One of the premier piano festivals in the US, Pianofest in the Hamptons announces its 2019 season concerts in Southampton, East Hampton, and Westhampton.

The Jupiter Quartet and Bernadette Harvey met in 2017 at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival, where they gave the world premiere of Pierre Jalbert’s Piano Quintet. They reunited to record the recently released Alchemy in honor of the festival’s 25th anniversary and to celebrate the commissioning program of Arizona Friends of Chamber Music, the festival’s supporting organization.

Portland Piano International announces its 42nd season of its SOLO Piano Series, which launches its first-ever format of forgoing a continuous director and utilizing the unique abilities of guest curators, with this season welcoming pianist Marc-André Hamelin in that role.

Five Boroughs Music Festival (5BMF) and the Brooklyn Art Song Society (BASS) present collaborative pianist Martin Katz in a three-event series, entitled Hugo Wolf: The Complete Mörike-Lieder, featuring two presentations and a free masterclass.

Composer Ellen Reid, 36, won the Pulitzer Prize in Music for her opera p r i s m. Reid is the fourth woman to earn the prize since 2013.

The ASPECT Foundation for Music & Arts concludes its third New York City season of illuminating performances with Music Of The 18th Century Grand Tour on Thursday, May 30, at Bohemian National Hall.

The New West Symphony has an exciting season ahead of them with new audience engagement goals and a new Music Director. The symphony celebrates its 25th anniversary this year with the welcome addition of Grammy-winning conductor Michael Christie as the new Music Director. Six programs will be presented October through May on Saturdays at 7:30pm at Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, CA, and Sundays at 3pm at the Oxnard Performing Arts Center in Oxnard, CA.

The Riga Jurmala Music Festival is a new-concept festival that takes place over four powerful weekends, each anchored by a world-class orchestra and a dazzling line-up of soloists. The first year is already set to feature huge classical stars including Yuja Wang, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Appl and MILOŠ.

The Utah Symphony and Utah Opera join to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the transcontinental railroad’s “Golden Spike” this May by presenting newly commissioned orchestral work and a variety of 10-minute operas on the theme of the railroad. The Golden Spike was the ceremonial final spike that joined the rails of America’s First Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869.

Composer Viktor Ullmann is one of the most notable of the artists who continued to compose while entrapped in German concentration camps. Although many manuscripts were undoubtedly destroyed as their creators met an untimely fate, some were smuggled out or hidden. Ullmann wrote and premiered music while imprisoned in the Nazi concentration camp Terezin (Theresienstadt) before he was ultimately murdered in a gas chamber at Auschwitz. Pianofest in the Hamptons will present the New York premiere of one of Viktor Ullmann's works written in the concentration camp, The Tale of the Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke for Narrator and Piano, on Wednesday, April 17, at the Louis K. Meisel Gallery in SoHo (141 Prince St, New York, NY 10012).

Trinity Church Wall Street has an exciting concert lineup this spring, featuring a newly renamed Bach series, the celebration of a brand-new venue, and a variety of choral performances!

Children in New York City have a special opportunity to work with the esteemed musicians of the New York Philharmonic for the fifth consecutive year this May, with many exciting new collaborations added to the roster for 2019.

After being away for 3 years, the return of the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) is hosting a North American tour of eight concerts. “The finest chamber orchestra on earth” (The Telegraph) will be joined by internationally renowned pianists Paul Lewis and Inon Barnatan at New York’s Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, CA and a list of eminent US concert halls.

World-renowned pianist Mitsuko Uchida will be returning to Carnegie Hall for three concerts featuring the works of Mozart and Schubert this spring in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage: Friday, March 29, Tuesday April 30, and Saturday May 4.

The oldest running chamber music series in the nation is Connecticut-based Music Mountain, which has just announced its full 2019 summer season. Celebrate 90 continuous years of Music Mountain in the idyllic Falls Village community in Northern Connecticut on June 9.

The Budapest Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Iván Fischer, is returning to Carnegie Hall in April for two concerts featuring the music of Bartók paired with traditional Hungarian songs that includes a worldwide live broadcast for one of the performances.

“I want real things — live people to take hold of — to see — and talk to — music that makes holes in the sky — I want to love as hard as I can.” — Georgia O'Keeffe

American pianist Lara Downes has recently released her new album, Holes in the Sky, a multi-genre collection of music celebrating the contributions of women to the past, present, and future of American music.

The Grammy-nominated orchestral collective The Knights presents a diverse program at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on Wednesday, April 3 at 7:30 featuring music from the Baroque era through today, and from East to West.

You do not want to miss out on The Cleveland Orchestra’s 102nd season In the course of 26 weeks they will have 76 concerts including 15 different conductors, 28 soloists, and 8 guest artists.

The Minnesota Opera is set to premiere The Fix, a new opera by composer Joel Puckett, librettist Eric Simonson, and conducted by Timothy Myers, based on a true story of the “Black Sox” scandal in 1919.