2020 Gold Medalist Jiale Li back in San Antonio

2020 Gold Medalist Jiale Li back in San Antonio

Back to Gurwitz News In a recital titled after the artist’s Gold Medal win at the 2020 Gurwitz International Piano Competition, Musical Bridges Around the World presents pianist Jiale Li in “Golden Touch” to open its 26th season of Russell Hill Rogers Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral. The concert will take place on Sunday 24 September 2023 at 7 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Ticket registration is required at mbaw.org/sfc. This performance marks Li’s first return to San Antonio since his victory, and the program will include romantic virtuoso masterworks by Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, and Rachmaninoff.  One year after...

Season 26 of San Fernando Cathedral Announced!

Season 26 of San Fernando Cathedral Announced!

Musical Bridges Around the World founder Anya Grokhovski says when she moved to the US from the USSR in the ‘90s, she never imagined she would reach 25 years of leading a performing arts organization in South Texas. Her energy and enthusiasm have built a model program “celebrating our share humanity by providing access to global arts for all” through an acclaimed, free concert series, an international music festival, visual art exhibitions, senior concerts, and award-winning educational programing. In this Silver Jubilee year, Musical Bridges is happy to announce its 2022-2023 season of Russell Hill Rogers Musical Evenings at San Fernando...

Watch Full Concert – Leonardo Colafelice @ San Fernando Cathedral

Watch Full Concert – Leonardo Colafelice @ San Fernando Cathedral

Back to Gurwitz News Leonardo Colafelice, Italian concert pianist and 2020 Bronze Medalist and Audience Favorite of The Gurwitz International Piano Competition, returned to San Antonio in March 2023 with a stellar new virtuoso program of Franz Liszt compositions inspired by Italian opera masterpieces of Rossini, Bellini and Verdi! From Altamura (Bari) in Southern Italy, Colafelice has won a multitude of international competitions and also currently teaches as Piano Professor at the renowned “Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory of Music” in Bari. Watch the full concert...

25th Anniversary Season of San Fernando Cathedral Announced!

25th Anniversary Season of San Fernando Cathedral Announced!

Musical Bridges Around the World founder Anya Grokhovski says when she moved to the US from the USSR in the ‘90s, she never imagined she would reach 25 years of leading a performing arts organization in South Texas. Her energy and enthusiasm have built a model program “celebrating our share humanity by providing access to global arts for all” through an acclaimed, free concert series, an international music festival, visual art exhibitions, senior concerts, and award-winning educational programing. In this Silver Jubilee year, Musical Bridges is happy to announce its 2022-2023 season of Russell Hill Rogers Musical Evenings at San Fernando...

24th Season of San Fernando Cathedral Announced!

24th Season of San Fernando Cathedral Announced!

Musical Bridges Around the World is happy to announce its return to the historic San Fernando Cathedral for the 2021-2022 season, its 24th! All performances are FREE and open to the public! Seating is first come first served. Safety at the CathedralMBAW will follow all safety and distancing guidelines for fine arts performance halls per the State of Texas, as well any other measures it feels necessary per event from its own discretion for the ensured safety of its attendees. More details about safety guideline details/protocols being enacted will be provided with each concert’s communication and as each date approaches, as per the...

Season 22 Grand Opening Concert! | Moscow Nights

Season 22 Grand Opening Concert! | Moscow Nights

This Sunday! From Buckingham Palace to the grand opening of Musical Bridges’ 22nd Season, Nina Kotova brings her elegant cello performance to the San Fernando Cathedral, joined by the premier Russian String Orchestra headed by music director Misha Rachlevsky. This free concert is followed by a dessert reception, and will now include a ticket raffle for those who register online for a free ticket! Free Tickets are available at: mbaw.eventbrite.com Featured in: Texas Public Radio’s Weekender KRTU 91.7, Kory Cook at 11...

Musical Bridges Around the World Announces Performances for 21st Season of ‘Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral’

Musical Bridges Around the World continues its mission of uniting, educating and inspiring audiences through culturally diverse performing and visual arts programming with the start of the 21st season of the “Russell Hill Rogers Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral” which begins Sunday, October 21. “In the spirit of the 2020 Gurwitz International Piano Competition, the 2018-19 season celebrates the art of piano,” said Anya Grokhovski, MBAW artistic director and CEO. “Therefore, each concert will feature a winner of the most prestigious international piano competitions all over the world.” All concerts are from 7 to 8 p.m. on select...

About the Performers 2013-2014

The City of San Antonio boasts an array of Texas’s most diverse artistic sensibilities, religious beliefs, and ethnicities. Anya Grokhovski, our Artistic Director, scours the planet to find musicians whose exceptional talent communicates the uniting spirit of all of our sensibilities, across the expanses of time and world geography. Enjoy the Season! Season 16 Performers Ukrainian soprano Uliana Alexyuk is a featured soloist at the Bolshoi Theater, where she has been singing since 2010. Her roles include Brigitta in Iolanta; First Lady in The Magic Flute; Adele in Die Fledermaus; Lyudmila in Ruslan and Lyudmila; Frasquita inCarmen;...

2012-13 Main Stage Concerts

2012-13 Main Stage Concerts

Featuring world-famous musicians and performers! Presented on select Sundays at 3:00 PM at the 1,000-seat McAllister Auditorium on the campus of San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro Free parking. Box Office opens 2:00 PM. Seating at 2:40 PM. Oct 7, 2012, “Fusion of the Worlds” Celtic Queen of Silk Road Project with Yo-Yo Ma Cristina Pato, on bagpipes, joined by duoJalal’s Kathryn Lockwood on viola and Yousif Sheronick on eastern percussions; a fascinating musical trip around the world. Dec 9, 2012, “Invocation” The Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, RAAQ, featuring jazz guitarist Rez Abbasi and Dave Binney, Vijay Iyer,...

Season 17 of Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral

Season 17 of Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral

Musical Evenings at San Fernando Cathedral Sunday evenings at 6:30pm FREE and Open to the Public! 115 Main Plaza, in the oldest active Catholic cathedral in the nation, in the heart of downtown San Antonio This series was designed after the European model of free concerts in historic destinations like Venice, Florence, and Amsterdam. Our Sunday evening concerts entice listeners to explore the location of several buildings listed in the National Register of Historic Places. San Fernando Cathedral, the oldest active Catholic cathedral in the U.S., is the host to world-class musicians on select Sundays. All listeners are invited to meet the...

Canellakis-Brown Duo – San Fernando Program

February 1, 2015: Strauss & Golden Greece As a part of the city-wide Strauss Festival, the New York based Canellakis-Brown Duo, “a pair of adventurous young talents” will present a sonata for cello & piano along with their own Greek-flavored compositions. Program Richard Strauss: Sonata for cello and piano in F major, Op 6 (TrV 115) Allegro con brio Andante ma non troppo Finale: Allegro vivo Chopin: Sonata for Cello and Piano, G-minor , Op, 65 Allegro moderato in G minor Scherzo in D minor, Trio in D major Largo in B-flat major Finale. Allegro in G minor, ending in G major Bulgarian/Canellakis: Folk...

Habaneros – San Fernando Program

October 5, 2014 – Viva la Cuba Featuring a sizzling virtuoso quintet with a potpourri of Popurrí – the Habaneros are direct from Havana and will dazzle you with hot Latin American and Western classics. Program Clarinet Quintet in A major, K 581        Wolfgang A. Mozart (1789) 35 min I.     Allegro II.    Larghetto III.   Menuetto IV.    Allegretto con variazioni La Bikina Ruben Fuentes Arr: Carlos Suárez Las Margaritas Chucho Valdés Arr: Núñez/L. Pérez Vals Venezolano Adaptation: Idalmis Ulloa, Paquito D’ Rivera Jump Swing Fever Louis Prima, Steve Perry, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills Arr: Jorge Luis Cabrera Contradanza...

Deljavan & Jo – San Fernando Program

November 9, 2014: Under the Tuscan Sun “Oozing with charisma,” Van Cliburn competition favorite – Italian pianist Alessandro Deljavan and Houston Grand Opera soprano Pureum Jo will take you on an enchanting sojourn through Old Europe. Program Scarlatti Sonata K 115 Soler Sonata R. 90, R.89 Schumann Fantasy op. 17 Alessandro Deljavan piano solo Mendelssohn “Hexenlied” Wolf “Nixebinsefuss” Strauss “Junghexenlied” Samuel Barber “Nocturne” Rossini “Aragonese” Pureum Jo, soprano and Alessandro Deljavan,...

Austin Troubadours – San Fernando Program

March 8, 2015 – Pastime with Good Company Founded in 2008 in Austin, Texas by the award-winning lutenist and early music specialist Slobodan Vujisic, the Austin Troubadours is an international group of instrumentalists and singers that is dedicated to reviving the beauty of musical masterpieces from Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Seven musicians in period costumes with more than 30 authentic period instruments perform dances and songs of Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Program (Renaissance Music from England, France, Italy and Balkans) English Renaissance – Pastime With Good Company (Henry the Eighth) – Kemp’s Jig...

Turks, Tailors and Uncle Moses

April 12, 2015 – Turks, Tailors and Uncle Moses The NYC-based Metropolitan Klezmer sextet approaches tradition with irreverence and respect. The soulful, fun-loving powerhouse all-women’s klezmer has toured from Vienna to Vancouver since 1998. Band repertoire ranges from rambunctious to entrancing: neo-traditional folk dance, mystical melodies,Yiddish swing & retro tango, late Soviet-era Jewish drinking songs, re-grooved standards, and genre-defying originals. Isle of Klezbos concert footage has been broadcast internationally on CBS & CNN. Klezbos bandmates were profiled by NPR’s Hey Ladies project. The band also made studio...