New and Noteworthy

ABF is pleased to announce that Nana Miyoshi will be making her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut on Sunday, May 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Please be sure to check back often for details and updates.  Also, please follow Nana on Facebook and Instagram as well as on her website, nanamiyoshi.com.

NANA MIYOSHI MAKES HER SOLO RECITAL DEBUT AT CARNEGIE HALL

May 3, 2026

Past Events

SOPRANO CELESTE SICILIANO
IN CONCERT

May 24, 2025

Dramatic Soprano Celeste Siciliano presented a concert of works by Liszt, Medtner, Stravinsky, Beach, Bridge, Hahn, and Gurney & Clarke as part of a concert entitiled Spring Song.  She is also one of the guest artists performing for The Power of Inspiration, featured below.

June 6, 2025

Presented in collaboration with the Alexander & Buono Foundation.

Three plays of Shakespeare, Othello, Falstaff, and Macbeth, inspired works by Verdi, who considered the last of these the greatest opera of the twenty-seven he composed.

Bellini in turn used Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as the inspiration for his famous bel canto opera, I Capuletti e i Montecchi.

Operas like these went on to capture the imagination of Franz Liszt, who wrote transcriptions based on these and other works, thus demonstrating not only his generosity as a fellow composer, but a desire to help spread the melodies of great music throughout the world.

Please join us on Friday, June 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM for “The Power of Inspiration,” a concert featuring pianist Nana Miyoshi, soprano Celeste Siciliano, and bass Philip Phillips that will explore the ways in which these composers used their skills to create masterpieces that remain as exciting and relevant as they did when they were first written. The evening will include performances of Liszt’s Rigoletto Fantasy and Reminiscences of Norma, as well as arias from Verdi’s Macbeth and Bellini’s famous Casta diva.

Friday, June 6, 2025
6:30 PM
Columbus Citizens Foundation

“THE POWER OF INSPIRATION”

SHELEST PIANO DIO

Friday, June 6, 2025

June 6, 2025

Anna and Dmitri Shelest join forces as the Shelest Piano Duo for a performance on Friday, June 6, 2025, at 7:30 PM for the Rossmoor Music Association in Monroe Township, NJ.  The program includes:

  • Bernstein/Harmon: Overture to Candide

  • Copland/Lerner: Variations on a Shaker Melody

  • Chaminade: 5 Pièces romantiques

  • Bonis: Femmes de légende (Song of Cleopatra)

  • Saint-Saëns/Shelests: Samson et Dalila (Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix)

  • Saint-Saëns/Liszt/Horowitz/MacDonald: Danse macabre

  • Akimenko: 6 Pièces Ukrainiennes

  • Gershwin/Levine: Rhapsody in Blue