Rhiannon Giddens takes her tour to California with shows in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles ... John Adams conducts Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ... Sam Amidon closes out European tour in Oslo and London ... Laurie Anderson performs in Buenos Aires ... Timo Andres plays Beethoven in Brooklyn for WQXR marathon ... Jeremy Denk performs with Alabama Symphony Orchestra in Birmingham ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell perform in Napa and Chicago ... Kronos Quartet celebrates Mother's Day at SFJAZZ ... Audra McDonald sings in the Northeast ... Brad Mehldau Trio continues its sold-out residency at NYC's Village Vanguard ... and more ...

Sam Amidon kicks off European solo tour with three shows in the Netherlands ... Laurie Anderson performs at Princeton ... Devendra Banhart plays solo in Taos ... Jeremy Denk performs Ligeti/Beethoven with Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in NYC ... Rhiannon Giddens heads from Colorado to Alaska ... Richard Goode performs in Virginia ... Audra McDonald is in Virginia too ... Natalie Merchant has two shows in Toronto ... Joshua Redman performs with Cornell University's Wind Ensemble ... Steve Reich takes part in Glasgow festival ... and more ...

Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet collaborate on Landfall in Paris ... Sam Amidon joins Sharon Van Etten in Leeds, England ... Timo Andres, David Kaplan perform piano four-hands in Brooklyn and DC ... Olivia Chaney plays in London ... Jeremy Denk makes Cleveland Orchestra debut ... Rhiannon Giddens tours Midwest ... Richard Goode performs at Carnegie Hall  ... Robert Plant pays tribute to Lead Belly at Kennedy Center ... Steve Reich's Three Tales is performed in London ... Wilco plays New Orleans JazzFest ... and more ...

John Adams conducts his Scheherezade.2 with Cincinnati Symphony ... Sam Amidon tours Europe ... Laurie Anderson curates Live Ideas Festival in NYC ... Timo Andres plays in NYC ... Jacob Cooper performs his Silver Threads in Portland ... Jeremy Denk tours with Florida Symphony ... Fatoumata Diawara tours US ... Rhiannon Giddens tours Northeast ... Richard Goode plays Beethoven and more in Baltimore ... Kronos Quartet is in France ... Audra McDonald tours New Jersey ... Brad Mehldau, Joshua Redman trios tour Europe, separately ... and more ...

Alarm Will Sound performs Adams, Reich, and Braxton, and Timo Andres performs his Shy and Mighty at Seoul's Right Now Music Festival ... Laurie Anderson performs in upstate NY ... Fatoumata Diawara starts US tour ... Rhiannon Giddens takes tour to mid-Atlantic ... Audra McDonald sings at SUNY Potsdam ... Brad Mehldau plays three sold-out shows in Paris, including a set with Tigran Hamasyan ... Punch Brothers tour Texas ... Joshua Redman Trio tours Europe ... and more ...

Rhiannon Giddens takes her tour to Atlanta and makes her Grand Ole Opry solo debut ... Laurie Anderson speaks with Neil Gaiman at Bard College ... Jeremy Denk performs Bach's Goldberg Variations in his German debut ... Natalie Merchant tours Colorado ... Punch Brothers play two nights in San Francisco ... and more ...

Big Ears Festival takes place in Knoxville with Kronos Quartet, Rhiannon Giddens, Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Tyondai Braxton ... NY Phil performs new John Adams ... Jeremy Denk tours Northeast ... Emmylou Harris, Rodney Crowell perform at Tennessee benefit ... James Farm tours Brazil ... Audra McDonald sings outside DC ... Natalie Merchant performs in Connecticut ... Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters finish Latin American tour at Lollapalooza Brazil ... Punch Brothers perform in Portland ... and more ...

This first day of spring, Jeremy Denk's tour with Academy of St. Martin in the Fields continues in the Midwest ... Sam Amidon performs in Portsmouth, NH ... Timo Andres, Jacob Cooper re-work Mozart in Albany ... Audra McDonald tours Florida ... Natalie Merchant performs with SUNY Purchase orchestra ... Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters play Lollapalooza Argentina ... and more ...

This lucky Friday the 13th, Robert Plant kicks off Latin American tour in Mexico and Lollapalooza Chile ... Laurie Anderson performs in Nashville ... Bombino plays New Zealand WOMAD ... Jeremy Denk, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields tour California ... Richard Goode plays Beethoven in Amsterdam ... Kronos Quartet is in Wisconsin ... Audra McDonald performs in Tucson ... Brad Mehldau, Mark Guiliana close out Mehliana tour in Tokyo and Seoul ... Punch Brothers are on CBS and PBS ... and more ...

Kronos Quartet premieres multimedia collaboration with Aleksandra Vrebalov, Bill Morrison in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall ... Björk begins month-long NYC run, MoMA retrospective ... Bombino plays Australia festivals ... Brad Mehldau, Mark Giuliana begin Asia tour at Java Jazz Festival ... Natalie Merchant sings in New Jersey ... Conor Oberst concludes Australia tour at Golden Plains Festival ... Punch Brothers continue tour in Boston and Portland ... Joshua Redman joins Umphrey's McGee in California ... and more ...

Tigran Hamasyan closes out US Mockroot tour tonight in College Park, MD ... Bombino tours Australia ... Jeremy Denk joins Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for Bach, Janáček ... Richard Goode plays Mozart with San Diego Symphony ... Audra McDonald performs in Wisconsin and Boston ... Conor Oberst continues Australian tour at Melbourne Zoo ... Punch Brothers take tour to Nashville, Chicago, Minneapolis, joined by Michael Daves ... and more ...

This Oscar weekend, Jonny Greenwood, London Contemporary Orchestra play his film music in Oxford ... Laurie Anderson gives keynote for Innovative Women in New Music in NYC ... Timo Andres joins NOVUS for Ives’s Fourth Symphony at Carnegie Hall ... Jeremy Denk joins IRIS Orchestra for Bartók in Tennessee ... Richard Goode performs Schumann, Brahms at Carnegie Hall ... Tigran Hamasyan takes US tour to LA ... Kronos Quartet performs in Irvine ... Audra McDonald joins Des Moines Symphony ... Nico Muhly is in London .. Punch Brothers kick off tour in DC ... and more ...