with Alsop and the London Philharmonic for Avie Records, Segev’s premiere recording of Clyne’s new cello concerto, DANCE, was an instant success, topping the Amazon Classical Concertos chart. Its opening movement was chosen as one of NPR Music’s “Favorite Songs of 2020,” receiving more than twelve million listens on Spotify. To encourage creative recovery during the early pandemic lockdowns, Segev launched 20 for 2020, a commissioning, recording, and video project for 20 cutting-edge composers, including John Luther Adams, Viet Cuong, and Angélica Negrón, all of whom wrote new works in response to the worldwide crisis. Segev’s previous discography includes acclaimed recordings of the Elgar Cello Concerto, Romantic cello works, and Bach’s Cello Suites, while her popular YouTube masterclass series, Musings with Inbal Segev, has inspired a generation of cellists.

Inbal Segev, cello; Yalin Chi, piano

The Chapel Restoration

Introducing Sanctuary, an experience where listening becomes a shared act of reflection and gathering. Step into our Hall, listen deeply, let your imagination wander, or simply rest and restore.

A Turning Leaf

Smith Square Hall

Bertrand Chamayou – Piano recital

Rudolfinum

Gold medallist at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Kyiv-born Vadym Kholodenko is known worldwide for performances combining power with precision and poetic insight.

Vadym Kholodenko: Berlioz' Symphonie Fantastique

Southbank Centre

Travel from Estonia to the German Rhineland as conductor Kristiina Poska makes her SLSO debut in a concert that celebrates a variety of European folk music. Poska introduces us to the musical shapeshifting of a new composition by fellow Estonian, Ülo Krigul, and rising-star pianist Marie-Ange Nguci shines in Mozart’s sweet and playful Piano Concerto No. 21. Robert Schumann’s Third Symphony emphasizes the vibrant culture along the Rhine River in Germany, re-imagining folk dances, bucolic scenes, and the grandeur of a cathedral.

Mozart and Schumann

Powell Hall

Having won First Prize at the 2018 Leeds International Piano Competition, Eric Lu has since achieved the rare distinction of becoming one of only two pianists – alongside fellow Leeds laureate Radu Lupu – to have claimed two of the four major international piano competitions. This remarkable feat was confirmed with his First Prize victory at the XIX International Chopin Piano Competition in 2025. Reflecting his most recent win, Eric includes two pieces by Chopin in his programme.

Eric Lu

Leeds Conservatoire

The full program will be available within 24 hours of the performance on the livestream page below.

Gregory Lewis, violin

AMIT PELED Violoncello Serenade

Oji Hall

Few among today’s pianists, and from the past, could surpass Nikolai Lugansky’s searching artistry, deep musical intelligence and gilt-edged technical authority. His recital couples Robert Schumann’s brooding Fantasiestücke Op. 111, ardent late works, with his youthful cycle of piano pieces, Faschingsschwank aus Wien. Chopin’s Impromptus, spontaneous and mostly playful, are framed by his wistful Barcarolle and the mercurial Scherzo No. 4.

Nikolai Lugansky piano

RCMJD pianist Cecilia Committeri performs a programme spanning the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras. The recital features JS Bach’s expressive Partita no 2, Haydn’s elegant Piano Sonata, and Schumann’s virtuosic Allegro.

Classical Coffee Mornings at the Royal Albert Hall: Cecilia Committeri

Royal Albert Hall

The Shin Kim Piano Trio consisting of family members Kyu-Young Kim on violin, Pitnarry Shin on cello, and Orion Kim on piano started during the early days of the COVID lockdown in the family living room when Orion was fourteen years old. During the pandemic, their online video performances were enjoyed by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and Bakken Ensemble virtual audiences, and their informal performances on their front stoop in Saint Paul and for house concerts in the Twin Cities have brought much joy to many classical music lovers. In 2024, they were featured in Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with both the Willmar Symphony Orchestra and the Mississippi Valley Orchestra. Orion is now a sophomore in college, studying piano and history at Yale University, and the trio continues to play together at every opportunity. He is a top prizewinner of the Schubert Club’s Young Artists Competition and the Thursday Musical Young Artists Competition, and has attended chamber music festivals at Yellowbarn, Bowdoin and in Lucca, Italy. His concerto performances include the Kenwood, Golden Valley, and Dakota Valley Orchestras. Kyu-Young Kim is the Principal Violin of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra and served as its Artistic Director from 2013-2024. Pitnarry Shin is a cellist of the Minnesota Orchestra and serves as Artistic Director and cellist of the Bakken Ensemble.

