Soprano Julia Bullock, accompanied by pianist Bretton Brown, brings a recital of works by Samuel Barber, Connie Converse, Francis Poulenc, Kurt Weill, Richard Strauss, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Bob Dylan, and more to Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall in New York City tonight. Bullock performs works by Barber, Converse, and more on her 2022 debut solo album, Walking in the Dark, which is nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. Bullock is “one of the singular artists of her generation,” says the New York Times, “a singer of enveloping tone, startlingly mature presence and unusually sophisticated insight into culture, society and history.”

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Composer John Adams, who made his debut conducting the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony and Esme Quartet with an all-Adams program including the Japanese premiere of his piece, I Still Dance, and performances of Absolute Jest and Harmonielehre at Suntory Hall in Tokyo last night, takes the program to Tokyo Bunka Kaikan tonight. The latter two pieces can be heard on John Adams Collected Works, a forty-disc box set released in 2022 with recordings spanning more than four decades of the composer’s career with Nonesuch Records.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk performs at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Key West, Florida, on Sunday, as part of the Impromptu Classical Concerts series.

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Guitarist Mary Halvorson and her Amaryllis sextet—vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, bassist Nick Dunston, drummer Tomas Fujiwara, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill, and trombonist Jacob Garchik—celebrate today’s release of their new album, Cloudward, with the start of an eight-city European run at Théâtre Victor Hugo in Bagneux, France, tonight, before heading to the Netherlands to play Paradox in Tilburg on Saturday. Cloudward features eight new compositions Halvorson performs with the sextet—the improvisatory band that performed on her acclaimed 2022 Nonesuch debut albums Amaryllis and Belladonna—and “reveals a newfound sense of beauty and clarity,” per the Guardian. “[Halvorson] outdoes herself again,” says the All About Jazz album review. “Cloudward is just too good.”

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Kronos Quartet is also in France, bringing its Five Decades: A 50th Anniversary Celebration concert tour to the Maurice Ravel Auditorium in Lyon on Saturday, with a program featuring music from George Crumb’s Black Angels, Steve Reich’s WTC 9/11, and works by Laurie Anderson, Angélique Kidjo, Nicole Lizée, and more. The group is also joined by the Debussy and Gallus Quartets for a performance of Philip Glass’s Quartet Satz.

As part of the Kronos: Five Decades celebrations, Nonesuch will release the group’s award-winning 1990 album Black Angels, the title piece of which inspired David Harrington to found the group in 1973, on vinyl next month. The Evening Standard included it among its “100 Definitive Classical Albums of the 20th Century.” Last year, Nonesuch released the first-ever vinyl edition of the acclaimed 1995 album Kronos Quartet Performs Philip Glass. The Washington Post called it “an ideal combination of composer and performers.”

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Makaya McCraven is joined by Meshell Ndegeocello for a performance at Symphony Center in Chicago tonight. McCraven released his latest album, In These Times, in 2022, making several year's best album lists, including those of Pitchfork (“a high-water mark”), NPR Music's Nate Chinen (“the culmination of a years-long experiment in groove ... just might be Makaya McCraven's manifesto”), and Treble (“McCraven's masterwork”). Ndegeocello can be heard on Sam Gendel’s version of 112’s “Anywhere” from his latest Nonesuch album, COOKUP, which AllMusic included in its list of Favorite Jazz Albums of 2023.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her quartet—pianist Sullivan Fortner, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Savannah Harris—bring music from her critically acclaimed new album, Mélusine, and more to Centennial Hall in Tucson, Arizona, tonight, and Segerstrom Center for the Arts’ Samueli Theater in Costa Mesa, California, on Saturday. Mélusine, which DownBeat includes in its list of the Top 10 Jazz Albums of the Year and calls “a masterpiece of thoughtful, adventurous music,” is nominated for the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album; the track “Fenestra” is up for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals for Godwin Louis’ arrangement. Salvant’s 2022 Nonesuch debut, Ghost Song was nominated in the same two Grammy categories last year.

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Molly Tuttle continues her month-long tour of the UK, as special guest of Tommy Emmanuel, at Pavilion Theatre in Glasgow tonight, as part of Celtic Connections, and Buxton Opera House on Sunday. “I don't know how often it is that the support act ends up with a five-star review, but the guitarist Molly Tuttle got one from the Guardian the other day for a performance introducing her own musical hero Tommy Emmanuel at the Cadogan Hall," BBC Radio 4 Front Row presenter Tom Sutcliffe says of his guest this week. You can hear Tuttle talk with Sutcliffe and perform songs from her albums City of Gold and Crooked Tree here.

City of Gold, the second album from Tuttle and her band Golden Highway, is nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album and has made year’s best lists from PopMatters, Folk Alley, No Depression, AllMusic, WFUV, and Holler, which calls it her “most captivating record yet … A heady 48 minutes of joy, Tuttle is single handedly making bluegrass her own.”