At 8 pm on Wednesday June 23rd the trio’s recent performance at Longwood Gardens will be broadcast as part of WHYY-TV’s Emmy Award winning series “On Canvas.” The Juilliard-trained sisters, Maria, Lucia and Angella, are redefining the art and form of chamber music by infusing their classical instrumentation with DJs, dance companies, hip-hop and Czech [...]

In his review of the Portland Baroque Orchestra, special to the Oregonian on May 15, 2010, James McQuillen writes: “A great performance offers music as you’ve never heard it before. Unless you’ve listened to Ensemble Sonnerie’s Grammy-nominated recording of J.S. Bach’s four Orchestral Suites, Portland Baroque Orchestra’s concert Friday night at First Baptist Church did [...]

This review by music critic Ted Ayala was published on May 17th in Glendale, CA. “The second part of the concert was devoted entirely to See There in the Distance, a one woman drama by singer Ruby Hinds depicting scenes from the life of the contralto Marian Anderson. Anderson was not only one of America’s [...]

(An excerpt from a New York Times music review “Baroque Collection…Handel’s Sacred Arias, Intimate and Affirming Top of Form” by Anthony Tommasini originally published December 21, 2008.) “The program included: six of Handel’s Nine Arias for Soprano, Violin and Continuo, settings of household devotional texts by the 18th-century German religious poet Barthold Heinrich Brockes. “Thanks [...]

Leon Bates performed on Saturday May 8th on the H. Lavity Stoutt concert series in the British Virgin Islands, where he was heralded as “a world-recognized classical concert pianist” who has been called “fiercely talented and powerful” by the Los Angeles Times, “…his performances often setting the standards of classical concert artistic perfection. Bates has [...]

Merilyn Jackson, for The Philadelphia Inquirer, writes, “Those of us who critique the arts go wild with delight when an artist we’ve been watching for many years creates a work that transcends all he has done before. Thursday night Koresh Dance Company opened its spring season at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre with artistic director Ronen [...]