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Award-winning violinist Eunice Kim performs the 3rd violin concerto of Camille Saint-Saëns this weekend with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. The concerto is a beautiful Romantic work which Saint-Saëns dedicated to Pablo de Sarasate, and is turns dramatic, lyrical and triumphant. A favorite of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Eunice Kim has appeared with the SPCO in concertos of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, Piazzolla, Mozart, Bach and beyond, often leading from the violin. She has appeared widely as soloist in the U.S. and abroad, including with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Boulder Philharmonic, Akron Symphony, New West Symphony, Pro Musica Columbus, Wheeling Symphony, Williamsburg Symphony, the Cabrillo Festival and the Seongnam Philharmonic. With the Albany Symphony Orchestra she has performed and recorded George Tsontakis’s Unforgettable, released on Naxos Records. Kim is the recipient of awards and honors from Astral Awards, California International Violin Competition, the Pacific Music Society Competition and the Korea Times String Competition. She also represented the Curtis Institute of Music and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in the Millennium Stage Series Conservatory Project at the Kennedy Center.
The Viola Burns Longer. The Fry Street Quartet reconnects with acclaimed violist Toby Appel and pianist Monica Ohuchi for selected dates. The program includes two masterworks, Dvorak’s brilliant Viola Quintet in E-flat major, opus 97; and Kenji Bunch’s The Viola Burns Longer. Bunch’s new work (2024) is a suite of four short vignettes for solo viola with piano and string quartet. The program opens with Mozart’s K. 428. Sample of The Viola Burns Longer.
Music Director of the Windsor Symphony Orchestra, Artistic Director of the Boise Baroque Orchestra, and Music Director of the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra, Robert Franz lost his second battle with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma on September 2, 2025. Here is the message from our colleagues at the Windsor Symphony Orchestra: “Robert brought his incredible joy for live orchestral music to the Windsor Essex community,” says WSO Board President, Deborah Severs. “He brought out the best in the WSO with his tenacious spirit, his signature positive attitude and his pure love and passion for the orchestra and the community.” More…
Sasha Cooke & Jason Vieaux reunite for selected dates in the fall of 2026. Grammy winning mezzo soprano Sasha Cooke and Grammy winning guitarist Jason Vieaux elevate the affinity of guitar and voice from tender intimacy to gloriously soaring heights. Selected dates are available for the transcendent work of these two masters, offering audiences “a radiantly beautiful concert that featured music from three centuries and continents.” (San Francisco Classical Voice) Sasha and Jason have brought their collaboration to Music@Menlo, San Francisco Performances, the Kennedy Center, Round Top and beyond. Ms. Cooke appears by arrangement with IMG Artists.
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Jason Vieaux on the road: Following a busy spring that included a U.S. tour as guest artist with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and a return to Canada’s Edmonton Symphony for the beloved Rodrigo ‘Aranjuez’ concerto, Grammy-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux started his summer with a return to the Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival. His solo recital elicited strong critical acclaim: “Vieaux demonstrated the kind of artistic eloquence that any guitarist should aspire to… Vieaux layered a deep understanding of the music and an ability to communicate its essence.” His Bach Cello Suite #1 was hailed as a “refined interpretation…. The result felt like overhearing a great musician’s personal conversation with Bach, deferential but contributing fresh nuance.” As a composer, Vieaux shone no less brightly: “In his own composition, Tidal Pools, Vieaux offered a shimmering miniature that felt both intimate and pleasingly expansive… its quiet surface belying emotional depth beneath.” (ClevelandClassical.com) This summer Jason returns to the Bravo!Vail Festival to perform with the Escher Quartet, followed by returns to the Carmel Bach Festival, Music in the Vineyards Festival, and Interlochen Center for the Arts among other appearances. Catch Jason on tour: link to schedule.
