Composer

A program where contemporary composers approach ancient texts with a gentle hand. Meditations on reflection followed by Fauré's Requiem.

HSO – All Saints' Concert – Fauré's Requiem

Helsingborgs Konserthus

Five musicians from the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra perform Shostakovich's Chamber Symphony alongside works by Prokofiev and Fauré in dialogue with sculptor Ossip Zadkine's visual works at the KMSKA museum.

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra X KMSKA LAAT

Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (KMSKA)

From early fame as a BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist in 2014 to being the inaugural recipient of the Prix Serdang in 2022, Martin’s performances are hailed as a thrilling experience delivered with passion and technical mastery. His festival appearance includes pieces by Bach, Handel, Mozart, Chopin and Fauré.

Martin James Bartlett Piano Recital

Kent College

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.

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Dinosaur Department Store

St John the Evangelist, Upper Norwood

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

From Beethoven’s “Adelaide” to Fauré’s “Lydia” to Noël Coward’s “Nina,” our playlist is composed of songs whose titles are the given names of a colorful cast of characters, ranging from Biblical times (Belsazar) and Greek myths (Ganymede) to the Beatles’ London (Michelle) and Randy Newman’s America (Marie). Featuring soprano Christine Taylor Price, mezzo-soprano Megan Moore, baritone Samuel Kidd, and NYFOS’s own Steven Blier and Bénédicte Jourdois as pianists and hosts.

New York Festival of Song: First-Name Basis

Rachel Cocks is a trombone student in her final year of undergraduate study at the Conservatoire, under the tutelage of Rich Watkin, Tony Howe and Edward Jones. During her degree studies, orchestral and chamber music have become her main passions. She has been selected for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's training scheme and gained first prize in the Bernard Brown Chamber Ensemble Prize.

Lunchtime Music

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

Two outstanding musicians invite you on a journey through songs of love, loss and protest, from the quiet faith of Bach’s Jesu, joy of man’s desiring to the defiance of The Beatles’ hit Blackbird and the famous Farewell to Stromness.

Love, Loss & Protest: Imogen Whitehead & Olivia Jageurs

Bertrand Chamayou – Piano recital

Rudolfinum

Enjoy a varied programme of chamber music from Royal College of Music musicians at this lunchtime concert at St Pancras Church.

RCM at St Pancras Church

St Pancras Church, Euston Road

What lies beyond the edge of our imagination? Join us for the Worlds of Wonder concert with the Oklahoma City Philharmonic for an immersive journey through shadow and light. From the haunting depths of Mussorgsky to the celestial scale of Whitacre and the iconic strains of Led Zeppelin, experience a massive sonic landscape that defies expectation.

Worlds of Wonder

Civic Center Music Hall

Asya Fateyeva is a trailblazing virtuoso saxophonist trained in Paris, Cologne, and Hamburg. In 2014, she became the first woman to reach the finals of the prestigious International Adolphe Sax Competition in Dinant, Belgium, where she secured third place. She regularly performs with leading European orchestras and boldly combines musical styles in her albums.

Fauré. Bach. Haydn. Ibert

Lobkowicz Palace

IMS Prussia Cove brings world-class chamber music to venues across the UK, showcasing young artists alongside celebrated performers. Artistic Director Steven Isserlis invites musicians from across the world, creating unique chamber groups which combine different generations and nationalities to bring audiences unforgettable performances inspired by an exceptional tradition of music making.

IMS Prussia Cove

Wigmore Hall

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

The Voice and the Soul

Teatro Massimo di Palermo

Celebrating his twentieth anniversary with the Orchestra, double bass Section Leader Marcel Becker revisits works that marked a new chapter in his musical life. Just before moving to Liverpool, Marcel recorded a selection of cherished pieces for double bass and piano – romantic and virtuosic gems of the double bass repertoire, some lovingly borrowed from the violin and cello repertoire. Two decades later, he brings them to life once again in a heartfelt and poignant performance.

Romancing the Bass

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

Join Gareth Malone for an inspirational day singing Fauré's Requiem.

