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Faculty Artist Series // The North Carolina Symphony's principal cellist Bonnie Thron will join the Reynolda Quartet for a rousing performance of Schubert's C major String Quartet.

Meet Director of New Programming Initiatives Jamala Henderson

Chamber music, music composed for small ensembles of instrumentalists. It often permits no more than one player to a part and usually dispenses with a conductor. Chamber music can be a combination of stringed or wind instruments, often with a keyboard, and music for voices with or without accompaniment.

The Icelandic pianist’s Mozart-centred recital revealed only slowly its sense of purpose and personality, but there were glimpses of intense, personal playing

Janáček’s rapturous masterpiece and a top cast withstand the Royal Opera’s rigid new production

Viola pedagogue Rainer Moog revisits the original score for clarinet and reveals some alterations that may be better left unchanged, in this article from the August 2015 issue of The Strad

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MANCHESTER — The final performances of Taconic Music’s fifth annual summer festival will take place in the coming days, beginning with the fourth Faculty Concert on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Riley Center for the Arts at Burr and Burton in Manchester Village. The concert opens with Clara Schumann’s Three Romances for Violin and Piano, op. 22, performed by Bulgarian violinist Joana Genova and Italian pianist, Van Cliburn Compe...

Jupiter String Quartet Joins Bowdoin International Music Festival for Two Free Livestream Concerts The Bowdoin International Music Festival returns this summer, gathering world-renowned musicians and students for an intensive schedule of chamber music.by Alexa Criscitiello The Jupiter String Quartet returns to the Bowdoin International Music Festival as a faculty ensemble, performing concerts on July 19 and August 2 in Studzinski Recital Hall. The Bowdoin International Music Festival is set to...

Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert tent On a Wednesday in mid-May, I entered the Stowe Community Church to see the first live performance of classical music I had experienced in more than a year: Middlebury pianist Diana Fanning playing works by Maurice Ravel, Fédéric Chopin and Franz Schubert. The formidable entrance requirements included emailing an image of my COVID-19 vaccination card to Stowe Performing Arts, which hosted the concert. Audie...

An exhilarating Sunday moving from percussionists to strings and on to a big symphony. Classical music review by David Nice