Composer

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a program celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, featuring works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Gershwin, George Rochberg (’48), and others, including a special arrangement of Pat Metheny’s Always and Forever arranged by Curtis guitar faculty member Jason Vieaux.

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Gershwin, Corigliano, and more

Curtis Institute of Music

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), hailed for her “boundless technique and musicianship” (Chicago Tribune), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a program of virtuosic solo repertoire by J.S. Bach. The program features Bach’s Lute Suite in E minor, the beloved sixth cello suite, and the masterful Chaconne for solo violin.

Curtis on Tour in Nantucket, MA

Nantucket Atheneum

Tango!

San Carlo Theatre

Curtis on Tour in Siasconset, Nantucket, MA

Siasconset Casino Association

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a vibrant program featuring works by Piazzolla, Paganini, and more. Highlights include de Falla’s Siete Canciones Populares Españolas and a transcription of Vivaldi’s “Summer” from The Four Seasons.

St. Paul Roman Catholic Church

Discover the artistry of the next generation of outstanding musicians in an evening of vibrant chamber music.

Royal College of Music Strings Showcase

Wigmore Hall

Join musicians from the Royal Academy of Music for a concert experience created especially for parents or carers and babies under 1. Enjoy live music together in an interactive and welcoming environment – move and groove to the music or sit back and unwind. Parents-to-be are also warmly welcomed.

For Crying Out Loud!

Following our captivating performance at Halifax Minster in 2025, we are delighted to return to Halifax as part of our ongoing commitment to Culturedale and our work with UNESCO’s Seeds of Hope initiative.

As echoes of The Lark Ascending continue to resonate across the town, we look forward to bringing another vibrant programme of string repertoire to the Victoria Theatre, celebrating the very best of English music alongside inspiring works from around the world. The programme includes Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Greensleeves, Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, and Grieg’s much-loved Holberg Suite.

We are especially pleased to premiere a new arrangement of Malcolm Arnold’s English Dances and to share the stage with talented young musicians from the Calderdale Music Youth Ensemble. This special concert provides a wonderful opportunity to showcase our award-winning work with schools and community groups across the region before we return to Calderdale again in August.

Close Encounters: Beyond the Lark

Victoria Theatre Halifax

María de Buenos Aires represents the New World, new music, tango nuevo , and a new type of opera – tango operita , whose musical foundation is the insane rhythm and mood of the tango, a dance born on the southeastern coast of Latin America. The folk tango argentino had its bard, Astor Piazzolla, a composer-poet who created a new style of presenting this passionate dance, drawing inspiration from Stravinsky, Bartók, and classical musical forms, but also jazz and electronic rock – elevating tango to the status of a musical art.

Maria de Buenos Aires

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

Audrey Zhou, saxophone

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Fancy a few artistic extravaganzas? Then the third palace concert of the season is just the right place for you. We've got a musical brawl by Biber on offer, a monkey dance à la Purcell, and wild dance numbers by Rameau. Bach's son, Wilhelm Friedemann, also goes against the grain of the laws of harmony. Astor Piazzolla's work isn't quite as bizarre, but then again, the tango was long considered extravagant. And Piazzolla, in particular, repeatedly built stylistic bridges to Baroque music, for example in his version of the "Four Seasons." Where Vivaldi celebrates country life, here we wander through the dance halls of Buenos Aires—including a fugue in "Spring."

3rd Castle Concert

Sondershausen Castle

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

Jazz Spirit Quartet

Tauriac-de-Camarès

With a vivid onstage presence, dazzling technique, and keen musicality, pianist Olga Kern is widely recognized as one of the great artists of her generation, captivating audiences and critics alike.

The Dalí Quartet is acclaimed for bringing Latin American quartet repertoire to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon. Inspired by its namesake, the great Spanish artist Salvador Dalí, the quartet holds imagination and excellence at the heart of its music making.

Olga Kern with special guest Dalí Quartet

Presidio Theatre Performing Arts Center

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Lesher Center for the Arts

The viola figures prominently in tonight's Pro Musica concert. Dvořák's 3rd String Quintet has added an extra viola to the standard string quartet and dates from Dvořák's time in America in the early 1890s, where he went all out to find the American 'primordial music', just as he had done with his own Czech folk music idiom. We can therefore look forward to both tribal rhythms, folk tunes and Dvořák's take on what could be a new, American national anthem.

