Community Calendar

Mosaic Youth Chorus (MYC) announces the launch of Troubadours, a new non-auditioned 12 week program serving children in grades 4, 5, and 6. Troubadours will provide instruction in vocal technique, musicianship, ensemble skills, and leadership. MYC provides a nurturing environment where every young person can thrive and express their authentic artistic selves. We focus on giving youth voice and addressing topics of importance to young people. Troubadours provides foundational instruction to start young singers on this journey.
Mosaic Youth Chorus website, http://mosaicyouthchorus.org.

How does one of the greatest violinists of our time respond to the threat of global collapse? Join us for a haunting and powerful evening as violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja joins Princeton University faculty and students to present the East Coast premiere of her Dies Irae project at the iconic Princeton University Chapel. This provocative, semi-staged performance offers a deeply moving musical reflection on the devastating consequences of global warming, resource wars, and the refugee crisis, drawing inspiration from the Gregorian Dies Irae chant, a symbol of fear and impending judgment. Spanning centuries of music, the program contemplates the end of civilization with works including Heinrich Biber’s Battalia à 10, evoking the chaos of war, and George Crumb’s Black Angels, a searing critique of the Vietnam War. The evening’s centerpiece is Galina Ustvolskaya’s intense Dies Irae, with Kopatchinskaja playing percussion alongside eight double basses and piano, creating a visceral and emotionally charged soundscape. Dies Irae, which has toured the world including the Lucerne Festival, Ojai Festival, and Southbank Centre to great acclaim, is a bold, unflinching exploration of today’s most urgent global issues, pushing the boundaries of classical music to challenge our understanding of the world and our role in shaping its future.

Xian Zhang conductor
Juan Esteban Martinez clarinet
New Jersey Symphony

In this first week of spring, you’ll feel the joy of being outdoors again in Beethoven’s Sixth (perhaps best known as his “Pastoral”) Symphony–even with a thunderstorm brewing on the horizon. Mozart casts bright bolts of sunshine in his Divertimento that spotlights the New Jersey Symphony’s superb strings, and in his Clarinet Concerto featuring Principal Clarinet Juan Esteban Martinez.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”

THE MTM Players

Boisterous, ribald and ultimately shattering, The MTM Players bring us the unforgettable story of a mental hospital and its inhabitants. When a brash new inmate arrives, the rigid routine of the ward, headed by the tyrannical Nurse Ratched, is thrown up for grabs. In a world where sanity means conformity and following the rules is the only way to survive, this drama is a powerful exploration of both the beauty and the danger of being an original.!

Xian Zhang conductor
New Jersey Symphony

Discover the storytelling power of classical music! Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony was one of his only works that depicts very specific scenes and storylines, which we’ll dive into measure by measure in this concert.

Inspired by Leonard Bernstein’s masterful way of putting young audiences at the center of music-making, this interactive concert will feature inside tips, listening cues, and fun facts that make for the perfect Saturday afternoon family outing!

This New Jersey Symphony Family Concert is presented in NJPAC’s Prudential Hall.

Xian Zhang conductor
Juan Esteban Martinez clarinet
New Jersey Symphony

In this first week of spring, you’ll feel the joy of being outdoors again in Beethoven’s Sixth (perhaps best known as his “Pastoral”) Symphony–even with a thunderstorm brewing on the horizon. Mozart casts bright bolts of sunshine in his Divertimento that spotlights the New Jersey Symphony’s superb strings, and in his Clarinet Concerto featuring Principal Clarinet Juan Esteban Martinez.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”

GatherNYC presents violinist Miranda Cuckson, violist Jessica Meyer, and cellist Laura Metcalf. This program brings together four electrifying contemporary string trios by living female composers: Jessica Meyer, Missy Mazzolli, Nina C. Young, and Dobrinka Tabakova. These powerful works push the boundaries of what is possible on three stringed instruments.

GatherNYC is a revolutionary concert experience founded in 2018 by cellist Laura Metcalf and guitarist Rupert Boyd. The 2025-2026 season includes 31 concerts that run from October 2025 through May 2026, with concerts held every Sunday at 11am in The Theater at MAD.

