Composer

The European Orchestra Academy is a joint initiative between the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) and the European Union Youth Orchestra, founded under the visionary guidance of Iván Fischer. This prestigious program provides talented young musicians from around Europe with invaluable orchestral experience alongside the BFO, while also offering them the opportunity to perform as chamber ensembles across numerous European countries.

Masterclass of the European Orchestra Academy – Closing Concert

BFO Rehearsal Hall

Even after 45 years, they still perform at the highest level: the "four world-class string players from Salzburg" ( Hamburger Abendblatt ). The Hagen Quartet's unprecedented career began in 1981. Numerous competition successes, a breathtaking discography, and tireless exploration of the virtually limitless quartet repertoire soon transformed the four musicians into a globally acclaimed ensemble with a distinctive profile. With Franz Schubert's last two string quartets—the ensemble's requested program for this occasion—the legendary Hagen Quartet bids farewell to the Salzburg stage.

Master Concert: Hagen Quartet Farewell Concert

Mozarteum Foundation

“My songs plead softly” – A song recital without words

Music School Conservatory Bern

6. Chamber Concert: Depths of Passion

Allerheiligen-Hofkirche

Even if it starts with the folk-song text "To wander is the miller’s delight," Schubert's cycle Die schöne Müllerin is not a collection of innocuous  traditional songs. Instead, we have before us possibly the most beautiful early Romantic opera, albeit in miniature format. A man breaks down because of unrequited love. This octet version combining string quartet, double bass, clarinet, bassoon, and horn, an ensemble invented by Schubert, paints the existential drama in even more vivid colors.

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The Beautiful Miller's Daughter

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

It’s the tail end of the big, bad 1980s in Hollywood, and the party has been raging hard. Aqua Net, Lycra, lace and liquor flow freely at one of the Sunset Strip’s last legendary venues, a place where sex machine Stacee Jaxx takes the stage and scantily clad groupies line up to turn their fantasies into reality. Amidst the madness, aspiring rock star (and resident toilet cleaner) Drew longs to take the stage as the next big thing (and longs for small-town girl Sherri, fresh off the bus from Kansas with stars in her eyes). But the rock ’n’ roll fairy tale is about to end when German developers sweep into town with plans to turn the fabled Strip into just another capitalist strip mall. Can Drew, Sherri and the gang save the strip – and themselves – before it’s too late? Only the music of hit bands Styx, Journey, Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and more hold the answer.

Rock of Ages

Chapel Street Players  

Verdi's Four Sacred Pieces represent the composer's spiritual testament and achieve unprecedented dramatic power – from the poignant lyricism of the Ave Maria to the monumentality of the Te Deum . They will be performed by the Chorus of the Montpellier National Opera, prepared by Noëlle Gény. In counterpoint, Schubert's Symphony No. 5 , composed at the age of 19 in the euphoria of his discovery of Mozart, embodies a vibrant homage to Viennese classicism. Under the sensitive direction of Italian conductor Clelia Cafiero, the strings dialogue with Mozartian transparency, while the woodwinds bring a pastoral hue to this youthful work that adopts romantic harmonic colors. Between fervor and light, an evening where the sacred is by turns intimate and grandiose.

Sacred Pieces

Opéra Comédie

Ismael Perez Ramirez, tenor

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Beethoven, Mendelssohn & Schubert

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

Accademia Bartolomeo Cristofori

4. Chamber Music in Strausberg – String Quartet and Clarinet Quintet

Kreismusikschule Märkisch-Oderland

A finale with two masterpieces. Who doesn't know and love Schubert's only piano quintet with its famous variation movement on the "capricious trout"? The song's cheerful tone imbues the entire quintet with an aura of carefree musical joy, to which its bright, luminous sound also contributes. In stark contrast, this is preceded by Brahms's long-matured, final piano quartet, which reflects deep biographical conflicts. It is among the most impressive chamber music of the Romantic era. When he sent the final version to his publisher, Brahms once jokingly suggested that the edition of the score should include a picture of the composer "in a Werther costume"—an allusion to Goethe's despairing suicide victim, as well as a reflection on the lingering effects of his more than 20-year-long turmoil in his love triangle with Clara and Robert Schumann.

