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Schubertiade 2026
The annual festival of Schubert and his contemporaries celebrates its 50th anniversary this year and, in 6 programs spread over two distinct performing spaces, brings the sound world of Schubert alive. The Schubertiade (named after the evenings in Schubert’s house)
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Voyage among Fragments
A Meditation on Movement and Memory with Pianist Siqian Li
London-based Chinese pianist Siqian Li announces the release of her debut recording, Voyage among Fragments. Described as a ‘meditation on movement and memory’, the album serves as an artistic mosaic, gathering ‘shards of experience’ from Li’s life and career into
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Hastings International Piano Competition 2026: A Showcase for Young Talent
Forty of the world’s best young pianists will soon converge on the White Rock Theatre for this year’s Hastings International Piano Competition (HIPC), which takes place from 26th February to 7th March. HIPC is a biennial classical piano contest held
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A Glimpse of Chopin’s Genius
One of the ways a composer would show off his familiarity with great works and his own skills as an improviser was to do a variation set. Starting with a well-known piece from a work that was in the air,
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Youth and Music: Greater Bay Area
Founded in 2017 as a cultural initiative to bridge East and West through music, the Youth Music Culture the Greater Bay Area (YMCG) brings together young professional musicians between the ages of 18 and 30 for 15 days of music-making.
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Musicantes 2025: New Horizons in Peruvian Music
The Musicantes Festival 2025, organized and produced by the Cultural Center of the University of Piura under the direction of Dr. Enrique Banús Irusta, continues to broaden its scope of contemporary musical creation in Peru. It provides a platform for
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Whistling Hens: Bold Voices, Blue Chickens, and the Future of Classical Music
When soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick and clarinettist Natalie Groom set out to record their new album, Big Crass Monster, they never expected to compete with lawnmowers. “Even in a state-of-the-art concert hall at UMBC, the sound of three or four mowers
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Hands On With Handel
The RSCM Challenge
The Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), the UK-based charity for church music, invites organists around the world, professional and amateur, to get ‘Hands on with Handel’ in a mass organ ‘play along’ of the Largo (Ombra mai fu) from
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