Classical performances in and around Richmond, with selected events elsewhere in Virginia and the Washington area. Program information, provided by presenters, is updated as details become available. Adult single-ticket prices are listed; senior, student/youth, group and other discounts may be offered.
WEATHER ADVISORY: A major winter storm with heavy snowfall on the weekend of Jan. 22-24 is likely to cause postponement or cancellation of events throughout Virginia and in the Washington area. Check with presenters before heading out.
* In and around Richmond: Steven Smith conducts the Richmond Symphony, with singers from Virginia Opera’s Emerging Artist Program, in a Viennese New
Year’s program of waltzes and other music of the Strausses (Johann and Richard), Jan. 9-10 at Richmond CenterStage, while the orchestra’s principal cellist, Neal Cary, plays Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo Variations” alongside works by Haydn, Ives and Clint Needham, in an abbreviated Rush-Hour concert on Jan. 14 at Hardywood Park Craft Brewery and a full program on Jan. 17 at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland. . . . Pianist Yefim Bronfman returns for a sampler of his ongoing recitals of the piano sonatas of Prokofiev,Jan.
15 at the University of Richmond’s Modlin Arts Center.. . . UR’s resident new-music sextet eighth blackbird performs in “Hand Eye,” a program of new and recent works by members of the Sleeping Giants composers’ collective, Jan. 27 at the Modlin Center. . . . Pianist Alexander Paley presents a mid-winter supplement to his fall music festival, performing Chopin’s waltzes and Rachmaninoff’s préludes on Jan. 30, and a family program of Tchaikovsky, Ravel and Prokofiev with pianist Daniel Stipe and narrator Pamela McClain on Jan. 31, both at St. Luke Lutheran Church.
* Noteworthy elsewhere: Pinchas Zukerman conducts and plays violin with the Royal Philharmonic in a program of Elgar, Mozart and Tchaikovsky,
Jan. 9 at Christopher Newport University’s Ferguson Arts Center in Newport News. . . . Katherine Needleman, onetime principal oboist of the Richmond Symphony, now playing the same role in the Baltimore Symphony, is the soloist in Christopher Rouse’s Oboe Concerto, on a program also featuring music of Brahms and Beethoven, with Marin Alsop conducting, Jan. 14 at Strathmore in the Maryland suburbs of DC. . . . Musicians from Marlboro, featuring Anthony McGill, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, play works of Brahms, Beethoven and 
Penderecki, Jan. 20 at the Library of Congress in Washington. . . . The JACK Quartet plays works from the University of Virginia’s Composition & Computer Technologies Program, Jan. 29 at UVa’s Old Cabell Hall.. . . Behzod Abduraimov, the highly praised young piano virtuoso from Uzbekistan, plays Chopin and Mussorgsky, Jan. 30 at Washington’s Kennedy Center (sold out – waiting list for tickets). . . . Violinist Julian Rachlin joins Daniele Gatti and Orchestre National de France in a program of Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky and Debussy, Jan. 31at the Kennedy Center.
Jan. 3 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Strauss Symphony Orchestra of America
Matthias Fletzberger conducting
Natalia Ushakova, soprano
Brian Cheney, tenor
dancers from Europaballet St. Pölten
International Champion Ballroom Dancers
“A Salute to Vienna”
program TBA
$49-$89
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 8 (8:15 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting and speaking
“Off the Cuff: Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3”
$35-$99
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 9 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Ruta Smedina-Starke & Sharon Stewart, piano
works TBA by Beethoven, Ravel, Fauré, R.A. Scott
free
(804) 646-7223
www.richmondpubliclibrary.org
Jan. 9 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 10 (3 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
singers TBA from Virginia Opera Emerging Artist Program
Johann Strauss II: “On the Beautiful Blue Danube”
Johann Strauss II: dances, operetta arias TBA
Richard Strauss: “Der Rosenkavalier” Suite
$10-$78
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Jan. 9 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Royal Philharmonic
Pinchas Zukerman conducting
Elgar: Serenade for strings
Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 5 in A major, K. 219 (“Turkish”)
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
$27-$87
(855) 337-4849
www.fergusoncenter.org
Jan. 9 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Brian Ganz, piano
Iwona Sobotka, soprano
Chopin: songs TBA
Chopin: Cantabile in B flat major
Chopin: Impromptu in A flat major, Op. 29
Chopin: Nocturne in F major, Op. 15, No. 1
Chopin: Nocturne in C minor, Op. posth.
