First organized 50 years ago by Isaac Stern, Carnegie Hall’s legendary “Concert of the Century” united the world’s greatest musicians to honor the Hall’s May 5 opening in 1891. Now, 135 years later, Carnegie Hall celebrates with another once-in-a-lifetime all-star gathering, as a new generation of icons—including Emanuel Ax, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Feinstein, Renée Fleming, Evgeny Kissin, Lang Lang, Isabel Leonard, Audra McDonald, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, and Daniil Trifonov perform a program that brings the Hall’s story to life for today’s audiences, joined by the NYO-USA All-Stars and the Oratorio Society of New York.

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Pegasus: The Orchestra concludes it’s season tracing the arc from song, to concerto, to ballet, bringing rarely heard works to the stage alongside one of the twentieth century’s most vivid orchestral voices. Program to include Komitas Vardapet’s Songs for Voice and Orchestra, featuring soprano Tatev Baroyan, Arno Babadjanian’s Cello Concerto featuring soloist Suren Bagratuni, Edvard Bagdasarian’s Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra with soloist Ruggero Allifranchini, and concluding with Aram Khachaturian’s Spartacus and Gayaneh.

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Carnegie Hall’s Link Up: The Orchestra Sings brings NYC-based professional musicians into sustained educational partnership with New York City public school students, culminating in an interactive performance at Carnegie Hall. This season’s program explores the question “What Is Melody?” and features works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonín Dvořák, Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Cabaniss, and Valerie Coleman, among others.

Doors open 9:30AM | ticket information here

Carnegie Hall’s Link Up: The Orchestra Sings brings NYC-based professional musicians into sustained educational partnership with New York City public school students, culminating in an interactive performance at Carnegie Hall. This season’s program explores the question “What Is Melody?” and features works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonín Dvořák, Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Cabaniss, and Valerie Coleman, among others.

Doors open 9:30AM | ticket information here

Carnegie Hall’s Link Up: The Orchestra Sings brings NYC-based professional musicians into sustained educational partnership with New York City public school students, culminating in an interactive performance at Carnegie Hall. This season’s program explores the question “What Is Melody?” and features works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Antonín Dvořák, Igor Stravinsky, Thomas Cabaniss, and Valerie Coleman, among others.

Doors open 9:30AM | ticket information here

Peter Oundjian opens the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra 2026 season with a program featuring Tchaikovsky’s heroic Fifth Symphony, as well as a world-premiere by composer Carter Pann, and violin soloist Himari on the Sibelius Violin Concerto.

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Peter Oundjian opens the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra 2026 season with a program featuring Tchaikovsky’s heroic Fifth Symphony, as well as a world-premiere by composer Carter Pann, and violin soloist Himari on the Sibelius Violin Concerto.

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Samuel Hollister leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra for a free family concert featuring excerpts from John Williams Liberty Fanfare, Antonín Dvořák beloved Symphony No. 9, and Sergei Prokofiev’s enchanting Peter & The Wolf, with narration in English and Spanish.

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Peter Oundjian leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in a vibrant program highlighted by the festival debut of internationally acclaimed pianist Yuja Wang, performing Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto. Wang then steps to the podium for her conducting debut with the orchestra, bringing to life Camille Saint-Saëns’ electrifying Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah. The evening culminates in Leonard Bernstein’s spirited Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

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Peter Oundjian leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in a vibrant program featuring internationally acclaimed pianist Yuja Wang in Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto. Wang also takes the podium, conducting Camille Saint-Saëns’ electrifying Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah. The evening culminates in Leonard Bernstein’s spirited Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

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Jeffrey Kahane returns to the Festival stage to lead all six of Bach’s celebrated Brandenburg Concertos. A cornerstone of the Baroque repertoire, this complete set showcases Bach’s brilliance at its most inventive and expressive. The performance features members of the orchestra, including trumpeter Maximilian Morel.

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Six-time Grammy–winning conductor and Music Director Laureate of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Leonard Slatkin joins the Festival for a program celebrating the distinctive American sound. The evening opens with Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, featuring its iconic “Hoedown,” followed by the chaconne from John Corigliano’s score to The Red Violin, with violinist Njioma Grievous as soloist. After the break, the program continues with Ron Nelson’s tribute to the Savannah River, a haunting adagio by Cindy McTee, and concludes with George Gershwin’s An American in Paris.

