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The eagerly anticipated Celebrity Concert, and highlight of Con Brio’s current Sligo Music Series, will take place next Friday week, April 8. Previous Celebrity Concerts have featured internationally renowned musicians such as violinist Tasmin Little and pianists Joanna MacGregor and Pascal Rogé. The performer for this season’s concert is at least as renowned as previous […]

Despite the difficulties the recent economic recession presented for voluntary bodies, not least those involved in promoting the arts, Con Brio have managed to bring world class classical music to Sligo each year for the past sixteen years. On Friday, October 16 they will launch their seventeenth Sligo Music Series which again will comprise a […]

Violinist Chloë Hanslip will perform at the Herts Festival of Music. - Credit: Kaupo Kikkas Hertfordshire’s very own festival of classical music makes its ‘live’ comeback this weekend following a cancellation year lost to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an exciting week ahead, concerts feature the internationally celebrated violinist Chloë Hanslip, pianist Danny Driver and music by Judith Weir, the first woman composer to be appointed Master of the Queen’s Music. Judith Weir - Credit: Supp...

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RICHMONDSHIRE Concerts has announced its Summer 21 mini-season.

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Praised for her “warmth and clarity” and “simply spellbinding” playing, Chloë has already established herself as an artist of distinction on the international stage. She made her BBC Proms debut at 14 and her US concerto debut at 15, and has performed at major venues across the UK, Europe, the US and the Far East. Violinist Chloë Hanslip is this years Principal Artist at the Hertfordshire Festival of Music. - Credit: Kaupo Kikkas. Supplied by Hertfordshire Festival of Music. During t...

Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here. 8 pm ET: Ensem...

Bard Music Festival Presents a Program of French Piano Music Both the recital and scholar talk will be available to stream on-demand through UPSTREAMING, the Fisher Center at Bard’s virtual stage, February 19–25.by BWW News Desk This February, the Bard Music Festival presents "A Program of French Piano Music, Inspired by the World of Nadia Boulanger," a recital of French music performed by pianists Danny Driver and Piers Lane recorded at The Menuhin Hall, Sussex, England in fall 2020. C...

Date Time Pianism in Long Nineteenth Century Paper dr. Anna Scott discussed in one-day conference on Pianism in the Long Nineteenth Century, featuring scholarship and interviews from across the globe. This virtual conference on March 4, 2021, brings together the expertise of performers, researchers, and pedagogues, and attempts to answer why the late nineteenth century was such a flourishing time in the history of pianism. While there are many texts that investigate individual elements of piani...