Composer

Young Georgian pianist Giorgi Gigashvili (born 2000) has quickly made a name for himself on the international concert scene. A major turning point came in 2019 when he won the prestigious Vigo International Piano Competition – with legendary pianist Martha Argerich as jury chair. He was a BBC New Generation Artist 2023–25 and is now nominated for ECHO Rising Stars.

Piano Solo – Giorgi Gigashvili

Konserthuset Stockholm

EPSG:4326

Camellia Symphony Orchestra: Dreams and Delirium

C.K. McClatchy High School

Don’t miss the opportunity to hear the classical stars of tomorrow – today. Rising Stars is a unique and forward-looking collaboration between 23 of Europe’s leading concert halls, all part of ECHO – the European Concert Hall Organisation. Each year, a select group of young artists and ensembles from across Europe are given the opportunity to tour all of the venues and perform for international audiences. Time and again, the artists chosen for Rising Stars go on to enjoy internationally successful careers.

ECHO Rising Stars with Saxophone Quartet

Stockholm Concert Hall

Alexandra Dariescu has made it her mission to create concert programmes that give underrepresented female composers equal billing with their better-known male colleagues.

Alexandra Dariescu

Southbank Centre

Rebirth & Revolution

Robinson Center

Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók sits somewhere between a gothic tale of horror and a psychological dissection of a twisted relationship. Alone in a castle, Judith follows a trail of ever more compelling and grisly clues to unlock the truth about her new husband, horror by horror, door by door.

Bluebeard’s Castle

The Bridgewater Hall

Seven doors, and behind each one, a crucial piece of a gruesome puzzle…
Bluebeard’s Castle by Béla Bartók sits somewhere between a gothic tale of horror and a psychological dissection of a twisted relationship. Alone in a castle, Judith follows a trail of ever more compelling and grisly clues to unlock the truth about her new husband, horror by horror, door by door.

BBC Philharmonic - Bluebeard’s Castle

This special performance by the BBC Philharmonic is a rare opportunity to hear Bartók’s gripping one-act opera, Bluebeard’s Castle, in an atmospheric concert hall staging with theatrical lighting. An impulsive young bride has turned her back on her family, only to uncover the gruesome truth about her new husband lurking behind every locked door of his imposing citadel. With sinister strings, strident winds and commanding brass, it’s both a compelling psychological drama and a masterpiece of orchestral scene painting. The spectacular opening of the fifth door, revealing both the vast expanse of Bluebeard’s realm and his overbearing power, remains one of the most spine-tingling moments in all music.

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra: Bluebeard's Castle

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

Despite dying at the age of just 26, French composer Lili Boulanger left behind a wealth of fantastic music. Among the highlights is the buzzing, lively spring morning she evokes in the short tone poem D'un matin de printemps , which she composed just a few months before her death.

Søndergaard & Ravel

DR Koncerthuset

There are countless string quartets—both ensembles and works—but saxophone quartets? With this lineup, the MAAT Saxophone Quartet is making a name for itself. As the European Concert Hall Organization's "Rising Star," they will tour throughout Europe in the 2025/26 season. After eight sold-out children's concerts in 2024, they will also return to the Elbphilharmonie with a program that showcases the quartet's diversity, with arrangements ranging from string quartets to piano concertos.

Size Saxophone Quartet

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

A most heart-stirring concert awaits you, portraying vastly different approaches to grief and memory. In the “Eroica,” grief turns into fury, when the original dedicatee, Napoleon, crowns himself emperor and the enraged Beethoven now celebrates only “the memory of a great man.” From two bolts-out-of-the-blue chords to exhilarating finale, the Symphony’s majesty and drama, extraordinary scope, and bold harmonies all proclaim a new era in music. Turning his grief into sorrow, Berg inscribes his heartbreaking Concerto, sensitively performed by our concertmaster, “To the memory of an angel”—a vivacious 18-year-old girl struck down by polio. He paints her portrait in the first movement, and, in the emotional heart of the Concerto, incorporates Bach’s chorale, “It is enough; Lord, if it pleases you/Unshackle me.”

Beethoven’s Eroica

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Willamette University

A cold and glassy opener, Saariaho’s Winter Sky emanates the clarity, sense of mystery and ethereal beauty of a clear sky on a winter’s day. Next, to Lili Boulanger’s d’un matin de printemps which effortlessly captures the fresh energy of a spring morning. Representing summer, Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream captures the frivolous nature of the mischievous Puck, causing havoc during a hot summer night. Finally, Grieg’s In Autumn conjures a sweeping storm with bold brass breaking through the clouds.

