Classical Music - Orchestra - Traditional Music Events

LSO's opening concert of the season features Aaron Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man, and two of the most stirring pieces of film music ever composed around the theme of Liberty - Hans Zimmer's Now We are Free from Gladiator, and John Williams's Hymn to the Fallen ..

To celebrate its fourth decade, the Manassas Symphony presents a concert that showcases classical masterpieces inspired by rich folk traditions. Audience favorite David Pedraza returns to play the brilliant and evocative Viola Concerto in A minor by one of the most i ..

Dueling quintets – one of strings and one of woodwinds – take on the music of Dvorak, Jessie Montgomery, and Spanish composer Oscar Navarro. These artists will then join forces to perform Mussorgsky’s famous "Pictures at an Exhibition," which comes to life in a vibra ..

The Chamber Music Society of Central Virgina kicks off its 19th season with the premiere of "Our Pictures," a musical portrait of Richmond. This major chamber music work for ten players is written by composers with ties to Richmond, and is inspired by the people, pla ..

"Two Danes and a Swede walked into a pub…no, not the opening line of a joke; rather, the beginning of a musical collaboration that has produced some of the most exciting new music to emanate from Scandinavia," asserts Folk Radio. One of those Danes is none other than ..

"Two Danes and a Swede walked into a pub...no, not the opening line of a joke; rather, the beginning of a musical collaboration that has produced some of the most exciting new music to emanate from Scandinavia," asserts Folk Radio. One of those Danes is none other th ..

The Chanticleer choir - named after the clear-singing rooster in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - heralds in the dawn of Princeton University Concerts' 130th Concert Classics series with five centuries of vocal music, from classics to spirituals to jazz. Winners of multi ..

Journey back to the 18th century as we travel from the London of Henry Purcell to the Rome of Arcangelo Corelli and indulge in the glamorous spirit of the era's music. Our guides-young virtuoso baroque violinist Theotime Langlois de Swarte and harpsichordist Justin T ..

Journey back to the 18th century as we travel from the London of Henry Purcell to the Rome of Arcangelo Corelli and indulge in the glamorous spirit of the era's music. Our guides-young virtuoso baroque violinist Theotime Langlois de Swarte and harpsichordist Justin T ..

Describing themselves as "your friendly neighborhood string quartets with above average amounts of beard," the Grammy Award-nominated Danish String Quartet combines a down-to-earth sensibility with an astounding unity of sound that has placed them firmly within the r ..

Whatever your preconceptions of the harpsichord may be, Jean Rondeau will undoubtedly shatter them all as he takes us to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses. Leading the charge of a new generation of keyboardists, including as a founding member of ..

Whatever your preconceptions of the harpsichord may be, Jean Rondeau will undoubtedly shatter them all as he takes us to Parnassus, the mythological mountain home of the Muses. Leading the charge of a new generation of keyboardists, including as a founding member of ..

The Mahler Chamber Orchestra returns to Princeton – in virtual reality! With the aid of VR headsets you will be transported to a fully immersive world of music in which you can move around (or through/over/under!) the musicians as a multi-dimensional recording respon ..

One of the most remarkable individuals of our time, pianist Helene Grimaud is as renowned for her heartfelt, poetic interpretations and dazzling technical prowess as she is for her profound work as a conservationist and human rights activist-distinctions for which sh ..

Considered to be "the most influential jazz pianist of the last 20 years" (The New York Times) with the touch of Bill Evans, range of Keith Jarrett, and innovation of Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau is one of the greatest musical giants of our time. The 2020 GRAMMY-winner ..

It is quite rare on our series for an artist to make consecutive appearances from season to season. Yet Víkingur Ólafsson's stunning debut on our 2022-23 season made a return appearance paramount. J.S. Bach is especially close to the Icelandic virtuoso's heart-his al ..

When the Faust-Queyras-Melnikov trio first came to PUC in 2020 with an all-Beethoven program, their sold-out performance was pronounced one of the most profound recitals in our recent history. Individually, each artist is exceptional; together, they are nothing short ..

"One of the finest quartets of our time, the Hagen [Quartet] … comes too rarely to our shores," proclaims the Washington Post. Having recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, the most senior and venerated of the European quartets finally returns to PUC with a progra ..

"Jonathan and I share the deep conviction that you can never really know all there is to know about great music," remarks Mitsuko Uchida, one of the world's most revered Schubert interpreters, "and that it's worth spending your whole life trying to know a little more ..

South African soprano Golda Schultz has been gracing the stage of the world's greatest opera houses-from the Metropolitan Opera to the Vienna State Opera. Equally at home in leading operatic roles as she is as a soloist with the world's foremost orchestras and in the ..