Feb 2: University, MS

Brooklyn Rider

University of Mississippi - Ford Center

Feb 3-5: Kansas City, MO
Kelley O'Connor and Jessica Rivera
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts - Kansas City Symphony

Mahler: Symphony No. 2

Feb 3-5: Milwaukee, WI
Joyce Yang

Milwaukee Symphony

Rachmaninoff: Piano Cto. 2

Feb 4: Milwaukee, WI

Brooklyn Rider

Pitman Theatre

w/Kayhan Kalhor

Feb 4, 5: Princeton, NJ
Joshua Roman

Richardson Auditorium - Princeton Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Feb 4, 6: Portland, OR

 Stefan Jackiw 

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall - Oregon Symphony           

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy                       

Feb 6: Appleton, WI

Brooklyn Rider
Lawrence University - Harper Hall

w/Kayhan Kalhor

Feb 8: Salt Spring Island, BC Canada

Joyce Yang

Island Art Centre

Recital 

Feb 9, 11: Rochester, NY

Stefan Jackiw

Eastman Theatre - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy

Feb 11: Reading, PA

Joshua Roman

Sovereign Performing Arts Center - Reading Symphony Orchestra

Schumann: Cello Cto.

Feb 11: Washington, D.C.

Dan Visconti

Smithsonian America Art Museum - 21^st Century Consort

Dan Visconti: Fractured Jams  

Feb 11, 12: Old Lyme, CT

Brooklyn Rider 
First Congregational Church of Old Lyme

Feb 11, 13: Vancouver, BC

Joyce Yang

Orpheum Theatre - Vancouver Symphony Society 

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43

Feb 12: Erie, PA

Dan Visconti

Penn State U, "Music at Noon" - Sybarite5

Dan Visconti: Black Bend

Feb 12: Placitas, NM

Dan Visconti

Placitas Artists Series - Jason Vieaux

Dan Visconti: The Devil's Strum

Feb 16: Columbia, SC

Brooklyn Rider

Columbia Museum of Art

Feb 17, 18: San Francisco, CA

Joshua Roman

Grace Cathedral

My Grace 

Collaboration with actress Anna Deavere Smith

Feb 17, 18: Princeton, NJ

Dan Visconti

Wolfensohn Hall - eighth blackbird

Dan Visconti: Fractured Jams

Feb 17, 19: Columbus, OH

Dan Visconti

Harrison Park Community Center - Carpe Diem String Quartet

Dan Visconti: Black Bend

Feb 18: Kill Devil Hills, NC

Brooklyn Rider

Outer Banks Forum for the Lively Arts

Feb 19: Downers Grove, IL

Dan Visconti

Gryphon Trio

Dan Visconti: Lonesome Roads

Feb 19: Beaufort, SC

Brooklyn Rider

University of South Carolina

Feb 19, 20: Moscow, Russia

Joyce Yang

State Academic Philharmonic Society - Tchaikovsky Concert Hall

Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 42

Feb 21: Due West, SC

Dan Visconti

Erskine College - Gryphon Trio

Dan Visconti: Lonesome Roads

Feb 23: Myrtle Beach, SC

Stefan Jackiw

First Presbyterian Concerts

w/Anna Polonsky

Feb 24: Rockville Center, NY

Brooklyn Rider

Madison Theatre - Molloy College

Feb 25: Boulder, CO

Joshua Roman

Macky Auditorium - Boulder Symphony Orchestra

Gulda: Cello Cto.

Feb 25: Washington, DC

Brooklyn Rider

Dumbarton Concert Series - Dumbarton Church

Feb 26: Winter Park, FL

Joshua Roman

Knowles Memorial Chapel - Bach Festival Society of Winter Park

Bach: Cello Suites

Feb 26: Brooklyn, NY

Brooklyn Rider

Brooklyn Public Library - Dweck Center

Feb 28: Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Jessica Rivera

Concertgebouw - Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Mar 1-3: Costa Mesa, CA

Joyce Yang

Segerstrom Concert Hall - Pacific Symphony

Rachmaninoff: Cto. 3

Mar 3: Charleston, SC

Joshua Roman

Gaillard Auditorium - Charleston Symphony Orchestra

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme

Mar 4: Minneapolis, MN

Dan Visconti

MacPhail Center - Christina Baldwin, Bakken Trio, Adam Kuenzel

Dan Visconti: A Screened Porch in the Country (premiere)

Mar 5: Paris, France

Jessica Rivera

Salle Pleyel - Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9

Mar 5: Berea, OH

Dan Visconti

Baldwin Wallace College - Cleveland Chamber Symphony

Dan Visconti: Low Country Haze

Mar 8, 10: Atlanta, GA

Kelley O'Connor

Woodruff Arts Center - Atlanta Symphony

Bach: St. Matthew Passion

Mar 9: St. Louis, MO

Dan Visconti

Jesse Auditorium, University of Missouri - eighth blackbird

Dan Visconti: Fractured Jams

Mar 11: Toronto, ON

Joyce Yang

Royal Conservatory of Music Toronto

Dvorák: Quartet in A w/ Takács Quartet

Mar 11: Mt. Kisco, NY

Joshua Roman and Dan Visconti

Copland House Merestead Series

Dan Visconti: Americana

Mar 11: Ottawa, ON

Dan Visconti

Ottawa ChamberFest - Gryphon Trio

Dan Visconti: Lonesome Roads

Mar 15: Santa Barbara, CA

Joshua Roman

UC Santa Barbara

Recital

Stefan Jackiw: sublime Scottish Fantasy

Violinist Stefan Jackiw has a knack of breathing new life into popular violin works, as demonstrated by his recent accounts of Bruch's Scottish Fantasy. With the Oregon Symphony, Jackiw "delivered a sublime performance," finding "that extra spark that allows an artist of the highest caliber to communicate with everyone who is listening as if he were playing only for each one of them individually." Likewise, with the Rochester Philharmonic, "his range of color was impressive." Jackiw will take his unique approach to Bruch's work to Atlanta on May 24, 25, and 26, when he makes his Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut under Nicholas McGegan.

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

For more information, visit KelleyO'Connor.com or the IMG Artists web site.  

The Knights: new CD, new tours, New York radio residency

Young, exciting, New York-based orchestra The Knights is packing its bags for a tour of Germany this March. Teaming up with cellist Jan Vogler, the ensemble makes stops in Ludwigsburg (March 17-20), Munich (March 21), Dresden (March 22), Darmstadt (March 24), Cologne (March 25), and Düsseldorf (March 26).

The pace does not let up when The Knights return home to the US. April sees the orchestra's second term as Ensemble-in-Residence at New York's WQXR, the nation's most listened to classical music station, and the completion of the recently-announced Found Sound Project - a contest in which the public is invited to submit audio samples for The Knights' performance of John Adams's Christian Zeal and Activity at WQXR's Greene Space. On April 3, coinciding with the WQXR residency, The Knights release a new recording on the Ancalagon label, A Second of Silence, an album juxtaposing Schubert with works by Satie, Feldman, and Glass. After the WQXR residency, The Knights hit the road again on a ten-city US tour (April 5-20).    

Click below to see The Knights' co-artistic directors Eric and Colin Jacobsen and trumpet player and Found Sound Project curator Josh Frank discussing the residency and contest: