In 2022, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott premiered Chris Rogerson’s Samaa’. SPCO and McDermott will reconvene April 5-7 to give the world premiere of Rogerson’s new expansion of that work. McDermott will also join members of the orchestra for chamber works by Chausson and Poulenc. https://content.thespco.org/events/anne-marie-mcdermott-plays-chausson-poulenc-and-rogerson/
Throughout the 2023-34 season, the San Francisco Symphony will present its SoundBox series, curated by four musicians on each of four weekends. The small Soundbox space is designed to allow for multi-sensory, interactive experiences. Expect the unexpected. Get ready to see musical experiments in action. The details of the SoundBox programs remain under wraps, but […]
There are two world premieres and a U.K. premiere in the April 7 program by the London Symphony Orchestra, appropriately titled Music of Tomorrow. François-Xavier Roth conducts works by Christian Drew, Unsuk Chin, Donghoon Shin, and Stef Conner, on a concert that concludes with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. The new cello concert by Shin will […]
Resilience is the title of the April 19-21 program by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Trevor Weston’s Aqua, a commission made via the Emerging Black Composers Project, will receive its world premiere. Works by Caroline Shaw, Stravinsky, and Schumann are also on tap. https://www.thesfco.org/main-stage-202324
The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has commissioned a new work from L.A.-based composer Derrick Skye. The premiere of To Be a Horizon, described as multicultural exploration designed to deconstruct cultural divides, will take place April 20-21, with guests Tereza Stanislav on violin and Yura Lee on viola. Conductor Jaime Martín will also lead Mozart’s Sinfonia […]
The chance to hear the Pittsburgh Symphony, under Manfred Honeck, play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on the 200th anniversary of the work’s first performance is reason enough to head to Heinz Hall. But on the April 25-28 program, audiences will also be treated to a world premiere, a new work by Canadian composer Samy Moussa, whose […]
Peruvian-born Jimmy López Bellido will present the world premiere of a new work on April 26-28, courtesy of the Houston Symphony, under the baton of its conductor laureate, Andrés Orozco-Estrada. The bulk of the concert will be devoted to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, with the Houston Symphony Chorus, countertenor Reginald Mobley, soprano Joélle Harvey, and […]
