The New Jersey Symphony performed its first concert series of 2026 this past weekend. The program featured an overture about an arctic country’s desire for autonomy from its bigger neighbor and a ...

South Florida Symphony Orchestra will open its 28th Key West Masterworks season with an evening of music led by SFSO's award-winning music director and multi-generation Key West Conch native Sebrina ...

I remember it clearly though it was years ago. Playing a 325-year-old Stradivarius, this burn-accident survivor and relative unknown established his chops early with a beautifully measured (and ...

Two long time collaborators, violinist Lisa Batiashvili and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin provided a super-charged account of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with Montreal's Orchestre Métropolitain.

Five works by the modernist composer, all taken from concerts given by Kirill Petrenko and the Berlin Philharmonic, include a magnificent performance of the oratorio fragment Die Jakobsleiter The ...

Sibelius's solitary concerto is one of the most passionate tests for the violin virtuoso, one to which Maxim Vengerov is more than equal. He captures the work's passion and its occasional quirky ...

At just 25, violinist Park Sueye has already forged a distinctive path in the classical music world, having released five albums since her debut at age 16 in 2017. On Friday, she made headlines by ...

Three years after violinist Yang In-mo became the first Korean to win the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition, fellow Korean virtuoso Park Sueye claimed the top prize at the competition’s ...

It’s becoming hard to remember that Sibelius’s Violin Concerto once used to be thought of as a notoriously difficult challenge for its soloist. Today’s playing standards are so high that the concerto ...

The XIII International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition has seen unprecedented demand for tickets, with the final concert nearly sold out weeks before the event begins. Organisers say this year’s ...

Professional musician Alexandra Shatalova Prior guides readers through the nuances of some of the world’s best-known classical music. Each embedded video below offers a clip of the passage she ...