Dvořák's String Quintet & Viola Power

Odense Concert Hall

Five-time GRAMMY Award-winning Nicaraguan conductor Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a south-of-the-border immersion, packing plenty of heat into a fusion of Afro-Caribbean, Central and South American traditions, including the tango-infused Sinfonía Buenos Aires. The renowned Venezuelan soloist Pacho Flores dips into Mexico's rich trumpet-playing tradition for a piece written by him and for him by Arturo Márquez.

Flores Performs Márquez

The Woodruff Arts Center

The seventh chamber music concert will offer a cross-section of both less performed and notoriously known composers. The Romanian composer and violinist George Enescu, whose works are inspired by Romanian folk music, is one of the greatest composers of his country. The evening is also dedicated to Dmitri Shostakovich. Two of his works will be heard, one of which is the demanding String Quartet No. 8.

Shostakovich. Enescu. Reger

The Professed House, Prague

Bassoon Quartet

Église Saint-Pierre de Palavas-Les-Flots

Chamber Music Division Recital

560 Music Center

Upcoming highlights of ArcoStrum’s 2024-2025 season include debuts at Merkin Hall, Krannert Center, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Howland Chamber Music Circle, Rancho La Puerta, and Harry Jacobs Chamber Music Society. Recent seasons have featured performances at Carnegie Hall Citywide, Strings Music Festival, Omni Foundation for the Performing Arts, Festival Cultural Zacatecas (Mexico), National Sawdust, Austin Chamber Music Festival, and Caramoor.

ArcoStrum

Bethel United Methodist Church

Guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas is hailed as “the soul of the Spanish guitar.” His passionate performances, filled with flair and emotional depth, captivate audiences. Don’t miss this evocative evening showcasing the finest of classical guitar.

Guitar Romance

Frauenthal Center

Nature sings in this evocative choral program with Winnipeg Sonora Voices, where birds, voices, and the turning of the seasons inspire new meditations on the rhythms of nature.

In the Company of Birds

Crescent Arts Centre

Downtown Event Center, the ever-popular Four Seasons by Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi will be paired with the tango music of Astor Piazzola’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

The Four Seasons: Vivaldi and Piazzola

The Downtown Event Center (DEC)

As the MSO celebrates 100 years this season, it seemed only fitting to bring some of my MSO colleagues with me on stage to showcase their talent and our unique pairing. While the organ can be quite a loud instrument, it can also be used in a softer and more subtle way. With works like Handel’s G minor Organ Concerto and movements from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto and Coleridge-Taylor’s Nonet, this program will demonstrate the versatility and more intimate side of our instrument. I’m also excited that the audience will get a chance to hear many of the musicians they hear in the orchestra perform some works as soloists with the organ. So sit back, relax, and let this incredible music fill you with joy and peace!

An Evening of Chamber Music and Organ

Overture Center for the Arts

Unleash your inner detective as the Philharmonic unravels an interactive murder mystery piece by piece.

Murder at the Philharmonic

Zimmerli Plaza

Music from Salem brings together musicians of international reputation to prepare and perform chamber music in the peace and beauty of rural Washington County, New York, and environs. Chamber music is classical music written for a small group of performers, and includes a range of styles, from the 18th century to today. Music from Salem also leads educational workshops and conducts violin, viola, and cello seminars for emerging young artists.

Music From Salem Spring Concert

Hubbard Hall - Center for the Arts and Education

Imagine an orchestra as a river. Or a bassoon becoming one with nature, exploring land, water and air. The latest adventure in our Harmony with Nature season begins with a contemporary classic by John Luther Adams. It embraces Terra, Clarice Assad’s Earth-inspired concerto, and it ends amid the changing seasons of Buenos Aires, with a live dance interpretation of Piazzolla’s intimate portrait of the city of tango.

Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

Southbank Centre

This all-strings program features FMSO’s string section while concertmaster, Sonja Bosca-Harasim, takes center stage as the featured soloist in Vivaldi’s iconic Four Seasons and Astor Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, creating a dialogue between Baroque elegance and 20th-century tango.

