(May. 15 7:42 PM) - Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra (MYSO) will soon embark on a new era of leadership. Board President Susan Graham Wernecke and President-elect Patrick Rath announce that Frances Richman will retire as executive director of the organization as of December 31, 2012. She will continue to work with MYSO in the future, in a consulting capacity.

(May. 15 12:30 AM) - Violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman returns to the North Carolina Symphony tonight to perform Tchaikovsky’s scintillating Violin Concerto. The special event concert, led by Symphony Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, takes place at Meymandi Concert Hall, in downtown Raleigh’s Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, tonight, May 15 at 7:30 p.m.

(May. 14 6:34 PM) - Pacific Symphony ends its season with Beethoven’s crowning achievement, the Symphony No. 9, “Choral,” featuring “Ode to Joy.” The concert, led by Music Director Carl St.Clair, features a fusion of orchestra and voices that includes Pacific Chorale and four world-class opera singers; plus, two timely works by Frank Ticheli: “Rest” (world premiere version for strings) and “Radiant Voices” provide a stunning prelude.

(May. 14 4:37 PM) - Music Director Jacques Lacombe and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra present Mahler’s Ninth Symphony for the Orchestra’s 2011–12 classical-season finale June 7, 9 and 10 in Newark and Morristown.

(May. 14 2:49 PM) - The New York Philharmonic’s 170th subscription season will conclude with Music Director Alan Gilbert, The Yoko Nagae Ceschina Chair, leading the Orchestra in an all- Mozart program: the Mass in C minor, Great, and Piano Concerto No. 22, featuring Emanuel Ax — Honorary Member of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York — as soloist, Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, June 21 at 7:30 p.m., Friday, June 22 at 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, June 23 at 8:00 p.m. The C-minor Mass will feature performances by soprano Jennifer Zetlan (making her New York Philharmonic debut), mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, tenor Paul Appleby (also making his Philharmonic debut), baritone Joshua Hopkins, and the New York Choral Artists, directed by Joseph Flummerfelt. Ms. Zetlan, Ms. Johnson Cano, Mr. Appleby, and Mr. Hopkins will join Alan Gilbert and the Philharmonic to perform the C-minor Mass at the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival July 27.

(May. 14 12:30 AM) - Accordo, established in 2009, is a Minnesota-based chamber group. Its third season, which opened with a program of Romantic String Sextets and closes with tonight's May 14 offering, is presented by The Schubert Club, Northrop Concerts and Lectures, and Kate Nordstrum Projects at the National Historic Landmark Christ Church Lutheran.

(May. 14 12:30 AM) - Members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform alongside woodwind students of YOLA at HOLA in a free neighborhood concert at St. Thomas the Apostle Church on tonight, May 14 at 8 p.m. LA Phil musicians Mitchell Newman, violin; Robert Vijay Gupta, violin; Ben Ullery, viola; Leticia Oaks Strong, viola; and Daniel Rothmuller, cello will perform Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5 and Holst’s Jupiter (from The Planets) – both with YOLA at HOLA woodwind students. The evening is conducted by Emily Kubitskey.

(May. 13 6:07 PM) - Irondale announces the return of the award winning Walter Thompson Orchestra June 8 & 9 in an exciting, intense and ambitious multidisciplinary Soundpainting event.

(May. 13 12:30 AM) - The Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra (ASYO), led by Staff Conductor and Youth Orchestra Music Director Jere Flint, performs its Finale Concert tonight, May 13, 2012, at 3:00 p.m in Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. This concert, which is the final performance in the Youth Orchestra’s 2011-12 season, features two student musicians: flutist Hally Davidson performing Hüe’s Fantasie for Flute and Orchestra and violinist Keanu Mitanga performing the First Movement of Saint-Saëns’s Violin Concerto No. 3.

(May. 13 12:30 AM) - Pacific Symphony Youth Wind Ensemble (PSYWE), comprised of wind and percussion instrumentalists in grades 8-12, led by Music Director Joshua Roach (under the direction of Pacific Symphony Music Director Carl St.Clair), and three gifted soloists: Courtney Park, oboe, Thomas Yoo, clarinet, and Christopher Bryant, saxophone, will grace the stage today, May 13.

(May. 12 6:21 PM) - The University of South Florida’s Ars Nostra ensemble performs vocal and instrumental works by Max Lifchitz at New York City's Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center on Tuesday, May 15 at 8 PM. For ticket purchases and availability, contact the box office at (212) 501-3330.

(May. 12 12:30 AM) - The Nashville Symphony invites members of the community join the orchestra when it performs at Carnegie Hall today, May 12, 2012.

(May. 12 12:30 AM) - The programs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts scheduled for tonight, Saturday, May 12, Friday, May 25, and Sunday, May 27, have been changed.

(May. 11 8:55 PM) - Music Director Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic, America’s oldest orchestra, came to Walt Disney Concert Hall in the final event of the LA Phil’s 2011/12 Visiting Orchestras series, this Wednesday, May 9. Virtuoso pianist Yefim Bronfman joined the program, performing the West Coast premiere of Piano Concerto No. 2, by New York Philharmonic Composer-in-Residence Magnus Lindberg. Also on the program were Dvorák’s Carnival Overture and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. Though Gilbert had previously appeared at Walt Disney Concert Hall (WDCH), most recently during the 2006/07 season, the performance was the New York Philharmonic’s WDCH debut. See below for photos from the orchestra's knock-out concert in Los Angeles!

(May. 11 7:59 PM) - MYSO (Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra)'s annual meeting will take place Monday, June 11, 2012 at 4:30 pm at the Youth Arts Hall, Milwaukee Youth Arts Center, located at 325 W. Walnut Street, Milwaukee, Wisc.

(May. 11 5:57 PM) - Summer in Chicago continues this July with the Grant Park Music Festival, led by Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Carlos Kalmar and the Grammy Award-nominated Grant Park Orchestra, along with Chorus Director Christopher Bell and the Grant Park Chorus in the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago’s Millennium Park. The Festival will bring performances by outstanding guest conductors and guest artists from around the world, in a month of exciting programming that includes a world premiere commission, a live concert screening of Frozen Planet, the latest hit series from BBC/Discovery Channel, a tribute concert to Broadway and Hollywood legend, Frank Loesser and other Festival favorites.

(May. 10 9:48 PM) - On Saturday, June 23, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts opens its 67th annual Summer Music Festival with an evening of Mendelssohn. Celebrated violinist Gil Shaham opens the program with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64.

(May. 10 12:30 AM) - The programs for the Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts scheduled for tonight, May 10, Saturday, May 12, Friday, May 25, and Sunday, May 27, were previously altered.