Four Seasons in a Day

MediaCityUK

The programme juxtaposes the elegance of early 20th century French composition, from Lili Boulanger and Maurice Ravel and Alfredo Casella, with the innovation of contemporary voices - including a new work by German composer Clemens Thomas.

ECHO Rising Stars: Trio Concept

LSO St Luke's

Founded in 1937, the Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra brings together the area’s most gifted young orchestral musicians to study and perform a broad range of orchestral repertoire. The ensemble performs three times a year, beginning with their winter concert. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the future of classical brilliance!

Dayton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra: Sunrises and Storms

University of Dayton

Enjoy four magnificent works of music by three composers from near the turn of the 20th century, yet each one unique in their own right: the French Lili Boulanger and Camille Saint-Saëns and the Russian Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Zuill Bailey, one of the top cellists in the world, will join the CSO as guest soloist. Also featured will be Yuriy Bekker, who in addition to other roles, has been Concertmaster of the CSO since 2007.

Scheherazade

Gaillard Center

Lili Boulanger was a versatile child prodigy. At 19, she became the first woman to win the Prix de Rome, France's highest composition award. Unfortunately, Boulanger was chronically ill and plagued by pain—she died at the early age of 24. "D'un soir triste" (One Sad Evening...) was one of her last compositions, a modern, fascinating sound sculpture, somber, dramatic, then mystically light. The composer was unable to write the work herself. She dictated it to her sister Nadia, who would become a famous piano and composition teacher.

Enthusiastic

Bochumer Symphoniker

Three powerful works explore beauty, desire and loss in strikingly different ways.
A fleeting and vivid portrait of spring, “D’un matin de printemps” offers one of the few glimpses of Lili Boulanger’s remarkable talent, written shortly before her untimely death at the age of 24.

Boulanger, Strauss and Zemlinsky

Smith Square Hall

Three powerful works explore beauty, desire and loss in strikingly different ways. 
A fleeting and vivid portrait of spring, “D’un matin de printemps” offers one of the few glimpses of Lili Boulanger’s remarkable talent, written shortly before her untimely death at the age of 24.

Fulham Symphony Orchestra

Three great composers have been brought together for this concert, who turn formative biographical stages – whether wrestling with death or saying goodbye to loved ones or working through role models – into music.

3rd Symphony Concert

Staatstheater Mainz

RDAM Gala Concert 2025

Konservatoriets Koncertsal

Sacred music was never meant to be this much fun! ‘Part monk, part hooligan’ was how one contemporary described the French composer Francis Poulenc, and they might have been talking about his Gloria, too: a huge, irreverent shout of joy for a great chorus. The City of London Choir joins the RPO and conductor Daniel Hyde to raise the roof today; first, though, there’s another choral blockbuster from France (this time by Lili Boulanger), music reminiscent of a holiday in Provence from the composer of Carmen and Debussy’s beautiful moonlit serenade. We also hear not one but two musical letters from America. Everyone loves the deep emotion of Barber’s Adagio – but when you hear soprano Sally Matthews sing Knoxville, his tender memoir of a vanished youth, we think you’ll fall in love all over again.

Poulenc's Gloria

Cadogan Hall 

Sacred music was never meant to be this much fun! “Part monk, part hooligan” was how one contemporary described the French composer Francis Poulenc, and they might have been talking about his Gloria too: a huge, irreverent shout of joy for a great chorus.

The City of London Choir joins the RPO and conductor Daniel Hyde to raise the roof today; first, though, there’s another choral blockbuster from France (this time by Lili Boulanger), music reminiscent of a holiday in Provence from the composer of Carmen, and Debussy’s beautiful moonlit serenade.

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

DYNAMIKfest and the renowned Fondation Gautier Capuçon join forces to present a tribute to Maurice Ravel, whose 150th birthday is celebrated this year. The program explores masterpieces by important composers who influenced Ravel in very different ways—whether through cultural heritage or compositional diversity.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ravel! FONDATION GAUTIER CAPUÇON DYNAMIKfest 2025

Mozarteum Foundation

Venture beyond Kurt Weill’s irresistible ballad Mack the Knife and you’ll find there’s lots to explore. That includes his Second Symphony, commissioned by Winnaretta Singer, an heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune and generous patron of the arts. Bookending that are contrasting voices of three extraordinary French composers.

