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16 February 2025
 
3.00pm
Symphony Hall
301 Mass. Avenue
MA
02115

Details:
Web site
E-mail
+1 617 236 0999

$125, $95, $65, $32, $12 for students
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra: Strauss's Four Last Songs & Mahler Symphony No. 4 with soprano Claire Booth

Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, conductor
Claire Booth, soprano


Strauss: Four Last Songs
Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Boston Philharmonic 2024-25 Season event 3

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's third concert of the 2024-25 season features versatile British soprano Claire Booth doing double duty as the soloist for both Strauss's posthumously published Four Last Songs, his last completed work, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, which launched Conductor Benjamin Zander’s conducting career 52 years ago. His encounter with Mahler led to his lifetime passion for the composer, ultimately earning him the Gustav Mahler Society of New York’s first Titan Award in 2023.
 
22 February 2025
 
7.30pm(PT)
Berkeley Piano Club
2724 Haste St, Berkeley, CA
SF Bay Area
94704

Details:
Web site
E-mail

0-$30 (in-person); livestream (free, donations welcomed
Call for Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 2

Ensemble for These Times:
Dale Tsang, piano

Works chosen from E4TT's 2024 Call for Scores for solo piano. Winning scores to be announced in August. E4TT’s second biannual solo piano Call for Scores, performed by emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang.


 
7.30pm(PT)
Berkeley Piano Club
2724 Haste St, Berkeley, CA
SF Bay Area
94704

Details:
Web site
E-mail

0-$30 (in-person); livestream (free, donations welcomed
Call for Scores: Solo Piano, Vol. 2

Ensemble for These Times:
Dale Tsang, piano

Works chosen from E4TT's 2024 Call for Scores for solo piano. Winning scores to be announced in August. E4TT’s second biannual solo piano Call for Scores, performed by emerita pianist extraordinaire Dale Tsang.


 
2 March 2025
 
3.00pm
Symphony Hall
301 Mass. Avenue
MA
02115

Details:
Web site
E-mail
+1 617 236 0999

$75, $45, $20, and $12 for students
Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season: Mahler Symphony No. 6

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, conductor


Mahler: Symphony No. 6


Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season event 2

The difficulties performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, Tragic—technical, interpretive, emotional, and even logistical—are legendary. After performing his Symphony No. 5 last season, this year’s Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra musicians will tackle Mahler’s even more emotionally challenging Sixth Symphony.
 
3.00pm
Symphony Hall
301 Mass. Avenue
MA
02115

Details:
Web site
E-mail
+1 617 236 0999

$75, $45, $20, and $12 for students
Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season: Mahler Symphony No. 6

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, conductor


Mahler: Symphony No. 6


Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season event 2

The difficulties performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, Tragic—technical, interpretive, emotional, and even logistical—are legendary. After performing his Symphony No. 5 last season, this year’s Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra musicians will tackle Mahler’s even more emotionally challenging Sixth Symphony.
 
4 April 2025
 
7.30pm(PT)
Cha Chi Ming Hall, Bowes Center
200 Van Ness Avenue
SF Bay Area
94102

Details:
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FREE (in-person and livestream)
Women in Transit

Ensemble for These Times
Nanette McGuinness, soprano
with
Han Lash, dancer
Lylia Guion, violin
Megan Chartier, cello
Taylor Chan, piano

Leilehua Lanzilotti: ko-u inoa
Han Lash: Suite (WORLD PREMIERE)
Tamara McLeod: Sappho Fragments (WORLD PREMIERE)
Niloufar Nourbakhsh: Cavities (WORLD PREMIERE), to a new film by Pegah Pasalar
Emma O'Halloran: Vertical Fields
Zhou Tian: A Crown for Sonia
E4TT/TAC Student Multimedia Composition Competition winner

Niloufar Nourbakhsh’s commission has been made possible by the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by the Mellon Foundation.
 
