Dec 1: New York, NY

Alessio Bax

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

with Elmar Oliveira & Julie Albers

Dec 1: Eugene, OR

Joshua Roman

Eugene Symphony Orchestra

Beethoven: Triple Cto. with Inon Barnatan & Chee-Yun

Dec 1 & 2: Odense, Denmark

Joyce Yang

Odense Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Piano Cto. 1

Dec 3 & 4: Las Cruces, NM

Stefan Jackiw

Atkinson Recital Hall - Las Cruces Symphony

Beethoven: Violin Cto.

Dec 4: Malibu, CA

Joshua Roman

Pepperdine U

Bach, Gabriela Lena Frank

Dec 5: Malibu, CA

Joshua Roman

Pepperdine U

Master class

Dec 13: Santa Barbara, CA

Alessio Bax

Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra

Beethoven: Piano Cto. 5

Dec 16-18: San Francisco, CA 

Kelley O'Connor

Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco Symphony

Handel: Messiah

Dec 16 & 18: Palm Beach, FL

James Valenti

Palm Beach Opera - Kravis Center for the Performing Arts

Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Pinkerton)

Dec 17-18: Fresno, CA

Joyce Yang

William Saroyan Theatre - Fresno Philharmonic

Prokofiev: Piano Cto. 3

Dec 19: St. Petersburg, Russia

Joshua Roman 

Mariinsky Theatre, Mariinsky Orchestra  

Pintscher: Reflections on Narcissus

Dec 21: New York, NY

The Knights

Make Music Winter and MATA Festival

Bach: Prelude, Cello Suite 1

Dec 31: New York, NY

The Knights

92^nd Street Y

A Champagne New Year's Eve concert

Purcell, Terry Riley, Beethoven

Dec 31: Seoul, S. Korea

Alessio Bax

Seoul Arts Center - Gangnam Symphony Orchestra

Liszt: Piano Cto. 1

Dec 31: St Petersburg, Russia

James Valenti

Mikhailovsky Theatre of St Petersburg

New Year's Eve Gala Concert

Jan 8: Brooklyn, NY

The Knights

Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music - Church of St. Ann & the Holy Trinity

Beethoven: Symphony 5

Jan 10-15: Cartagena, Colombia

Jessica Rivera

Cartagena Festival

Golijov: La Pasión según San Marcos

Jan 11: Chicago, IL

Joshua Roman and Dan Visconti

Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts - Chicago Culture Center

Dan Visconti: Americana

Recital with Zsolt Bognár & WFMT broadcast

Jan 11: Chapel Hill, NC

Brooklyn Rider and  

The Knights

University of North Carolina - Memorial Hall

Jan 12: Novi Sad, Serbia

Dan Visconti

Serbian National Theatre - Kronos Quartet

Dan Visconti: Love Bleeds Radiant (European premiere)

Jan 13: Schloss Elmau, Germany

Alessio Bax

Schloss Elmau Chamber Music Week

with Alina Ibragimova

Jan 13-14: Charlotte, NC

Joyce Yang

North Carolina Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Charlotte Symphony Orchestra

Rachmaninoff: Paganini Rhapsody, Op. 42

Jan 14: Fort Wayne, IN

Joshua Roman

Embassy Theatre - Fort Wayne Philharmonic / Andrew Constantine 

Walton: Cello Cto.

Jan 15: New York, NY

Alessio Bax

92^nd Street Y

Family concert with Steven Isserlis

On December 21, as part of Make Music Winter and in collaboration with the MATA Festival, members of The Knights will head into the New York City subway where they will perform back-to-back renditions of the Prelude from Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 on all the station platforms of the Coney Island-bound F-train. Riders will be able to listen to the music as they wait on the platform, and will then hear snippets of the same music from inside the train whenever the doors open at a station.

Later this month, the orchestra heads to a more traditional setting, the 92nd Street Y, for a New York New Year's celebration featuring a program as bold as the ensemble itself. On December 31, The Knights ring in 2012 with two seminal works: Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 and Terry Riley's In C.

For more information, visit TheKnightsNYC.com, The Knights on YouTube, or the Opus 3 Artists web site.     

Jessica Rivera: Atomic Wife in Finland 

Already a great exponent of John Adams's work, soprano Jessica Rivera is fast proving herself the world's leading interpreter of Kitty Oppenheimer in Doctor Atomic. Having distinguished herself in the role at Lyric Opera of Chicago and on DVD with the Netherlands Opera, she reprised it again last month at the Finnish National Opera, winning praise for her "colorful and powerful, sensual voice" and "breathtaking technique." According to Finland's Turun Sanomat, "Jessica Rivera as Kitty gave the most compelling performance of the evening. She was capable of filling the stage and reaching out to the listener even when she was alone." Click below to see a video excerpt of Rivera performing the aria "Am I in Your Light?":

On June 7 and 9, 2012, American audiences will have the chance to hear Rivera in Adams's music once again, when she joins the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and music director Robert Spano to sing the role of Kumudha in A Flowering Tree.

For more information, visit JessicaRivera.com, the artist's Youtube channel, or the IMG Artists website.

Stefan Jackiw: Rotterdam Philharmonic Debut 

Violinist Stefan Jackiw's sterling season continues when he makes his debut with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra in Toulouse, France on March 21, 2012, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto under music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. This follows Jackiw's successful collaboration with the conductor in February 2011 at the London Philharmonic. Click below to see Jackiw play the final movement of the concerto with the YouTube Symphony Orchestra in a concert watched live by 33 million online viewers:  

For more information, visit StefanJackiw.com, the artist's YouTube channel, or the Opus 3 artist website. 

Tenor James Valenti celebrated the advent of winter in sunny Florida where he sang one of his signature roles, Madama Butterfly's Lt. Pinkerton, at the Palm Beach Opera. The New York Daily News has declared Valenti's Pinkerton "perfection" while the UK's Guardian called his portrayal "the archetypal all-American hunk, complete with stiff-legged George Dubya swagger." In a recent story about Valenti in the Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach Opera general manger Daniel Biaggi had this to say about casting the tenor as Pinterton: "He has a terrific voice for the role. He has solid, pinging top notes, a good sense of Puccini phrasing, and he looks the part of the strapping American naval officer that Butterfly falls in love with."

Next up, Valenti rings in the New Year in majestic St Petersburg where he joins conductor Vasily Petrenko and soprano Ailyn Pérez for a selection of music from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story at the Mikhailovsky Theatre. 

For more information, visit JamesValenti.com, the artist's YouTube channel, or the IMG Artists website.  

Photos: Keith Lew (The Knights), Isabel Pinto (Rivera), Lisa-Marie Mazzucco (Jackiw), Dario Acosta (Valenti).