Fritz’s summer music plans take him to St. Paul, MN and Santa Cruz, CA. On June 5-6, he played Dvorak’s Legends with the Saint Paul...

For the past 25 years Door County, WI has been the home of Midsummer’s Music Festival featuring chamber music of all kinds in a wide...

Ahh, summer in Chicago! It's a beautiful city in which to live and work this time of year, despite eternal re-routing to avoid...

Twenty-five years ago Lyric Opera cellist Laura Deming and several orchestra colleagues performed the opening concerts launching The Pine...

On Monday, May 18, a trio from the Lyric Opera Orchestra, Concertmaster Robert Hanford, guest guitarist Steven Roberts, and myself,...

For many summers I have traveled to Jackson Hole, Wyoming to participate in the Grand Teton Music Festival (gtmf.org) . It is a music...

Around the middle of June every year my family packs up our dog, two cats, two children, a viola, a bassoon and a contrabassoon, and...

Hello from sunny San Diego! Since the end of the Opera season I have been doing a lot of traveling for work. As a proud Portland native...

Last year my family had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Panama. The main purpose of our visit was to feed the passion of our son...

Last winter college sophomore Olivia Boen worked as an intern for Lyric Opera’s Ryan Opera Center. It was a perfect fit with her being a...

So, how was Chicago?” I must have been asked this question at least five hundred times since my return to the UK following the end of the...