Shin Kim Piano Trio with Misha Amory, viola

St. Anthony Park United Church of Christ

Anderson & Roe redefine the piano duo experience with fearless creativity and dazzling virtuosity. Equally at home in classical masterworks and bold reimaginings, their performances are theatrical, witty, and technically breathtaking. With an unmistakable chemistry, they transform the concert stage into a space of innovation, connection, and pure musical exhilaration.

Anderson and Roe Piano Duo

Sunset Center

Isabelle Faust reunites with Alexander Melnikov, her duo partner of two decades’ standing, in a poetic programme of sonatas by Schumann and Brahms.

Isabelle Faust & Alexander Melnikov

Milton Court Concert Hall

Hear a new take on Vivaldi’s energetic seasons and Schumann’s imaginative Piano Concerto. Conductor Kent Nagano leads the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra together with acclaimed pianist Rudolf Buchbinder.

The Seasons in New Colours

Göteborgs Konserthus

Ryan began playing at the age of four and has since performed internationally in recital and with orchestra. In 2026, he won First Prize at the Hastings International Piano Competition, also receiving the Orchestra Prize and Audience Prize. He was a semifinalist at the 2024 Leeds International Piano Competition, where he received the G. Henle Verlag Prize, and later advanced to the semifinals of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition.

Ryan Zhu, Piano

Hear Vivaldi's The Four Seasons in a dazzling new guise, alongside Schumann's imaginative Piano Concerto with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Together, we celebrate the 2026 Hasselblad Award laureate, Zanele Muholi. The outstanding Rudolf Buchbinder is the soloist, with Kent Nagano conducting.

Hasselblad Concert: The Seasons in New Colours

Enjoy a varied programme of chamber music from RCM musicians at this lunchtime concert.

Chamber Tuesdays

Royal College of Music

Mark Padmore’s duo partnership with Jonathan Biss, hailed by Opera Today for its ‘astonishing insight and artistry’, grows from a shared desire to penetrate beneath the surface sheen of whatever they perform to reveal deep undercurrents of emotions and expressive contrasts. Their creative daring and sensitivity to poetic texts are matched to this carefully curated selection of songs by Schubert and Robert Schumann.

Mark Padmore tenor; Jonathan Biss piano

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

Allan Clayton tenor; Christine Rice mezzo-soprano; James Baillieu piano

In turn a symbol of freedom, imagination, escape and independence, the vagabond has haunted the imagination of artists and poets as well as philosophers. In the work of Robert Schumann, he takes the form of a lonely minstrel who asks his king for a simple cup of wine; in that of Gustav Mahler, that of a saint who speaks to animals. And while Richard Strauss takes you on nocturnal wanderings, Francis Poulenc gives you a taste of a painter’s Parisian ‘vie de bohème’.

A Vagabond’s daydream

La Monnaie - De Munt

RBC is proud to welcome internationally-acclaimed duo, Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss ahead of their Wigmore Hall concert later in October.

Mark Padmore and Jonathan Biss

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Argentine pianist Nelson Goerner’s artistry has beguiled audiences at Wigmore Hall and other global centres of musical excellence since the early 1990s. His latest programme embraces the improvisatory freedom of JS Bach’s Toccata in C minor BWV911, with its surprising inventive twists and turns, the emotional switchback ride of Robert Schumann’s Fantasie and the passionate drama of Schubert’s Piano Sonata in C minor D958, composed in the last year of his life.

Nelson Goerner piano

One of today's most exciting young ensembles, the Isidore String Quartet joins forces with pianist Jeremy Denk for a powerful season-opening concert. Winners of the 2022 Banff Competition, the Isidore Quartet brings fearless energy and fresh insight to Schumann's radiant Piano Quintet in E-flat Major and Brahms's passionate F Minor Quintet, with MacArthur Fellow Denk adding his signature imagination and wit.

Friends of Chamber Music: Isidore String Quartet & Jeremy Denk, piano

Robert & Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts

Spivey Hall’s season opens with one of the finest and most respected and celebrated pianists in the world, Richard Goode. Renowned for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth, and expressiveness, Goode is widely acknowledged as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic repertoire.

Season Opening Celebration: Richard Goode, piano

Clayton State University

This lustrous evening brings together exquisite sound paintings for piano, strings and horn, showcasing the range and reach of our resident Ensemble 360.

Debussy | La Mer

Crucible Theatre

Daniele Rustioni

Teatro alla Scala

Come and enjoy hearing talented music students from Geiko Music High School in Japan perform at the Royal Academy of Music. 

