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2022-08-11 16:44:16
Piccinini, GPO give stellar advocacy to premiere of Theofanidis Flute Concerto
Wednesday night’s Grant Park Orchestra concert this week served as an […]
2022-05-24 03:12:15
Concerts June 3–5 feature new work by Theofanidis and Pizzetti’s 1922 Requiem By Peter Alexander May 23 at 9:12 p.m. Guitarist and CU music professor Nicolò Spera was shocked by things going on the U.S. after the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. He wanted to respond in the best way he knew—with […]
2022-04-03 04:12:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 3, 2022
[…] and Say, who last performed together in 2015 and 2016 at Carnegie Hall with performances The New York Times declared to be “all exuberance.” I am hoping you might consider listing this concert on Classical Candor?Saturday, April 29, 2022 at 8PMCarnegie Hall - Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage / “Spinning Silk”Orpheus Chamber OrchestraFazil Say, pianoFazil Say: Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 4, "Silk Road" Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 Christopher Theofanidis: Chamber Symphony No. 1 in D Major (after Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet, Op. 11)For complete information, visit https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2022/04/29/orpheus-chamber-orchestra-fazil-say-piano-0800pm--Hannah Goldshlack-Wolf, WildKat PRPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra Closes Season with Handel's RadamistoPhilharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale (PBO) brings its 2021/22 season to a full-bodied crescendo with Handel’s opera Radamisto, with a new staging by French director Christophe Gayral at Stanford’s Bing Concert Hall. This marks two firsts: the first time PBO has ever presented Radamisto and the first ever fully-staged […]
2021-07-16 13:54:22
Richard O’Neill was recently appointed violist of the well-known Takács Quartet. He has distinguished himself as one of the great instrumentalists of his generation. GRAMMY Award winner for Best Classical Instrumental Solo Performance in 2021, O’Neill is only the second person to receive an award for a viola performance in the history of this category. Following two previous GRAMMY nominations, O’Neill’s recent win for his recording of Christopher Theofanidis’ “Concerto for Viola and Chamber Orchestra” also spotlights conductor David Alan Miller and the Albany Symphony. Theofanidis’ composition was inspired by Navajo poetry… O’Neill has appeared as soloist with the world’s