Romanian Israeli violinist Sergiu Schwartz is joined by pianist Joshua Grunmann on Sunday March 27th at the Wolf Performance Hall in London, Canada. “Sergiu and I rehearsed in New York,” Grunmann says. “We really hit it off. I feel a really strong musical partnership with him.” The program will feature compositions by Beethoven, Grieg and [...]
The PRISM SAXOPHONE QUARTET is honored to have been the recipient Ensemble of one of only eight commissions awarded by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress. Composer and recipient of the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Award, Bright Sheng (pictured) will compose a new work for PRISM with Music from China. The Prism Saxophone [...]
On Friday, March 30th of next year, superstar baroque violinist Monica Huggett joins Mercury Baroque of Houston, TX, for the first time for a program entitled The Virtuoso Violin. The concert will feature Mrs. Huggett as a soloist in dynamic and virtuosic concertos from all over 18th century Europe, including works by Leclair, Locatelli, Van [...]
The festival being held on Friday-Sunday, April 15-17 in Berea, Ohio. Acclaimed throughout the world, the Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival features the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries. The Festival, established in 1932, is the oldest collegiate Bach Festival in the United States. At 8 pm that day Musica Pacifica will perform. Hailed [...]
The Los Angeles Times described “part of an ongoing month-long Philip Glass Festival in the Los Angeles area that includes” the Prism Quartet… ”the concert began with ‘Meetings Along the Edge,’ the fifth section from ‘Passages,’ a 1990 collaboration between Glass and his old friend Ravi Shankar that was arranged for saxophone quartet and chamber [...]
Kina Poon reported in Dance Magazine, “This month, Elisa Monte Dance puts its best foot forward during a week-long run at the Joyce Theater and continues to tackle how to move onward… . “Monte’s premiere Dialogue with Vanishing Languages honors indigenous peoples; she commissioned an original score from composer Kevin James that incorporates dialects on [...]