Little Gems from Geiko Music High School

Sherri Lun plays Schumann

Dorchester Abbey

Reflections on the nature of time and its passing, often expressed in profoundly personal pieces written in memory of deceased friends or conceived as dialogues with the past, run through the most recent books of Kurtág’s Játékok. The anthology’s latest additions include compositions written for pianino, the ‘little piano’ famously used by Chopin to create some of his Préludes. Miniatures from Robert Schumann’s Bunte Blätter collection provide playful interludes in Pierre-Laurent Aimard’s third and final ‘breath’ of Kurtág.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano

Conductor David Afkham and the San Francisco Symphony explore the musical orbit of Robert and Clara Schumann. Robert’s Fourth Symphony begins with a catchy rising-and-falling figure, the “Clara theme,” derived from one of his beloved bride’s own piano compositions. The theme appears throughout the symphony, which he presented to her on her 22nd birthday. Johannes Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 is both an elegy for Robert and a tender portrait of Clara, whom Brahms once described as “going to the concert hall like a priestess to the altar.” You won’t want to miss the visionary soloist Garrick Ohlsson, who shares her disciplined devotion. Inspired by Ludwig van Beethoven, Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza pronounces itself forcefully and without reservation, painting with the bold brush strokes of the avant-garde.

Garrick Ohlsson Plays Brahms

San Francisco Symphony

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

The globally recognized pianist Jonathan Biss was praised by The New Yorker for his “impeccable taste and a formidable technique.” A multi-faceted artist, he is equally celebrated for his performance career, his pedagogical contributions, and his eloquent and insightful musical scholarship.

Jonathan Biss, piano

Tippet Rise Art Center

Join us for an evening of three celebrated piano quartets, performed by the distinguished soloist of the London Mozart Players alongside three outstanding young pianists supported by the Promote Our Pianists charity. Presented in collaboration with Kettner Concerts, the concert will be held in the elegant surroundings of the National Liberal Club’s beautiful concert hall in Central London.

Late Summer Gala: Kettner Concerts

National Liberal Club

David Khrikuli Piano Recital

Chiaramonte Steri Palace

“An artist of extraordinary magnetism” (Daily Telegraph), Yorkshire pianist Sarah Beth Briggs has enjoyed a distinguished career both on stage and in the recording studio. She returns to the Playhouse for an afternoon of glittering piano favourites.

Piano Classics

Sheffield Theatres

“I have been hearing drums and trumpets in my head for days”, Robert Schumann wrote to his friend Felix Mendelssohn in 1845. Here Schumann was describing not only his emotional state, but also the musical ideas leading him towards the composition of his Symphony No. 2. The Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle combines this impressive multi-layered work with Schumann’s Violin Concerto which was never performed during the composer’s lifetime. Performing on historical instruments, the ensemble and soloist Isabelle Faust approach Schumann’s emotionally complex tonal world, laying bare the roots of this brilliant composer of the Romantic period.

Freiburger Barockorchester

Berliner Philharmoniker

Once again four critics of the German Record Critics’ Award (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, PdSK), moderated by Olaf Wilhelmer, will speak about a central work of music history: Robert Schumann’s Violin Concerto in D minor.

Quartett der Kritiker

Berliner Philharmonie

“I had hoped I wouldn’t fall in love with another orchestra, but in fact I did,” sighs Sir Simon Rattle. And who is the mysterious new love? The Freiburger Barockorchester. Their Schumann evening in Lucerne reveals exactly what this newfound happiness sounds like. The orchestra plays with clarity and lightness, in shimmering colors yet firmly grounded. The program opens with the highly romantic overture to Schumann’s only opera, Genoveva. Isabelle Faust — whose violin sound is so human and communicative, and whose phrasing is unmatched in its delicacy — then performs the Violin Concerto. Schumann wrote it shortly before his mental collapse, and it did not receive its world premiere until 81 years after his death. “It’s music that moves you deeply,” Faust says. The same is certainly true of the Second Symphony, which many consider Schumann’s finest. Its unearthly beautiful slow movement has something of a prayer of thanksgiving about it: Schumann continually unfolds an enthralling melody, letting it rise and expand until it seems to glow — ten minutes of eternity.

