Steven Banks will perform with New Jersey Symphony in Newark, April 3-5, and New Brunswick, April 6.
April 1: West Point Concert Band at Mayo Performing Arts Center, Morristown.
April 2: Martin Fröst, clarinet, Antoine Tamestit, viola, and Shai Wosner, piano, at Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University. Program includes Dvořák’s Legends, Op. 59, Nos. 1-3 (arr. Wosner); Brahms’ Clarinet Trio, Op. 114 (arr. Wosner) and Hungarian Dances (selection, arr. Fröst); Bizet’s Tarantelle (arr. Wosner); and “Dance Mosaic” (a selection of Swedish, Bulgarian, French and other folk dance tunes, arr. Fröst and Wosner).
April 3: The Princeton Singers at Morris Museum, Morris Township.
April 3-5: New Jersey Symphony at NJPAC, Newark. Xian Zhang, conductor; Steven Banks, saxophone; Felicia Moore, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Issachah Savage, tenor; Reginald Smith Jr., baritone; Montclair State University Chorale (Heather J. Buchanan, director). Program includes Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Billy Childs’ Diaspora; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Choral.”
April 5: Livingston Symphony Orchestra at Heritage Middle School, Livingston. Program’s include Haydn’s London Symphony No. 104; Strauss’ Symphony No. 2 in F minor.
April 6: New Jersey Symphony at State Theatre, New Brunswick. Xian Zhang, conductor; Steven Banks, saxophone; Felicia Moore, soprano; Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano; Issachah Savage, tenor; Reginald Smith Jr., baritone; Montclair State University Chorale (Heather J. Buchanan, director). Program includes Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Billy Childs’ Diaspora; Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, “Choral.”
April 6: Frisson Piano Trio, presented by Red Bank Chamber Music Society at Trinity Episcopal Church, Red Bank. Program includes Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B-flat major, Op. 11 (with clarinet); Mendelssohn’s Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66; Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A minor, Op. 50.
April 6: Symphony in C at Haddonfield United Methodist Church. Program includes Debussy’s String Quartet in G minor, Op. 10; Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major, M.35.
April 6: Horszowski Trio, Music at Bunker Hill series at Bunker Hill Presbyterian Church, Sewell. Jesse Mills, violin; Ole Akahoshi, cello; Rieko Aizawa, piano. Program includes Rebecca Clarke’s Piano Trio; Arnold Schoenberg’s Six little pieces, Op. 19 (arr. Aizawa); Franz Schubert’s Piano Trio No. 2 in Eb Major, D. 929.
April 10: Jess Gillam, saxophone, Thomas Weaver, piano, at Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University. Program includes works by Graham Fitkin, Phil Woods, Mel Bonis, Benjamin Britten, Georg Philipp Telemann and others.
April 10: Daniel Colalillo, piano, Suliman Tekalli, violin, and Julian Schwarz, cello at Morris Museum, Morris Township. Program includes works by Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Liebermann, and Higdon.
April 11-14: Bizet’s “Carmen,” presented by Rutgers Opera and Rutgers Symphony Orchestra at New Brunswick Performing Arts Center.
April 12: Capitol Philharmonic at War Memorial, Trenton. Sandro Naglia, conductor. Program includes Rossini’s Overture from An Italian in Algiers; Mozart’s Piano Concerto in D minor K 466; Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4.
April 13: Quartetto di Cremona at Parlance Chamber Concerts at West Side Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood. Program includes Claude Debussy’s String Quartet; Osvaldo Golijov’s Tenebrae; Ludwig van Beethoven’s String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132.
April 13: Somerset Symphony Orchestra at Pingry School, Bernards. Program includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905.”
April 25: Sunghi Kim, soprano and Hyong Ski Jo, bass, accompanied by Sandra Pucciatti, piano, presented by Boheme Opera of New Jersey at Gia Maione Foundation Studio Theatre at Grunin Center for the Arts at Ocean County College, Toms River.
April 26: “An Evening with Yo-Yo Ma,” conversation and music, with Jeffrey Brown moderating at McCarter Theater Center, Princeton.
April 26: New Jersey Festival Orchestra Galaoffice/marie-rader-presenting-series/chanticleer.html”>Chanticleer at Pfleeger Concert Hall at Rowan University, Glassboro.
April 26: Plainfield Symphony Orchestra at Crescent Avenue Presbyterian Church, Plainfield. Program includes works by Ottorino Respighi.
April 27: Father Alphonse’s Orchestra of St. Peter by the Sea, “An Afternoon at the Opera” at Algonquin Arts Theatre, Manasquan.
April 27: Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey at Dolan Hall at Saint Elizabeth University, Morristown. Prorgam includes music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky.
April 27: The Formosa Quartet with pianist David Kaplan, presented by Lyrica Chamber Music at Presbyterian Church of Chatham Township.
April 27: Niles Luther, cello, at Bickford Theatre at Morris Museum, Morris Township.
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