Sing with Gareth

University of Kent

Four Sundays each season, the musicians of the Paris Opera Orchestra are inviting you to share one hour of chamber music in the great auditorium of the Palais Garnier.    

Au Bord de l’eau

Palais Garnier

The program features two compositions by Antonio Giardina,  Nightscapes  and  Mandorlo in Fiore , both performed for the first time ever. Two profoundly different works in origin and imagery, but united by a highly descriptive conception of music, in which sound often arises from an image, a real or imaginary landscape, or an emotional state transformed into musical material.

Notes at the Museum

Palazzo Abatellis

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

When harp lessons were announced at a school assembly, Mared Pugh-Evans’s hand shot up immediately. She later recalled in an interview that she had always been very well-behaved — it was simply in her nature — but that moment may have been the most mischievous thing she had ever done. Little Mared was six at the time, and her father was the headmaster of her primary school. And that headmaster looked pretty stunned on the podium — perhaps mentally calculating the family budget, since a good harp can easily cost many tens of thousands of pounds. In Mared’s case, however, the investment more than paid off: by eleven she was already proving herself in competitions, and she has since earned numerous awards. The crowning moment came in 2024, when King Charles III appointed her “The King’s Harpist” — a royal position that had been reinstated by the then Prince of Wales in 2000. Back then, it went to Catrin Finch, the very harpist whose concert the young Mared had once listened to in rapt fascination, sparking her own love of the instrument. A “full circle” if ever there was one!

Mared Pugh-Evans

Lukaskirche Lucerne

The Royal Swedish Opera's traditional participation in Parkteatern's annual program: every summer cultural experiences are offered on outdoor stages around Stockholm - completely free.

The Opera in the park

Vitabergsparken

The world-famous French pianist Jean-Marc Luisada returns to the Paliesius Manor - this time he invites listeners to the world of fantasies and nocturnes. The works of Joseph Haydn, Fryderyk Chopin and Gabriel Fauré will be performed, revealing the diversity and beauty of the genres of fantasies and nocturnes. Chopin's romance, Haydn's playfulness and Fauré's elegant introspection will intertwine into one delicate musical journey. Jean-Marc Luisada won the F. Chopin Competition in Warsaw in 1985 and is now known as one of the best and most interesting interpreters of F. Chopin in the world.

Jean-Marc Luisada. Fantasies and Nocturnes (piano, France)

Paliesius Manor

A passionate Sonatenabend (or “Evening of Sonatas”) with pieces by Bowen, Faure, and Rachmaninoff.

Sonatabend: Romance at the Bay

Pacific Maritime Heritage Center

We are back at Frogner hovedgård, and with French composers as the common thread, we dedicate the afternoon to chamber music from the late Romantic era and Impressionism. This is a concert where lyrical melodies and tonal colors are given free rein, and it is perfect for you if you have a heart for the harp.

French Focus

Frogner hovedgård

Lunch concert at the Stavanger Chamber Music Festival, featuring works by Sæverud, Grieg, and Fauré.

Strie Bergensere

Skur 2

Piano recital by David Kadouch at the Parc de Florans, La Roque d'Anthéron. Program: Debussy, Bonis, Fauré, Boulanger, Ravel.

6 PM Recital: David Kadouch, Piano

Parc de Florans

Rediscovered and published posthumously in 2007, Messiaen’s early Fantaisie sets the mood for Carolin Widmann’s uplifting recital with her long-term duo partner Alexander Lonquich. The German violinist, praised by BBC Music Magazine for her ‘beguiling subtlety of phrasing, tonal colour and dynamic shading’, continues with three different approaches to the sonata genre, each distinguished by their bold ideas and abundance of melodic invention.

Carolin Widmann violin; Alexander Lonquich piano

Wigmore Hall Associate Artist Gweneth Ann Rand’s inspired selection of words and music looks at migration and exile both through the lens of history and with a contemporary eye. The soprano’s choice of works was shaped by a quote from the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, Thích Nhất Hạnh, who himself spent over half his long life as an exile in France: 'If we believe that tomorrow will be better,’ he wrote, ‘we can bear a hardship today'.

