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The Beijinger: Beijing Music Festival Returns Oct. 4-28

The Beijinger
Will Griffith

One of the world’s leading music festivals since 1998, the Beijing Music Festival returns this month with operas, symphony concerts, recitals, chamber concerts, and more. To read more about the festival of 22 shows, click here.

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Los Angeles Times: Vicente Chamber Orchestra featuring Anne Akiko Meyers and Julian Schwarz

Featured in this week’s Los Angeles Times list of classical music performances are two of our artists, violinist Ann Akiko Meyers and cellist Julian Schwarz.

Los Angeles Times
Matt Cooper

Featured in this week’s Los Angeles Times list of classical music performances are two of our artists, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers and cellist Julian Schwarz. To view the full list, click here.

Vicente Chamber Orchestra All-Beethoven program features the composer’s Symphony No. 4, “Coriolan” Overture and the Triple Concerto featuring violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, cellist Julian Schwarz and pianist Wendy Chen. The Broad Stage, 1310 11th St., Santa Monica. Sat., 7:30 p.m. $15, $40. For tickets and more information, click here.

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The Star: Honens Piano Festival Makes a Splash in Calgary

The Star
William Littler

William Littler of The Star calls the 2019 Honens Piano Festival “…a four-day celebration of the perennially popular keyboard instrument.” To read his glowing reviews of all pianists involved, click here.

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South Florida Classical Review: Schwarz Opens a New Era at UM Frost with Impressive Debut

South Florida Classical Debut
Lawrence Budman

As the new director of University of Miami’s Frost Symphony Orchestra, Gerard Schwarz led the first concert of the season with much success. Lawrence Budman of the South Florida Classical Debut notes that Schwarz brought the students to a new level of playing, shining a bright light on the future of the orchestra. To read the full review, click here.

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WLRN: Acclaimed Maestro Joins Frost School Of Music And Palm Beach Symphony

WLRN’s Alejandra Martinez and Chris Remington sat down with Maestro Gerard Schwarz for an interview covering his childhood, classical audiences, and technology’s influence on music.

WLRN
Alejandra Martinez and Chris Remington

Maestro Gerard Schwarz sat down for a radio interview with WLRN covering his childhood, classical audiences, and technology’s influence on music. To read and listen, click here.

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Calgary Herald: Honens Festival 2019 – Nicolas Namoradze dazzles on piano

Hot on the heels of the week-long Banff International String Quartet Competition comes the Honens Festival 2019, the September festival of piano-related events that takes place in the years between competitions. As is frequently the case, one of the main events is a solo concert by the winner of the previous competition, in this instance pianist Nicolas Namoradze, now a resident of the New York area.

Calgary Herald
Kenneth Delong

Fundamentally, however, Namoradze wears his enormous technique lightly. He sits quietly, with mostly just his fingers in evidence. His playing is effortless to a degree that can hardly be imagined, and the focus of his performance is entirely upon musical values. And here the range of his imagination in the shaping of line, control of texture, and fleetness in execution takes one’s breath away.

The New Yorker: Goings On About Town – Lara Downes

The pianist Lara Downes honors Clara Schumann’s legacy with a concert of works by women that falls exactly on the legendary virtuoso and composer’s two-hundredth birthday.

The New Yorker
Oussama Zahr

The pianist Lara Downes honors Clara Schumann’s legacy with a concert of works by women that falls exactly on the legendary virtuoso and composer’s two-hundredth birthday.

The Strad: Silver Linings: Postcard from Vail

In spite of unforeseen obstacles, this year’s Bravo! Vail Music Festival proved to be a huge success.

The Strad

Charlotte Smith

In spite of unforeseen obstacles, this year’s Bravo! Vail Music Festival proved to be a huge success. Mozart, Haydn, and lots of rain were among the excitements of the six-week festival, as recounted by Charlotte Smith in The Strad. To read her full article, click here.

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The New York Times: Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman

September brings the 200th birthday of a composer whose name is familiar, but whose creative legacy deserves far greater recognition. Pianist Lara Downes gives her perspective.

The New York Times
Thomas May

September brings the 200th birthday of a composer whose name is familiar, but whose creative legacy deserves far greater recognition.

“When I was growing up, I first learned about Clara from reading about Robert Schumann,” the pianist Lara Downes said in an interview. The experience immediately resonated, she added, because she had found a classical music figure who looked like her, and could be a role model. As a teenage virtuoso, Ms. Downes determined to track down Clara’s music and played her Piano Concerto in A minor with a small regional orchestra in Alabama.

That was considered unusual at the time, in the mid-1990s. “I was fortunate to have teachers when I was really young who let me explore repertoire off the beaten path,” said Ms. Downes. On her new album, “For Love of You,” which intertwines music by Clara and Robert Schumann, she again explores her early fascination. She’s one of a growing number of performers who are finding inspiration in Clara Schumann’s legacy — and bringing it before a wider audience.

BBC Radio 3 In Tune: Marc-André Hamelin

Marc-André Hamelin visits the BBC Radio 3 studios to discuss his upcoming performance at the BBC Proms premiering Ryan Wigglesworth’s piano concerto and he performs his Toccata on L'Homme Armé among other works.

BBC Radio 3 In Tune

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