Concert Music

The Italian artist wields her pianistic prowess in service of the wide-ranging expressivity that signals a true and complete virtuoso.

The winners of Canada's top music composition competition hail from Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

A war-themed program at Lincoln Center featured volatile works by two Ukrainian composers, plus Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland.

Every fall the BMF brings together China's top rising talent with world-class musicians from across the globe.

A glowing new concerto for soprano saxophone by Anna Clyne made in its New York premiere together with music by Brahms and Emilie Mayer.

A "virtuosic display of youthful joy" is how the pianist described the finale, but he also displayed a mature mastery of dynamics and flow, abetted by an orchestra that bloomed to match him.

As the solo violin laments the destruction of homes and neighborhoods, the orchestra contextualizes that lone voice into a chorus of community. Terrible circumstances can indeed inspire work of aesthetic beauty.

The virtuoso talks about her recent and upcoming albums and her premiere of Eric Whitacre's 'The Pacific Has No Memory' honoring victims of the California wildfires.

In all these works, played magnificently by Jing Yang, Vigeland makes conscious and effective use of the piano's acoustical properties to create sound worlds that couldn't exist in the same way if played by orchestral instruments.

The pianist spoke with us about his upcoming concert at Carnegie, his Chopin project, and commissioning new music from Colorado to Eastern Europe.