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Are you about to attend your first live orchestra performance? Here are answers to a few questions you may find yourself wondering from your seat in the concert hall! Symphony, Philharmonic or Orchest…

HPO 20-21 Composer Fellow Arie Verheul van de Ven went through a self-described “instrumental identity crisis” in his youth. He started playing the violin as a young child, learning through the Su…

This past year was one of self-reflection, reorientation and grounding. It was a time to step back and adapt as we all faced the ongoing and evolving difficulties of the pandemic. In the absence o…

The festive season is here and while our holiday celebrations may look a little different in 2020, there are still plenty of ways to deck the halls and make spirits bright! Below are a few gift ideas …

By Daniel Sheridan   Composed in 1960 in the cultural context of such a repressive environment as the Soviet Union, Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8 in C minor easily invites, if not demands…

By Daniel Sheridan When observed solely as a piece of music, the Oboe Quartet displays all the pleasures one expects from a Mozart composition: the seemingly effortless melodicism, the ability t…