Trout Quintet

Hessischer Rundfunk

Alexander Malofeev's debut was brilliant! The pianist stepped in for the ill Evgeny Kissin at a concert of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra - and the audience could hardly contain itself. The Frankfurt audience rewarded Malofeev's virtuoso playing with thunderous applause, not so much for its power as for its melody and transparency. It was high time for the 23-year-old to give a recital at the Alte Oper. Malofeev readily admits that he feels most at home alone on stage. He then gives an insight into his world of sound: "It's always my own space, even when hundreds of people are listening. I let them in. I like to create my own space. In the Mozart Hall, Malofeev creates a sound space that spans Scandinavia, France, Vienna and his Russian homeland: Characteristic pieces glowing in intense colours.

Alexander Malofeev, piano

Alte Oper

Seho Young, piano

Tian Tang, piano

"Here, alongside impulsive unconditionality, one also hears ghostly sounds, the most delicate details, and breathtaking filigree work." – the Frankfurter Rundschau newspaper can hardly contain its enthusiasm in its review of the groundbreaking recording of Schubert's "Die schöne Müllerin" (The Beautiful Miller's Daughter), which star tenor Julian Prégardien and fortepiano expert Kristian Bezuidenhout presented in 2024. With their reinterpretation of this famous song cycle, the two transform the small hall of the Elbphilharmonie into a chamber of beautiful lovemaking.

Julian Prégardien / Kristian Bezuidenhout

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Chamber music icons in the former Rothschild orangery. The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester) presents three captivating trios by Shostakovich, Rachmaninoff, and Schubert at the premiere of its "Chamber Flicker" series in the historic pavilion in Frankfurt's Günthersburgpark. An early stroke of genius by the young Shostakovich meets a musical gem from the late Schubert and Rachmaninoff's melancholic "Trio élégiaque No. 1." Shostakovich was just 17 when he composed his Piano Trio, which was only published from his posthumous manuscripts in 1983. Schubert's Piano Trio is one of his last and most mature works, which, according to Robert Schumann, swept over the musical scene of the time "like an angry apparition from heaven."

Trio élégiaque

Orangerie

Season Finale Dreaming Big

University of Nevada

Every season deserves a finale that means something. This one is built around two opposing ideas: the perfect ending and the impossible one.

Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony stops mid-sentence. Two movements, then nothing. He never explained why. The most famous incomplete work in the repertoire — and arguably the most perfect, because its silence says everything the notes can't. It opens the evening like a question.

Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony closes it with the answer. The final movement is the most architecturally elaborate thing Mozart ever wrote: five themes, running simultaneously, woven into a fugue so dense and so inevitable that when it ends, it feels like the only possible conclusion to anything — the season, the year, music itself. Beethoven heard it and spent a decade trying to write something as good.

Together they make an argument: some things need to stay open. Some things need to close properly. A great season finale knows which is which. After the final chord, drinks will be served in the foyer. You are not required to leave quickly.

(Finishing) Unfinished Business

Artelize Hall

Every season deserves a finale that means something. This one is built around two opposing ideas: the perfect ending and the impossible one.


(Really Finishing) Unfinished Business

Mariotti. Visioni d’addio

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Chamber Music in the Brahms-Saal

Musikverein Wien

Xin Quan, violin

Thanks to our continuing partnership with Wigmore Hall, every three years we bring a world-class string quartet to Leeds for nine exciting performances.

Opus13 - Quartet in Residence

Leeds Conservatoire

Rohan Purohit, tenor

The Residentie Orkest will bring the season to a grand close at Amare with two impressive works. Jean Sibelius's Violin Concerto is infused with the spirit of Finnish nature - you can see the mist rising over dark lakes, hear the echoes of deep forests and feel the biting cold of the rugged landscape in every note of this chillingly beautiful work. Artist in residence Bomsori Kim will bring the slow rhythms of nature to life with her masterful violin playing, under the baton of chief conductor Jun Märkl.

