Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion perform Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part in Santa Barbara and Santa Monica. Jeremy Denk plays Nijmegen Piano Biennale. Emmylou Harris is in Dallas. Kronos Quartet joins the ballet in San Francisco. Natalie Merchant’s Keep Your Courage tour continues in Pennsylvania. Joshua Redman is in Toronto. Cécile McLorin Salvant performs with American Pianists Awards finalists in Indianapolis. Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway tour Texas.

Natalie Merchant kicks off her Keep Your Courage tour with two sold-out shows in Poughkeepsie. John Adams's Doctor Atomic Symphony gets its Taiwanese premiere; Nixon in China is in Germany and France; and I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky is in Baltimore. Jeremy Denk joins Phoenix Symphony for Brahms. Jeff Parker is at Public Records in Brooklyn. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in Ann Arbor and Miami.

Composer and vocalist Shara Nova joins members of the Oregon Symphony to perform The Blue Hour—a song cycle composed by Nova, Rachel Grimes, Angélica Negrón, Caroline Shaw, and Sarah Kirkland Snider—at The Reser in Beaverton. Performances of John Adams's Nixon in China continue in Paris. Emmylou Harris chats with Joan Baez at OZ Arts in Nashville. Makaya McCraven joins harpist Brandee Younger at Public Records in Brooklyn. Cécile McLorin Salvant closes Savannah Music Festival. Wilco leads Reykjavik residency and Icelandic debut at Harpa Concert Hall.

The Big Ears Festival takes place at venues throughout downtown Knoxville, including concerts, conversations, and film screenings with Devendra Banhart, The Blue Hour, David Byrne, Sam Gendel, Mary Halvorson, Makaya McCraven, and Cécile McLorin Salvant. John Adams's Nixon in China is at Opéra national de Paris. Laurie Anderson is in Stockholm. Julia Bullock joins Bavarian Radio Symphony in Munich. Jeremy Denk plays solo in Connecticut. Kronos Quartet and Wu Man perform at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley. The Magnetic Fields have two sold-out shows at City Winery in Pittsburgh. Brad Mehldau plays solo in France and Denmark. Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway return to her home state of California for WinterWonderGrass and two nights in Menlo Park. Vagabon concludes her tour with Weyes Blood in Austin, Dallas, and Tulsa.

Thomas Adès conducts Boston Symphony Orchestra in works from Dante. Jeremy Denk joins Takács Quartet in Florida. Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi are in Italy, as is Cécile McLorin Salvant. Mary Halvorson tours Germany and Austria. Tigran Hamasyan is at JazzFestBrno. The Magnetic Fields tour Texas. Brad Mehldau leads Bozar residency in Brussels. Steve Reich, on film, performs Clapping Music with Russell Hartenberger, in person, in Ontario. Molly Tuttle is at Charleston Bluegrass Festival and Suwannee Spring Reunion. Vagabon joins Weyes Blood in San Francisco.

Vagabon's tour with Weyes Blood heads to Colorado, Utah, and Idaho. Thomas Adès’s Paradiso gets its Italian premiere in Rome. Tyondai Braxton and Mary Halvorson are in Norway. Tigran Hamasyan's StandArt tour hits France and Spain. The Magnetic Fields kick off a US tour with shows in Denver. Brad Mehldau plays solo in Italy. Cécile McLorin Salvant tours Portugal. Jeff Parker performs at Chicago Psych Fest.

Rhiannon Giddens concludes her Carnegie Hall Perspectives series, then talks at Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Tigran Hamasyan, Gabriel Kahane tour France. Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis Sextet is in the Netherlands, as is Julia Bullock, who is Joséphine Baker at Dutch National Opera. Sam Amidon joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra, violinist Pekka Kuusisto in Glasgow. Jeremy Denk plays Mozart with Westchester Philharmonic. Hurray for the Riff Raff plays their hometown of New Orleans. Kronos Quartet takes Australian tour to WOMADelaide. 

Rachael & Vilray celebrate the release of their new album, I Love a Love Song!, with a sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn tonight. John Adams’ Nixon in China opens at Dortmund Opera House in Germany. Laurie Anderson is honored at Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra Gala, then joins John Zorn and Sean Ono Lennon at Roulette in Brooklyn for Türkiye and Syria benefit. Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels' opera Omar gets Chapel Hill premiere. Richard Goode plays Beethoven at 92Y in NYC. Cécile McLorin Salvant premieres Ogresse: Envisioned at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Brad Mehldau Trio tours Spain. Chris Thile joins Orlando Philharmonic. Molly Tuttle joins Old Crow Medicine Show in Georgia and Virginia.

Jeremy Denk takes part in three performances for the Laguna Beach Music Festival this weekend. John Adams can be heard from Miami, Madrid, and Melbourne to Tallinn, Riga, and Berlin. Laurie Anderson performs her piece Songs for Amelia Earhart with the Filharmonie Brno in Kansas City. Rhiannon Giddens headlines Fort Mose Jazz and Blues in St. Augustine, FL. Emmylou Harris is in The Villages, FL. Brad Mehldau Trio tours Spain, starting in Sevilla. Mandy Patinkin concludes his Being Alive winter tour in New Jersey. Joshua Redman is in Cincinnati.

This Grammy Awards weekend, in which Nonesuch recordings are nominated for 15 awards, Best New Artist nominee Molly Tuttle performs at the MusiCares Persons of the Year tribute and The Black Keys DJ in LA. Sam Amidon joins Bonny Light Horseman in Leeds. Julia Bullock is in Miami. Jeremy Denk performs in NYC. Gabriel Kahane joins SF Symphony. Makaya McCraven performs In These Times in Nashville. Brad Mehldau is in Tokyo. Mandy Patinkin is in Wilmington. Joshua Redman joins Ambrose Akinmusire at SFJAZZ. Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion perform Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part in Philadelphia and NYC. Chris Thile shares Laysongs in Grand Rapids.

John Adams leads the LA Phil, Julia Bullock, and others in performances of his opera Girls of the Golden West at Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA. Kronos Quartet performs at Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall and in Saratoga Springs. Brad Mehldau's quintet is at Village Vanguard in NYC through Sunday. Mandy Patinkin is at Strathmore in Bethesda. Cécile McLorin Salvant is in California, at the Mondavi Center in Davis and Bing Concert Hall in Stanford. The Black Keys DJ in NYC.

Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker perform as part of NYC Winter JazzFest. Laurie Anderson is at SFJAZZ. Julia Bullock joins Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra for Knoxville: Summer of 1915. Jeremy Denk, Rhiannon Giddens are at Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. Gabriel Kahane performs from Magnificent Bird in NYC. Brad Mehldau, Cécile McLorin Salvant join Blue Note at Sea. Mandy Patinkin kicks off tour in Pennsylvania. Joshua Redman is at Tucson Jazz Festival. Chris Thile is solo in Paducah.