The Seasons of Vivaldi & Piazzolla

North Dakota State University

Tangazo is a dreamy, sensuous example of Piazzolla’s signature tango nuevo style. Robert Schumann’s first symphony is buoyant and optimistic, containing some of the most joyous music the composer ever wrote. Arthur Gottschalk’s 50th anniversary commission is a rhapsody in the vein of Gershwin and Milhaud, written for alumnus Milton Rubén Laufer.

Springtime Rhapsody

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

The Hermann Levi Academy introduces itself

UN:ERHÖRT – Chamber Concert of the Hermann Levi Academy

Alte Pinakothek

MSM Faculty Recital: Blake Hinson, double bass

Manhattan School of Music

Part of a set of six concertos presented by Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1721, The Third Brandenburg Concerto achieved widespread popularity and later became known to millions through its use as the theme tune for the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow for many years. Equally admired, his Concerto for Two Violins, weaves expressive lines between the two soloists in a captivating dialogue with the orchestra. The finale is a brilliantly imaginative response to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons from Argentina’s king of tango nuevo, Astor Piazzolla.

Sinfonia Viva

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

The finale of this concert at Nottingham’s Royal Concert Hall is a brilliantly imaginative response to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons from Argentina’s king of tango nuevo, Astor Piazzolla.

Part of a set of six concertos presented by Bach to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt in 1721, The Third Brandenburg Concerto achieved widespread popularity and later became known to millions through its use as the theme tune for the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow for many years. Equally admired, his Concerto for Two Violins, weaves expressive lines between the two soloists in a captivating dialogue with the orchestra.

The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires

An afternoon concert in the Kuben with music composed for flute, cello and piano. Philip Gaubert's Trois aquarelles opens with three contrasting movements, followed by Lili Boulanger's D'un matin de printemps and two works by Guillaume Connesson – the energetic Toccata-Nocturne and a movement from Initial dances . 

Chamber Concert #3

Malmo Live Concert Hall

Notas de Amoré (Love Notes) - Valentines Concert

Highline Performing Art Center

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Dearborn Symphony invites you to an evening of music made for falling in love—with rhythm, with movement, and maybe even with each other. Shall We Dance is a romantic, high-spirited night out designed for couples, friends, and anyone looking to celebrate the joy of connection through music and motion.

The concert itself flows with the charm and energy of a night on the town. Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz brings smoldering passion and drama, while Strauss’s Voices of Spring waltz enchants with its elegance—performed live with dancers from Downriver Dance Academy, under the artistic direction of Genrich. Later, tango-inspired rhythms and Latin flair take center stage in Piazzolla’s Libertango, performed in collaboration with the Dearborn Youth Symphony, adding a fresh, youthful spark to the evening.

Shall We Dance?

Ford Community & Performing Arts Center

We brought you Astor Piazzolla’s dazzling re-imagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons with all the fire and passion you would expect from the composer of the world’s most beloved tangos, played by the superb young violinist Alina Kobialka.

Select tangos, old and new, rounded out this sparkling program that also featured Venezuelan trombonist Angel Subero as a soloist.

Four Seasons of Tango

First Church Boston

The spirit summons the forgotten voice of María through a crack in the pavement and tells her story. She was born on a day when God was drunk. “I am María ... María Tango, María of the suburbs, María Night, María fatal passion, María of love for Buenos Aires am I!” - Searching for happiness, she leaves the suburbs, glows, gets high and plays, sells herself and, in death, becomes a mystical figure. As a shadow, María wanders through a world of surreal encounters, tracing life backwards from oblivion to birth - until she finds redemption through poetry. On a holy Sunday.

Maria from Buenos Aires

Theater Duisburg

German Oper am Rhein

MSM Faculty Recital: Chloé Kiffer, Alexandre Moutouzkine, Paul Cohen, Elena Lisitsian, and Daniel Epstein

Two Grammy-winning virtuosi join forces for an intimate evening of violin and guitar, in a breathtaking marsh-front setting at The Amelia River Club.

Anne Akiko Meyers, violin | Jason Vieaux, guitar

Amelia River Club

Step into an unforgettable evening where the sweeping rhythms and vibrant energy of the ballroom unfold. Portland Chamber Orchestra’s Grand Ballroom Carnaval celebrates the rich traditions of ballroom dance, brought to life through the music of legendary composers—from the timeless sophistication of Beethoven and the waltzing charm of Strauss to the passionate tango flair of Piazzolla. 

