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 

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 (world 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

Mar 16: Santa Rosa, CA
Joyce Yang
Newman Auditorium - Santa Rosa Junior College

Recital  

Mar 18: Cupertino, CA
Joyce Yang
De Anza College Visual and Performing Arts Center

Recital

Mar 18-27: Europe
The Knights
European tour w/Jan Vogler, cello

Mar 21: Toulouse, France
Stefan Jackiw
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra (debut)
Mendelssohn: Violin Cto.   

Mar 23, 24: Alberta, Canada
Kelley O'Connor
Jack Singer Concert Hall - Calgary Philharmonic
Bach: St. Matthew Passion   

Mar 24: Chicago, IL

Dan Visconti

Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art - eighth blackbird

Dan Visconti: Fractured Jams   

Mar 24, 25: Toronto, CA
Joshua Roman
Roy Thomson Hall - Toronto Symphony 

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33    

Mar 25: Boston, MA
Jessica Rivera

Jordan Hall - Boston Symphony Chamber Players
Gubaidulina: Hommage a T.S. Eliot
Stravinsky: Pastorale   

Mar 31: Charlotte, NC
Joshua Roman
Belk Theater - Charlotte Symphony

Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33

Mar 31: Dallas, TX
Joyce Yang
SMU Caruth Auditorium

Recital w/ Augustin Hadelich, violin

Apr 1: Dallas, TX

Joyce Yang                 
St. Barnabas Presbyterian Church
Recital w/ Augustin Hadelich, violin

Apr 5: Troy, NY
The Knights

Troy Chromatic Concerts - Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

Apr 9: Detroit, MI
The Knights

DSO Presents - The Music Box

Apr 10: Akron, OH
The Knights

Tuesday Musical Association - EJ Thomas Hall

Apr 11: Granville, OH
The Knights
Denison University - Swassey Chapel

Apr 12: Richmond, KY
The Knights
Eastern Kentucky University - Center for the Performing Arts

Apr 12: New York, NY
Kelley O'Connor

Carnegie Hall - Orchestra of St. Luke's

Mozart: Requiem w/MusicaSacra

Apr 13, 15: Tucson, AZ
Stefan Jackiw
Tucson Music Hall - Tucson Symphony (debut)
Prokofiev: Violin Cto. No. 2   

Apr 14: Sewanee, TN
The Knights
Sewanee: University of the South - Guerry Auditorium

Apr 14: Rancho Mirage, CA
Joyce Yang
International Classical Concerts of the Desert

Recital

Apr 14, 15: Des Moines, IA
Joshua Roman
Civic Center of Greater Des Moines - Des Moines Symphony
Lalo: Cello Cto. in D minor

Apr 15: Saratoga, CA
Joyce Yang
Carriage House - Montalvo Arts Center

Jessica Rivera: world premiere and vocal recital

Soprano Jessica Rivera returns to her native California this April for several engagements in the Bay Area. Having already "carved out a place in the contemporary music world," Rivera joins the Berkeley Symphony, music director Joana Carneiro, and the San Francisco Girls Chorus on April 26 for the world premiere performance of Gabriela Lena Frank's Holy Sisters. Inspired by biblical women, the new work features text by celebrated Portuguese poet José Tolentino de Mendonca.  

For more information, visit JessicaRivera.com, Rivera's YouTube channel, or the IMG Artists web site.

For more information, visit PianistJoyceYang.com or the Arts Management Group web site.   

Recently featured in the New York Times before a performance of his acclaimed cello sonata, Americana, composer Dan Visconti celebrates several important premieres in 2012. First the Gryphon Trio gave the world premiere of Visconti's Barlow Prize-commissioned Lonesome Roads in Toronto this past January, followed by February's US premiere in Illinois. Next, in Minneapolis this month, the Bakken Trio joined mezzo-soprano Christina Baldwin to premiere Visconti's A Screened Porch in the Country, which was inspired by a poem by former US Poet Laureate James Dickey.

In The Clear Light, the composer's new piece for celebrated soprano Lucy Shelton, Visconti turned to a very different literary muse - the Tibetan Book of the Dead, an 8th-century guide to the interval between this life and the soul's rebirth into the next. Written for the Da Capo Chamber Players' 40th anniversary concert at Carnegie Hall on May 2 and commissioned in conjunction with the 2010 Naumburg Foundation's Composition Award, The Clear Light combines the drones and chants of ancient mysticism with pulsing electronic timbres inspired by psychedelic rock and trance music. The piece is a mind-bending journey in which a simple, chant-like vocal line is warped, stretched, and pushed to the limits of untamed expression.

Listen to Visconti discuss A Screened Porch in the Country on Minnesota Public Radio.  

Brooklyn Rider: kickstarting Seven Steps' success

Now armed with 285 backers, string quartet Brooklyn Rider saw its recent campaign - to finance new recording Seven Steps through crowd-funding website Kickstarter - prove an unprecedented success. With pledges worth $50,565 - more than $20,000 in excess of the group's initial goal of $30,000 - the campaign was hailed by NPR as "amazing and totally heartening." The critical community has warmly welcomed the new album, calling Seven Steps "exceptional," "enthralling," and "one of the most delightfully challenging recordings of the year."

Brooklyn Rider has taken the bold step of making Seven Steps available not only on CD, but also on vinyl LP - an especially rare practice in chamber music - with the physical release set for April 10.

Click below for a behind-the-scenes look at Seven Steps.