18 April 2025
 
8.00pm
Symphony Hall
301 Mass. Avenue
MA
02115

Details:
Web site
E-mail
+1 617 236 0999

$125, $95, $65, $32, $12 for students
Boston Philharmonic Orchestra: Mahler Symphony No. 2 with soprano Miah Persson & mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly

Boston Philharmonic Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, conductor
Dame Sarah Connnolly, mezzo-soprano
Miah Persson, soprano
Chorus Pro Musica


Mahler: Symphony No. 2

Boston Philharmonic 2024-25 Season event 4

The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's final concert of the 2024-25 season features the "achingly poignant” and internationally recognized mezzo-soprano Dame Sarah Connolly, who returns to the BPO stage as soloist on Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection with Swedish soprano Miah Persson, as well as Chorus Pro Musica. The themes of life, death, and resurrection resonate deeply on Good Friday, making it a fitting finale to the BPO's season.
 
1 May 2025
 
8.00pm
Symphony Hall
301 Mass. Avenue
MA
02115

Details:
Web site
E-mail
+1 617 236 0999

$75, $45, $20, and $12 for students
Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season: Debussy, Walton & Rachmaninoff

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, conductor


Mahler: Symphony No. 6


Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season event 3

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra's (BPYO) final concert of the 2024-25 season opens with Debussy's Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to an afernoon of a faun), one of the most intricate and demanding pieces in the orchestral repertoire. Cellist Leland Ko, first prize winner of the 2023 L'orchestre symphonique de Montreal Competition and former BPYO first cellist at age 14), who is now 25, follows as the soloist on Walton's Cello Concerto, which cellist Gregor Piatigorsky commissioned and premiered in Boston. The concert concludes with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, which Conductor Benjamin Zander says “has deep romantic themes, overflowing with love.”
 
8.00pm
Symphony Hall
301 Mass. Avenue
MA
02115

Details:
Web site
E-mail
+1 617 236 0999

$75, $45, $20, and $12 for students
Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season: Debussy, Walton & Rachmaninoff

Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Benjamin Zander, conductor


Mahler: Symphony No. 6


Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra 2024-25 Season event 3

The Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra's (BPYO) final concert of the 2024-25 season opens with Debussy's Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to an afernoon of a faun), one of the most intricate and demanding pieces in the orchestral repertoire. Cellist Leland Ko, first prize winner of the 2023 L'orchestre symphonique de Montreal Competition and former BPYO first cellist at age 14), who is now 25, follows as the soloist on Walton's Cello Concerto, which cellist Gregor Piatigorsky commissioned and premiered in Boston. The concert concludes with Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2, which Conductor Benjamin Zander says “has deep romantic themes, overflowing with love.”
 
9 May 2025
 
7.30pm(PT)
Community Music Center
544 Capp St, San Francisco, CA
SF Bay Area
94110

Details:
Andrew
Web site
E-mail
415-399-9554

$20-28 or with a Festival Pass (in-person or livestream)
Mujeres Ahora

Ensemble for These Times
Nanette McGuinness, soprano
Margaret Halbig, piano
with guests
Lylia Guion, violin,
Vanessa Ruotolo, cello

SF International Arts Festival

Ticketing link: https://www.sfiaf.org/

Music by Gabriela Lena Frank, Tania León, Carla Lucero
Carla Lucero, Claudia Montero, Angélica Negrón, and Gabriela Ortiz
 
14 March 2025
 
8.00pm
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall
154 W 57th St
New York
10019

Details:
Web site
212-247-7800

$50
Oxford Philharmonic Piano Trio

Oxford Philharmonic Piano Trio
- Carmine Lauri, Violin
- Peter Adams, Cello
- Russell Hirshfield, Piano


Program
SCHUBERT Notturno in E-flat Major for Piano Trio, D. 897
REENA ESMAIL Saans
JENNIFER HIGDON "Pale Yellow" from Piano Trio
SHOSTAKOVICH Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8



Concertmaster Carmine Lauri and cellist Peter Adams of the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra perform an intimate chamber music concert alongside pianist Russell Hirshfield. Spanning several musical eras, the program features a diverse selection of rarely heard piano trios, including contemporary works by Jennifer Higdon and Reena Esmail, as well as pieces by renowned composers like Brahms and Shostakovich.
 
