Molly Tuttle continues her The Highway Knows tour in support of her new album, So Long Little Miss Sunshine, with a show at Ogden Theatre in Denver, Colorado, on Saturday. Earlier on Saturday, Tuttle stops by the local Guitar Center for a workshop and Q&A. "Molly Tuttle is one of the best young guitarists in the business,” says NPR’s Stephen Thompson, including So Long Little Miss Sunshine on the All Songs Considered Best New Albums episode. “This thing is magical. It is so good.” 

Also in Denver, drummer, producer, and sonic collagist Makaya McCraven, whose new two-disc, four-EP compilation Off the Record was released last week, continues his US tour at Dazzle Denver in the city tonight, before heading to the Pacific Northwest for shows at The Get Down in Portland on Saturday and Madame Lou’s in Seattle on Sunday. McCraven’s four new EPs are due on all music platforms next Friday.

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Composer John Adams’ new orchestral piece, Frenzy, is given its Japanese premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, at Suntory Hall, in Tokyo tonight. Also on the program are Stravinsky’s The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. Adams' music is featured throughout the soundtrack for Luca Guadagnino's new film, After the Hunt, which can be pre-ordered on CD and heard here.

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Jeremy Denk performs a sold-out show at University of Iowa’s Hancher Auditorium in Iowa City tonight. The program included three of Bach’s Partitas for Keyboard: Partita No. 3, in A Minor, BWV 827; Partita No. 5, in G Major, BWV 829; and Partita No. 6, in E Minor, BWV 830. You can hear his 2013 recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations here and his latest album, Ives Denk, here.

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Pianist Richard Goode is joined by violinist Itamar Zorman at the High School of Fashion Industries in New York City on Saturday, to open the People's Symphony Concerts’ 125th season, of which Goode is the season’s resident artist. The program includes Beethoven’s Sonata in E Major, Op. 109, which is included on Goode’s famed 1993 collection Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas, as well as works by Mozart, Bach, and Brahms.

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Guitarist Mary Halvorson and her improvisatory sextet Amaryllis—Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), Nick Dunston (bass), Tomas Fujiwara (drums), Jacob Garchik (trombone), and Adam O’Farrill (trumpet)—kicked off their About Ghosts European tour last night in Poland, and head to Italy this weekend for shows at Centro d'Arte in Padova tonight and Saturday. About Ghosts, released earlier this year, "conjures such vibrant, picturesque riffs, capricious melodic excursions, and suspenseful rhythmic undertows," DownBeat says in its four-star review, "a marvelous document for Halvorson’s compositional acumen and conceptual ingenuity.” The magazine's Critics Poll named Halvorson Guitarist of the Year and Amaryllis Group of the Year.

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Singer/composer Gabriel Kahane performs at Constellation in Chicago on Saturday, in support of The Bad Plus. Kahane’s new album, Heirloom, released earlier this month, features a concerto for piano and chamber orchestra by the same name, performed by his father, the conductor and pianist Jeffrey Kahane, and the Brooklyn-based orchestral collective The Knights. The Bad Plus collaborated with saxophonist Joshua Redman on the 2015 Nonesuch album The Bad Plus Joshua Redman.

Also in Chicago is Chris Thile, who continues his solo US tour featuring music from his upcoming album, Bach: Sonatas and Partitas, Vol. 2, at Symphony Center in Chicago tonight. The new album, due November 7, includes Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004; Sonata No. 3 in C major, BWV 1005; and Partita No. 3 in E major, BWV 1006. The Gavotte en rondeau, from Partita No. 3 in E Major, was released last week along with a video of Thile performing the piece in New York City’s Tompkins Square Park. You can hear the album track and watch the video, directed by Matthew Edginton, here. You can watch Chris Thile’s just-released video in the Nonesuch Selects series, in which he includes a Gabriel Kahane album, here, and take 25% off all of Thile’s picks in the Nonesuch Store through Sunday here.

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Mandy Patinkin continues his JukeBox tour with pianist Adam-Ben David at The Playhouse in Wilmington, Delaware, on Saturday. His second Nonesuch album, Oscar & Steve, featuring the music of Oscar Hammerstein II and Stephen Sondheim, was released 30 years ago this week.

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Cécile McLorin Salvant and her band—pianist Glenn Zaleski, bassist Yasushi Nakamura, and drummer Kyle Poole—are at Koerner Hall in Toronto on Saturday, celebrating jazz composer/singer Oscar Peterson’s 100th birthday. Her new album, Oh Snap, was released last month. Salvant sat down for a Nonesuch Q&A about the new album, covering a wide range of topics, including her songwriting process, working on the project in secret, AutoTune, bodily fluids, frogs, and embracing weirdness. You can see what she had to say in the six-part series here.

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Composer/producer/musician Gustavo Santaolalla continues his 2025 tour of his acclaimed 1998 album Ronroco at Palacio de Congresos de Valencia in Valencia, Spain on Saturday. A remastered edition of the Grammy and Academy Award winner’s critically acclaimed album was released on vinyl for the first time in a newly remastered edition on Nonesuch Records last year.

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Bass-baritone Davóne Tines joins Ruckus to perform at The Clark Museum in Williamstown, Massachusetts, tonight, and Hudson Hall in Hudson, New York, on Saturday. The program, What is Your Hand in This?, is part of a national tour leading up to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.