A master of Mozart explores the dark side on the piano
Dejan Lazić knows a thing or two about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. After all, the globe-trotting pianist grew up in Salzburg – the composer’s birthplace – and studied piano, clarinet and…
Pianist Joyce Yang: Rachmaninoff is like ‘preparing for an ultra-marathon’
Joyce Yang hasn’t climbed Mount Everest, but she’ll need plenty of stamina to reach an equally demanding summit over the next two weeks. Yang will be scaling a musical mountain…
Warm thoughts on Florida, flying with cellos, Elgar concerto
Maximilian Hornung, the 37-year-old German cellist, makes his living going from one city to another with his instrument, enjoying invitations from many of the world’s top orchestras and chamber groups.…
Pianist Alexandra Dariescu champions women composers, their legacy
For centuries, classical music has been akin to a private men’s club. Yes, many gifted performers and composers in the past were women, but the male monopoly and misogyny into…
From hypnotic to rollicking fun – TFO, Milos bring it all
Sitting in the audience at Mahaffey Theater over the weekend offered one of those moments when time slows and your senses percolate. The Florida Orchestra has delivered lots of these…
Akiko Fujimoto: It’s the music that matters, not the gender
When Marin Alsop stepped down as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra last summer, she left a fraternity. With her departure, the nation’s top 25 orchestras stay centered on…
TFO Afterthoughts: Augustin Hadelich gives intense, intimate performance
Playing the big symphonic works with precision is a goal of any orchestra, and TFO always makes a point of delivering its sonic punches in detail. This was the case…
At the top of his game, violinist talks Harry Potter, Prokofiev, playing by memory
Augustin Hadelich is justly regarded as a phenom in the music world, a brilliant violinist who channels his mastery of the instrument and material through a penetrating mind. Sometimes music…
Maestro Wilkins: ‘We’re seeing a fresh fervor for making and hearing music’
Thomas Wilkins is a busy guy these days, regardless of the setbacks Covid has made on the arts, especially symphony orchestras.He should know. The former resident conductor of TFO from…
Pianist embraces intimacy of Covid concert world
Many years ago, when TFO was playing Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at the Mahaffey Theater, a young couple on a Saturday night date sat rapt in their seats, entranced…