David Afkham Returns

Orchestra Hall

Take a step out of the every day and visit worlds of the imagination. In Ravel’s Ma mère l'oye, we look into the world of much-loved fairy tales such as Beauty and the Beast and Tom Thumb. Michael Gallen’s Bád on Alltár, which translates as ‘Boat From Beyond’, is a fusion of Irish Traditional and classical musics drawing on the Celtic idea of the ‘thin veil’ between reality and the otherworld, bringing something new and previously unimagined to change our lives. Kenneth Hesketh’s arrangement of Lili Boulanger’s Three Pieces for Piano takes us to two imagined gardens and a cheerful parade, while Debussy’s Nocturnes evocatively depict the procession of clouds across the sky, the bustle of a festival and the sea-songs of the mythical sirens, all inspired by paintings by James McNeill Whistler.

Ulster Orchestra: Distant Shores

Ulster Hall

Paris, 1913: and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring changes the course of modern music. It wasn’t just that a riot broke out at the premiere, either – the rhythmic power and primal energy of Stravinsky’s volcanic score are so explosive that over a century later, we’re still reeling from the aftershock. But then, things do tend to catch fire when Principal Guest Conductor Karina Canellakis conducts the LPO. Expect grand passions in Lili Boulanger’s sensuous Faust et Hélène, written the same year as The Rite of Spring, and dark emotion in Stravinsky’s Funeral Song.

The Rite of Spring

It wasn’t just that a riot broke out at the premiere, either – Stravinsky’s volcanic score is so explosive that over a century later, we’re still reeling from the aftershock.

A musical journey connecting Sister Cities St. Louis and Lyon.

“French Impressions: A Tale of Two Cities”

Washington University in St. Louis

Karina Cannellakis leads the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra along with soprano Johanna Wallroth in a program that with the overture to Felix Mendelssohn's ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream, followed by Lili Boulanger's piece about a spring morning and arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Finally, Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony, known for being both technically challenging and emotional.

Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony

Berwaldhallen

What else would Lili Boulanger have created if she hadn't died so young? Her sister Nadia, who was also a composer, always emphasized that Lili was the more talented. We'll never know, but we can place some of her works in the context of their time and build a bridge to the present.

Speaking of Lili Boulanger

Musikverein Wien

We have enjoyed our long-standing collaboration with the Folkwang University of the Arts.

Folkwang Gala 2025

Tabea Zimmermann and the Ensemble Resonanz explore the music of the first half of the 20th century – a time of change, full of ruptures, contrasts and new possibilities. Three works by George Enescu, Lili Boulanger and Béla Bartók reflect the diversity and richness of this era: between impressionism and folkloristic inspiration, between dazzling beauty and impending doom.

Ensemble Resonanz / Tabea Zimmermann

The ultimate Romantic symphony, Rachmaninov’s Second has it all: heart-on-sleeve emotions, endless melodies, a slow-movement whose two rival themes eventually find themselves locked in a passionate embrace and a radiant finale. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Principal Guest Conductor Designate Delyana Lazarova are joined by former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist and ‘unrivalled musician’ Anastasia Kobekina for Shostakovich’s supremely demanding Cello Concerto No. 1. The Prom opens with dawn breaking on a spring morning in Lili Boulanger’s vivid tone-poem D’un matin de printemps.

Royal Albert Hall

Anniversary celebrations are taking place everywhere. The young North German Philharmonic is also celebrating its 15th anniversary! The orchestra has invited Festival Prize winner Noa Wildschut to perform as soloist for its two anniversary concerts at the MV Festival.

The young North German Philharmonic celebrates its birthday

Niendorf Manor Barn

Volkstheater Rostock / Halle 207

Join Interlochen Arts Camp's premiere wind ensemble for their weekly concert. Under the direction of Steve Davis, the ensemble will present a program of wind band classics, contemporary compositions, and orchestral transcriptions

Sarah McKoin conducts Alfred Reed's "El Camino Real"

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Mary Bevan released her debut solo disc, Voyages, in 2017 (with pianist Joseph Middleton on the Signum label), which explores the music of eminent French composers and the settings they wrote for the poems of Charles Baudelaire. For this recital, Mary revisits her favourite repertoire from Voyages, including songs by Duparc, Fauré, Debussy, Chabrier, and more, but this time, each song is paired with another by a female composer writing around the same time. In this way, the recital seeks to bring the female composers from out of the shadow of their male counterparts and restore them to their rightful places as composers of equal quality and interest.

