Ma's impressive recital was an almost nonstop whirlwind of effervescent power.
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Concert Review: Isidore String Quartet, Anthony McGill – Beethoven, Brahms, and a James Lee III World Premiere
This was of the most satisfying chamber music performances I've experienced in NYC this year.
Read More »Interview: Composer Nicholas Denton Protsack, Winner of the 2026 Azrieli Commission for Canadian Music
"The definition of 'Canadian music' is something that many composers, including myself, continue to struggle with. I am reminded that Canada is of the most culturally and geographically expansive countries on the planet; owing to this, Canadian music must mean many different things to many different people."
Read More »Interview: Composer Adrian Mocanu, Winner of the 2026 Azrieli Commission for International Music
"This is one of the reasons I’m so drawn to early music – it provides the temporal distance necessary to transform what we inherit into something new."
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Beatrice Rana at Carnegie Hall
The Italian artist wields her pianistic prowess in service of the wide-ranging expressivity that signals a true and complete virtuoso.
Read More »Azrieli Foundation Announces 2026 Azrieli Music Prizes Laureates
The winners of Canada's top music composition competition hail from Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Europe.
Read More »Concert Review: Focused on Ukraine, Dalia Stasevska Conducts the New York Philharmonic, Joshua Bell
A war-themed program at Lincoln Center featured volatile works by two Ukrainian composers, plus Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland.
Read More »An International Mosaic: 28th Beijing Music Festival Links Classical and Contemporary, China and the West, October 10–24, 2025
Every fall the BMF brings together China's top rising talent with world-class musicians from across the globe.
Read More »Concert Review: Jonathon Heyward Conducts Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center in Brahms’ Symphony No. 1, Anna Clyne’s Saxophone Concerto ‘Glasslands’
A glowing new concerto for soprano saxophone by Anna Clyne made in its New York premiere together with music by Brahms and Emilie Mayer.
Read More »Concert Review: Boulder Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall with Pianist Adam Żukiewicz
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.
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