Barrier-breaking composer George Walker comes alive as violist Dillon Scott and our Festival Young Artists weave Walker’s music and story into a celebration of artistry. Presented in partnership with Green […]

Explore a continuum of American concert music composers who’ve borrowed from traditional folk music styles as inspiration and raw material, from Charles Ives to Aaron Copland and Edgar Meyer. Between […]

Manchester Music Festival Artistic Director Philip Setzer is our guide through a vivid, varied dreamscape in sound, slipping from a musical curio by Benjamin Franklin ... yes, that Benjamin Franklin […]

A founding father of nationalism in classical music, Bohemian composer Antonín Dvořák urged American composers to draw inspiration from indigenous and Black musical styles — and provided eloquent examples in […]

Experience our Festival Young Artists pushing boundaries in solo performances that bring their individual voices to the forefront. Be part of their journey from conservatory to the concert stage. Tickets […]

The siren call of Hollywood studios gave composers like Bernard Hermann, Elmer Bernstein and John Williams free rein to create classic works, and augmented the extraordinary success of Leonard Bernstein’s […]

From pioneering women to today’s innovators, this program shines a light on women’s contributions in music and is dedicated to violinist Marie Setzer — one of the first female musicians […]

George Gershwin invented a new American idiom by fusing classical music’s disciplined elegance with the swinging spontaneity of jazz in Rhapsody in Blue, inspiring bold work from successors like Aaron […]

Hilary Gardner and her band, The Lonesome Pines, make their debut in Vermont with an evening of music celebrating the nostalgic heart of the American West. Their album, On the […]