TSM presents Bevan & Vignoles

The Royal Conservatory of Music

A thrilling programme that weaves together two festival threads — Mealor @50 and La Belle Époque — while marking three major composer anniversaries: the 100th of Eric Satie’s death, Jonathan Dove’s 65th birthday and Paul Mealor’s 50th. Mealor’s Symphony No.2, written after a visit to the Canadian Rockies, reveals the composer at his creative best, extracting extraordinary colour from strings, piano, and percussion.

Jam On The Marsh

St Nicholas Church, New Romney

What about the musical family? I’m not talking about the Mozarts, the Bachs or the Kanneh-Masons. But rather the musicians with whom, without any help, a special bond is formed, with whom you are always happy to get together. For Dirk Kaftan, Tetiana Miyus and Alexandre Tharaud definitely belong to this circle of people. He has performed countless opera evenings with Tetiana Miyus in Graz, she was the soloist in a guest performance by the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra in Taiwan and she has also performed twice in Bonn, both times on a smaller scale. Now she sings the final movement of Gustav Mahler’s pastoral, heavenly, enigmatic 4th Symphony in G major as part of a Freitagskonzert at the end of the season. There is talk of saints and angels, of the little lamb and Herod. A great »as if«, so it is said of this symphony. Maurice Ravel was also a master of the »as i«. As a tribute to his 150th birthday, we are playing his groovy, humorous Piano Concerto in G major after the intoxicating Daphnis and Chloé in the second symphony concert. A request from Alexandre Tharaud after he performed Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand with the Beethoven Orchestra in 2018. G major: What a difference between the playful lightness and bite of Ravel’s concerto and Mahler’s symphony in the same key, smiling with tears (or crying with a smile) … Two masters of modernism with different views of the world. Incidentally, Lili Boulanger – unlike Maurice Ravel – was the first composer to win the coveted Prix de Rome, which was to pave the way for a great career for French composers. Unfortunately, she was already seriously ill at the time and died far too young. The inscription on Franz Schubert’s grave could also have been dedicated to her: » The art of music buried here a rich possession; but even more beautiful hopes. «

The Great Clarity

Theater Bonn Opera House

It is tradition for the Czech Philharmonic to end its season with a free Open Air Concert on Hradčany Square. The orchestra will be joined by the winner of the Jiří Bělohlávek Prize, clarinetist Anna Paulová. She will shine especially in the world premiere of Pauliana for clarinet and orchestra by Jiří Gemrot. After a successful debut last year, conductor Dalia Stasevska will take up the baton.

Czech Philharmonic • Open Air Concert

Hradcany Square

Dive into the swirling colour of Saint-Saëns with global sensation Lang Lang, and the Sydney Symphony performing some of the greatest Romantic pieces ever written. Don’t miss out on a ticket to see this superstar in his only performance with orchestra in Sydney.

Lang Lang and the Sydney Symphony

Sydney Opera House

Intensity, emotionality, captivating joy in playing, and a generous dose of curiosity and a desire for new things—that's what Trio Orelon exemplifies. In their innovative thematic programs, the three musicians focus particularly on the works of lesser-known female composers. Under the motto "Beethoven's Daughters," the ensemble combines these rarely performed pieces with well-known works by Ludwig van Beethoven. Thus, this evening, alongside Beethoven's "Archduke Trio," they will perform music by Lili Boulanger and Dora Pejačević.

YOUNG ELITE Trio Orelon

Schloss Schwiessel

‘There is still no music that is closer to my heart than Schubert's,’ says Joana Mallwitz. This composer and his works were the ‘initial spark’ for her to become a conductor. ‘I'm really looking forward to conducting Schubert's “Great” in C major not in front of cameras and an empty hall, as I did in 2020 when I made my debut with the Konzerthausorchester due to the coronavirus, but in front of an audience. I think it's one of the best pieces ever,’ says our chief conductor.

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz

Konzerthaus Berlin

Step into spring with Orchestra Nova LA at Music for a Spring Evening—a night of lush melodies and the spirit of new beginnings. The program opens with Lili Boulanger’s vibrant D’un matin de printemps, followed by Vaughan Williams’ soaring The Lark Ascending with violinist Sam Fischer. We close with the sweeping drama of Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. It’s the perfect soundtrack for a season in bloom.

Music for a Spring Evening

Mt Olive Lutheran Church

Musicians of the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Alexander Reeuwijk take you on an excursion through Beethoven’s ‘Pastorale’ and other works.