Bruckner & Sibelius

Amare

Peng Huang, violin

The Pavel Haas Quartet is revered across the globe for its richness of timbre, infectious passion and intuitive rapport. Playing “as if their lives depend on it” (The Times). Based in Prague, the quartet performs at the world’s most prestigious concert halls and has received numerous high-profile awards for its recordings, firmly establishing them as one of the world’s foremost string quartets.

Pavel Haas Quartet

St Lawrence Church

Helaine Liebman, soprano

Dahlia String Trio plays three masterpieces from three centuries, each offering a unique exploration of string texture.

Poetry in motion

Unitarisk Kirkesamfund

Concert 8

La Jolla Woman's Club

Get ready to laugh, reflect, and swoon as the Atlantic String Quartet ends the Recital Series with a night of clever contrasts and string-filled storytelling!

Recital 4 kicks off with Joseph Haydn’s “The Joke”, a witty masterpiece full of musical punchlines and unexpected pauses that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat (and maybe giggling under your breath). Then, journey into the heart of Eastern Europe with Borys Lyatoshynsky Suite on Ukrainian Themes—a rich tapestry of folk melodies and bold harmonies that sing with national pride. Finally, sink into the youthful lyricism of Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 4, a charming early gem that already hints at the emotional depth and elegance that made him a Romantic powerhouse.

Recital 4

Memorial University School of Music

The “Schubertiade” was a concert invented during Franz Schubert’s lifetime by his friends, who would gather for long evenings to enjoy their favorite composer’s music. Join us for our season-closing Schubertiade exploring Schubert in three settings: his inimitable four-hand piano music, his virtuosic vein with a violin-and-piano showpiece, and his profound statements in the epic Trio in E-flat major, which took the genre to unparalleled levels of complexity and emotional intensity.

Schubertiade

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Arcadi Volodos

Teatro alla Scala  

Víkingur Ólafsson believes that Ludwig van Beethoven reinvented himself with the Sonata in E major, Op. 109, while at the same time paying homage to one of his great inspirations: Johann Sebastian Bach, who served as Beethoven’s “compass” for this venture into the unknown, as he puts it. The last movement of Op. 109 is a theme and variations that reveals “striking connections with the Goldberg Variations,” according to Víkingur. “Both are built on a songful Sarabande theme which comes back at the end in a cyclical return — the only time Beethoven does so in a variation movement. Even more, he brings little glimpses from the Goldbergs into play, including direct citations from Bach and such techniques as a fugato and so on.” Víkingur’s recital traces a path to this pinnacle through four works, all in E major or minor yet each strikingly different in character. Alongside a Bach prelude and the great E minor Partita, he includes a rarely heard Schubert sonata comprising only two movements that he believes was written in response to Beethoven’s own two-movement Sonata in E minor, Op. 90 — which is why it, too, merits a place on his program.

Víkingur Ólafsson

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Hungarian-American pianist Julia Hamos presents a program that bridges centuries and styles and features two of the most important composers from Hungary. Beginning with a selection from Kurtág’s Játékok, she navigates through Haydn’s Sonata in E minor, Ligeti’s Études (Arc-en-ciel, Der Zauberlehrling, Fanfares), and Mozart’s Sonata in A minor, culminating in Schumann’s beloved Fantasie in C Major. Hamos’s adventurous spirit and compelling artistry promise an evening of compelling musical exploration.

Julia Hamos, piano

Washington Performing Arts

Sarasota Orchestra closes its season with a program of works that left the door open for more. No one is certain why Schubert never finished his Eighth Symphony, but the two movements that he did compose remain among his most beloved. Julia Perry’s Short Piece for Orchestra was the first work by a woman of color to be performed by the New York Philharmonic; Perry’s life and career were cut short at age 55. In his Symphony No. 45, Haydn sent a not-so subtle message to his employer that the orchestra was ready for a break. This symphony has delighted audiences for over 250 years and concludes our 76th season with a chuckle as each musician exits the stage in a dramatic send-off.

