Brad Mehldau and his trio—Larry Grenadier on bass and Jeff Ballard on drums—continue to tour Europe ahead of their forthcoming album, Seymour Reads the Constitution!, with a sold-out show at Bimhuis in Amsterdam tonight, followed by concerts at Sinopoli Hall in Rome on Saturday and Hybernia Theatre in Prague on Sunday.

“Brad Mehldau is one of the new century’s most influential piano voices,” writes the Irish Times in recommending the trio’s Dublin concert earlier this week. “This is an opportunity to hear what happens when musicians have the time develop a common approach and a shared language, one that can carry them—and their audience—into the unknown.”

Seymour Reads the Constitution!, out next week on Nonesuch, is available to pre-order on iTunes and the Nonesuch Store with an instant download of the album track "Spiral."

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Sam Amidon joins violinist Pekka Kuusisto for a performance at Musikhalle Ludwigsburg in Ludwigsburg, Germany, tonight, then heads to Glebe Gardens Amphitheatre in Baltimore, Ireland, on Sunday, for a set at the Baltimore Fiddle Fair.

Rhiannon Giddens, who has just won a Songlines Music Award for her latest album, Freedom Highway, is at the Baltimore Fiddle Fair as well, playing with Italian pianist, percussionist and accordionist Francesco Turrisi at the Fiddle Fair Marquee tonight.

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Louis Andriessen’s 1999 opera, Writing to Vermeer, with a libretto by Peter Greenaway, receives its German premiere, at Theater der Stadt Heidelberg in Heidelberg tonight and Sunday. The production, directed by Johannes von Matuschka, features the Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg, the Heidelberg Women's Choir of the Theater and Orchestra, members of the Children and Youth Choir of the Theater and Orchestra, and the Kinderstatisterie of the Theater and Orchestra.

Nonesuch released the first recording of Writing to Vermeer, performed by Asko Ensemble and Schönberg Ensemble, in 2004. The Independent calls it “stunning … one of the composer's best works.”

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David Byrne continues the US leg of his American Utopia world tour in the Northeast, with sold-out shows at The Anthem in Washington, DC, on Saturday, and the Benedum Center for the Arts in Pittsburgh on Sunday. The Washington Post caught up with Byrne ahead of Saturday's show; you can read the interview here.

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Fleet Foxes bring their US Crack-Up tour to the Southwest, playing a set at Form Festival in the desert eco-city of Acrosanti, Arizona, tonight, followed by a concert at Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Saturday. “One of the things that was on my mind while working on Crack-Up was how much do we stay the same and how much do we make sure things are different?,” Robin Pecknold tells Under the Rader in a recent interview; you can read what else he had to say here.

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Pianist Richard Goode joins the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Joshua Weilerstein, at Concertgebouw in Amsterdam on Saturday, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11 in G minor.

Goode recorded the Mozart concerto with Orpheus Chamber Orchestra for Nonesuch in 1996. The San Francisco Examiner-Chronicle gave the recording five stars, exclaiming: “This is an exquisite disc, pure and simple … marked by grace, beauty and formidable intelligence.”

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Tigran Hamasyan plays Casino d'Evian in Évian-les-Bains, France, on Saturday, as part of Le Marathon du piano d'Evian. BBC Radio 2’s Jamie Cullum, speaking about Hamasyan’s new EP, For Gyumri, exclaims: “A beautiful piece of music. Incredible.”

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Gabriel Kahane joins the Oregon Symphony, led by conductor Carlos Kalmar, for the world premiere performances of Kahane’s new work, emergency shelter intake form, at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland on Saturday and Monday evenings and Sunday afternoon. The performances of the piece, which looks at deep poverty in America, feature the Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, a trio of singer-songwriters including Kahane, and a chorus called the Maybelle Community Singers, many of whose members are currently facing extreme poverty. Also on the program, violinist Joshua Bell joins the orchestra to perform Bernstein's Serenade.

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Kronos Quartet joins Malian ensemble Trio Da Kali at Salle Marcel Hélie in Coutances, France, tonight, as part of the Jazz under the Apple Trees festival. Each group plays a solo set, before joining forces for a collaborative performance.

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Lake Street Dive continues its North American tour, featuring music from its new album, Free Yourself Up, in Pennsylvania this weekend, with sold-out shows at The Fillmore in Philadelphia on Saturday and Mr. Smalls in Pittsburgh on Sunday.

The band was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert earlier this week, performing “Good Kisser” from the new album, which WFUV calls “a confident collection of songs that reflects the quartet’s nearly decade-and-a-half of music making.” You can watch the performance here.

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Audra McDonald performs at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Modesto, California, on Sunday evening. New York magazine raves: “It’s entirely possible that Audra McDonald is the greatest singer alive.”

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Stephin Merritt and Magnetic Fields bandmate Sam Davol perform at NYU Skirball Center in Manhattan on Sunday afternoon, as part of the Bang on a Can Marathon.

Merritt and Davol were on New Sounds' Soundcheck yesterday. Merritt spoke with host John Schaefer about the album 50 Song Memoir, and he and Davol performed songs from the album and more. You can watch the interview and performance here.

The Magnetic Fields bring 50 Song Memoir back on the road in June, performing at the Apollo Theater in New York City, Carnegie Music Hall in Pittsburgh, and the Luminato Festival in Toronto.

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American composer Nico Muhly makes his Singapore debut with a program of his own works, aptly titled after his debut album, Speaks Volumes, at SOTA Drama Theatre in Singapore on Saturday, for the Singapore International Festival of Arts. Muhly is joined by Singapore’s Lim Yan on piano and Ramu Thiruyanam on percussion, as well as Matt Albert on violin and Paul Wiancko on cello.

Nonesuch releases Peter Pears: Balinese Ceremonial Music, a new album from Muhly and Thomas Bartlett, next week. Peter Pears comprises nine songs written by the duo plus three gamelan transcriptions by ethnomusicologist Colin McPhee that inspired the songs, and is available to pre-order from the Nonesuch Store and iTunes.