Close-up: Early birds

The Concertgebouw

Spring feelings of a French woman who died young, full of magical radiance, an early Beethoven who defies his fate with musical confidence, and hr solo cellist Peter-Philipp Staemmler with a modern cello concerto full of intense colors - all this in a compact format at Quick & Classy. The young conductor Delyana Lazarova, who comes from Bulgaria, will not only bring Lili Boulanger's touching orchestral music to life in its forward-looking format, but also the nocturnal world of the French sound magician Henri Dutilleux, which oscillates between reality and dream. Not to mention Beethoven's virtuosity, characterized by sharp dynamic and harmonic contrasts, in which the deep despair over his increasing deafness and isolation is not at all noticeable.

Cello Spring

Bertramstraße 8

“How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, Like softest music to attending ears!” Shakespeare’s tragic lovers have inspired composers for centuries, but there’s still no interpretation of their tale that quite surpasses Prokofiev’s great Soviet ballet-score: Romeo and Juliet retold in music that’s as sharp as a rapier and as tender as a kiss.

Slobodeniouk conducts Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet'

Barbican Centre

Springtime feelings of a young, deceased Frenchwoman, full of magical radiance; an early Beethoven defying his fate with musical optimism; and hr solo cellist Peter-Philipp Staemmler with a modern cello concerto brimming with intense colors – all this in a compact Quick & Classy format. The young Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarova will not only bring Lili Boulanger's moving orchestral music to life in its forward-looking arrangement, but also the nocturnal world of the French sound magician Henri Dutilleux, oscillating between reality and dream. Not to mention Beethoven's virtuosity, characterized by sharp dynamic and harmonic contrasts, in which the deep despair over his increasing deafness and isolation is completely imperceptible.

Hessischer Rundfunk

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (hr-Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt) will perform at the Gießen City Theatre this time under the direction of conductor Delyana Lazarova, with hr solo cellist Peter-Philipp Staemmler, and with another attractive and diverse program. The young Bulgarian-born Lazarova will not only bring to life the moving orchestral music of Lili Boulanger, but also the nocturnal world, oscillating between reality and dream, in the Cello Concerto by the French sound magician Henri Dutilleux. She will also vividly portray the dynamic and harmonic contrasts of Beethoven's Second Symphony, in which his despair over his increasing deafness and isolation is completely undetectable.

Concerts at the Gießen City Theatre

Theater Gießen

The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra will be performing at the Gießen City Theater this time under the direction of conductor Delyana Lazarova and with hr solo cellist Peter-Philipp Staemmler, as well as another attractive, colorful program. The young Bulgarian-born Delyana Lazarova will not only bring to life Lili Boulanger's touching orchestral music, but also the nighttime world that oscillates between reality and dream in the cello concerto by the French sound magician Henri Dutilleux. She will also sonorously stage Beethoven's dynamic and harmonic contrasts in his 2nd Symphony, in which the despair over his increasing deafness and isolation is not at all noticeable.

Concerts Stadttheater Gießen

The St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra concludes its season with a program of passion and contrast. Prokofiev draws an arc of drama throughout his second Romeo and Juliet Suite. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Unsuk Chin pays homage to Beethoven with her angular and brassy subito con forza, while Lili Boulanger depicts the grace and promise of a spring morning with lithe woodwind and string melodies. Aiden Moon, winner of the 2025 YO Concerto Competition, brings style and elegance to Henri Vieuxtemps’ Violin Concerto No. 5.

St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra - Season Finale

Touhill Performing Arts Center

With Gustav Mahler and Maurice Ravel, we unite two of the finest orchestrators in music history. Both possessed an extraordinary ability to create unique soundscapes, utilizing the full force of the orchestra or employing the most subtle orchestrations. They shared an innovative approach, embracing influences from various sources. Ravel drew inspiration from jazz, French baroque music, and traditional Spanish sounds. Spanish pianist Javier Perianes skillfully performs Ravel's light and brilliant Piano Concerto with precision and sparkle. Mahler incorporated elements of folk music and his own songs into his symphonies, expressing the beauty of nature, a sentiment shared by Lili Boulanger in D'un matin de printemps. Despite her tragically short life, she developed a unique compositional voice. An unmissable evening filled with symphonic masterpieces!

Mahler's Titan

Queen Elisabeth Hall

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of French music with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra's "French Impressions: Poulenc's Organ Concerto," a highlight of the Classics 1 series. This captivating concert is scheduled for two performances on May 9 and 10, 2025, at 7:30 PM, held in the prestigious Jack Singer Concert Hall.

