The Federated Music Teachers Association of the Quad-Cities held its 26th annual Baroque Piano Competition Dec. 5 at Foster Family Music,Bettendorf. Finalists were chosen by recorded audition to ...

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Since 1987, Suzanne Bona has been delighting audiences each weekend with her program, “Sunday Baroque,” presenting music from roughly the years 1600-1750 in a radio setting that’s about enjoying the ...

The name “Twelfth Night” may at first conjure up Shakespeare’s festive and lively comic play, not the baroque ensemble of the same name. But the musicians don’t mind — that’s the point. Violinist ...

Forty-four piano finalists from the Iowa and Illinois Quad-Cities were chosen by recorded audition, judged by the University of Iowa piano pedagogy class under the supervision of Dr. Alan Huckleberry.

American composer Nico Muhly was a big fan of French pianist Alexandre Tharaud when they met via social media through their mutual friend, choreographer-dancer Benjamin Millepied. Resulting from that ...

The fusion of jazz, baroque piano, vocals and traditional Central African and Middle Eastern rhythms might sound like an ambitious overreach, with too many influences competing for space. Yet Afro ...

Baroque Music Montana showcases one of the most diverse periods in music history. Baroque Music Montana performs works by celebrated composers of the baroque, as well as pieces rarely or unheard since ...

When we finally caught up with Elizabeth Blumenstock, she had just woken from a nap in the Charlotte, North Carolina, airport. On her way back to California from the Göttingen International Handel ...