The acclaimed vocal ensemble Gentlemen Singers has accepted an invitation to our special concert in May. In the opening notes of Echos of Folksongs by Leoš Janáček, we can hear the young composer influenced by folk music, his travels in Moravia and his first experiences as a choirmaster.

In stark contrast there are the Brigand Songs commissioned from Bohuslav Martinů at the end of his life by the Prague Teachers’ Choir (I) and the Moravian Teachers’ Choir (II).

For the May concert, Gentlemen Singers, together with the violinist Lucia Fulka Kopsová, will also perform Zdeněk Lukáš’s song cycle Spring is Coming, whose choral works are inspired by folk motifs and are characterized by melodic inventiveness, rhythmic vitality and ability to express strong emotions.

Lukáš. Vičar. Janáček

The Professed House, Prague

A romantic programme with a close connection to Dresden. As royal Kapellmeister from 1817, Carl Maria von Weber had a long-lasting impact on the city’s musical life. His »Oberon« overture is a late vision of romantic opera that is both radiant and dramatically charged. Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto was premiered on 4 December 1845 at the local Hotel de Saxe with Clara Schumann as soloist and Ferdinand Hiller conducting. Clara noted in her diary: »The concerto is quite rich in invention. All the movements are particularly beautiful, all of a piece, fresh and not too long.« Johannes Brahms was also closely associated with Dresden, frequently performing here as a pianist and conductor of his own works.

Symphony Concert N° 9

Semperoper Dresden

EPSG:4326

Michele Mariotti

Teatro alla Scala

University Symphony Orchestra

University of Minnesota

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The Artelize Podcast: 'Amplifying What Makes Us Human'. A conversation with Zuly E. Inirio

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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IRCAM enables composers to push the boundaries of their compositional imagination to completely new horizons. Thus, Isabel Mundry positions the world of the mind and the world as a resonance space as coordinates for a comprehensive sound experience. By contrast, Márton Illés hones the force and energy of individual sounds to utmost sharpness. György Kurtág, entirely without digital-electronic means, translates the text’s poignancy into the implacability of the micro-detail. Precision that glows.

Light Spectra

Wiener Konzerthaus

Experience the talent and passion of the Chattanooga Youth Symphony with this unforgettable concert at the UTC Fine Arts Center (752 Vine St, Chattanooga, TN 37403) at 6 PM EST on May 4, 2026.

CYS Spring Concert

UTC Fine Arts Center

When Mozart spent a few days in Linz in 1783, the opportunity to give a concert spontaneously arose. However, he had no finished works at hand. So, within four days, he composed a symphony that later—and quite rightly—became known as the "Linz Symphony." Mozart clearly follows in the footsteps of Haydn, whose symphonies he had previously studied and copied. For the first time, he also opens a symphony with a slow introduction, thus continuing the path he had begun toward a large-scale symphonic form.

7th  Symphony Concert

Music and Congress Hall Lübeck

The Sound of the Trumpet, the Roar of the Drums

Ualbany Performing Arts Center

In one historic moment, Bach set the stage for the harpsichord to claim its place as a concerto soloist. The instrument's meteoric evolution from a harmony-playing member of the Basso continuo team to an elevated solo instrument worthy of concertos occurred when Bach composed a frenzied cadenza for the harpsichord in his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto. That work alone employs the harpsichord in three roles, to add harmonic texture, to share the spotlight with flute and violin as a melodic chamber instrument, and ultimately to completely take over the proceedings with a dramatic stepping out, front and center.

Bach's Harpsichord

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

Saint Mark's Episcopal Church

Davis Community Church

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

Eastman students, faculty, and alumni present a 25-minute lunchtime concert at Christ Church every Tuesday. Performances feature the Craighead-Saunders Organ and Hook & Hastings Organ. Each free program begins at 12:10 p.m, more information can be found about these concerts

Tuesday Pipes 2026

Christ Church Rochester

Join CYSO’s Jazz Orchestra for their final performance of the year at Chicago’s legendary Jazz Showcase!

CYSO Jazz Orchestra

Dearborn Station

Ithaca College: Symphony Orchestra

Ithaca College

The New York Times wrote that Gabriella Smith’s music “exudes inventiveness with a welcoming personality, rousing energy and torrents of joy.” Smith expresses that joy in her music and collaborations, even as it asks listeners to preserve our fragile planet. Her first album, Lost Coast, channeled imagery inspired by a five-day backpacking trip through California’s Lost Coast Trail with her Curtis Institute roommate and friend Gabriel Cabezas. Cabezas’s cello and Smith’s violin and vocals combine acoustically and through electronic loops to express anger and grief at natural devastation blended with wonder and hope.

Smith, Cabezas & Childs

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Irresistible for its popular accents and powerful lyricism, Grieg's virtuoso Concerto is a prelude to the literary journey, strewn with references and ironies, that Mahler's restless soul composes.

Orchestre de Paris / Klaus Mäkelä

Philharmonie de Paris

5/2: How Polarity Yields Five Codes of Music - A Syzygy with S/Z. Presentation 4: Structure

The University of Iowa School of Music - Voxman Building

Auditioned vocal soloists team up with Voice Professor Peter Eldridge to arrange and perform songs tailored specifically to their unique talents. The concert showcases a wide range of musical genres, including original compositions created especially for this event. Performances will feature both full rhythm section arrangements and intimate duo settings with Eldridge at the piano.

Eldridge Variety Hour

Berk Recital Hall

The UMD University Orchestra performs its season finale concert.

UMD University Orchestra Season Finale

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Let's play: We look forward to the continuation of the symphonic format »Video Games in Concert"And immerse yourself in the epic soundtracks of popular games, which have long since been celebrated on concert stages far beyond the virtual realm. In this exciting branch of composition, the often enormously emotional music ingeniously creates evocative atmospheres in the various scenarios and, with its captivating passages, draws the listener ever deeper into the action.

Orchestral events in Shipshewana, Indiana this month

Lukáš. Vičar. Janáček

Prague Philharmonia

Symphony Concert N° 9

Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden

Michele Mariotti

Teatro alla Scala

University Symphony Orche...

University of Minnesota School of Music

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Light Spectra

Klangforum Wien

CYS Spring Concert

Chattanooga Symphony & Opera

Michele Mariotti

Teatro alla Scala

7th Symphony Concert

Theater Lübeck

The Sound of the Trumpet,...

Ualbany Performing Arts Center

Bach's Harpsichord

American Bach Soloists

Tuesday Pipes 2026

Eastman School of Music

CYSO Jazz Orchestra

Jazz Showcase

Ithaca College: Symphony ...

Ithaca College

Smith, Cabezas & Childs

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Orchestre de Paris / Klau...

Orchestre de Paris

5/2: How Polarity Yields ...

University of Iowa School of Music

Eldridge Variety Hour

Berklee College of Music

UMD University Orchestra ...

University of Maryland School of Music

Video Games in Concert

Heroic

American Classical Orchestra