Under the baton of multi-Grammy-winning conductor JoAnn Falletta, the orchestra will explore the rich tapestry of French compositions, featuring works by Jacques Ibert, Lili Boulanger, and Claude Debussy, alongside the centerpiece of the evening, Francis Poulenc’s Organ Concerto. The concert promises a journey through the vivid musical landscapes of Ibert’s "Escales (Ports of Call)," the dreamy nuances of Boulanger’s "D'un matin de printemps," and the vibrant, ever-changing seas depicted in Debussy’s "La mer."

Adding to the splendor, Jean-Willy Kunz will grace the stage, performing on the Jack Singer Concert Hall’s majestic Carthy organ, bringing Poulenc's Organ Concerto to life with his exceptional artistry.

Tickets for this musical voyage are priced between $30 to $90, offering a range of seating options to accommodate all attendees. This event not only promises an evening of sublime music but also a unique opportunity to experience the depth and beauty of French orchestral works.

For those interested in securing their seats, tickets are available for purchase. Don't miss this opportunity to be part of a memorable night with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating the beauty and impressionistic colors of French music.

French Impressions: Poulenc's Organ Concerto

Arts Commons

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

Maestro Yaniv Dinur’s program features two Romantic-era warhorses that will knock your socks off! Lili Boulanger’s playful D’un matin de printemps (‘One Spring Morning’) serves as an aperitif for the ravishing First Piano Concerto of Rachmaninoff, performed by the incredible artist Alexander Korsantia, who has won gold medals at the Sydney International Piano Competition, the Palm Beach International Piano Competition, and the Rubinstein Piano Master Competition, to name a few. Tchaikovsky’s supercharged, dramatic Fourth Symphony, which represents the composer’s battle with fate, will round out this spectacular season finale.

Season Finale Ravishing Romanticism

Florida State University

The LSU Wind Ensemble concludes their academic year with "The Music Around Us", a program celebrating works inspired by the world we inhabit. The evening opens with Gershwin’s lively Cuban Overture, followed by Lili Boulanger’s vivid and colorful D’un Matin de Printemps. Closing the first half is the world premiere of a concerto composed by LSU’s own Professor Willis Delony, blending his expertise in piano and jazz. After intermission, the program will conclude with Steven Bryant’s Concerto for Wind Ensemble, an immersive and electrifying showcase of the ensemble’s virtuosity.

LSU Wind Ensemble: "The Music Around Us"

Louisiana State University

Having made waves with recent performances at Wigmore Hall and the BBC Proms, rising star trumpeter Aaron Akugbo comes to Portsmouth. Citing Louis Armstrong as his greatest musical influence, this charismatic performer presents an uplifting mix of works in a captivating evening of diverse and evocative musical expressions. With music spanning centuries and continents, from classical elegance to vibrant modern works, this evening promises to take you on a journey through a rich tapestry of emotions and styles.

Fanfare! Trumpet Classics

Portsmouth Guildhall

Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic

Heinz Hall

The SFCM Conservatory Chorus and SFCM Chamber Orchestra present Fauré's Requiem, Op. 48 alongside works by Saint-Saëns and Boulanger. 

Departmental Recitals showcase performance departments through its students. Featuring various students and repertoire, and curated by the faculty, performances in this recital highlight SFCM programs and the wide range of study.

SFCM Conservatory Chorus - Fauré's Requiem

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

### Event Description: Yuja Wang Plays Bernstein with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra

**Date and Time:** April 26, 2025, at 3:00 p.m.

**Location:** Marian Anderson Hall (formerly Verizon Hall), Kimmel Center

**Event Overview:**
Join us for a spectacular afternoon as the Curtis Symphony Orchestra concludes its 2024-25 season with an extraordinary performance featuring the acclaimed pianist and Curtis alumna, Yuja Wang. Known for her exceptional power, depth, and dazzling technique, Yuja Wang will take center stage under the baton of the award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

**Program Highlights:**
- **Lili Boulanger:** *D'un matin de printemps* (Of a Spring Morning)
- **Leonard Bernstein:** *Symphony No. 2: The Age of Anxiety*
- **Maurice Ravel:** *Shéhérazade*, Three Poems of Tristan Klingsor for Voice and Orchestra
- **Claude Debussy:** *La Mer*, three symphonic sketches for orchestra

**Artists:**
- **Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor:** Yannick is the music and artistic director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, music director of Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain, and the Metropolitan Opera. He is celebrated for his musicianship, dedication, and charisma, and has collaborated with many of the world's leading orchestras.
- **Yuja Wang, Piano:** Renowned for her charismatic artistry and captivating stage presence, Yuja Wang is one of the most celebrated pianists of her generation.