Guests at GatherNYC are served exquisite live classical music performed by New York’s immensely talented artists, artisanal coffee and pastries, a taste of spoken word, and a brief celebration of silence. The entire experience lasts one hour and evokes the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service – but the religion is music, and all are welcome. Coffee and pastries are served before each performance at 10:30am.

Xian Zhang conductor
Juan Esteban Martinez clarinet
New Jersey Symphony

In this first week of spring, you’ll feel the joy of being outdoors again in Beethoven’s Sixth (perhaps best known as his “Pastoral”) Symphony–even with a thunderstorm brewing on the horizon. Mozart casts bright bolts of sunshine in his Divertimento that spotlights the New Jersey Symphony’s superb strings, and in his Clarinet Concerto featuring Principal Clarinet Juan Esteban Martinez.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Clarinet Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”

Join the Westminster Community Orchestra and Dr. Ruth Ochs on March 29th at 3:00 p.m. for “Love and Fate,” a concert featuring soprano Ally Christiansen performing two arias—Mozart’s “Ruhe sanft” from Zaide and Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges’, “Du tendre amour” from L’amant anonyme, plus Louise Farrenc’s Overture No. 2, Adoration by Florence Price, and the first movement of John Baston’s Concerto in C Major for Recorder and Strings, performed by Juliana Correa Ogihara. The program concludes with Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No 5 in C minor.

Ally Christiansen is a 2024 Master of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy graduate from Rider University’s Westminster Choir College. During her time at Westminster, she sang in the Westminster Symphonic Choir as well as in the prestigious Westminster Singers. The second-place winner in the Westminster Conservatory Concerto Competition, Juliana Correa Ogihara was born in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil and began recorder studies at the age of seven. She moved to New Jersey in 2024 and attends Millstone River School.

The concert will take place in Hillman Hall, in the Cullen Center, on the Westminster campus, Walnut Lane, in Princeton. There are no tickets required; a suggested admission of $10/person cash will be collected at the door. For more information, please contact the Westminster Conservatory office by phone, 609-921-7104, email, conservatory@rider.edu, or visit https://www.rider.edu/about/events/westminster-community-orchestra-love-and-fate

“Powerhouse Pianist,
” Kariné Poghosyan
Returns to Carnegie Hall with her special Vienna: Mozart270
program
Monday, March 30, at 7:30pm
"There's such a sense of joy, even ecstasy as she plays.
"
- NY1’s Stephanie Simon
"Listening to and watching Karine Poghosyan play fills one with life and energy. The combination of
her formidable skill and her unchecked passion is an experience I recommend for anyone who needs to
be reminded of the artist and art within themselves.
”
- Oscar-winning screenwriter Alex Dinelaris
Following her critically-acclaimed, sold-out Khachaturian recital last year, pianist Kariné
Poghosyan returns to Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall for a triumphant celebration of Mozart’s
270th birthday and his beloved city of Vienna. This unique program, titled Vienna: Mozart270, will
include Mozart’s own Sonata in F Major and Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No.5, transcribed by
Liszt and originally premiered in Vienna. Two shorter masterworks by the native Viennese Franz
Schubert will follow - the beloved lied Ständchen, also transcribed by Liszt, and the G-flat Major
Impromptu. The grand finale of the program is Franz Liszt’s Réminiscences de “Don Juan” de
Mozart, his most virtuosic and profoundly creative tribute to Mozart and his opera Don Giovanni, and
a work which Busoni labeled “the highest point of pianism.
”
Described as ‘extraordinary’ and ‘larger than life,
’ the award-winning Armenian pianist has been
praised for her “ability to get to the heart of the works she performs.
” Her recent accomplishments
include recitals at Musikverein and Ehbar Saal in Vienna, Casa Armena in Milan, Chicago Cultural
Center, the Sheldon in Saint Louis, the Soraya Performing Arts Center in Northridge, California, and
several sold- out recitals at Carnegie Hall, including a release concert of her "Rachmaninoff and
Stravinsky" CD. Her performances exemplify the difference between listening to music and
experiencing music, ultimately bringing a fresh new appeal to classical music that transcends
generations.
The recital is presented by the Permanent Mission of Republic of Armenia to the UN.
More details: https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2026/03/30/karine-poghosyan-piano-0730pM