Unfinished Business

Sarasota Opera House

The past meets the future in bold, unexpected ways. Stravinsky’s Pulcinella transforms the elegance of Baroque music into something sharp, witty, and rhythmically alive, a playful homage viewed through a modern lens. Then, experience the grandeur of Schubert’s Great C Major Symphony, a sweeping, lyrical masterpiece that bridges the Classical and Romantic worlds. Together, these works celebrate tradition not by preserving it, but by reinventing it. Two composers, a century apart, united in their fearless reinvention of tradition.

Reimaginings

Belfast

Ulster Orchestra: Reimaginings

Ulster Hall

Schubert composed like an oil painter, drawing from a rich palette of melodic and harmonic colours. With a divine lyricism at its heart, his music is imbued with an intimacy and intensity that taps into the full range of human emotion.

Schubert’s Fantasy & Octet

ACO On The Pier

Haoran Cui, Piano and Dustin Breshears, Violin

The Juilliard School

Janse Barkley, tenor

Yetong Tang, piano

Jimin Lee is a graduating senior at Washington University in St. Louis, pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Data Science with a minor in Music. She has studied flute with Dr. Jennifer Gartley since 2022 and was a member of the WashU Wind Ensemble for seven semesters, serving as one of the principal flutists during the most recent academic year. She is the first-place winner of the 2025–2026 Friends of Music Concerto and Aria Competition and the 2026 Flute Society of St. Louis (FSSL) Young Artist Competition. Previously, she performed Breeze in the Forest as a soloist with the WashU Wind Ensemble in recognition of her runner-up placement in the 2024–2025 Concerto Competition. She also placed 3rd at the 2023 FSSL Young Artist Competition and is a two-time recipient of the Music Department Award at WashU.

Jimin Lee and Angelica Han, Senior Minor Recital, flute

560 Music Center

 Only Stephen Hough could shape a concert like this. We begin with Klavierstücke – literally, ‘Piano Pieces’ – from two romantic giants, Schubert and Brahms, and two towering 20th-century composers, Schoenberg and Stockhausen. From Beethoven’s majestic ‘Waldstein’ Sonata, Robert Schumann’s vivid suite transports us to the heart of carnival. And we end – where else? – on the streets of Edwardian London, with Hough’s own bravura arrangements of songs from Mary Poppins.

Sir Stephen Hough

The Bridgewater Hall

Taiyu Zong, violin

The future prince of song gazed upon the chromaticism of Mozart's "Dissonance Quartet"—and in March 1813, at the age of 16, penned an early stroke of genius in just five days, carefree and bold in its harmony. The 22-year-old Antonín Dvořák composed 18 songs driven by heartbreak—and 22 years later arranged 12 of them for string quartet. Johannes Brahms, too, struggled for a long time before finally achieving his first string quartet, one that he considered truly valid. He had abandoned everything before it. With its selection, the Minetti Quartet offers a fascinating lesson in the quest for chamber music excellence.

Minetti Quartet

Das MuTh

Known for her radiant voice and deeply expressive artistry, acclaimed soprano Larisa Martínez takes listeners on a journey of passion, poetry, and vibrant musical storytelling as this program explores love in all its forms, from quiet reflection to exuberant celebration.

Larisa Martinez, soprano

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

A 2025 MacDowell Fellow and 2024 Yaddo Artist, composer-pianist Michael Stephen Brown performs recitals and concertos worldwide and is commissioned by leading orchestras, soloists, and chamber music festivals. Winner of the 2026 Andrew Wolf Chamber Music Award, an Emerging Artist Award from Lincoln Center, and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, he has appeared as soloist with the Seattle, Phoenix, North Carolina, Albany, and Maryland Symphonies, as well as the NFM Leopoldinum Orchestra. His recital appearances include Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, the Louvre, Wigmore Hall, and Beethoven-Haus Bonn.

