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Brandee Younger is a harpist and Dezron Douglas is a bassist, and they collaborated in a 2021 performance at Columbia’s Miller Theatre. The two musicians have a wide repertory, and their program included Rama Rama by Alice Coltrane, Foligno by Dezron Douglas, Unrest I & II by Brandee Younger, Equinox by John Coltrane, and Mercy […]

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival is Yale’s summer school of music. Every year, in the tiny town of Norfolk in Litchfield County in northwest Connecticut, talented musicians gather to learn, share, collaborate, hone their craft, and perform. The Festival’s Director is pianist Melvin Chen, who is also a Professor in the Practice of Piano at Yale

Wow!! I can’t wait for you to hear Morris Robinson sing! The bass singer’s voice is so powerful and impressive! The Grammy-winning opera singer was born in Atlanta where he excelled in both music and sports! Mr. Robinson attended the Citadel, where he played football and earned his Bachelor’s degree in English, and Boston University,

The marvelous lutenist Thomas Dunford provides today’s Beautiful Music. Dunford studied at Paris Conservatoire and Schola Cantorum in Basel, and he is the son of two professional musicians: viola da gamba players Sylvia Abramowicz and Jonathan Dunford. This 2017 Wigmore Hall recital features Thomas Dunford playing music by John Dowland, Giovanni Kapsberger, and Joan Ambrosio

I think you’re going to enjoy AND be inspired by today’s Beautiful Music! Conductor Mei-Ann Chen elicits a powerful and compelling performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s EGMONT OVERTURE. The performers in this July 2021 concert are a youth orchestra — members’ ages range from 16-19. How thrilling to see such talented young people respond to

Dr. William Chapman Nyaho grew up in Ghana, West Africa where he attended Achimota School. He later earned his degrees from St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, the Eastman School of Music and the University of Texas at Austin. He also studied at the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, Switzerland. Dr Nyaho is on the piano faculty

American tenor George Shirley crafted an international career in the world’s great opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, the Royal Opera – Covent Garden, Deutsche Oper, Téatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Netherlands Opera, L’Opéra de Monte Carlo, Scottish Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Glyndebourne Festival, and Santa Fe Opera, to name only

Histoire du Tango (composed in 1985) is a classic composition by the Argentine tango composer, bandoneon player, and arranger Astor Piazzolla. It is a four-movement piece that chronicles the history of tango music in segments of thirty-year intervals: Bordel 1900, Cafe 1930, Nightclub 1960, and Modern-Day Concert. Piazzolla composed it for flute and guitar, but

Florida-born operatic tenor Russell Thomas only discovered his gift for singing at the age of 18. Despite the late start, Mr. Thomas has a thriving career that has taken him to the world’s leading opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Los Angeles Opera, Lyric Opera of Chicago, the English National Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,

Today’s Beautiful Music is a marvelous presentation featuring American composer Paul Chihara talking about his BAGATELLES, along with a performance of them by Russian-American pianist Natasha Marin. Dr. Chihara trained with some of the 20th century’s musical luminaries, including renowned pedagogue Nadia Boulanger in Paris, Ernst Pepping in Berlin, and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood. With