15 March 2025
 
8.30pm
Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
881 7th Ave
New York
10019

Details:
Web site

$50-125
New England Symphonic Ensemble

New England Symphonic Ensemble
Paul A. Aitken, Andrew Balfour, Carol Beynon, Jo Ann Miller, and Cristi Miller, Conductors

PAUL A. AITKEN Missa Pro Terra: A Mass for the Earth (US Premiere)
ANDREW BALFOUR "Ambe"
ANDREW BALFOUR "Vision Chant"
ANDREW BALFOUR "Gaze Upon the Trees"
SHERRYL SEWEPAGAHAM "Sleepy Song"
BEVERLEY MCKIVER "All That We Are"
HUSSEIN JANMOHAMED "Grateful Heart"
SHERRYL SEWEPAGAHAM "Yôtin (The Wind)"
THOMPSON Frostiana
EMILY CROCKER "We Reach"
AUDREY SNYDER "The Road Not Taken"
TRAD. "The Keel Row" (arr. Cristi Miller)
WHITING "Ain't We Got Fun" (arr. Mac Huff)
JOSHUAH CAMPBELL "Stand Up" (arr. Rollo Dilworth)
DON MCLEAN "Vincent" (arr. Roger Emerson)


 
22 March 2025
 
8.30pm
Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
881 7th Ave
New York
10019

Details:
Web site

$50-125
New England Symphonic Ensemble

New England Symphonic Ensemble
Anthony Bernarducci and Jo-Anne van der Vat-Chromy, Conductors

MOZART Mass in C Major, K. 317, "Coronation"
TRAD. "Shenandoah" (arr. James Erb)
TARIK O'REGAN Triptych


 
15 November 2024 until 15 November 2025
 
6.00pm
First Church in Cambridge
11 Garden Street
Massachusetts
02138

Details:
Web site
Free & open masterclass with world-renowned British cellist Alexander Baillie

Masterclass with Cellist Alexander Baillie

 
6 April 2025
 
1.00pm
Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
881 7th Ave
New York
10019

Details:
Web site

$25-$125
New England Symphonic Ensemble plays Monteverdi, Handel, Vivaldi, Bach, Notareschi and Hagenberg

New England Symphonic Ensemble
Nicole Baker, Scott D. Glysson, Bradley Miller, Raul Dominguez, and Andrew Bowers, Conductors


MONTEVERDI Magnificat a sei voci
HANDEL Zadok The Priest
HANDEL The King Shall Rejoice
VIVALDI Magnificat, RV 610
J. S. BACH Sanctus in C Major, BWV 237
LORETTA K. NOTARESCHI Climate Mass (World Premiere)
ELAINE HAGENBERG Illuminare


For single tickets call CarnegieCharge at 212-247-7800 or visit carnegiehall.org
Box Office is located at 881 Seventh Avenue and 57th Street, New York, NY
Student and Senior Discount Tickets Available at the Box Office
For group sales of 10 or more, contact groupsales@carnegiehall.org or call 212-903-9705

 
15 February 2025
 
7.00pm
Gallery MC
549 West 52nd Street
New York
10019

Details:
Gene Pritsker
Web site
E-mail
6465229442

$20 in advance, $30 at the door
Composers Concordance Presents - Octogenarians

John Clark, horn

David Taylor, bass trombone

Gene Pritsker, guitar

Laurence Goldman, bass

Damien Bassman, cajon/percussion

Composers Concordance

For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Saturday, February 15th, 2025 at 7pm, Composers Concordance presents Octogenarians at Gallery MC in Hell's Kitchen. This event features two legendary musicians: John Clark - horn (Gil Evans, Frank Sinatra, McCoy Tyner) and David Taylor - bass trombone (Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Leopold Stokowski). These extraordinary performers and composers have reached a remarkable milestone and will present a program featuring music written for the occasion by their colleagues, plus their own compositions.