Before the concert begins, you’re invited to join the complimentary, beginner-friendly ballroom dance lesson perfect for all ages and abilities in The Reser’s Lobby at 6:30pm. Then, take your seat and let the music transport you as the orchestra explores how composers personalized and personified dance through their music.

Grand Ballroom Carnaval

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts

Brass concert

Mozarteum Foundation

The Lush Guitar

Norton Museum of Art

Forget everything you know about the accordion—Théo Ould is here to blow your mind. Recognized by Le Monde for his “personality that expresses itself naturally in fantasy, in the fresh and enchanting sense of the term,” this astounding French accordionist makes his Princeton University Concerts debut with a bold, tango-inspired program that proves his instrument’s rightful place in the classical world. At just 24, Ould became the first accordionist nominated as a Newly Discovered Talent at the Victoires de la Musique Classique awards, and he is redefining what the accordion can do—blending Baroque elegance, Romantic passion, and cutting-edge contemporary works (some featuring electronics) written just for him, including by Princeton University graduate student composers. With an instrument he calls “halfway between a typewriter and an extraterrestrial device,” Ould delivers a performance that’s anything but ordinary — don’t miss it.

Théo Ould, Accordion

Richardson Auditorium

Making his debut, this astounding French accordionist has been described by Le Monde as having “a masterly technique and an inexhaustible wealth of phrasing.” Offering a tango-inspired program, Ould evinces his instrument’s rightful place in the classical repertory.

Théo Ould, accordion Union College

Union College

The Quatrâmes quartet's repertoire is vast, from baroque to classical, including arrangements of tangos, opera arias, and film music. These musicians, members of the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie, will offer you unforgettable musical moments and share with you their passion and love for music.

Quatrâmes Quartet

Espace Culturel François Calvet

Music Director Peter Oundjian leads a rare Denver appearance of the enormously talented violinist Soyoung Yoon, who wows audiences regularly in concert halls across Europe and Asia. She’ll steal the show with the music of Argentine tango composer Astor Piazzolla, whose collection of vibrant musical portraits of Buenos Aires pays homage to Vivaldi’s own Four Seasons.

The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires with Soyoung Yoon

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Superstar saxophonist Kezia Colton showcases an exciting, uplifting programme of works by Rachmaninov, Piazzola, Pedro Iturralde and more, accompanied by the RCMJD Saxophone Quartet and pianist Craig White.

Classical Coffee Mornings: Kezia Colton

Royal Albert Hall

COR-des Quartet

La Tuilerie

Place shapes us – through their landscapes, architecture, and atmosphere, and sometimes, through a single moment of light or sound. Songs About Place invites us to hear how a setting is transformed into sound, and how a place, in all its forms, becomes a unique experience.

Songs About Place

Pasadena Conservatory of Music

Choir and tango? And even a liturgical text together with the most sensual of all dances, how does that fit together? Very well, as you can hear in this concert. In fact, it is a concert of discoveries. Because when do you ever hear a bandoneon in a concert hall? The sister of the accordion was invented in Chemnitz and began its triumphal march when the bandoneon made its entrance into South American tango orchestras at the beginning of the 20th century. Since then, it has become indispensable and is praised in Argentina as "the best German invention." String orchestra, bandoneon, piano, and our Philharmonic Choir - let yourself be taken into a musical world full of passion, pride, and sensuality! The concert is part of the Czech-German Cultural Days.

Tango mass

Palace of Culture

Join us in the GHD Auditorium for an enchanting evening of saxophone music as the UQ Saxophone Ensemble (UQSE) presents Chimera. Led by the internationally renowned saxophonist Dr Emma Di Marco, the UQSE is an exciting ensemble featuring UQ students, School of Music students and talented local high school musicians. Known for their dynamic performances, the UQSE showcases an eclectic program ranging from classical transcriptions to newly commissioned Australian works and popular jazz pieces.

Chimera

GHD Auditorium

Experience a thrilling fusion of old and new as Vivaldi’s Four Seasons meets Piazzolla’s The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires in an electrifying celebration of nature and rhythm. Vivaldi’s timeless masterpiece bursts with Baroque brilliance, painting vivid scenes of changing landscapes. Piazzolla’s tango-infused take on the seasons brings a fiery and modern twist, blending passion, drama, and Latin rhythms into a breathtaking counterpart. Witness the seamless interplay of these two iconic works in a performance that bridges centuries and continents—an unforgettable musical journey through time, style, and emotion!

