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Michael Jones reviews the Bermuda Philharmonic’s latest concert, Rediscovering the Classics

The Bermuda Philharmonic will perform Rediscovering the Classics at St John’s Church on Sunday

Joy to the World is back after nearly three years. The pandemic put the once annual Christmas concert on hold. Director Marjorie Pettit has promised big things from the show, which is hosted by the Bermuda School of Music and features the Bermuda...

The Bermuda Philharmonic Society is now back in full strength. After the long pandemic pause it has now reassembled and fielded a fully-rehearsed 40-piece orchestra composed of talented local musicians. On Sunday they gave us a richly-textured, deep...

When Kate Kayaian says there is a lot of musical talent on the island, Sari Smith is one of the people she is talking about. The 18-year-old violinist is the recipient of one of the Bermuda Philharmonic Society’s merit-based scholarships. On Sunday, ...

Ease into the weekend with a show of music and art in the Botanical Gardens tonight. It’s a joint fundraiser for the Bermuda Philharmonic and Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. Against the backdrop of pieces from Masterworks’ permanent collection, vi...

Inspired by the classical music in Japanese cartoons, Dennajye Paynter taught himself to play piano. In only five months he mastered Rondo Alla Turca, a Mozart composition that takes most people years to learn. “They play a lot of classical music in ...

Five virtuosic pianists brilliantly performed the music of four brilliant composers at the opening of the Bermuda Piano Festival on Tuesday. First, Eteri Anjaparidze gave us Haydn’s three-movement Sonata in D Major, Hob. XIV: 37. After a clear, joyfu...

The Bermuda Guitar Festival is back after a break forced by the pandemic. Organiser Steve Crawford hopes that music lovers are as thrilled with the line-up as he is. Grisha Goryachev, Jerremiah Smith and Johanna Pino Gonzalez will join him in the fes...

As Kate Kayaian explained in her welcome to the audience, String Seranade marked Bermuda Philharmonic’s first concert in three years. Consisting of string works from the 19th and 20th centuries, the ambitious, well executed and richly diverse progra...

While studying violin as a child in Montreal, Laure Marshall got the opportunity to meet and perform with world-class musicians

University orchestra members on their way home to California after a series of sell-out shows at the Bermuda Festival staged a performance on a plane after their flight was delayed. Roger Xia and Richard Cheung, violinists with the Stanford Philharmo...