Philharmonia News

The University of Iowa Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by doctoral students Christopher Fashun, Kira Horel and Andrea Molina, will perform movements from Tchaikovsky's 'Nutcracker' Suite and other seasonal music at 3 p.m. today in the Riverside Recital Hall .

December 06, 2009, 7:55 AM / Orchestras The Amherst Symphony Orchestra . Led by Steven Thomas, the ASO is playing its free holiday concert at 7 tonight at Amherst Middle School.

Lorin Maazel may have been a big name in conducting, but it is perhaps an indication of the wealth of young, exciting conductors around at present that this performance with the Philharmonia, with whom he first worked 50 years ago, should prove so uninspiring.

Wayne Shorter Quartet with NEC Philharmonia Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory Boston, Massachusetts October 24, 2009 Crushing waves, pound against jagged stone.

Members of the Knoxville Symphony Youth Orchestra rehearse for their spring 2009 recital.

This concert marked the start of Nikolai Lugansky's Rachmaninov cycle with the Philharmonia, which extends into the new year, changing conductors as it goes.

Three years ago, the classical music world went bananas celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth.

Covent Garden's Royal Opera House was transformed into one of the finest performance venues in the world between 1996 and 1999.

The Bath Philharmonia and students from Bath Spa University present an evening of music that challenged boundaries at the beginning of the 20th century at the Michael Tippett Centre, tonight at 7.30pm. Bath Philharmonia with Peter Donohoe , LorA© Lixenberg and Jason Thornton will be presenting the works of Stravinsky, Schoenberg and his pupil ...

Although principally focused on the classical music repertoire of the 18th to 21st centuries, the Philharmonia's more than 170 subscription series also encompass jazz, folkloric dance and literary evenings devoted entirely to the spoken word.

ONE of the world's great orchestras returns to Barnstaple next week. The Philharmonia Orchestra will be at Queen's Theatre on Tuesday with conductor Ian Brown and violinist Min-Jin Kym.

STRAVINSKY'S Firebird and Petrushka are well established as popular repertoire pieces, and yet the music-loving public has problems with this composer as he develops through the various phases of his compositional life.

EVERY SEPTEMBER, just after Labor Day, scores of string, woodwind, brass and percussion players start tuning up their instruments, singers practice their do-re-mi's and conductors polish their baton techniques to make ready for the upcoming musical season.

A year-long project to promote music to young people across the city will be celebrated at the Colston Hall on Thursday 27th August with performances by the Bristol Philharmonia and Creative Orchestras.

Russell. Hertfordshire London, Herbie Hancock to the rescue More reviews by Jack Massarik Improving on his Liszt: Herbie Hancock at the Albert Hall This strange concert, a thing of fits and starts, took the form of a mystery tour.

Andrew Adler No one should have been too surprised recently when Brad Broecker announced he'd be retiring at the end of May as chief executive of the Louisville Orchestra.

One hundred years ago, in a single small city, a giant artistic upheaval was under way.