OICMF Executive Director Anita Orne and Artistic Director and Chamber Music America board member Aloysia Friedmann were accompanied by our January high school intern, Sophie Parker, to the 2017 Chamber Music America conference in New York. Interspersed among many enlightening workshops and networking opportunities were meals with OICMF artist friends and entertainment in the Big Apple, including La Boheme at the Metropolitan Opera and The Great Comet on Broadway, starring Josh Groban. Jackie Parker was also in New York during the conference for a showcase concert at Steinway Hall.

The NSO's next Music Director, Gianandrea Noseda, joins "insightful [and] energetic" ( The New York Times) pianist Jon Kimura Parker for a celebration of America's musical landscape. Mr. Parker's performance of  Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is featured in this concert of American music, which opens with a Stravinsky arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner. You can watch the concert live on Sunday, January 22. The concert will be webcast via Medici.tv  at 3:00 PM Eastern time (12:00 noon Pacific time).

You can join Aloysia Friedmann and Jon Kimura Parker as they perform on Classical KING - FM's Classical Prague and Blue Danube River Cruise October 20-31, 2017 hosted by KING-FM's Cristophe Chagnard. For information on the cruise or to reserve a spot, go to the KING-FM webpage .