**About the Curtis Symphony Orchestra:**
The Curtis Symphony Orchestra is acclaimed for its exceptional ensemble and professional level of sophistication. Each year, the orchestra's 100 extraordinary musicians work with internationally renowned conductors, providing a dynamic showcase of tomorrow’s exceptional young talent.

**Tickets and Subscriptions:**
Subscribe now to the 2024-25 season to secure the best seats at the best prices. Don't miss this opportunity to witness an unforgettable performance that promises to be a highlight of the Curtis Institute of Music's centennial celebration.

**Special Thanks:**
This event is made possible through the generous support of Derek and Sissela Bok, the Mary Louise Curtis Bok Foundation, Deborah M. Fretz, Charles C. Freyer and Judith Durkin Freyer, Lisa and Gie Liem, Mark and Robin Rubenstein, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Yuja Wang’s performance is generously underwritten by Deborah M. Fretz.

**Additional Information:**
For more details and to purchase tickets, please visit the Curtis Institute of Music's website.

Yuja Wang Plays Bernstein

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Embrace the tranquil charm of Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, a serene springtime tribute, contrasted with the intense, revolutionary echoes in Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, in a performance that weaves together peacefulness and power, awakening the full breadth of the senses.

Shostakovich’s Fifth

Meridian Arts Centre

Join us for an extraordinary season finale with "The Planets" by the Spartanburg Philharmonic, a celestial celebration that promises to be out of this world. This special event is scheduled for Saturday, April 26, 2025, from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM at Twichell Auditorium, located at 580 East Main Street, Spartanburg, SC, 29302, United States.

In partnership with Spartanburg County Public Libraries and in anticipation of their new planetarium opening in Spring 2025, the Philharmonic is thrilled to present a night that beautifully marries art and science. The evening will feature the world premiere of a commissioned piece by local composer-in-residence, Peter B. Kay, crafted specifically for this momentous occasion. To further enhance this celestial journey, the program will include Gustav Holst's timeless masterpiece, "The Planets," ensuring an enchanting musical exploration through the cosmos.

Conducted by John Young Shik Concklin, the program will also include Lili Boulanger's "D’un matin de printemps" and Peter B. Kay's "The Moons," promising a diverse and immersive auditory experience. This event not only marks a season finale like no other but also a unique blend of music that spans both time and space.

Single tickets will be on sale this summer, with an option to subscribe to the full season and save 10% off single ticket prices and service fees. Don't miss this unforgettable night of music that promises to be a memorable and celestial experience, celebrating both the art of music and the science of astronomy in perfect harmony.

The Planets

Converse University

Felici members are prize winners of the Los Angeles Liszt, Yellow Springs, and Osaka music competitions. The vibrant threesome has performed over 350 concerts in Europe, South America and the U.S. and has distinguished itself as a unique presence on the national music scene since coming to Mammoth Lakes as grantee of Chamber Music America's Rural Residencies Program and as a California Arts Council's (CAC) Touring Roster ensemble

Felici Piano Trio

United Methodist Church Ridgecrest

Beethoven’s symphonies are revolutionary, genre-defining triumphs. The Third, originally titled “Bonaparte,” in dedication to Napoleon, creates a conquering storm that doesn’t resolve until the very end. Soloist Simone Lamsma returns for Max Bruch’s astonishingly beautiful and ultra-challenging First Violin Concerto and the CSO begins with Lili Boulanger’s introspective ode to spring.

Beethoven Symphony No. 3

Cincinnati Music Hall

The award-winning Hermes Experiment is one of the most exciting forces in contemporary music today. With their arresting stage presence and wildly imaginative programmes, they have been winning over audiences around the country with their effortless ability to bring music from the margins into the mainstream.

Sounds of Now: Hermes Experiment

Unfortunately, the concert cannot take place as planned. Instead of the program “The Deep Brass” with works by Enrique Crespo, Wolfram Buchenberg, André Amellér and Giovanni Gabrieli, played by Carl-Philipp Kaptain, Akari Yamane and Martin Zuckschwerdt (tenor trombone), Douglas Murdoch (bass trombone) and Bruno Osinski (tuba), the trio tacet will play the program “ Gabriel Fauré – Student, Teacher, Composer” with works by Lili Boulanger, Gabriel Fauré and Camille Saint-Saëns. Tickets already purchased remain valid.

