Classical News

Silviu Ciulei of Romania was named the winner of the 18th annual Schadt String Competition last Sunday after a public recital by the three finalists at Miller Symphony Hall.

Gunther Schuller is a composer, conductor, horn virtuoso, jazz historian and critic who had the nerve and the authority years ago to decree that "all musics are created equal."

When it comes to musical dynasties, it's tough to top the Bach family. From town fiddlers to court composers, the Bachs dominated German music for seven generations.

Just a few years ago, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra was weathering a financial crisis and a bitter labor dispute.

Marsyas Productions inaugurates The Dina Koston Young Artists Program with Ears Open: A Festival of Contemporary Music tonight at 7:30pm at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall .

The multiple Academy Award-winning actress enchanted and impressed a jaded New York City audience on Thursday night not just with her superb acting skills but also with her equally superb singing voice!!!!! The internationally adored Brit stars as Mrs. Lovett in the New York Philharmonic 's production of Stephen Sondheim 's classic Sweeney Todd , ... (more)

The members of a newly formed musical group want their potential new fans to know a few things before their debut concert Sunday.

Ethel , the edgy contemporary classical string quartet often heard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will present a diverse series of works free at Trinity Church Thursday afternoon March 13 at 1 p.m. under the title "Grace."

Everyone knows Carmen. Everyone. Specifically, everyone knows the "Habanera" aria, also know as "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" , from Georges Bizet's 1875 opera.

Finding someone to go with me to the Cleveland Orchestra, winner of eight Grammy Awards in its historic 96-year existence, was tougher than I imagined it would be.

Matthias Goerne got to sing the title role of Berg's "Wozzeck" twice as many times as he bargained for during his trip to New York.

I am going to attempt this March, during International Woman's Month, to post a diary every Thursday highlighting important female contributors to the world of classical music.

A SNUG one-bedroom flat near Manhattan's Central Park serves as home and studio to Maria Schneider, composer and bandleader.

An old friend of Elaine Stritch recalls meeting the actress, a recovering alcoholic, at an AA meeting.

In this June 9, 2013 file photo, Laura Osnes arrives on the red carpet at the 67th Annual Tony Awards, in New York.

One of Philly's finest musicians, Andrew Lipke put on a phenomenal free show last past Sunday afternoon, wowing a receptive crowd at the Burlington County Library Auditorium in Westampton, N.J. Backed by both his rock band The Prospects and his classical accompanists The Azrael String Quartet, the first in a series of spring Sundays on Stage shows, ... (more)

Tenor Alexander Aldren from Penn took part in auditions for a performance of Stephen Sondheim's Broadway smash hit Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

If the Menuhin Competition is like the Olympics for the violin, then the Gala Concert with the Cleveland Orchestra on Sunday provided all the fireworks of the closing ceremony.

Spoiler alert: In the third act of "Wozzeck," which opens at the Metropolitan Opera on Thursday, the deeply tormented title character plunges a knife into the chest of Marie, his common-law wife and the mother of his child.

In fact, internationally-renowned, New York-based Canadian musician Julian Milkis - who appears in concert with pianist Eugene Skovorodnikov at 3 p.m. this Sunday , at White Rock's First United Church, 15385 Semiahmoo Ave. - is the only one who can make the claim.