The Four Seasons

Colonial Plaza

The UK’s most popular classical music station returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a 25th anniversary musical extravaganza – Classic FM Live at 25!

Classic FM Live with Viking

Bandoneon virtuoso and composer Omar Massa, originally from Buenos Aires, is considered the successor to the tango revolutionary Astor Piazzolla. Inspired by the new paths pioneered by Piazzolla, Massa combines the authentic sound of his hometown of Buenos Aires with the European chamber music tradition in his own compositions. In their exciting program,  "Buenos Aires Today," the trio members follow in the footsteps of Tango Nuevo and, enriched with the sounds of the 21st century, take it not only in new directions but also to new heights.

Latino Mozart | after work: Buenos Aires Today | Omar Massa Trio

The cello, with its rich timbre, its vibrato that brings the sound to life, and its unparalleled velvety sound, is the instrument that is said to come closest to the human voice. It is therefore quite natural that the cello voice of Cyrille Tricoire de Haro, supersolo cellist of the Orchestre National Montpellier, dialogues with that of the soprano Hwanyoo Lee, in this abundant and eclectic program, rich in emotion.

Voco-Cello Duo

Saint-Vincent Church

Stars such as festival prize winners Julian Bliss and Sebastian Klinger, pianist Matthias Kirschnereit, and violinist Michael Barenboim are among the lecturers at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre's summer campus. The best course participants will perform three concerts with the North German Philharmonic Orchestra Rostock at the end of the program—and their famous teachers will also be on stage. They will also open the summer campus with a chamber concert, where they will present themselves to students and audiences.

Opening of the summer campus

University for music and theater

Australian guitar duo Ziggy and Miles (“Transfixingly beautiful,” Limelight) joins Artistic Directors Julia Bruskin and Aaron Wunsch for a program of duets that explore the nature of musical dialogue and intrapersonal exchange. Brothers Ziggy and Miles are the Festival’s 2025 Emerging Artist in Residence and will astonish you with their uncanny communication and unique sensitivity in a program of music by Bach, Brahms, Debussy, and tango master Astór Piazzolla.

Duos and Duets

First Presbyterian Church of Skaneateles

The MDR Music Summer opens its 34th concert series in the European Capital of Culture 2025 with a brilliant opening. In collaboration with the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Chemnitz, soprano Fatma Said, and Omar Massa on the bandoneon, the MDR Symphony Orchestra presents a colorful program characterized by South American sounds, in which the bandoneon, whose origins lie in 19th-century Chemnitz, plays a prominent role. Marcus Merkel, one of Germany's most exciting young conductors of our time, assumes the overall musical direction.

From Chemnitz to the World

Theaterplatz

Join the Skaneateles Festival’s 2025 Emerging Artist in Residence, Ziggy and Miles for a special matinee performance on August 6th at 1:30pm at the May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society.

An Afternoon with Ziggy and Miles

May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society

Chamber concert

European Hanseatic Museum, inner courtyard

This concert transports us to Paris to celebrate legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger and some of her remarkable students. From Aaron Copland to Astor Piazzolla to Quincy Jones, many young talents sought her guidance, solidifying her legacy as the Grande Dame of 20th-century composition. The program also includes works by Stravinsky, whom she admired and advised on several of his pieces, music by her talented sister Lili Boulanger, and the G minor Piano Quartet of her own teacher, Gabriel Fauré.

Nadia Boulanger: 20th Century Influencer

Hanna Center

Joshua Bell & St Martin in the Fields

St.Johns church Meldorf

Petruskirche Kiel Wik

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields are thrilled to return to the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival for multiple concerts, including two with our Music Director Joshua Bell who will also perform Bach’s concerto for two violins in D Minor with Director Tomo Keller.

ASMF, Joshua Bell & Tomo Keller

Anastasia Kobekina's heartfelt wish: to one day share the stage with dancers and let their energies flow together. Her summer at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival makes this dream come true. The dance company of the Rostock Volkstheater and the award-winner in residence are creating an evening together—and not only Anastasia's cello invites you to dance, but the percussion of festival award-winner Alexej Gerassimez also makes bodies fly.

Percussion, cello, dance!

