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This is Beautiful Music performed by legendary singer, Simon Estes. The renowned musician is joined by another legend, trumpeter Maurice Andre, performing THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND from George Frideric Handel’s oratorio MESSIAH. The Estes and Andre families had something else in common: they were coal-mining families. Dr. Estes’ father was a coal miner, and Mr. […]

Raphaël Feuillâtre is the 2018 winner of the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) competition. The French virtuoso started learning the instrument at age 9, and quickly showed his exceptional musical talent. In addition to his international performing career, Raphaël Feuillâtre also teaches guitar and enjoys creating transcriptions of music for his instrument. This is

Soprano Jeanine de Bique is such a beautiful and multi-talented artist. Her voice is supple, strong and lovely, and her artistry is thrilling. Today’s Beautiful Music features Jeanine de Bique singing the arias OMBRE, PIANTE and SPIETAT, IO VI GIURAI from George Frideric Handel’s opera RODELINDA with Le Concert d’Astree, conducted by Emmanuelle Haim. Jeanine

Awadagin Pratt has been playing piano since he was 6 years old.  He excelled in music as well as tennis, but eventually chose to attend Peabody Conservatory of Music, where where he became the first student in the school’s history to receive diplomas in three performance areas – piano, violin and conducting. In 1992 he won

Although bass-baritone Dashon Burton spent many of his formative years in New York, he is a citizen of the world now. The talented musician has sung operas, given recitals, and performed with ensembles including Philharmonia Baroque, Handel and Haydn Society, and Boston Baroque, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic,

Flutist Demarre McGill is Principal Flutist of the Seattle Symphony, and the brother of clarinetist Anthony McGill, who was featured on yesterday’s Beautiful Music post on this blog. Demarre McGill’s many awards include an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Sphinx Medal of Excellence. He offers Beautiful Music today by Johann Sebastian Bach — a

Clarinetist Anthony McGill plays Beautiful Music by Johann Sebastian Bach today. The 2000 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner attended Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, and in 2020 he won the Avery Fisher Prize. Since 2014 Antony McGill has been the principal clarinet of the New York Philharmonic,

Wynton Marsalis is a consummate musician, with a seemingly infinite list of talents and interests. The trumpet player has been nominated for Grammy Awards 14 times, and 11 of those were wins. He’s also an EMMY nominee, and he won a Pulitzer Prize for his composition, BLOOD ON THE FIELDS. (there’s a link to some

The Marsalis Family name is as associated with top-notch music making in the 21st century as the Bach Family name was in the 18th century. Branford Marsalis is the saxophone virtuoso member of the multi-talented, multi-generational Marsalis musical family. You may know of Branford Marsalis as the leader of The Tonight Show Band from 1992-1995.

Brandyn Lewis is a Canadian doublebass player who attended McGill University’s Schulich School of Music, and the Conservatoire de Musique de Montréal. Brandyn Lewis is now a substitute double bassist with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, and is the ensemble’s only Black member. You can hear (and watch) Brandyn Lewis x 4 playing Johann Sebastian