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Music Director Peter Oundjian opens the Colorado Music Festival’s all-Mozart program with his Serenade No. 12 in C Minor, followed by the beloved Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, featuring soloist Tony Siqi Yun. The evening concludes with the lively Haffner Symphony, sparkling with Mozart’s wit and vitality.

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Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in one of the most iconic works in orchestral repertoire: Holst’s The Planets. From the driving intensity of “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal serenity of “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-movement suite brings the cosmos vividly to life in Chautauqua Auditorium. In the first half, pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s lyrical Piano Concerto No. 2, and additionally features the world premiere of O Beautiful Unity by composer Leigha Amick.

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Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in one of the most iconic works in orchestral repertoire: Holst’s The Planets. From the driving intensity of “Mars, the Bringer of War” to the ethereal serenity of “Neptune, the Mystic,” this seven-movement suite brings the cosmos vividly to life in Chautauqua Auditorium. In the first half, pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii performs Rachmaninoff’s lyrical Piano Concerto No. 2, and additionally features the world premiere of O Beautiful Unity by composer Leigha Amick.

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Conductor Gemma New returns to lead the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in a vibrant program, opening with Prokofiev’s sparkling “Classical” Symphony, followed by Copland’s Clarinet Concerto featuring soloist Ricardo Morales. Morales also performs Rossini’s virtuosic Introduction, Theme, and Variations, one of the most celebrated works for the instrument. The program concludes with Ravel’s beloved Ma mère l’oye (Mother Goose) Suite, bringing to life Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, Beauty and the Beast, and other cherished tales.

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Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in a program that begins with the dramatic Overture to Verdi’s La forza del destino and features the festival debut of Valerie Coleman’s piano concerto, performed by Michelle Cann. The program will also feature Berlioz’s vivid Symphonie Fantastique, a masterful orchestral tour de force depicting a darkly imaginative series of scenes, from festive revelry to the macabre, culminating in an otherworldly finale.

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Music Director Peter Oundjian leads the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra in a program that begins with the dramatic Overture to Verdi’s La forza del destino and features the festival debut of Valerie Coleman’s piano concerto, performed by Michelle Cann. The program will also feature Berlioz’s vivid Symphonie Fantastique, a masterful orchestral tour de force depicting a darkly imaginative series of scenes, from festive revelry to the macabre, culminating in an otherworldly finale.

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Music Director Peter Oundjian continues his tradition of closing the Colorado Music Festival season with a Mahler symphony, this year presenting the radiant Symphony No. 3. Mahler described this work as “A Summer’s Midday Dream,” fully aware that he was defying symphonic convention: “But to write a symphony means, to me, to construct a world with all the tools of the available technique.” Grammy Award–winning mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron joins the Festival Orchestra, along with St. Martin’s Festival Singers and the Boulder Children’s Chorus, to bring this epic symphony vividly to life.

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The Orchestre de Paris and its Music Director, Klaus Mäkelä, reaffirm their international, social, and educational commitment with the third edition of the Summer Academy. The 2026 Academy culminates in a performance in the Grande Salle of the Philharmonie de Paris, featuring Camille Saint-Saëns’ Symphony No. 3 and Arthur Honegger’s Symphony No. 3.

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Violinist Sophia Stoyanovich and pianist Derek Wang will perform a recital for the Friends of Music of Stamford NY Chamber Series. The recital will feature Patrick Stoyanovich’s Romance for Violin and Piano, Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E minor K.304, and Richard Strauss’ Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op.18.

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Violinist Sophia Stoyanovich and pianist Derek Wang will present a recital for the Rhode Island Core Memory Music Series entitled “Musically Yours, Love Letters in Music.” The recital will feature Patrick Stoyanovich’s Romance for Violin and Piano, Mozart’s Violin Sonata in E minor K.304, and Richard Strauss’ Violin Sonata in E-flat Major, Op.18.

Doors open at 1:00 PM | ticket information here