Marsalis-McAllister-Ames Trio A sparkling new collaboration of Grammy Award-winning saxophonists Branford Marsalis and Timothy McAllister with the brilliant artistry of pianist Liz Ames. This new trio presents a rich and engaging program combining Marsalis’s emotive jazz style, McAllister’s cutting-edge techniques, and Ames’s sophisticated piano to create an intriguing mix of improvisation and precision, blending jazz’s spontaneity with the structured elegance of classical music. This tour includes the premiere of a new work Kansas City Confidential written for these artists by acclaimed composer Michael Daugherty. Program PDF
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Dalí Quartet hits the road: Following its warm reception in New England – “The Dali Quartet offered more than just technical brilliance or stylistic range on Sunday. They offered conviction, enthusiasm, and a visceral sense of purpose” writes The Berkshire Edge – the Dalí Quartet hits the road for summer concerts, workshops, and more. Travel beckons for Chamber Music America’s 2024 Ensemble of the Year, with return engagements at New York’s Maverick Concerts, in Colorado at Off the Hook Arts and in Mexico for SA’OAXACA International Music Festival. The Dalí makes debut performances in Vermont at the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival, in Washington state at Icicle Creek Center for the Arts and opens the Hood College Summer Concert Series in Maryland. Bringing Latin music to an equal standing alongside the Classical and Romantic canon, the group will also host the 22nd Annual Dali Quartet International Music Festival for eight days in July and August. A glimpse into 2026 shows the Dalí immersed in the Beethoven Quartet cycle. More news soon! Link here to the Dalí Quartet’s latest CD, Voces Latinas (Centaur).
Project Encore: Timothy McAllister & Liz Ames next CD Project Encore Vol. 2 is slated for August release on Neuma Records. The new CD features 17 World Premiere recordings commissioned by McAllister from extraordinary composers including Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Higdon, Adam Schoenberg, Iman Habibi, Lembit Beecher, Catherine Likhuta, and Sean Hickey. Project Encore reflects their commitment to bridging genres, from jazz-inflected rhythms and harmonies to lyrical introspection and wistful nostalgia, while showcasing the saxophone and piano duo’s virtuosic synergy. “We envisioned Project Encore as a platform for music that defies convention and champions diverse voices and groundbreaking compositions,” says McAllister. Track listings and more.
Sean Chen gets wired at MIT. Asked to participate in the MIT.nano Immersion Lab research into the biomechanics of piano playing, Sean was wired up for motion capture, accelerometers, ultrasound, and videos. The Immersion Lab is a platform to connect scientists and engineers with artists, musicians and performers. To allow the scientists to collect data on his biomechanics, he played through some of Rachmaninoff Concertos 2 and 3, the Tchaikovsky 1st, some Chopin Etudes and the Ligeti L’escalier du diable. Go Sean! “Sean Chen has the rare ability to combine poetic musical sensibilities and dazzling technical prowess” writes the LA Music Examiner about the Los Angeles native. In concert “he summoned massive, orchestral sonorities, yet he could also play with enormous delicacy. It was a muscular, impassioned performance… he is an artist with something to say” hails the Cincinnati Enquirer. And from the Washington Post: “Chen kept it all under tight control while giving an impression of unbridled freedom.” The virtuoso performer, composer and arranger is the winner of the American Pianists Association’s DeHaan Classical Fellowship, one of the most lucrative and significant prizes available to an American pianist. He is the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition’s Bronze Medalist and recipient of the $100,000 Leonore Annenberg Fellowship. Among his upcoming performances is an all-French program including his own arrangement of Dukas’ L’Apprenti sorcier (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) and the Franck Piano Quintet with the acclaimed Escher Quartet.
Timothy McAllister to give world premieres of new saxophone concertos by two acclaimed American composers, Steven Mackey and James Lee III. The Grammy winning saxophonist’s powerful impact on the repertoire continues with Mackey’s new work, Anemology (Concerto for Saxophone) featuring both alto and soprano instruments in three movements; and Lee’s concerto for alto saxophone, Abiding Legacy, which pays tribute to the African-American astronaut/saxophonist Ron McNair and commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the Challenger tragedy in 2026. Mackey performances: Monterey Symphony (Jayce Ogren conducting), Utah Symphony (David Robertson on the podium), Seattle Symphony (Laurence Renes conducting); Lee performances with the Nashville Symphony (Tito Munoz conducting). Both works are made possible, in part, by gifts from the Gail Straith Commissioning Fund. The fund will also support new saxophone concertos by Viet Cuong and Errollyn Wallen (both for 2026/27 premiere), and supported Adolphus Hailstork‘s concerto for Alto Saxophone which was premiered in 2025 and recorded with the Buffalo Philharmonic and JoAnn Falletta. “he gave the piece the knockout performance it deserved” (San Francisco Chronicle). More about Timothy McAllister here.
