Week of Events
Esmail Quartet to Premiere at Spoleto USA
Spoleto USA will present the world premiere of Reena Esmail’s String Quartet. The June 5-6 chamber program also includes Darius Milhaud’s Suite for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, and the Schumann Piano Quartet. https://spoletousa.org/events/bank-of-america-chamber-music/
Honeck Leads Dougherty Concerto Premiere
In a program entitled Darkness to Light on June 7-9, 2024, the Pittsburgh Symphony will open with Jessie Montgomery’s 2017 piece Coincident Dances, celebrating the diversity and energy of New York City. The orchestra commissioned a new work by Michael Daugherty, Double Concerto for Oboe and Horn, which will receive its world premiere featuring oboist […]
Zhang Premieres Orchestral Work In NJ
For its 2023-24 season finale on June 7-9, the New Jersey Symphony and music director Xian Zhang will present the world premiere of a new work by Daniel Bernard Roumain. Daniil Trifonov will be the soloist for Gershwin’s Concerto in F in a program that also includes Robert Russell Bennett’s Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic […]
Concert-Version ‘Salomé’ In Houston
Richard Strauss’ Salomé is an unusual choice to present as an opera-in-concert, but the Houston Symphony Orchestra is taking on that challenge to end their season on June 7-9. With music director Juraj Valčuha at the podium, the concert will feature Jennifer Holloway in the title role, John Daszak as Herodes, and Mark S. Doss […]
Saariaho at Sunrise in Ojai
Under the curatorship of music director Mitsuko Uchida, the 2024 Ojai Music Festival will give special focus to three composers: Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann, and Sofia Gubaidulina. All three are represented in the June 7 “Ojai Dawns” series program (at 8 am) with Jay Campbell on cello, Sae Hashimoto on percussion, and Ljubinka Kulisic on […]
New work by Métis composer
Fast-rising violinist Randall Goosby makes his Toronto Symphony debut playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto on June 7-9. The program, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno, starts with the world premiere of Ikiru by Métis composer Ian Cusson, created in partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). After intermission, the orchestra will play Bartók’s Divertimento […]
American String Quartet Turns 50
At the Austin Chamber Music Festival on June 9, the American String Quartet will mark its 50th birthday. The first half of the program is Beethoven's Op. 18, No. 1, followed by Shostakovich's Quartet No. 13. Then pianist Anton Nel, a longtime collaborator with the quartet, will join the ensemble in Schumann's Piano Quintet in […]
Uchida Closes Ojai with Mozart
Uchida Closes Ojai with Mozart
For the final festival program of 2024, Ojai music director Misuko Uchida will lead the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Haydn’s Symphony No. 46 and Jörg Widmann’s Chorale Quartet. To complete the June 9 concert, Uchida will solo in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G, K. 453. https://ojaifestival.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SU1000000Z1XVMA0