Michael Stephen Brown, piano

The Chapel Restoration

2024 Operalia First Prize winner, Chinese bass-baritone Le Bu, made his highly anticipated Washington, DC recital debut as the Vocal Arts DC Gerald Perman Emerging Artist. His performance marked the grand finale of our 35th anniversary season and is dedicated to the memory of our founder and his wife, Gerald and Ann K. Perman.

Joined by pianist, Artyom Pak, the afternoon featured Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, a haunting and evocative song cycle, along with works highlighting Le’s musical storytelling.

Le Bu & Artyom Pak

Live! At 10th & G

Barry Douglas has established a major international career since winning the Gold Medal at the 1986 Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition, Moscow. As Artistic Director of Camerata Ireland, the only all-Ireland orchestra and the Clandeboye Festival, he continues to celebrate his Irish heritage whilst also maintaining a busy international touring schedule.

Barry Douglas

Corn Exchange Newbury

Braxton Leek, trumpet

He was said to be brittle, sensuous, didactic, neoclassical. We still encounter prejudices against Hindemith. Why? When his music is accessible and honest, challenging, full of joy and dynamism. It was probably National Socialism, with its accusation of left-wing cultural Bolshevism, that has permanently damaged Hindemith to this day and ensures that he continues to be under-recognized in concert life. We're putting that to rest, once and for all! And present the versatile, tragic, serious, and humorous Hindemith. He is so much more than a prelude to the incredible Franz Schubert: an hour of C major.

Basel Chamber Orchestra with Vilde Fang

Stadtcasino Basel

At the center of the program is Schubert's essential Quintet , nicknamed "The Trout": a lively and sparkling work, where each instrument interacts with the others, blending virtuosity and lightness. Other musical gems will enrich a program where the musical exchange and the complicity of the performers are fully deployed.

In unison

Le Corum

8th Chamber Music Concert in the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera

Ari Tujian, countertenor

Xinyi Liu, soprano

Saranow, Beethoven, and Schubert

Curtis Institute of Music

Lisa Arnhold Memorial Recital | Katarina String Quartet

Carnegie Hall

Maxine Silverstein is a senior at Washington University in St. Louis. Maxine has a major in mathematics with a minor in music, focusing on music composition and voice. Their musical journey began in elementary school, where they experimented with the piano and violin before settling on the cello. They discovered their passion for voice in the theater, participating in several musicals throughout their middle and high school years. For the past four years, they have been studying voice under Nathan Ruggles, with a focus on classical voice. They have had the privilege of performing in masterclasses with Lawrence Brownlee, Marques Jerrell Ruff, and Dr. Bethany Worrell. Maxine wants to extend their gratitude to their family, friends, and mentors who have supported their endeavors at WashU.

Maxine Silverstein, Senior Minor Recital, voice

Wednesdays at One: Pre-College Chamber Music

Lincoln Center

This programme begins with one of the best loved string quartets of all time: Franz Schubert’s Death and the Maiden remains among of the most powerful and poignant works in the genre. In the second half we are joined by Canadian violin legend, Mark Fewer for a performance of Mendelssohn’s exuberant Viola Quintet in B flat.

Death and the Maiden

Winspear Centre

Chamber Concert 8 »Sounds of Romanticism«

Oper Graz

From a touching, bucolic melody, of which Francis Blanche proposed a charming parody, Schubert produced a large-scale score that has become a cornerstone of the chamber repertoire.

The Trout

Philharmonie de Paris

Professors of the Maggio Orchestra

La Macchina del Suono

Music has long been one of the most powerful vehicles for storytelling. The composers in Songs About Story draw from text, memory, and tradition to craft musical narratives that communicate across time.

Songs About Story

Pasadena Conservatory of Music

This season, PCM presents three Musical Interludes concerts: Songs About Place, Love, and Story.

Our 82nd season concludes with the Juilliard String Quartet in their 31st concert for Chamber Music Detroit - more than any other ensemble in our history. This program pairs two works in memory of the late JSQ violist Roger Tapping - including one by Tapping himself - with the stirring G major string quartet by Franz Schubert - the last of the composer’s 15 string quartets.