Chopin: Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58
$39-$89
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 10 (3 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop & Joseph Young conducting
Alan Shulman: “A Laurentian Overture”
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 4 for the left hand
Leon Fleisher, piano
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3
$35-$99
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 14 (6:30 p.m.)
Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, Overbrook Road at Ownby Lane, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Ives: “The Unanswered Question”
Tchaikovsky: “Rococo Variations”
Neal Cary, cello
Clint Needham: “Urban Sprawl”
Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G major (“Oxford”) (excerpts)
$15
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Jan. 14 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 15 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 16 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Neeme Järvi conducting
Heino Eller: “Five Pieces for String Orchestra”
Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major
Baiba Skride, violin
Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D major
$15-$89
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 14 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop conducting
Brahms: “Academic Festival” Overture
Christopher Rouse: Oboe Concerto
Katherine Needleman, oboe
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major (“Eroica”)
$40-$104
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 15 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
Yefim Bronfman, piano
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 5 in C major, Op. 38/135
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 83
$40
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Jan. 16 (2 p.m.)
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, First Street at Independence Avenue N.E., Washington
Alban Gerhardt, cello
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Barber: Cello Sonata, Op. 6
Britten: Sonata in C major, Op. 65
Lukas Foss: Capriccio
Bernstein: Mass – “Three Meditations”
Gershwin-Heifetz-Gerhardt: 3 preludes
Piazzolla: “Grand Tango”
free; tickets required
(703) 573-7328 (Ticketmaster)
www.loc.gov/concerts
Jan. 16 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
National Philharmonic
Piotr Gajewski conducting
Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 136
J.S. Bach: Violin Concerto in E major, BWV 1042
Colin Sorgi, violin
Grieg: “Holberg” Suite
Britten: “Simple Symphony”
$29-$89
(301) 581-5100
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 17 (3 p.m.)
Blackwell Auditorium, Randolph-Macon College, 205 Henry St., Ashland
Richmond Symphony
Steven Smith conducting
Ives: “The Unanswered Question”
Tchaikovsky: “Rococo Variations”
Neal Cary, cello
Clint Needham: “Urban Sprawl”
Haydn: Symphony No. 92 in G major (“Oxford”)
$20
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Jan. 17 (7 p.m.)
Calvary Revival Church, 5833 Poplar Hall Drive, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony
conductor TBA
“Songs for a Dreamer: a Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.”
program TBA
free
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Jan. 17 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Kennedy Center Chamber Players
Richard Strauss: “Capriccio” – Sextet
Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat major, K. 407
J.S. Bach-Varga: Partita No. 2 in D minor – Chaconne (arranged for four cellos)
Mendelssohn: Quartet in A major, Op. 18
$35
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 20 (7 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Alyson Cambridge, soprano
Christine Lamprea, cello
Ina Zdorovetchi, harp
Kevin Miller, piano
“In Her Voice”
William Bolcom: “From the Diary of Sally Hemings”
Jeffrey Mumford: “three windows” (premiere)
Adam Schoenberg: new work TBA (premiere)
$40
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
www.wpas.org
Jan. 20 (8 p.m.)
Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress, First Street at Independence Avenue N.E., Washington
Musicians from Marlboro:
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Emilie-Anne Gendron & David McCarroll, violins
Daniel Kim, viola
Marcy Rosen, cello
Beethoven: String Trio in C minor, Op. 9, No. 3
Penderecki: Quartet for clarinet and string trio
Brahms: Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115
free; tickets required
(703) 573-7328 (Ticketmaster)
www.loc.gov/concerts
Jan. 21 (7:30 p.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Band of the Royal Marines
pipes, drums & Highland dancers of the Scots Guards
program TBA
$30-$38
(804) 289-8980 (UR Modlin Center box office)
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Jan. 21 (7 p.m.)