Gweneth Ann Rand soprano; Allyson Devenish piano; Simon Lepper piano

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

Tango!

San Carlo Theatre

Christopher Bell celebrates his 25th anniversary as Director of the Grant Park Chorus with Fauré’s beloved Requiem. James MacMillan’s powerful Cantos Sagrados opens the program alongside Vaughan Williams’s Toward the Unknown Region, a poignant setting of a poem by Walt Whitman.

Fauré Requiem

Millennium Park

Three mezzo-soprano voices: the same tessitura but timbres that could hardly be more different. Three young singers, Brenda Poupard, Anouk de Fontenay and Léontine Maridat-Zimmerlin, accompanied by pianist Anne Pagès, sing solo, in duets and in trios. World premiere of La Balade des Vierges by Jean-Marc Fouché.

One, Two, Three Voices

Jardins de la Salle Jean-Louis Herrault

The Orchester der Oper Zürich starts the concert season under a new, old name. After thirteen years as Philharmonia Zurich, the orchestra will return to its original moniker. The Philharmonic Concerts will once again alternate between the Opernhaus and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Tugan Sokhiev

Zurich Opera House

Darkness, brightness and the moonlit space in between make this Opening Night of the Benoliel Chamber Music Series a treat for every fan of close-enough-to-touch musical experiences, featuring pianist Tanner Jorden and Festival Musicians.

Benoliel Chamber Music Series: Light & Shadow

Jackson Hole High School

Piano recital: from Mendelssohn to Schubert, with nods from Romanticism to the Beatles. A dazzling programme by Bertrand Chamayou.

Bertrand Chamayou – From Mendelssohn to Lennon

Opéra Comédie

Tonight's program offers a refined musical journey through the 19th and 20th centuries, highlighting the extraordinary expressive possibilities of the flute and harp duo. The combination of the two instruments, among the most evocative in chamber music, allows for the exploration of a rich palette of sound, capable of evoking intimate and contemplative atmospheres, but also virtuosic impulses and accents of intense theatricality.

Robert Schumann sublime le lied ; Marianne Crebassa rayonne, de l'intime à la mélodie française. Cycle Frauenliebe und Leben, op. 42, with a French mélodie programme by Fauré, and Siete Canciones populares españolas by Falla, and songs by Duparc.

L'amour et la vie d'une femme

Le Corum

'Where other children would have nursery rhymes, I’d go to bed to the sounds of Haydn, Mozart and Schubert,' recalls Sir Simon Keenlyside, whose father and grandfather were both professional violinists. Those priceless formative years continued when he became a boy chorister, then a choral scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge, and set rock-solid foundations for his subsequent career as a wonderfully perceptive concert singer, one of the most exciting operatic performers of modern times.

Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone; Malcolm Martineau piano

When the Parisian composer Lili Boulanger took Psalm 130 ‘Du fond de l’abîme’ and set it to music in a darkly opulent, lyrical style, she was already acutely aware that her life—marked by serious illness but wholly dedicated to music—would not be long. In his own Requiem Op. 48, Gabriel Fauré (an early admirer and supporter of Boulanger’s exceptional talent) sought to depict death as peaceful and consoling. With subtle nuance and great depth, the choral soloists of the Komische Oper Berlin, led by choir director David Cavelius, are presenting late Romantic masterpieces of French sacred music. Meanwhile, the renowned Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna will unlock the radiant power of the Konzerthaus organ with Francis Poulenc’s expressive Concerto for Organ in G minor.

Sacre Choir

Konzerthaus Berlin

Philharmonia

Northwestern University

Yance Zheng, piano

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Callan Shanahan, soprano

Amy Chu Yi Zhang, violin

Flutist and composer André Jolivet was the kind of musician who strictly avoided conformity and advocated for music that makes us feel “human.” Pairing the flute with a quartet of percussionists, he aimed to highlight the instruments closest to the “primal” senses and origin of music in his 1965 suite.

