“Over the past half-century, jazz guitarist Gene Bertoncini has played with Wayne Shorter, Buddy Rich, Tony Bennett, and the Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra. On his recent CD, “Concerti,” Bertoncini is joined by a string quartet and bass, playing arrangements written by Eastman School of Music colleagues. Needless to say, he excels in any setting, but [...]

Richard Scheinin, with the San Jose Mercury News, writes of the Prism Quartet release, “Breath Beneath” (New Dynamic). “Classical saxophone performance has long roots in France, where the instrument has been played with salon-like refinement and fragrance. It’s safe to say that the 25 year-old PRISM Quartet represents the flowering of an American school of [...]

The Times Record, Brunswick, ME reports on the Bowdoin Music Festival at Studzinski Recital Hall: Violinist Sergiu Schwartz performs Georges Enesco’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in F minor, Op. 6 with pianist Peter Basquin on July 19th. Schwartz has been compared to his fellow countrymen Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zuckerman. On July 21st Bedrich Smetana’s [...]

From Reference Recordings’ July 14, 2010 release about Chris Brubeck: “An award-winning composer, he is clearly tuned into the pulse of contemporary music…The respected music critic for The Chicago Tribune, John von Rhein, calls Chris: ‘a composer with a real flair for lyrical melody–a 21st Century Lenny Bernstein’…In the last decade, Chris has created an [...]

For three summer days, the delightful seaside town of Yachats on the Oregon coast hosts a classical music festival that offers both vocal and instrumental music performed by a wide range of young and experienced musicians. Audiences and performers, enjoy the intimate Yachats Community Presbyterian Church for music by Mozart, Debussy, Verdi, Schubert, Villa Lobos [...]

Kutztown University has announced educational matinees for students by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company beginning in January of 2011: “Drawing on elements from the flowing lines of Chinese calligraphy to the thundering motion of the martial arts, Nai-Ni Chen’s works have been presented at over 200 art centers in the United States and internationally in Mexico, [...]