Featured compositions on the program include 'Eighty Ain't So Old' by Eugene W. McBride,

‘Resigned’ by Gene Pritsker, ‘Dialogue' by Faye-Ellen Silverman, 'The Taylor/Clark Conundrum'

by Jay Rozen and 'Playing it Forward' by Paul Undreiner. Also music by John Clark, Dan Cooper, Larry Goldma
 
20 February 2025
 
7.00pm
Westbeth
55 Bethune Street
New York
10014

Details:
Gene Pritsker
Web site
E-mail
6465229442

Free Event
Composers Concordance Presents - The Painters

CompCord Modified String Quartet:

Machiko Ozawa, violin
Arthur Dibble, viola
Gene Pritsker, electric guitar
Troy Rinker Jr, double bass

Guest performers:

Lynn Bechtold, violin
Dan Cooper, alto flute

For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Thursday, February 20th, 2025 at 7pm, Composers Concordance presents 'The Painters at Westbeth. 'The Painters' by Gene Pritsker is a 40-minute composition inspired by eight painters (with ten paintings each) who share a connection with the composer. The piece is performed alongside a video projection of the paintings and is scored for a modified string quartet: violin, viola, electric guitar, and double bass. Each of the eight movements focuses on one aspect of a particular painter and is titled as follows:

1 Sophie Dunér - The Art of Music

2 Mark Kostabi - Angels

3 Rainer Gross - Madras

4 Kim Pritsker - People & Pets

5 Paolo Foglia - Abstract

6 David Nicholson - Skulls

7 Rose Hackl - Textures

8 Chuck Connelly - Nudes



The event will also feature 'Infinite Monkey' by composer Lynn Bechtold and poet Jim Kempner, inspired by Chuck Connelly's painting Monkey Family (2011), and 'Ballade & Vocalise' by composer Dan Cooper and poet Imelda O’Reilly, inspired by Connelly's painting David Bowie (2016). Both pieces will be performed by the composers and poets.

 
20 April 2025
 
1.00pm
Carnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
881 7th Ave
New York
10019

Details:
Web site

$25-$125
New England Symphonic Ensemble plays Mendelssohn, Perkinson and Gjeilo

Sterling Poulson, Conductor
Cailin Marcel Manson, Conductor
Yelena Beriyeva, Piano

Participating Choruses:
Choral Arts Society of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (Sterling, Director)
Clark University Choir, Worcester, MA (Cailin Marcel Manson, Director)
Wasatch Master Chorale, Ogden, UT (Dennis Ahern, Director)


MENDELSSOHN Sinfonia X in B minor
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR PERKINSON Grass—Poem for Piano and Orchestra
OLA GJEILO Sunrise Mass


 
23 February 2025
 
7.00pm
Steel Wig Music
939 8th Avenue
New York
10019

Details:
Gene Pritsker
Web site
E-mail
6465229442

$20 in advance, $30 at the door
Composers Concordance Presents - PRISM

Machiko Ozawa, violin

Jai Jeffryes, piano

Composers Concordance

For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Sunday, February 23rd, 2025 at 7pm, Composers Concordance presents 'Prism,' a concert event inspired by Tango music and more. ViolinistMachiko Ozawa and pianist Jai Jeffryes reunite at Steel Wig Music to perform compositions byGraciela Carriquí, Jai Jeffryes, Makia Matsumura, Lee McClure, Machiko Ozawa, Astor Piazzolla, Brian Tidwell and Gene Pritsker.

 
3 March 2025
 
7.00pm
Nublu
151 Avenue C
New York
10009

Details:
Gene Pritsker
Web site
E-mail
9178803545

$22.66
Composers Concordance Presents - TromBonafide

David Taylor, Dick Griffin, Steve Swell, trombones
Gene Pritsker, guitar
Jose Moura, bass
Damien Bassman, drums

Composers Concordance

On Monday, March 3rd, 2025 at 7pm at NUBLU, Composers Concordance continues its 'Timbre Tantrum' series with a concert event entitled 'TromBonafide.' The program features three renowned trombonists: David Taylor, Dick Griffin, and Steve Swell, joined by the rhythm section of Gene Pritsker - guitar, Jose Moura - bass, and Damien Bassman - drums, to perform a set of new compositions.

Featured on the program are the premieres of Gene Pritsker's 'Tête-à-tête', Dan Cooper's 'Cabfare for the Ramen Fan,' 'Am I Not Here?' by Stephanie Susberich, and 'Three Bones and a Bop' by Steve Swell. Plus music by Seth Boustead, Dick Griffin, Dave Soldier, and David Taylor.
 


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