Jan. 22 (8 p.m.)
Jan. 23 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Christopher Rouse: “Phaethon”
Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor
Daniel Müller-Schott, cello
Brahms-Schoenberg: Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 25
$15-$89
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 21 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Constantine Kitsopoulos conducting
“Pixar in Concert”
$21-$99
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 22 (8 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Jan. 23 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Jan. 24 (2:30 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony
JoAnn Falletta conducting
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor
Natasha Peremski, piano
Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Dohnányi: “Symphonic Minutes”
$25-$110
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Jan. 23 (8 p.m.)
Altria Theater, Main and Laurel streets, Richmond
Richmond Symphony
conductor TBA
“Video Games Live”
$20-$70
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Jan. 23 (2 and 8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Band of the Royal Marines
pipes, drums & Highland dancers of the Scots Guards
program TBA
$31-$52
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.cfa.gmu.edu
Jan. 24 (4 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
VCU Guitar Series:
Sam Dorsey, classical guitar
program TBA
$15
(804) 828-6776
http://arts.vcu.edu/music/events/
Jan. 24 (4 p.m.)
Performing Arts Theatre, Berglund Center, Orange Avenue at Williamson Road, Roanoke
Roanoke Symphony
Roanoke Symphony Youth Orchestra
David Stewart Wiley, conductor, pianist & narrator
Plastic Musik, guest stars
Russell Peck: “The Thrill of the Orchestra”
works TBA by Tchaikovsky, Wagner, Holst, John Williams
$15
(540) 343-9127
www.rso.com
Jan. 25 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Rivanna String Quartet
Shostakovich: Quartet No. 3
Libby Larsen: “Sorrow Song and Jubilee”
Schubert: Quartet in G major, D. 887
$15
(434) 924-3376
www.music.virginia.edu
Jan. 25 (7 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Thymos Quartet
Christoph Eschenbach, piano
Yann Dubost, double-bass
Schubert: Quartet in A minor, D. 804 (“Rosamunde”)
Olivier Dujours: String Quartet 17 (“Creation”)
Schubert: Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667 (“Trout”)
$50
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 26 (7 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Young Concert Artists:
Edgar Moreau, cello
Jessica Osborne, piano
J.S. Bach: Sonata in G minor, BWV 1029
Franck: Sonata in A major
Schnittke: Cello Sonata No. 1
Chopin: “Introduction and Polonaise brilliante,” Op. 3
$35
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 27 (7:30 p.m.)
Camp Concert Hall, Modlin Arts Center, University of Richmond
eighth blackbird
“Hand Eye”
works by Sleeping Giant composers’ collective: Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, Christopher Cerrone, Timo Andres
$20
(804) 289-8980
www.modlin.richmond.edu
Jan. 28 (7 p.m.)
Vlahcevic Concert Hall, Singleton Arts Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Park Avenue at Harrison Street, Richmond
Atlantic Chamber Ensemble
“For Everything, a Season . . . of Fear”
works TBA by Shostakovich, Martinů, others
free
(804) 828-6776
http://arts.vcu.edu/music
Jan. 28 (7 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Weber: “Der Freischütz” Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor (“Unfinished”)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major
$15-$89
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 28 (7 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Chad Hoopes, violin
David Fung, piano
Dvořák: Sonatina in G major, Op. 100
Prokofiev: “Five Melodies,” Op. 35
Ravel: “Tzigane”
Franck: Sonata in A major
$40
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
www.wpas.org
Jan. 29 (7:30 p.m.)
St. Bridget Catholic Church, 6006 Three Chopt Road, Richmond
Daniel Stipe, organ
program TBA
donation requested
(804) 282-9511
www.saintbridgetchurch.org
Jan. 29 (8 p.m.)
Ferguson Arts Center, Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Jan. 30 (8 p.m.)
