Working with the U.K.-based collective Distractfold, pianist Conrad Tao will play the world premiere of Andrew Greenwald’s A Thing Made Whole VIII. Also on this May 23 program at Kaufman Music Center are recent works by Jürg Frey, Hanna Hartman, and Mauricio Pauly. https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/distractfold-with-conrad-tao/
The Dallas Symphony has commissioned a new work from Italian composer Andrea Basevi, which will receive its world premiere under the baton of Vasily Petrenko at the DSO’s season finale on May 23-26. Basevi, a tenor himself, specializes in vocal writing; his new work will feature the Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus. Guest soloist for the […]
Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Möst will conduct the world premiere of Jüri Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin and Harp, featuring violinist Leila Josefowicz and harpist Trina Struble. This May 23-25 program also includes the “Prelude and Liebestod” from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Mozart’s Serenade No. 10, the Gran Partita, for 12 wind instruments and […]
Although she is not yet 30, composer Nina Shekhar has already won a long list of awards and accepted commissions from some of America’s leading orchestras. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will give the world premiere of her work Sound Investment on the May 24-25 concert conducted by Jaime Martín. Gabriela Montero will be the […]
Composer Layale Chaker and librettist Lisa Schlesinger will see the world premiere of their opera Ruinous Gods May 24-June 1 at Spoleto USA. With stage direction by Omar Abi Azar and Maya Zbib and conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera, loosely based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, explores the psychological toll experienced […]
In its 90th season, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal hopes to draw attention to the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique, the spectacular organ in its home all, the Maison Symphonique de Montréal. Thus, the season finale on May 28-30 features four organists: Shin-Young Lee, Isabelle Demers, Jean-Willy Kunz, and Olivier Latry. With Rafael Payare on the podium, […]
Mitsuko Uchida will play Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the Philadelphia Orchestra May 30-June 2, 2024, in a program closing with Debussy’s La mer. Sandwiched between these French classics is a world premiere by an American: Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Orchestra. This is the fourth commission by the Philadelphia Orchestra from this composer. […]
Thomas Adès leads the London Symphony Orchestra in the U.K. premiere of his new violin concerto, Air, with Anna Sophie Mutter as soloist. The May 30 program also includes two works by Stravinsky—Orpheus and Agon—as well as Witold Lutosławski’s Partita. https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/myth-and-magic-thomas-ades/
In a May 31 program, the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus blends the atmospheric music of Arvo Pärt’s The Deer’s Cry and The Woman with the Alabaster Box with two early-music masterpieces: Josquin des Prez’s Missa Pange Lingua and Heinrich Schütz’s St. Matthew Passion. Conducted by Joe Miller. https://spoletousa.org/events/chorus/
