United States Various, ‘Interval: In Between Silence and Stasis’: MATA Festival, BlackBox Ensemble / Leonard Bopp (conductor). Dimenna Center, New York, 23.5.2026. (DS)
Composers at the MATA Festival 2026 re-imagine Morton Feldman
Daniele Sahr
Colorado Music Festival – 9 July to 9 August 2026
Colorado Music Festival’s 50th Anniversary Season (July-August 2026)
There are few places where you can glimpse the yellow belly of a meadow lark and marvel at the incredible form of a natural stone arch while hiking a trail towards a National Historic Landmark that offers high caliber summer concerts. This is Boulder, Colorado – the setting of the Colorado Music Festival. Against the iconic gray rocky peaks of the Flatirons sits Chautauqua Park with its flower-covered meadows and beautiful 19th-century barn where the Festival presents internationally acclaimed artists, Pulitzer Prize winning composers, classical favorites and world premieres to dedicated audiences and newcomers, year after year.
Isidore String Quartet premieres Billy Childs’s ‘American Mosaic’ with graceful solemnity
United States Haydn, Childs, Brahms: Isidore String Quartet (Phoenix Avalon, Adrian Steele [violins], Devin Moore [viola], Joshua McClendon [cello]). 92nd Street Y, New York, 2.5.2026. (DS)
A compelling examination of the human dilemma in Gregory Spears’s Sleepers Awake
United States Spears, Sleepers Awake: Soloists, Opera Philadelphia Chorus (chorus master: Elizabeth Braden), Opera Philadelphia Orchestra / Corrado Rovaris (conductor). Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 26.4.2026. (DS)
Australian Chamber Orchestra dazzles in a must-hear ‘Death and the Maiden’ at Carnegie Hall
United States Purcell, Adams, Schubert: Australian Chamber Orchestra / Richard Tognetti (director and violin). Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, 22.4.2026. (DS)
The NY Philharmonic’s eclectic approach to American modernism
United States ‘US at 250’ [2] – Various: Golda Schultz (soprano), Yarn/Wire (Russell Greenberg, Dustin Donahue [percussion], Laura Barger, Julia Den Boer [pianos]), New York Philharmonic / Kwamé Ryan (conductor). David Geffen Hall, New York, 9.4.2026. (DS)
Kristin Lee and John Novacek are a spellbinding duo in their Carnegie Hall recital
United States Various – ‘American Sketches’: Kristin Lee (violin), John Novacek (piano). Carnegie Hall, New York, 12.3.2026. (DS)
American Composers Orchestra and guest soloists display depth and range in timely message
United States Various – ‘Hello, America: Letters to Us, from Us’: Karen Slack (soprano), Amanda Gookin (cello), Cynthia Yeh (percussion), American Composers Orchestra / Carolyn Kuan (conductor). Zankel Hall, Carnegie Hall, New York, 11.3.2026. (DS)