Chrysler Hall, 215 St. Paul’s Boulevard, Norfolk
Virginia Symphony Pops
Benjamin Rous conducting
Steve Lippia, guest star
“Sinatra Centennial”
$25-$95
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Jan. 29 (8 p.m.)
Old Cabell Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
JACK Quartet
works TBA by graduate students in UVa’s Composition & Computer Technologies Program
free
(free master class at 9:30 a.m. in Room b18, Old Cabell Hall)
(434) 924-3376
www.music.virginia.edu
Jan. 29 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
$15-$89
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 30 (11 a.m.)
Carpenter Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, Sixth and Grace streets
Richmond Symphony LolliPops
Chia-Hsuan Lin conducting
Kimberly Schroder, soprano
Michael Boudewyns, actor
“Green Eggs and Ham”
$17 (adult), $12 (child)
(800) 514-3849 (ETIX)
www.richmondsymphony.com
Jan. 30 (2 p.m.)
Gellman Room, Richmond Public Library, First and Franklin streets
Michelle Huang, piano
Violaine Michel, violin
“Dances around the World – from Europe to America”
program TBA
free
(804) 646-7223
www.richmondpubliclibrary.org
Jan. 30 (7:30 p.m.)
St. Luke Lutheran Church, 7757 Chippenham Parkway, Richmond
Alexander Paley, piano
Chopin: 14 waltzes
Rachmaninoff: préludes, Op. 3, No. 2; Op. 23
$20 donation suggested
(804) 665-9516
www.paleymusicfestival.org
Jan. 30 (8 p.m.)
Center for the Arts, George Mason University, Fairfax
Polish Baltic Philharmonic
Boguslaw Dawidow conducting
Wagner: “The Flying Dutchman” Overture
Rimsky-Korsakov: “Scheherazade”
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
Marcin Koziak, piano
$30-$50
(888) 945-2468 (Tickets.com)
www.cfa.gmu.edu
Jan. 30 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Behzod Abduraimov, piano
Chopin: ballades, Opp. 23, 38, 47, 52
Mussorgsky: “Pictures at an Exhibition”
$60 (waiting list)
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
www.wpas.org
Jan. 30 (8 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
National Symphony Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach conducting
Weber: “Der Freischütz” Overture
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor (“Unfinished”)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor
$15-$89
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 30 (8 p.m.)
Music Center at Strathmore, 5301 Tuckerman Lane, North Bethesda, MD
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Jakub Hrůša conducting
Janáček: “Jealousy”
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D major
Sergey Khatchatryan, violin
Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor
$35-$99
(877) 276-1444 (Baltimore Symphony box office)
www.strathmore.org
Jan. 31 (3 p.m.)
St. Luke Lutheran Church, 7757 Chippenham Parkway, Richmond
Alexander Paley & Daniel Stipe, piano four-hands
Pamela McClain, narrator
“Beauties and Beasts”
Tchaikovsky: “Children’s Album”
Ravel: “Mother Goose” Suite
Prokofiev: “Peter and the Wolf”
$20 donation suggested
(804) 665-9516
www.paleymusicfestival.org
Jan. 31 (3 p.m.)
Sandler Arts Center, 201 S. Market St., Virginia Beach
Virginia Symphony
Bay Youth Symphony Orchestra
conductor TBA
“Blast Off! A Symphony in Space”
$10
(757) 892-6366
www.virginiasymphony.org
Jan. 31 (2 p.m.)
Terrace Theater, Kennedy Center, Washington
Vocal Arts DC:
David Daniels, countertenor
Martin Katz, piano
works TBA by Purcell, Handel, Brahms, Hahn, Vaughan Williams; American folk songs
$50
(800) 444-1324
www.kennedy-center.org
Jan. 31 (4 p.m.)
Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Washington
Orchestre National de France
Daniele Gatti conducting
Debussy: “Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun”
Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No. 1
Julian Rachlin, violin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
$55-$120
(202) 785-9727 (Washington Performing Arts)
www.wpas.org