Sounds of France

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Quartetto Fauré

Teatro La Fenice

Philharmonic Choir Nuremberg

Meistersinger Hall

Adrian Nicolas Ong, violin

One of Tchaikovsky’s most personal works lends its name to this concert, promising a transporting and deeply felt journey that spans both geographical routes and more intimate paths of memory and profound impressions. Our voyage also includes a new piece by composer Barbara Assiginaak, written for flutist Ariane Brisson, who will be performing its premiere.

Souvenir de Florence

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

Palais Montcalm – Maison de la musique

Janse Barkley, tenor

Cijing Zuo, violin

Jared Cohen, tenor

Renée Emiko Murphy, Harp

The Juilliard School

Join us for an engaging evening of chamber music featuring talented students, collaborating together on one stage! The program includes exciting pieces for duos, quartets, and quintets including repertoire by Faure, Lachner, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bridge, and more.

String Chamber Music Spring Concert Series

University of Arizona

Mary Brook Hartmann, Cello and Stephen Chang, Viola

Enjoy a wonderful brunch plate in the Foyer of the Music House while you are entertained by classical musicians on the Café Stage.

Classical Mornings

Musikhuset Aarhus

Alex Kondratov, tenor

Gabriel Fauré's beloved Requiem, known for its calm and peaceful character unlike other requiems, performed by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Swedish Radio Choir under the direction of Fredrik Burstedt. The concert begins with a performance of Austrian Olga Neuwirth's Tombeau II Hommage a Pierre Boulez, followed by the Swedish turn-of-the-century composer Helena Munktell's Suite for Large Orchestra 'Suite Symphonique' in four movements.

Fauré’s Requiem

Berwaldhallen

SR Berwaldhallen

Experience a mesmerizing fusion of musical worlds as the legendary Wu Man brings the haunting beauty of the pipa to life in Zhao Jiping’s Trumpet Concerto. The pipa is a 2,000-year- old, lute-like instrument and Man, the world’s leading pipa player. Lan Shui leads the RPO in an exhilarating program featuring John Adams’ The Chairman Dances, Fauré’s evocative Pelléas et Mélisande, and the swirling intensity of Ravel’s La Valse. A night of rhythm, romance, and riveting orchestral color awaits!

RPO: Rhythm & Romance

Eastman Theatre

Rhythm & Romance

Xinyi Liu, soprano

Wind Division Recital

560 Music Center

Norah Bernstein, soprano

With the 2025 Chatelain Young Artist winner, UMKC Choirs, Village Presbyterian Chorus, and guest soloists. Bolero (Ravel), Adagio in G Minor (Remo), Requiem in D minor (Faure).

Musical Paradise

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

The KC Civic Orchestra, UMKC combined choirs and alumni, and Village Presbyterian Church Choir perform Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48

KC Civic Orchestra and Choirs present the Fauré Requiem

Hosted by Classic FM and sports presenter Karthi Gnanasegaram, who knows her way around a football pitch as well as a stadium anthem!

The Beautiful Game

National Football Museum

Voice Division Recital

Dandan Wang, violin

Curtis Institute of Music

Monday at Last is the concert series where Cecilia Zilliacus and Kati Raitinen invite guest artists to join them in performing both new and older music. This time, the guest is Scottish pianist Alasdair Beatson.

Monday at Last with Strings and Piano

Stockholm Concert Hall

Winner of the 2023 Concert Artists Guild Competition, major prizewinner at the 2022 Sibelius and Singapore International Violin Competitions, recipient of the Salon de Virtuosi Career Grant, and the youngest person ever to win the Windsor Festival Competition, violinist Nathan Meltzer is establishing a holistic and multifaceted career as both a soloist and chamber musician, with a passion for both standard and contemporary repertoire.

