Tickling the Ivories

Austin's first piano festival in full swing, featuring stars and aspiring musicians

By Shelley Seale

05.18.13 | 10:54 am

Founded in 2012, the Austin Piano Festival is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing the highest quality classical artists from around the world to Central Texas audiences. Director Matt M ...

Austin Symphony Orchestra Presents Vadim Gluzman

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

05.31.13 - 06.01.13

Internationally renowned violinist Vadim Gluzman will enchant Austin audiences for two nights with his amazing talent and artistry while sustaining the great violinistic tradition of the 19th and 2

Richard Wagner's 200th Birthday Concert

Bachus Conservatory Recital Hall

05.04.13

Composer Richard Wagner provided the music world with soaring operatic and instrumental compositions. Celebrate a collection of his works, including arias and scenes from his operas, lesser-known p

R.I.P.

World-renowned pianist Van Cliburn dies at Fort Worth home

By Alex Bentley

02.27.13 | 12:09 pm

Van Cliburn, the legendary pianist whose eponymous competition has been bringing world-class musicians to Fort Worth for more than 50 years, died on Wednesday. He was 78. Cliburn was born in Sh ...

Herd the Third: More Concerti by Bach for Multiple Harpsichords

First Presbyterian Church of Austin

01.06.13

In the third installment of this enormously popular series, La Follia performs more of Bach’s concerti for 1-4 harpsichords. This concert will also include a four-harpsichord concerto compose

Austin Civic Orchestra presents Titan

Alma Thomas Theater

02.09.13

A performance of Gustav Mahler's 1st Symphony, Titan. The symphony, featuring some of the late Austrian composer's most dramatic music, will be preceded by Songs of a Wayfayer, the collecti

Music at the Blanton: Bach Cantata

Blanton Museum of Art

11.27.12

Take a break from your busy schedules and unwind with some classical music. Musicians from UT's Butler School of Music will present Bach's Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig BMV 26

Classically speaking

My intro to classical music in Austin: The Sound Bridge Project and La Follia Austin Baroque

By Joelle Zigman

08.29.12 | 2:35 pm

Having just moved to town a week ago to study music composition at UT, I spent my first official weekend as a classical music enthusiast in Austin at two incredibly unique concerts that presented s ...

The Texas Lyceum

Texas values: Buffalo Altar: A Texas Symphony celebrates the Lone Star spirit — where oil & water mix

By Joel Luks

08.19.12 | 9:59 am

"But like I said, I ain't complaining," C.L. Pettigrew Sr., an 81-year-old oilman, asserts while looking back at six decades of drilling for black gold. He reminisces about the Goldsm ...

House concerts

Revel in Revel, a chamber band for the rest of us

By Shelley Seale

07.01.12 | 12:00 pm

The Summer Solstice just passed, and summer has arrived in earnest here in Central Texas. Last Saturday night, Austin's classical band REVEL celebrated the season with a house concert, Revel in ...