St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Renovates Powell Hall This will be the first major renovation to Powell Hall since the symphony took residency there in 1968. The estimated total cost of the renovations is more than 100 million dollars. The project focuses on renovating the existing structure, built in 1925, as well as adding a 65,000 square foot expansion focusing on community accessibility and connections. The current plan is to make Powell Hall a “state of the art music facility” for the community as well as keeping is historical charm. The additional space will be used as a learning center ..read more

Best Engineered Album, Classical “Chanticleer Sings Christmas,” Leslie Ann Jones, engineer (Chanticleer) Producer of the Year, Classical Judith Sherman Best Orchestral Performance “Price: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3,” Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra) Best Opera Recording “Glass: Akhnaten,” Karen Kamensek, conductor; J’Nai Bridges, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Zachary James and Dísella Lárusdóttir; David Frost, producer (The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra; The Metropolitan Opera Chorus) Best Choral Performance “Mahler: Symphony No. 8, ‘Symphony of a Thousand,’” Gustavo Dudamel, co ..read more

Juilliard announces that Pianist, Orli Shaham, will be joining their piano faculty for the 2022-23 academic year. Shaham is an American pianist, born in Jerusalem, who has an international reputation of being one of today’s most gifted pianists. She is an alumni of Julliard and has previously taught there as an interim faculty member. Shaham said, "I am honored and humbled to join the stellar faculty at The Juilliard School. In my years as interim faculty, I've seen firsthand how brilliant and inspiring these students are, and I'm thrilled to continue to dig into it all with them!” Before ..read more

  Sarah Cahill, pianist, has just released a new album called, The Future is Female, Vol. 1, In Nature.  The album debuted on March 4, 2022. This album will be the first of a 3 album series featuring 30 solo piano works all composed by women around the world. ​ The album is being recorded by First Hand Records. The album series will celebrate women composers from the 17th century through present day. Cahill started this project back in 2018 and said, “Like most pianists, I grew up with the classical canon, which always excluded women composers as well as composers of colo ..read more

An opera that was written pre-WWII was rediscovered and made its premiere in Magdeburg, Germany on Feb. 13. Nearly 150 musicians and performers delivered the opera, “Grete Minde” almost 80 years after its composer was murdered in the holocaust. Eugen Engel, a Berlin businessman and self-taught musician, completed the opera in the early 1930s and tried to get it staged but there was no way for a Jewish composer in Germany to succeed. Engel was murdered in the Sobibor concentration camp in 1943. His work gathered dust inside a trunk for decades. Jan Agee, Engel’s granddaughter said that her fa ..read more

A new Opera about the life of Helen Keller will be performed by Opera Birmingham. The opera is titled Touch and will premier in Birmingham, January 2024. Touch will highlight the Adult life of Helen Keller, the deaf and blind activist, as well as her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy. Themes such as women’s suffrage civil rights and disability rights will be addressed. The opera also aims to reveal characteristics of Keller’s life that are often not talked about. The show is 90 minutes long, divided among two acts. The show is written and performed in English as well as American Sign Languag ..read more

On Saturday, August 7 and Sunday, August 8, 2021 at 1pm, the Boston-based Neave Trio will perform on two concerts presented as part of Bard Music Festival’s 12-concert series, Nadia Boulanger and Her World. The concerts will be performed for a live audience at the Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater at Bard College (Manor Ave.) and livestreamed online. The Bard Music Festival returns for its 31st season with an exploration of the life and work of Nadia Boulanger (1887–1979), the pioneering Parisian pedagogue, composer, conductor, pianist, orga ..read more

Katarzyna Musial is a quite talented Polish-Canadian pianist, having won multiple competitions and issuing a commercially released disk entitled "My Spanish Heart".  She is also founder of and Artistic Director of the Stella Musica Festival which promotes women in music, and she performs around the world. But during the pandemic, well, let's just say that musicians left to their own devices can do things that are a little different.  Katarzyna produced a series of videos entitled "Pianist in Quarantine" in which she both plays and dances. One of the episodes can be found here. Mak ..read more