Chamber Concert No. 7

Historisches Rathaus Jena

Anna Weiksner performs a recital of works by Boulanger, Kreisler, Korngold and Vaughan Williams.

Student Degree Recital: Anna Weiksner B.M. violin junior recital

Pre-College Afternoon Recital

Violinist Ara Sarkissian and pianist Kara Huber perform a romantic candlelight recital of powerhouse violin and piano duo music. Repertoire for the evening includes sonatas by Leoš Janáček and Johannes Brahms—plus Lili Boulanger's “Nocturne” and Romances by Clara Schumann.

Interlochen In Town: Candlelight Concert featuring Kara Huber and Ara Sarkissian

Commongrounds

Tugan Sokhiev & Vadim Gluzman

Gasteig HP8

Principal Violin of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Satu Vänskä, makes her WASO debut performing and directing captivating works in WASO’s first Matinee Symphony concert of the year. Mozart’s Third Violin Concerto is a true joy, while Boccherini’s fiery symphony crackles with devilish energy and excitement. Lili Boulanger’s evocative Of a Spring Morning opens this concert full of musical surprises and delights.

Matinee Symphony Series: Satu Vänskä’s Mozart

State Theatre Centre of WA

For a long time, women composers had a hard time; they were mostly ignored in their time and throughout history. But women have composed with strength and talent at many times. In this concert, you can experience some of them, with their rich music and their creative work. You may still know Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Rebecca Clark, but it is a different story with Isabella Leonarda, an Italian nun from the 17th century who was one of the most productive composers of her era, or Marie Jaëll, a French pianist and composer from the 19th century. The Frenchwoman Mélanie Bonis, whose works were mostly published in the 19th century under the pseudonym Mel Bonis, is also hardly known in this country, as is the Austrian pianist, singer and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis, who was blind since childhood and was also very prominent in the musical life of her time, the Viennese Classical period. In this concert you can get to know them all, as well as Emilie Mayer, a German composer of the 19th century who was also highly celebrated during her lifetime and was widely regarded as the "female Beethoven".

Women Power

Kerson Leong, described by the Toronto Star as “not just one of Canada’s greatest violinists but one of the greatest violinists, period,” performs a dynamic program of sonatas by Poulenc, Fauré, Boulanger, and Franck. 

This concert is made possible by the Olympia Philharmonic Society and the Hennings-Fischer Foundation. This evening is also generously supported by The Jackson Family, in honor of Seth Novatt, for the career development opportunities given by him to outstanding young music talents at the Colburn School.

Colburn Presents: Kerson Leong, Violin

Colburn School

Female composers have had a hard time for a long time, and have been largely ignored by history. This year's chamber concert by the hr Symphony Orchestra in Erbach will feature some of them, with their rich music and creative work. Clara Schumann, Lili Boulanger and Rebecca Clark will be familiar, but Isabella Leonarda, an Italian nun from the 17th century who was one of the most productive composers of her era, or Marie Jaëll, a French pianist and composer from the 19th century, is not. The Frenchwoman Mélanie Bonis, whose works were mostly published under the pseudonym Mel Bonis in the 19th century, is also hardly known in this country, as is the Austrian Maria Theresia von Paradis, who was blind since childhood and was very prominent in the musical life of her time, the Viennese Classical period, as a pianist, singer and composer. In this concert you can get to know them all, as well as Emilie Mayer, a 19th-century German composer who was celebrated during her lifetime as the "female Beethoven".

Composer

Lili Boulanger

Events

Upcoming events

Feb 7, 2026

Lapwood with Poulenc · Dresdner Philharmonie

Feb 8, 2026

18th Wilhelmsbad Chamber Concert · Neue Philharmonie Frankfurt

Feb 11, 2026

Guest Artist Recital: Shannon Thomas (violin) and Stijn De Cock (piano) · LSU School of Music

12 - 14 Feb, 2026

Saint-Saëns & Mendelssohn · Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Feb 15, 2026

Chamber Concert #3 · Malmö Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Feb 1, 2026

Piano Solo – Giorgi Gigashvili · Konserthuset Stockholm

Feb 1, 2026

Camellia Symphony Orchestra: Dreams and Delirium · Camellia Symphony Orchestra

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