Following an extensive national search spanning two seasons, conductor Michael Butterman has been named Music Director of the Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra. Butterman remains the Music Director of the acclaimed Boulder Philharmonic, which opened the inaugural SHIFT Festival at the Kennedy Center, as well as Music Director of the Shreveport Symphony and the Pennsylvania Philharmonic, an orchestra uniquely focused on music education. As a guest conductor, Michael Butterman has led many of the country’s preeminent ensembles, including the Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, National Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Ft. Worth Symphony and Houston Symphony. Butterman, who spent his childhood in Northern Virginia and later earned two degrees from the University of Virginia is delighted to return to the Commonwealth. The Williamsburg Symphony is thrilled to welcome Michael Butterman to the community. Learn more here.
Grammy-winning guitarist Jason Vieaux performs Four Paths of Light Part on Pat Metheny’s latest album Road to the Sun. Upon release in March, it arrived on the Billboard Classical chart at number one — and on the UK and Germany charts at number one as well. Written for and recorded by Jason Vieaux, this expansive four-movement suite is part of a unique recording featuring two major Pat Metheny compositions performed by others. This new genre-defying recording from 20-time Grammy Winning Guitarist/Composer Pat Metheny is his first on Modern Records and includes a new work commissioned by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, and Metheny’s performance of Arvo Pärt’s Für Alina.
London Jazz News has this to say: “If anyone’s going to play this suite, Jason Vieaux is the perfect choice.”
“And as well as an obvious love for Metheny’s compositions, Vieaux has a well-matched playing style of meticulous clarity combined with lush romanticism.”
Listen to Jason Vieaux perform Part 2 of Four Paths of Light on YouTube Music.
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Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project – Grounded in science, elevated by art, igniting responses
The Fry Street Quartet collaborates with climate physicist and communicator, Dr. Robert Davies in Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project, an evocative performance about global sustainability that weaves art and science together through music, prose, and stunning visual imagery.
Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project is a live performance and is available as a full length film. Sample here.
Rising Tide: The Crossroads Project Feature Film is “a transfixing film that signifies the enlightened intertwining of science, social conscience, music and art…” link to film here.
10th Anniversary, the Artists Reflect: Sample here.
The Crossroads Project confronts a planet under siege and a future in peril – inspiring audiences to change course.
Educational Outreach components on tour focus on solutions.
Internationally acclaimed cellist Colin Carr is the complete artist – renowned for his concerto appearances with symphonies worldwide, his many distinguished recordings, his landmark performances of the complete Bach Suites and his long-standing commitment to the chamber music repertoire. Acclaimed for performances that are “unfailingly musical, logically thought through and convincingly argued” (New York Times) he has appeared with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the symphonies of Chicago, Los Angeles, Montréal, and more. He is currently on a widely celebrated tour of the Bach cello suites through Asia and North America. “His supreme technique gives him the freedom to hold together long complicated phrases that many more mortal cellists can’t manage without breaking their arcs. And with his bouncy, jig-like ebullience, Carr is better than anybody in the final Gigues”. (Boston Musical Intelligencer) Colin Carr is honored with the First Prize in the Naumburg Competition, the Gregor Piatigorsky Memorial Award, and as winner of the Young Concert Artists competition, among other accolades. More…
Christopher Taylor brings breathtaking experiences to the concert hall performing the Franz Liszt transcriptions of all the Beethoven 9 Symphonies. Individual works are available, as is the entire set. “What is remarkable is not that it makes the piano sound like an orchestra but that the reduction really sounds like piano music — on a grand scale, but pianistic nevertheless” writes the Boston Musical Intelligencer, which continues: “The way this version of a symphony that everyone knows and loves could best succeed is with dancelike lightness and momentum, and Taylor managed that feature completely, with unfailing and often effortless energy.”
Azica Records has released Together, the new CD from Yolanda Kondonassis & Jason Vieaux. The gorgeous CD is comprised entirely of original works for harp and guitar including two world premieres of works commissioned by Jason and Yolanda: Knock on Wood, by Keith Fitch, and Hypnotized, by Gary Schocker. Hear the interview and samples from WRCJ Detroit.
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