Freiburger Barockorchester | Sir Simon Rattle | Isabelle Faust

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

The jury was unanimous: the 2025 Music Prize of the German Economy goes to the young baritone Jonas Müller! Born in Lower Bavaria in 1999, Müller could celebrate not only the € 15,000 award but also his debut concert at Lucerne Festival. He impressed with an intelligent program that, as the jury noted, was “marked by authenticity and seriousness.” He follows the same principle in his Lucerne recital. Under the theme “Somewhere in the World,” he sings of longing for faraway places and for home, of dreams of love and of solitude — with settings by Franz Schubert and Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler and Hanns Eisler. From Eisler, he performs six songs from the Hollywood Songbook: his contribution to this summer’s theme, “American Dreams.” Jonas Müller has already won numerous prizes, including as a duo with his piano partner Anna Gebhardt. Since the fall of 2025, the student of Christian Gerhaher has been a member of the Opera Studio of Oper Frankfurt, where he made his debut as Guglielmo in Mozart’s Così fan tutte. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised him for “vocal elegance and a fine touch of comedy.”

Jonas Müller | Anna Gebhardt

Lukaskirche Lucerne

Clair de Lune

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

A beautiful and varied program consisting of overtures, arias and duets from the world of operetta. With Viennese baritone Günter Haumer and soprano Elisabeth Meyer.

Summer Concert at Augustenborg

Augustenborg Slotspark

Oslo Kammermusikkfestival closing gala concert featuring a virtuoso programme performed by festival musicians in Marmorsalen.

Closing Gala

Sentralen

For our one-and-only Thursday evening concert of the summer, violinist Chad Hoopes returns to play one of Mozart’s most remarkable chamber music works—the String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, which includes an additional viola (an instrument Mozart loved to play and to write for)—and pianist Juho Pohjonen plays Schumann’s highly Romantic Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, written in 1842, the composer’s much-celebrated “year of chamber music.” Plus, violinist John Storgårds and cellist Anssi Karttunen play stunning solo works written for them by influential contemporary composers Kaija Saariaho and Bent Sørensen.

Mozart & Schumann

Lensic Performing Arts Center

A rare meeting of two legends: Daniel Barenboim and Yo-Yo Ma have shaped musical history over the past half-century. But there is more that binds them. Both regard music as the most powerful path to mutual understanding and have long been committed to intercultural dialogue. With his Silk Road Project, Yo-Yo Ma built a bridge from Asia to the West and continues to transcend boundaries between genres and cultures in his latest projects in order to foster social cohesion. Since 1999 Barenboim has kept the vision of reconciliation alive through the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, made up largely of Israeli, Palestinian, and Arab musicians — a vision that resonates all the more in our conflict-ridden time.

West-Eastern Divan Orchestra | Daniel Barenboim | Yo-Yo Ma

One of the world’s leading concert pianists, Angela Hewitt appears in recital and as soloist with major orchestras throughout Europe, the Americas, Australia, and Asia. Her interpretations of the music of J.S. Bach have established her as one of the composer’s foremost interpreters of our time.

ANGELA HEWITT, piano

Dreams of Childhood: The Musical Reflections of a New Father

Lincoln City Cultural Center

High Festival Level

Imperial Baths

Château in B-flat Major

Festival Salon

6 p.m. Recital: Zlata Chochieva

Parc de Florans

Pianist Haochen Zhang, who won the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition at the age of 19 and has been described as “an artist of rare talent” by Gramophone, gives a solo recital featuring two emotional piano sonatas: Schumann’s first, a deeply personal work that the composer dedicated to his future wife, Clara Wieck, and Beethoven’s next-to-last, which the French composer Vincent d’Indy described as “an exertion of will to banish suffering.”

Haochen Zhang Piano Recital

New Mexico Museum of Art

The relationships between Robert and Clara Schumann and Johannes Brahms were intimate and complicated – and they shaped the trajectory of classical music forever. In an exploration of friendship and inspiration, Brahms’ fiery Hungarian Rhapsodies are followed by Clara Schumann’s tender Piano Concerto with Robert Schumann’s soaring Symphony No. 2 capping off this trio of musical genius.

Brahms & The Schumanns

Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts

Light and dark battle it out in Schumann’s Second Symphony, composed during a time of great personal crisis but still bubbling with humor and good spirits. Conductor Kazuki Yamada pairs this with Stravinsky’s stunningly imaginative settings of biblical Psalms, sung by the Blossom Festival Chorus. Inspired by Aboriginal myths, Takemitsu’s Dreamtime opens the program on a reflective note perfect for a summer evening.

Schumann’s Second Symphony

Blossom Music Center

We are very grateful to Rustem Hayroudinoff for stepping in to perform this recital in place of Richard Goode, who has had to withdraw due to personal reasons.