Nathan Meltzer, violin with pianist Wynona Wang

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

London-born Helena Baillie was hailed by The Strad magazine for her ”brilliance and poignance,” and stands apart for a rare ease on both violin and viola. American Record Guide praised her ‘gorgeous singing tone’ in an album that ‘from the opening flourish will be a special recital.’ She enjoys a multifaceted career as a performer and violin and viola faculty member at the Bard College Music Program.

Helena Baillie, violin/viola; Anita Balázs, cello; Erika Switzer, piano

The Chapel Restoration

Join internationally renowned cellist Steven Isserlis for an evening of deeply expressive, masterfully performed music. Celebrated for his poetic tone, profound insight, and charismatic presence, Isserlis brings exceptional depth to a wide-ranging repertoire—from beloved Romantic masterpieces to rediscovered gems—captivating audiences with intelligence, warmth, and artistry. Honored with a CBE and a place in Gramophone’s Hall of Fame, Isserlis continues to shape the future of his art with a rare blend of historical awareness and contemporary vision. Don’t miss this chance to hear his interpretation of works by Beethoven, Schumann, Fauré, and Boulanger. 

Steven Isserlis, cello / Connie Shih, piano

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Mozart’s Requiem

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

State Theatre New Jersey

Join Jun Märkl and four of ISO’s newest principals for a concert of French elegance with Debussy’s Sacred and Profane Dances and selections from Images and Ravel’s virtuosic Tzigane. This concert is a feast for the senses, celebrating French music’s nuanced textures and colors.

French Images: Debussy, Ravel & Fauré

Hilbert Circle Theatre

Green cello, blue bassoon, yellow piccolo—the vibrant hues of French music unfold like a painting by Monet or Gauguin, capturing fleeting moments of magic, conjuring fairytale worlds and whisking us away to distant lands. Ravel’s Ma Mère l’Oye contains five movements inspired by well-known fairy tales, while Mel Bonis evokes a sensual, dreamlike world in her Rêve de Cléopâtre.

Colour Play

Collège Jean-Eudes

Mercier Public Library

Paroisse Notre Dame de l'Annonciation

Place des Arts

Paroisse St-Joachim de Pointe-Claire

Paris has long been a haven for innovative composers, whose music exists in an endless variety of delightful textures—from Saint-Saëns’s classically elegant trio to Fauré’s tempestuous piano quartet. At the heart of this program is the incomparable soprano Erica Baikoff, who lends her “absolutely beautiful voice” (Bachtrack) to Ravel’s shimmering take on The One Thousand and One Nights.

Fauré's C-minor Piano Quartet

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Parisian Voices

Drew University

A programme of French music from a century of rapid change: towards a new life – and a new sound. BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert. Change of artist: Mary Bevan replaced by Sophie Bevan as soprano.

Simon Crawford-Phillips and Friends: Towards a New Life

LSO St Luke's

Our beloved Music in the Mountains Chorus will perform one of the most beautiful pieces ever written the Fauré Requiem in the peaceful, resonant environment of Peace Lutheran Church. Fauré wrote the Requiem as musical consolation, looking beyond a profoundly human response to death, suffering, and grief to a vision of paradise and the gentle mercy of eternal rest.

Composer

Gabriel Fauré

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 5, 2026

Coffee Schmoffee #4 · Norwegian Academy of Music

Nov 5, 2026

Musical encounter November 5 · Opéra national de Paris

Nov 6, 2026

Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello, with Alexandre Tharaud, piano · The Royal Conservatory of Music

Nov 6, 2026

Leeds Song: Mary Bevan and Joseph Middleton · Leeds Conservatoire

6 - 7 Nov, 2026

La Vita D'eroe · Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana

Past events

Oct 31, 2026

HSO – All Saints' Concert – Fauré's Requiem · Helsingborg Arena och Scen

Oct 29, 2026

Antwerp Symphony Orchestra X KMSKA LAAT · Antwerp Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in La mer by Debussy

Opernhaus Zürich

Conductor in Pelléas et Mélisande by Fauré

Opernhaus Zürich

Conductor in Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2 by Ravel:

Opernhaus Zürich

Conductor in Harp concerto in E-flat major by Glière

Opernhaus Zürich

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