Sterling Elliott
Five musicians have been announced as the recipients of the 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grants.
The recipients are cellists Sterling Elliott and Oliver Herbert; violinists Geneva Lewis and Kevin Zhu; and pianist Eric Lu. Each receives an award of $25,000 to be used for specific needs in advancing a career.
The Avery Fisher Artist Program, established by the late Avery Fisher in 1974, is intended to help young artists in the early stages of their careers. The Program, supporting instrumentalists and chamber ensembles who must be US citizens or permanent US residents, provides recognition in two categories: Career Grants, given annually, and the Prize, given less frequently as the highest form of recognition for excellence and contributions to classical music.
The Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra presents The Four Seasons as part of its Front Row Season on Saturday, March 20, 2021, at the Palace Theatre in Greensburg, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
The digital concert will be live streamed. The concert features Bella Hristova performing Antonio Vivaldiâs complete The Four Seasons. The evening also includes Sibeliusâs Andante Festivo and Mozartâs Divertimento No. 1 in D major K. 136.
âWe are thrilled to continue bringing live music safely to the community and Vivaldiâs Four Seasons is the perfect music to celebrate the beginning of Spring. This is Bella Hristovaâs third appearance with the WSO and audiences will now have the chance to have the best seat for the concertâ their own living rooms. Above all, we are humbled by the opportunity to continue bringing great music, through our talented musicians, to our neighbors. We are so thankful for the overwhelming support for the orchestra,â said Endicott Reindl,
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. â The Albany Symphonyâs upcoming âRachmaninoff Thirdâ is set to feature a commissioned work by young Spanish-American composer Carlos Bandera, one of the most technically challenging piano concertos ever composed, and Respighiâs Trittico Botticelliano.
The performance will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 13 at Universal Preservation Hall, and live streamed in real-time from the Saratoga Springs venue.
A pre-concert talk is scheduled for 7 p.m. followed by a post-concert question and answer session with the artists for season subscribers.
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âWe are delighted to be presenting Carlos Banderaâs new work. He is a wonderful composer. We are also so excited to collaborate for the first time with the incredible Israeli pianist, Inon Barnatan. He is an absolutely world-class soloist, and a leading exponent of this amazing Concerto. The Rachmaninoff Third is reputed to be the most technically virtuosic, diffi
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: EnsembleNEWSRQ presents
Nightfall! The ensemble performs Gerard Grisey’s
Stelé for two percussionists, David Maric’s
Nascent Forms for mallet quartet, and David T. Little’s
Haunt of Last Nightfall for percussion quartet and electronics. View here.
Shanghai Quartet set to play a string of classical hits By Chen Nan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-16 07:59 Share CLOSE (From left to right) Violinists Weigang Li, Angelo Xiang Yu, violist Honggang Li and cellist Nicholas Tzavar of Shanghai Quartet. [Photo provided to China Daily]
The Shanghai Quartet, which announced its new member Angelo Xiang Yu as its second violinist in November, will give a recital at the Tianjin Juilliard School on Wednesday.
Marking Ludwig van Beethoven s 250th birth anniversary this year, the quartet will perform three of the German composer s pieces written for string quartet:
String Quartet No 6 in B-flat Major, Op 18, No 6, Grosse Fuge Op 133 and