Rustem Hayroudinoff

Wadham College

Hong Kong Sinfonietta in Portugal Marvão International Music Festival

Marvão Castle

Ammaia Archaeological Site

The Heath Quartet, formed at the Royal Northern College of Music in 2002, has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with Wigmore Hall and built a devoted following thanks to performances that make creative sparks fly. Its latest programme takes wing with Britten’s 3 Divertimenti, conceived in 1936 as part of Go play, boy, play, a projected suite of character portraits depicting old school chums, and flourishes in two contrasting quartets by Mozart and Robert Schumann.

Heath Quartet

The Perelada Festival welcomes the return of Bryn Terfel, one of the great voices of our time, in a recital that is presented as a living synthesis of his artistic journey. With a career that extends over almost four decades, the Welsh bass-baritone has built an interpretative universe that embraces from Mozart to Wagner, from the Romantic Lied to the traditional song, always with the same expressive conviction and deep respect for the musical material.

Bryn Terfel

Església del Carme

Piano duo recital by the brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen, with a program of Mozart, Schumann, Ravel, Debussy and Rachmaninoff.

Recital by Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Piano Duo

Strahinja Mitrović made history in 2024 when he became the first double bassist to win the Guildhall School of Music & Drama’s illustrious Gold Medal since its inception 109 years earlier, following in the footsteps of, among others, Jacqueline Du Pré, Sir Bryn Terfel and Maxim Rysanov. The Serbian musician, whose artistry was lauded with a five-star review by The Arts Desk and acclaimed for its ‘stunning originality’, also won the Guildhall Wigmore Recital Prize, enabling him to make his Wigmore solo debut this evening.

Strahinja Mitrović double bass; Chloé Dumoulin piano

Piano recital by Bertrand Chamayou, Festival Piano de La Roque d'Anthéron. Programme built around Mendelssohn's "Lieder ohne Worte", with romantic and modern echoes (Fauré, Liszt, Schumann, Takemitsu, Crumb, Kurtág) and Schubert's Wanderer-Fantaisie.

Songs Without Words, from Mendelssohn to McCartney

Formed by alumni of the National Repertory Orchestra, this quartet brings together musicians whose shared roots at the NRO have evolved into dynamic professional careers. In this program, they draw from American narratives that play a critical role in the ongoing evolution of our nation’s history and musical character. Through works that reflect migration, identity, tradition, and transformation, the ensemble creates a throughline between past and present.

Chamber Concert

Riverwalk Center

Born in France, to a French father and Korean mother, the foundations of Irène Duval’s perceptive artistry were set during her studies at the Conservatoire de Paris and Kronberg Academy. In high demand as a chamber music partner, she’s joined this morning by Canadian pianist Connie Shih for a recital that encompasses the dynamic energy of Beethoven’s Fourth Violin Sonata and Robert Schumann’s dramatic Violin Sonata in D minor.

Irène Duval violin; Connie Shih piano

A bold American portrait, live — Aaron Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, conducted by Gemma New with narration by Academy Award-nominated actor Josh Brolin, also featuring Jasmine Arielle Barnes’ American Lament performed by mezzo-soprano and Lehrer Vocal Institute Co-Director Sasha Cooke

Academy Chamber Orchestra: Copland, Barnes & Schumann

Lobero Theatre

The veteran Austrian pianist Rudolf Buchbinder is certain about the qualities that propelled Ariel Lanyi to the finals of the Leeds and Rubinstein International Piano Competitions. ‘His playing is precise, nuanced, and virtuosic, but he is no superficial virtuoso,’ he notes. ‘What sets him apart is his ability to delve deeply into the music and to establish a connection with it.’ Lanyi’s thoughtfully-crafted programme concludes with the character studies and atmospheric impressions of Debussy’s second book of Préludes.

Composer

Robert Schumann

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 11 - Nov 15, 2026

Members of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra · Teatro alla Scala

Nov 1, 2026

Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with Benedetti · Southbank Centre

Nov 3, 2026

Jonathan Leibovitz, clarinet · Kaufman Music Center

Nov 4, 2026

Emma Abbate and Julian Perkins · Sinfonia Smith Square

Nov 5, 2026

Elias String Quartet · Wigmore Hall

Past events

Oct 30, 2026

Friends Evening: Grayshott Concerts · London Mozart Players

Oct 29, 2026

Alexander Gadjiev piano · Wigmore Hall

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Schumann

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Conductor in Dance For Martin's Dream by Abels

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

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