Rostock Hall

Ernst-Barlach-Theater

2025 SPO Rush Hour Talk Concert III: América Latina, pasión en el ritmo

Namdaemoon Presbyterian Church

Seoul Anglican Cathedral of St. Mary the Virgin and St. Nicholas

Immerse yourself in the lively and passionate music of Argentina - with favorite pieces by Astor Piazzolla and the extraordinary Tango Nuevo setting of mass texts by the composer and pianist Martín Palmeri. Under the direction of the true Argentinian Mariano Chiacchiarini, the great voices of the WDR Radio Choir and soloist Agnes Lipka meet the playful string players of the WDR Funkhaus Orchestra. Dream of the sound of the streets of Buenos Aires, revel in the passion of tango with the sounds of the bandoneon - a real summer festival for the senses!

Misa Tango: Argentine Fire

Museum Ludwig

Experience an unforgettable evening of captivating music as the SCO Strings, led by the brilliant Stephanie Gonley, take you on a journey through vibrant rhythms, tender romance and timeless beauty.

A Summer Serenade

Brechin Cathedral

Fochabers Public Institute

Fortrose Academy Theatre

That's unfortunate: If you blow into a saxophone, it immediately sounds like jazz. But in 1840 Adolphe Sax actually only wanted to close the tonal gap between the oboe and the clarinet in the orchestra with his glittering reed instrument. Today, many saxophonists are working hard on their return to classical music - in the case of the Signum Saxophone Quartet, primarily with the help of their own arrangements. Since the four saxophonists repeatedly emphasize how much they have learned from the strings of the Artemis Quartet, we can look forward to their blown version of Dvořák's American string quartet. Erwin Schulhoff, who felt close to Dada, Communism and jazz, was very fond of the saxophone, and so the arrangement of his string pieces op. 14 is just as fitting as the tonal re-dedication of Ástor Piazzolla's Suite del Ángel . After all, Piazzolla is about angels dancing tango. And about an angel who dies (in the final movement, La Muerte del Ángel) – after a fugue, of all things…

Signum Saxophone Quartet

Rococo Theater

Under the baton of Agata Zając and presented by Petroc Trelawny, this concert promises an harmonious journey through the essence of summer. Orchestral favourites include the enchanting overture to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the pastoral beauty of Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Debussy’s languid L’apr’s-midi d’un faune and Gershwin’s sultry Summertime from his folk opera Porgy and Bess. Savour the virtuosic skills of Hallé Leader Roberto Ruisi in Summer, first from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons and then from Piazzolla’s interpretation, The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.

Summer Classics

The Bridgewater Hall

We are very excited to be ending our season with the first ever visit to the UK of the internationally famous Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colón Opera.  This concert is of particular significance as we celebrate Bradford’s year as the UK’s City of Culture, with a performance of our own city’s great composer Frederik Delius’s piano concerto, performed by the distinguished British pianist Mark Bebbington.  Prior to the tour, this great Delius work will receive its Argentinian premiere, a concert that has been inspired by our position as the UK’s City of Culture.  The programme will open with Wagner’s romantic Prelude & Liebestod from Tristan & Isolde and in the second half there will be music from Bizet’s much-loved Carmen Suite, Tchaikovsky’s lyrical Swan Lake suite and the programme will end with two dazzling, scintillating show stoppers from two of Argentina’s greatest composers - Alberto Ginastera and Astor Piazzolla.  

Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra

Bradford Theatres

We are particularly excited for the UK’s first visit by the internationally famous Buenos Aires Symphony Orchestra of Colón Opera. Their colourful programme will begin with Wagner’s Prelude & Liebestod from his most romantic opera, Tristan & Isolde.

Composer

Ástor Piazzolla

Events

Upcoming events

Aug 16, 2026

From the Firebird to Boléro · Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Oct 2, 2026

Benefit «amiamusica» · Opernhaus Zürich

Oct 7, 2026

MILOŠ guitar; Ksenija Sidorova accordion · Wigmore Hall

Oct 25, 2026

The Seasons of Vivaldi + Piazzolla · South Bend Symphony Orchestra

6 - 8 Nov, 2026

Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony · Madison Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Jul 25, 2026

Gershwin, Corigliano, and more · Curtis Institute of Music

Jul 19, 2026

Curtis on Tour in Nantucket, MA · Curtis Institute of Music

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