Reviewer James Altena reports in Fanfare Magazine “…this disc is most attractive on its own terms for the sheer enjoyment it provides. All three works are sunny, genial essays in bright major keys; they are well crafted with enticing melodies. The long-established and estimable Ames Quartet is at the top of its formidable game here, [...]

French Clarinetist Michel Lethiec will join the Shanghai Quartet in a performance of the Porgy and Bess Suite (arranged for Clarinet and Strings by Franck Villard) as part of the Peak Performances series at Montclair State University, on December 17th at 8:00 pm. In an international career that spans four continents, Lethiec is regarded as [...]

The 56th season of the Morrison Artists Series was announced yesterday by San Francisco State University. The Grammy-nominated Borealis Wind Quintet begins the season on Friday, October 21, with a diverse program consisting of works by Charles-Édouard Lefebvre, Samuel Barber, Joseph Turrin, Paul Moravec, Manny Mendelssohn and Robert Muczynski, Heitor Villa-Lobos and Giulio Briccialdi. The [...]

This is on September 24th and 25th. A singular artistic vision combines with vigorous athleticism in the works of Elisa Monte Dance. At once, true to its own distinctive style and eager to encompass diverse cultural influences, Monte’s choreography takes a global view of movement that puts the world of dance within her audience’s grasp. [...]

Rose Rushe, writing in the Limerick Post describes the forthcoming 9/13/11 concert at Castleconnell’s All Saints Church: “Led by artistic director Monica Huggett, the Irish Baroque Orchestra Chamber Soloists will perform a superb chamber music programme of French Baroque repertoire on period instruments for this first concert of the season. Huggett is a Grammy-nominated violinist. For [...]