The free, Millennium Park-based festival’s programming skews toward contemporary and American music, a commitment redoubled ...

Korea’s classical music scene opens 2026 with new year's concerts cultural institutions, the arrival of 2026 is being marked ...

Beethoven’s iconic piano concertos are the subject of the Santa Barbara Symphony’s two-day “Beethoven Piano Concerto Marathon ...

Spotlight: Cascade Symphony Orchestra opens 2026 with ‘Beethoven’s Fifth’ Monday, Jan. 12, 7:30 p.m.
 Edmonds Center for the ...

Minnesota Orchestra’s “Turandot,” Dmitry Sinkovsky with the SPCO and Joshua Bell at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival were ...

Conductor Klaus Mäkelä, right, and pianist Yunchan Lim during a concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on Dec. 18, 2025.

Nearly 70 years after making his Hollywood debut, the legendary composer and conductor John Williams has a new musical composition to his name. At age 93, the five-time Oscar winner—best-known for ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Williams, best known for his film work, has a parallel career in classical music. His concerto, haunted by the ghosts of jazz past, is premiering at ...

At just five years old, Alec Van Khajadourian has been called a piano prodigy and became one of the youngest people ever to perform at Carnegie Hall. His parents open about the young prodigy’s early ...

It’s all change at the Irish Chamber Orchestra. The Austrian violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair is being succeeded as artistic partner by the Norwegian violinist and composer Henning Kraggerud ...

Did you know that this Classic 100 had the most entries composed by women ever: 11 works by seven different composers! ABC Classic's Ria Andriani took at look into this wonderful stat and the ...

Classical concert lore is full of great pinch-hitting stories. For example, stardom found a young Leonard Bernstein when he stepped in for conductor Bruno Walter on short notice, and teenage pianist ...