Beautiful Music

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

Today’s Beautiful Music is provided by the talented and versatile musician Jonathan Woody. The bass-baritone’s musical passions range from baroque and early music to contemporary music. He has performed music by Bach, Handel and others with groups including Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Bach Collegium San Diego, Portland Baroque Orchestra and Apollo’s Fire. Jonathan Woody has also

Today’s Beautiful Music is a nod to President’s Day. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein is joined by a talented young musician, 8 year old cellist Sujari Britt, playing music by Luigi Boccherini at the White House. That performance was from 2009, and Sujari Britt is all grown up now, and continuing to grow as a musician. You