This Oscar weekend, Boyhood is nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and Inherent Vice is up for two, including Best Adapted Screenplay for director Paul Thomas Anderson. The awards ceremony takes place at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood this Sunday, broadcast live on ABC starting at 7pm ET.

Jonny Greenwood, who wrote the score for Inherent Vice, joins soloists from the London Contemporary Orchestra for a sold-out concert at the Church of Saint John the Evangelist in his hometown of Oxford on Saturday. On the program are cues from his earlier collaborations with Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood and The Master, as well as from Tran Anh Hung’s film Norwegian Wood, and new and recent material by Greenwood, and works by Steve Reich, Purcell, Bach, and Edmund Finnis.

The concert follows similar sold-out shows with LCO in London and Manchester. The Manchester Evening News’ Beth Ashton, in a four-star review of the latter, says: “When Greenwood picked up the guitar, we were reminded of his immense talent as a musician as well as a composer. His multi-faceted and absorbing solo guitar solo was hands down one of the best I’ve ever seen live.”

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Laurie Anderson is the keynote speaker at Women in Music's Innovative Women in New Music event, taking place at the Cutting Room in New York City on Sunday, as part of the organization’s 30th anniversary celebration. The event includes a music showcase and panel featuring women composers and performers with a keynote and tribute to Anderson, recipient of the Women in Music Touchstone Award.

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Timo Andres joins NOVUS, the contemporary music orchestra of Trinity Wall Street, led by conductor Julian Wachner, for a performance of Ives’s Fourth Symphony in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium in New York City on Saturday. The program also includes Alberto Ginastera's contemporary Passion, Turbae ad passionem gregorianam, performed by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street, the Trinity Youth Chorus, Washington Chorus, and the Washington National Cathedral Choir of Boys and Girls.

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Jeremy Denk joins the IRIS Orchestra and conductor Michael Stern for a performance of Bartók's Piano Concerto No. 3 at the Germantown Performing Arts Center in Germantown, Tennessee, on Saturday. The program, titled Thankfulness and Transcendence, also includes Beethoven's Heilieger Dankgesang and Schubert's Symphony No. 9. Denk spoke with the Memphis Commercial Appeal about the Bartók piece, which the composer wrote as he was dying and would be his last piece. “What strikes me about this music is, Bartók clearly doesn’t have long to live,” Denk tells the Commercial Appeal, “but the music is so generous and so joyful, which is wonderful. He had this optimistic message as he approached his final year.”

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Richard Goode is joined by a string trio—Itamar Zorman, violin; Kyle Armbrust, viola; Brook Speltz, cello—and soprano Sarah Shafer for a performance of chamber music and songs by Schumann and Brahms in Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall on Sunday.

The Washington Post's Patrick Rucker, reviewing a recent performance from Goode and the trio at the Library of Congress, says the group's "synergistic interplay was a joy to behold and yielded some of the finest ensemble playing I’ve heard in many a year." The review concludes: "Goode’s articulation and phrasing were exquisite. He’s one of those pianists who seems incapable of making an ugly tone. That golden singing sound, along with Goode’s keen imagination, intelligence and sensitivity, made this an unforgettable performance."

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Tigran Hamasyan continues his two-week US tour tonight at the Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles, performing music from his Nonesuch Records debut album, Mockroot. The album, which the Guardian describes as a "vibrant, personal take on songs from Armenia and beyond," was released in the US this week.

"Hamasyan’s treatise behind Mockroot—that mother nature will always trump human attempts to outwit it with technology—is compelling and thought-provoking," writes DownBeat's Michael Jackson in his review of last week's Chicago show; "so, too, is the dichotomy of his music, where wildly complex martial beats—suggestive of the march of technology—coexist incongruously with fragments of gentle folk music that are hard to unshackle from tales of Armenia’s turbulent past."

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Kronos Quartet performs at the Irvine Barclay Theatre in Irvine, California, on Saturday as a part of The Philharmonic Society's Eclectic Weekends Mini Series. On the program are several works written for Kronos, including Philip Glass’s new String Quartet No. 6, Michael Daugherty’s Elvis Everywhere, Kevin Volans’ White Man Sleeps, and works by Sahba Aminikia and Santa Ratniece.

Also on the program is an arrangement of Geeshie Wiley’s Last Kind Words, a song label mate Rhiannon Giddens performs in her own rendition on her recently released solo album, Tomorrow Is My Turn. Giddens is writing a new piece for Kronos, as part of the group’s Fifty for the Future commissioning project, and will perform a program of folk songs with the Quartet and Sam Amidon at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville next month.

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Audra McDonald joins the Des Moines Symphony for a performance at Des Moines Civic Center on Saturday. “It’s easy to obsess over entertainment awards right now. The Golden Globes, the Grammys, the Oscars—it’s a wonder we can still hear anything over the buzz,” writes the Des Moines Register in a preview of McDonald’s Oscar weekend concert. “But one voice will cut through, true and clear, on Saturday night when Audra McDonald performs with the Des Moines Symphony.”

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Nico Muhly joins composer Daniel Lopatin, also known as Oneohtrix Point Never, and organist James McVinnie for a sold-out performance at Union Chapel in London tonight. The program includes a number of collaborative pieces, culminating in Muhly's Twitchy Organs. Says Muhly, "It's the three of us and we're going to make a big fun mess."

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Punch Brothers start their US tour in support of their newest album, The Phosphorescent Blues, this weekend with three shows at Washington, DC's 9:30 Club. Tonight's show and tomorrow's show, featuring Gaby Moreno as the opening act, are both sold out, but tickets are still available for Sunday's show, with Mikaela Davis.