Season Finale: Juilliard String Quartet

Detroit Country Day School - Upper School

Join us for an unforgettable evening where raw emotion meets musical might.
The night opens with Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture—a gripping sonic battle of will and destiny, capturing the fierce inner conflict of a tragic hero. Next, prepare to be swept away by the lyric fire of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, a masterwork that wields grace as strength and passion as purpose. Finally, revel in the bold exuberance of Schubert’s Symphony No. 2, a youthful yet commanding declaration of symphonic brilliance.

Finding Power

University of Redlands

Kaylin Chung, violin

Experience the Australian Chamber Orchestra in a uniquely intimate setting, bathed in the warm glow of candlelight. This renowned ensemble, known for their virtuosic playing and adventurous programming, will present a program that spans centuries of musical expression. In the candlelit Samueli Theater, hear Purcell's hauntingly beautiful Fantasia on One Note, Handel's majestically celebratory Concerto Grosso in A Major, Op. 6 No. 11, a sonically immersive new work by John Luther Adams, Vaughan Williams' ethereally soaring "The Lark Ascending" (arranged by Adam Johnson), and Schubert's String Quartet in D minor, D.810 "Death and the Maiden" (arranged by Richard Tognetti).

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Paul Williamson, piano

Richard Goode has been hailed for music-making of tremendous emotional power, depth and expressiveness, and acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of Classical and Romantic piano music. Goode has curated a program called “Fancies and Goodnights”—borrowing the title from a book of bewitching tales by writer John Collier—that highlights works that have caught his ear with their beauty and unpredictability.

Richard Goode, piano

Oberlin College

It will not surprise fans of the probing, insightful pianist Víkingur Ólafsson that his newest project goes deep. Previously, he devoted an entire season of performances to Bach’s Goldberg Variations—playing the cycle for 88 concerts in total, including at Cal Performances in May 2024—because, in his words, “I wanted to know how deeply I can dive into a composition and how many different facets I can discover in it.” He won a Grammy this year for his sterling recording of that work.

Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

Cal Performances

Sophia Liù

Teatro La Fenice

Oluwatoni “Toni” John is a graduating senior at WashU studying history with minors in music and applied linguistics. Although she grew up singing, she more concretely began her vocal journey in her sixth-grade choir class. Every year since then, she has sung in school and district choirs. At WashU, she has been a member of Concert Choir and has taken voice lesson with Tamara Campbell since her freshman year. Toni also founded, leads, and arranges for Unending Praise Gospel Choir, WashU’s premier a cappella gospel choir. The group has performed at events including Black Convocation, WashU’s annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebrations, and various others. After graduation, Toni plans to take a gap year before enrolling in a Ph.D. program in African studies.

Oluwatoni John, Senior Minor Recital, voice

With three gems from chamber music, the Busch Trio celebrates the triumph of art over the adversities of life: In his Piano Trio K. 502, the immortal Mozart plays with light and shade, yet his choice of the key of B-flat major underscores the hope for a better world. Despite the despair over his increasing deafness, Beethoven reached a creative peak around the creation of his "Ghost Trio." And Schubert, in the face of his approaching death, composed nothing less than a masterpiece with the monumental E-flat major Trio.

Pure classical music: Busch Trio

Recital Michael Volle

Zurich Opera House

Wind Division Recital

The revered British singer has had a long, respected career as an art song specialist, but it was his performance at King Charles III’s coronation that brought him worldwide fame. Closing our season, he performs Schubert’s seminal song cycle about love and despair.

Roderick Williams, baritone Myra Huang, piano Union College

Union College

When Franz Liszt first heard some of Schubert's songs, he was deeply moved. As a master of transcribing music for the piano – whether originally written for other instruments or voice – he went on to create exquisitely sensitive arrangements of many of Schubert's lieder.

