The Grant Park Music Festival’s podium batting average is impressive, invariably managing to book fine guest conductors throughout its ten-week season Even so, it’s not every summer concert in Chicago ...

When the current Chicago Symphony Orchestra season was announced last year, there was much excitement that Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust would be presented, conducted by Riccardo Muti. Many ...

At the conclusion of the scheduled concert, Olafsson revealed that the idea behind the program was really “the birth of Schubert” and the Beethoven and Bach influences that went into his compositions, ...

In a concluding ceremony Saturday evening, Aristo Sham, 29, of Hong Kong, China, was declared winner of the Gold Medal at the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, ...

It was “Last call, gentlemen!” Friday night for three of the six finalists in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, as that event neared its conclusion with the penultimate concerto night ...

With medals hanging in the balance, the last three of six finalists in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition played their concluding concertos Saturday afternoon in a display of stunning ...

The temperature of the Final Round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition rose considerably on its second night, with spectacular solo performances in two of the three concertos presented ...

Angel Stanislav Wang performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 on the first Finals night of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Tuesday night in Fort Worth. Photo: Ralph Lauer After two ...

With multiple street closures and exits off the Drive shut down for a race in the Loop, audience members trying to get to Orchestra Hall Thursday night had nearly as arduous a journey as the one that ...

Flora Hawk and Jonathan Michie star in the world premiere of Damien Geter’s Loving v. Virginia at Virginia Opera. Photo: Dave Pearson Virginia Opera is marking its golden anniversary season in the ...

Sometimes the occasion of a concert can make the musical performance even more powerful and unforgettable. Such was the case on Sunday afternoon at the New World Center when artistic director laureate ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is on a roll. After Manfred Honeck’s inspirational program of Beethoven and Haydn last week, another local podium favorite, Jakub Hrůša, has returned to lead the CSO in ...