Suzanne Bona

Cellist Anastasia Kobekina is a rising young classical musician. Born in Russia in 1994, she started playing cello at age 4, and pursued her musical training at Moscow Conservatory, Berlin University of the Arts, Paris Conservatory, and Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. Among her awards, Anastasia Kobekina was a third place winner in […]

Today’s Beautiful Music is a deeply moving performance in Maastricht by a young Dutch trumpeter — 13 year old Melissa Venema — with André Rieu. They’re performing IL SILENZIO by Nini Rosso and Guglielmo Brezza, a memorial piece commissioned by the Dutch and first played in 1965 on the 20th anniversary of the liberation of

Plinio Fernandes’ favorite composer is Johann Sebastian Bach. The Brazilian guitarist used his album BACHEANDO to illustrate blending and influence of Bach’s music on Brazilian music. Today’s Beautiful Music features a few selections from BACHEANDO. There’s also a link to an interview with Plinion Fernandes about his inspiration for the album.

Today’s Beautiful Music is a big WOW!!! Three-year-old Baby Barron — wearing a sequined jacket no less! — performs as the soloist with an orchestra. This October 2023 performance of Love Theme composed by Catherine Rollin took place at Hong Kong City Hall. This talented little one is an old soul, and it will be

George Frideric Handel’s Water Music premiered on July 17 in 1717. Today’s Beautiful Music is a 2018 concert performance featuring violinist Fabio Biondi leading Stavanger Symphony Orchestra playing the 1st Suite of Handel’s Water Music. It’s a great opportunity to see the ensemble being led in this manner, rather than by a conductor.

Pianist Lucy Colquhoun and soprano Naomi Kilby are two talented young British musicians. Lucy Colguhoun trained at the Royal College of Music in London and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Naomi Kilby trained at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. Today’s Beautiful Music is their collaboration on

I was delighted to discover the delightful musical talent and artistry of composer & conductor Quinn Mason (b.1996), a rising star in music. He studied at SMU Meadows School of the Arts and The University of Texas at Dallas, and has worked with a number of prominent composers such as Jake Heggie and Libby Larsen. 

Amy Dickson is an Australian saxophone virtuoso, and a graduate of the Royal College of Music and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. She is the first saxophonist ever to win a number of prestigious awards, including a Classical BRIT award. She started playing piano at age 2, and sax at age 6. Now she is a

Lucie Horsch was born in 1999 into a musical family in Amsterdam, and at the age of 5 she started playing the recorder. At 9 she played the 5th Hungarian Dance by Johannes Brahms on TV, and at age 11 she was studying at the Sweelinck Academy at Amsterdam Conservatory. Today’s Beautiful Music features rising

Today’s Beautiful Music features the lovely artistry of soprano Yukine Kawase. She’s joined by pianist Nobue Ito performing “E pur cosi in un giorno….Piangerò la sorte mia” from George Frideric Handel’s opera GIULIO CESARE IN EGITTO.