Piano Solo –Zee Zee

Konserthuset Stockholm

After 51 legendary years, founding cellist András Fejér has announced his retirement from the Takács Quartet. The ensemble is thrilled to welcome the acclaimed Mihai Marica as their new cellist, effective September 1, 2026. Marica will join the Takács Quartet on stage for the final piece of the April 2026 concert.

Takács Quartet (in-person and digital): April 2026

University of Colorado Boulder

Madeleine Zuckerman, soprano

Honored by the League of American Orchestras, guest conductor Daniel Hege returns to Chapman Music Hall to lead the orchestra in a dark and mysterious concert that replicates the tone of the opera Khovanshchina. Rich harmonies evoke a feeling of dawn over Moscow for the audience in Tulsa's Performing Arts Center. Thereafter, enjoy the expressive work of Ruth Gipps's Horn Concerto, Op. 58, which features a three-movement piece, each with its own character and mood, ending on a lively and rhythmic passage. Hege leads the orchestra into the final and majestic selection of Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 in C major, D.944, “The Great.” This four-movement piece travels through a bold, relaxed, lively, and triumphant orchestral journey. A concert not to be missed!

Tso On Air: Schubert's Symphony No. 9, "the Great"

KWTU Classical 88.7 FM

Hank Chen, Tenor

Pianist and composer Conrad Tao is widely celebrated for his boundary-defying artistry as well as his powerful performances of traditional repertoire. Described by New York Magazine as “the kind of musician who is shaping the future of classical music,” and praised by The New York Times for his “probing intellect and open-hearted vision,” Tao appears regularly as a soloist with leading orchestras and at major venues across the world.

Conrad Tao, piano

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

“Last week I gave a ball in my own rooms . . . we began at 6 in the evening and stopped at 7—what? only an hour?—no, no—at seven in the morning.” — W. A. Mozart 

Beginning with Mozart, who was an avid and reportedly expert dancer, this program offers a unique opportunity to enjoy the special synergy between music and dance: from composers who created dance music for social gatherings like the “Waltz King” Johann Strauss, Jr., to artistic representations of folk dances by Johannes Brahms and David Serkin Ludwig.

Invitation to the Dance

One of Canada’s most beloved pianists, Angela Cheng, takes center stage in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1—a sparkling, crowd-pleasing masterpiece that blends classical charm with virtuosic brilliance.

Composer

Franz Schubert

Events

Upcoming events

12 - 27 Jun, 2026

Rock of Ages · Chapel Street Players

12 - 27 Jun, 2026

Rock of Ages · Chapel Street Players

12 - 27 Jun, 2026

Rock of Ages · Chapel Street Players

Jun 23, 2026

Elisabeth Leonskaja In Recital · Barbican Centre

Jun 24, 2026

Piano recital Christian Zacharias · Konzerthaus Blaibach

Past events

Jun 18, 2026

Masterclass of the European Orchestra Academy – Closing Concert · Budapest Festival Orchestra

Jun 16, 2026

Master Concert: Hagen Quartet Farewell Concert · Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Duo for Violin and Cello (1925) by Schulhoff

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

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Composer

Franz Schubert

Events

Upcoming events

12 - 27 Jun, 2026

Rock of Ages · Chapel Street Players

12 - 27 Jun, 2026

Rock of Ages · Chapel Street Players

12 - 27 Jun, 2026

Rock of Ages · Chapel Street Players

Jun 23, 2026

Elisabeth Leonskaja In Recital · Barbican Centre

Jun 24, 2026

Piano recital Christian Zacharias · Konzerthaus Blaibach

Past events

Jun 18, 2026

Masterclass of the European Orchestra Academy – Closing Concert · Budapest Fes­ti­val Orches­tra

Jun 16, 2026

Master Concert: Hagen Quartet Farewell Concert · Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum

Future and recently performed repertoire

Violin in Duo for Violin and Cello (1925) by Schulhoff

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

About

Franz Schubert hasn't added a bio

Masterclass of the European Orchestra Academy – Closing Concert · Budapest Festival Orchestra