March 30, 2026 Encore Tours A New Orchestra Festival at Boston Symphony Hall There are certain stages that change how students think about performing. Boston Symphony Hall is one of them. Backstage Blog Learn More
March 2, 2026 David Solar Meet Barbara Brown, Encore’s New Director of Orchestras Backstage Blog Learn More
January 27, 2026 Encore Tours How an Encore Performance Tour Works: From Planning to Final Concert Backstage Blog Featured Resources Planning Your Tour Learn More
December 11, 2025 Encore Tours Announcing the 2026 Encore Crescendo Contest Backstage Blog Learn More
July 31, 2014 Tori Cook Music Teachers – What are Your August Plans? As we quickly turn the corner into the month of August (July, where have you gone?!), I was thinking of what you music teachers might be going through while you prepare for the ne… Backstage Blog
July 29, 2014 Tori Cook Musical Tour to Bavaria – Bayreuth Highlight I recently had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Bavaria on a musical tour visiting Munich, Nuremberg, and Bayreuth. Backstage Blog
July 24, 2014 Tori Cook Meet Encore Tour Manager: Dimitra Neonakis Get to know our tour managers — well-traveled, fascinating individuals who make your Encore performance tour truly unique and unforgettable. Backstage Blog
July 9, 2014 Stan Pretty College Music Tours in Ireland Céad Míle Fáilte – the traditional Irish welcome. It means “A Hundred Thousand Welcomes”. Backstage Blog
June 26, 2014 Adrian Metcalfe Defining Negatoratives – The Tale of a Rhode Island College Choir ‘And the Negatorative? There are no Negatoratives’ – members of a Rhode Island college choir What gibberish is this? Has this person gone mad? I can almost hear the questions runni… Backstage Blog
June 11, 2014 Encore Tours Encore Tours Teams Up With Tourism Cares in Miami At Encore Tours and ACIS we believe that ‘Travel Changes Lives’—each morning we repeat this mantra when we get to work, it’s what they make us chant at every meeting and we blazo… Backstage Blog
June 2, 2014 Peter Ede The Curious Story of Haydn’s Head Haydn is intimately connected with the beautiful little town of Eisenstadt in Austria. Backstage Blog
May 20, 2014 Tori Cook Music Festival Highlight – Aspen Music Festival Showcasing the best in classical music, the Aspen Music Festival and School is one of the most prestigious classical musical festivals in the country. Backstage Blog
May 8, 2014 Roni Hyman Happy Blogiversary! This past Tuesday, May 6, we celebrated the two-year anniversary of the existence of our Encore blog (a “blogiversary”, if you will). Backstage Blog