The Omni Foundation presents 4 rising young stars of the guitar in concert for its 2nd edition to the Young Virtuosos Live from St. Mark's series. Learn more about these award-winning young virtuosos below (Program details below).

Ennio Morricone Conducting his own music in Peace Notes, a 9/11 Peace Concert - Live In Venice with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra, Choir La Fenice, Soprano Susanna Rigacci performed on 9/10 and 9/11 2007. Filmed in high definition, featuring many of Morricone's best loved film scores.
Morricone is traveling around the world performing this amazing concert for peace, which was conducted in front of the United Nations.
Arguably one of cinemas greatest composers, Ennio Morricone has built a legacy of passionate, emotive and sublime recordings to accompany some of ... continua

ENNIO MORRICONE - CONCERTO ARENA di VERONA - 28 Settembre 2002 -
1- Cinema Paradiso
2- Once upon a time in America
3- The legend of 1900
4- The good, the bad and the ugly
5- Once upon a time in the West
6- A fistful of dynamite
7- The good, the bad and the ugly (2)
8- La luz prodigiosa
9- Battle of Algeri
10- Sacco e Vanzetti
11- Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto
12- Sostiene Pereira
13- La classe operaia và in paradiso
14- Casualities of war
15- Queimada - Abolisson
16- Il deserto dei Tartari
17- Richard III
18- Il deserto dei ... continua

The Omni Foundation's on-Location series in association with D'Addario presents guitarist Kristina Varlid performing 3 pieces from inside an historic 13th-century Dutch church. Program: 1. Images from a Sea by Thodoris Theodoroudis (b. 2000) 2. The Sonata of Loneliness by Pēteris Vasks (b. 1946) I-Pensieroso II-Risoluto III-Con dolore 3. Junto al Generalife by Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)

When Helen Sung played at Dizzy’s Club on March 1, 2020, the pianist never imagined it would be a full year before she returned to the stage. Just ten days later, Covid-19 was declared a global pandemic. Music venues around the world closed doors and all tours were canceled or postponed indefinitely. Like musicians and artists everywhere, Sung turned to arts organizations for support and was fortunate enough to receive grants to continue creating music.
In this concert — filmed at Dizzy’s on March 11, 2021 — Helen Sung and her quartet play several pieces ... continua

Musicians: Nate Smith, drums, arrangements Amma Whatt, vocals Jaleel Shaw, alto and soprano saxophone Brad Allen Williams, guitar John Cowherd, piano Fima Ephron, bass Sam Shoup, conductor Marcin Arendt, violin Marisa Polesky, violin Jessica Munson, violin Yennifer Correia, violin Beth Luscombe, viola Mario Williams, viola Mark Wallace, cello Kimberly Patterson cello.

Miles Davis famously once said, "I have to change; it's like a curse." And, that’s exactly what he did throughout his entire career.
In 1969, the trumpet icon may have pulled off his greatest reinvention yet: he went “electric.” He turned the jazz world upside down. It was the beginning of what is commonly referred to as the Electric Miles period – groundbreaking, raw, controversial, and now, classic.
“He had been evolving all along,” electric bassist (and Davis collaborator) Marcus Miller says about his idol. “In the same way that America's ... continua

Jon Batiste spent his 33rd birthday playing an intimate, private concert with his band in the round while Jazz Night in America captured the show. He kept it classy, donning a suede jacket and playing selections from his two latest Verve releases, Chronology of A Dream and Anatomy of Angels.
You probably know Jon Batiste as bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But his credentials are deep as the roots of the Batiste family tree. He's the co-artistic director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and has been a collaborator with ... continua

Tengyue Zhang Guitar by Greg Smallman Strauss Shi Violin by Georges Chanot (1845)