On Jan. 29-31 the Atlanta Symphony will give the U.S. Premiere of Leonard Slatkin’s Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy, with the composer on the podium. Slatkin will also lead Randall Goosby in Barber’s Violin Concerto, and the program concludes with Copland’s Symphony No. 3, part of the orchestra’s Copland 250 celebration. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/america250-copland-barber
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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, Norway, Finland, Sweden. It’s a pan-Scandinavian program for the Oregon Symphony Jan. 29-Feb. 1. David Danzmayr conducts Sibelius’ The Swan of Tuonela, Grieg’s Piano Concerto (with Yeol Eum Son, and Stenhammar’s Symphony No. 2. https://www.orsymphony.org/productions/2526/sibelius-and-grieg | 5 events, Experimental early-music ensemble Ruckus pairs with singer Davóne Tines at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 30. The program includes New York premieres of arrangements of a wide range of songs, plus new commissioned works by Tines and Ruckus leader Doug Balliett. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/01/30/Ruckus-and-Davone-Tines-0730PM It’s an ornithology-centered program as the St Paul Chamber Orchestra performs two world premieres on Jan. 30-Feb. 1. The first is Gabriela Lena Frank’s new work inspired by naturalist John James Audubon. That’s followed by Eric Stokes’ arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Prophet Bird. Opening the program is Honneger’s Pastorale d’été. https://content.thespco.org/events/franks-sandbox-premiere/ The American Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday with an evening of rarities called “Forging an American Musical Identity” on Jan. 30 at Carnegie Hall. Conductor Leon Botstein and the Bard Festival Chorale join forces to perform George Bristow’s Niagara Symphony plus works by Dudley Buck and Harry Burleigh. https://americansymphony.org/2025-2026/forging-an-american-musical-identity/ In her Cincinnati Symphony debut on Jan. 30-31, Ukranian conductor Oksana Lyniv leads a program that weaves together powerful Slavic stories: Evgeni Orkin’s Five Interrupted Lullabies, Dvořák’s Golden Spinning Wheel, and Smetana’s “The Moldau.” Violinist Esther Yoo will solo in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2526-cso-season/slavic-legends/ Soprano Angel Blue makes her debut with the Annapolis Symphony in a Jan. 30-Feb. 1 program of songs and arias. Bookending Blue’s appearance will be two orchestral works: Strauss’ Don Juan and Copland’s Suite from Billy the Kid. https://annapolissymphony.org/events/legends/ | 2 events, Swedish composer Lisa Streich’s new concerto will receive its world premiere with the Kansas City Symphony on Jan. 31-Feb. 1. The other two works are by Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tamara Stefanovich, soloist) and Symphony No. 4, under the baton of Matthias Pintscher. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/beethoven/23639 Lyric Opera of Orange County travels to New York’s Carnegie Hall to present the world premiere of The Yellow Wallpaper, a chamber opera by composer Brooke deRosa and librettist Diana Farrell. The opera, based on the haunting 1876 novella by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is scored for three voices and six instruments. (Jan. 31) https://lyricoperaoc.org/shows/the-yellow-wallpaper/ | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events, The rarely heard Carnaval Overture by Canadian composer Oscar Morawetz, opens Orchestre symphonique de Québec’s Feb. 4-5 program. Under the baton of Clemens Schuldt, James Ehnes plays Brahms’ Violin Concerto, and the orchestra closes with Sibelius’ Second Symphony. https://www.osq.org/concerts/james-ehnes-joue-brahms/ Opera Philadelphia presents the world premiere of Complications in Sue, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson based on an idea by Justin Vivian Bond. In the centuries-old pastiche tradition, the opera combines musical sections by a host of composers: Andy Akiho, Alistair Coleman, Nathalie Joachim, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Rene Orth, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kamala […] | 4 events, The Feb. 5-7 Chicago Symphony program will mark the first time the orchestra has played Gabriella Smith’s Lost Coast, which will be sandwiched between two of Debussy’s great orchestral works, including La Mer. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts, with Gabriel Cabezas as cello soloist. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/cso-classical/salonen-conducts-la-mer/ Davóne Tines and innovative Baroque band Ruckus team up in a special event for Portland’s Friends of Chamber Music on Feb. 5. The program is described as “time-traveling through four centuries of reimagined songs, hymns and ballads.” https://focm.org/concerts/2025-26-season/ruckus-and-davone-tines-bass-baritone/6504/ French hornist David Byrd-Marrow and pianist Cory Smythe will perform two world premieres in their recital Feb. 5 for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. One is by Byrd-Marrow, and the other by Smythe. Also on the program are works by Alec Wilder, Jörg Widmann, Billy Strayhorn, and Olivier Messiaen. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/david-byrd-marrow-and-cory-smythe/ On Feb. 5, Saskatoon Symphony presents cutting-edge early-music/world fusion group Constantinople, exploring works by Bach and 11th-century Persian composer Omar Khayyam, both known for the structural complexity of their compositional methods. https://saskatoonsymphony.org/event/bach-khayyam/ | 3 events, As America turns 250, the Grand Rapids Symphony and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero will present an All-American program Feb. 6-7. After Julia Perry’s A Short Piece for Orchestra, Alban Gerhardt will solo in Barber’s Cello Concerto, followed by Copland’s Third Symphony. https://www.grsymphony.org/celebrate-america The Milwaukee Symphony will play the world premiere of The Landscape Wakes by Edmund Finnis on Feb. 6-7. Music director Ken-David Masur conducts Beethoven’s Leonora Overture No. 3, Barber’s Toccata Festiva, and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, Organ, featuring Paul Jacobs. https://www.mso.org/concerts/saint-saens-organ-symphony/65848/ Manfred Honeck will conduct the Pittsburgh Symphony debut of cellist Gautier Capuçon in the Dvořák Cello Concerto on Feb. 6-8. George Walker’s Lyric for Strings opens the program, followed by Brahms’ Third Symphony. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/99013/brahms-third | 0 events, | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 3 events, Chamber Music Houston will present a rarity on Feb. 10: a string quartet by Spanish Basque composer Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806-1826), known as the “Spanish Mozart” because for being a child prodigy who died young. The program also includes works by Haydn and Shostakovich. https://chambermusichouston.org/concerts/2026-02-10-cuarteto-casals/ Two New York premieres will be featured in the Dover Quartet’s Feb. 10 Carnegie Hall appearance: Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate’s new orchestration of Pura Fé’s Rattle Songs and Tate’s Abokkoli' Taloowa' (Woodland Songs). Dvořák’s “American” Quartet, written shortly after his “New World” Symphony, completes the program, which opens with Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/02/10/Dover-Quartet-0730PM Jeffrey Ryan wrote his nine-movement, Sanskrit-inspired Dvandva for the Couloir harp/cello duo in 2015. Now Couloir is touring the piece again, and will play it in the Vancouver Chamber Music Society season on Feb. 10-12, along with Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. https://www.vancouverchambermusic.com/couloir | 0 events, | 3 events, The Dallas Symphony’s Feb. 12-15 world premiere of Sophia Jani’s Violin Concerto will feature soloist Melissa White. Jani is the DSO composer-in-residence. Guest conductor Tabita Berglund also leads the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and Rchmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/tchaikovsky-rachmaninoff/ Coinciding with the Lunar New Year, Xian Zhang will conduct the Seattle Symphony in the city’s premiere of Qigang Chen’s Iris Dévoilée (Iris Unveiled). The work employs Peking and Western-style singers and traditional Chinese instruments, evoking Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and the “eternal feminine.” The Feb. 12-15 concludes with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25sub10 Under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Boston Symphony will give the U.S. premiere of Salonen’s Horn Concerto, featuring Stefan Dohr. The other work on this Feb. 12-14 program is Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, Romantic. https://www.bso.org/events/feb-12-14-salonen-bruckner?performance=2026-02-12-19:30 | 2 events, Music Before 1800 creator/director Bill Barclay teams up for a second collaboration with The Gesualdo Six to celebrate their namesake composer, Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613). Will Tuckett choreographs this compilation of Gesualdo works, a U.S. premiere, on Feb. 13. https://mb1800.org/concert/death-of-gesualdo/ Jacques Offenbach wrote the comic opera La Périchole in the 1860s. The plot concerns the adventures of two struggling singers and lovers who arrive in Prohibition-era New Orleans seeking success. This season, Kentucky Opera will perform a shortened version of it called The Songbird. (Feb. 13-17) https://kyopera.org/season-25-26/ | 2 events, Anna Geniushene makes her Des Moines Symphony debut performing Ravel’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto in G Major on Feb. 14-15. To mark the date as Valentine’s Day, Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet before switching gears for Sibelius’ Second Symphony. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/love-romeo-juliet/ Love is in the air Feb. 14 when the Vermont Symphony presents a program of music inspired by love, including Frank Zappa’s G-Spot Tornado, Augusta Holmès’ La nuit et l’amour, and Bizet’s Carmen suites. Jennifer Koh will play Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1, with Andrew Crust conducting. https://www.vso.org/vso-event/love-notes/ | 1 event, San José Opera will mount a new production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Maria Natale sings Santuzza with Kidon Choi as Tonio. Alma Deutscher conducts the staging by Opera San José CEO and general director Shawna Lucey. (Feb. 15-March 1) https://www.operasj.org/productions/cavalleria-rusticana-pagliacci |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, The National Symphony will play the world premiere of Peter Boyer and Joseph Sohm’s American Mosaic on Feb. 19-22 as part of the orchestra’s season theme: The Promise of US: Our Nation at 250. In this program conducted by Thomas Wilkins, banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck will solo in his own arrangement to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. […] | 4 events, The Toledo Symphony’s Feb. 20 program opens with David Baker’s Concertino for Cellular Phones and Symphony Orchestra, in which the audience can participate. But then all phones must be silenced as music director Alain Trudel conducts Sara Davis Buechner in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, followed by Brahms’ First Symphony. https://www.artstoledo.com/events/2026/02/20/toledo-symphony/beethoven-brahms/301/ The St. Louis Symphony will present Mozart’s The Magic Flute in concert Feb. 20-22. Two singers make their St. Louis debuts in this production: Ben Bliss (Tamino) and Rainelle Krause (Queen of the Night). Stéphane Denève conducts. https://shop.slso.org/8643 Eric Jacobsen is in his fifth season as music director of the Virginia Symphony. To mark that milestone, the orchestra will perform various composers’ fifth symphonies throughout the season. One of those is Prokofiev’s which they’ll perform Feb. 20-22, along with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Clayton Stephenson. https://virginiasymphony.org/event/tchaikovskys-piano-ferguson/ On Feb. 20 the Oakland Symphony will play the world premiere of Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)’s America, To US, along with recent music by Chen Yi and Reena Esmail, plus the Adagio from Mahler’s 10th Symphony. Kedrick Armstrong conducts. https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/25-26-season-subscription/ | 3 events, West Virginia Symphony and many young local performing artists will present a program called “Shakespeare On Stage” Feb. 21. WV Youth Symphony will join the pros for William Grant Still’s Serenade, and students from the WVU School of Theatre and Dance will perform scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet while the orchestra plays music from […] Members of the Tulsa Symphony will play the world premiere of Nathan Daughtrey's Edge of the World on Feb. 21. This work for percussion ensemble was inspired by Brian Andreas’ poem “True Things” and conveys two individuals starting their lives together and looking to the future. https://www.tulsasymphony.org/calendar/101-unplugged-4 Seattle Opera will stage the Seattle premiere of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierces’ Fellow Travelers, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon dealing with McCarthyism and the “Lavender Scare” of the 1950s. (Feb. 21-March 1) https://www.seattleopera.org/performances-events/fellow-travelers/ | 1 event, Chamber Music SF opens its winter/spring season with the Frankfurt-based Aris Quartet on Feb. 22. The program includes quartets by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Brahms. https://chambermusicsf.org/ |
| 1 event, Swedish composer Hannah Helgegren’s The Nordic Seasons will receive its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 23, played by the Camerata Nordica Octet. Chamber works by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn are also on the program. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/02/23/Camerata-Nordica-Octet-0800PM | 1 event, Throughout the season, the Madison Symphony Orchestra presents a substantial Organ Series on the Overture Concert Organ. The Feb. 24 program features Felix Hall playing his own arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 as well as works by Mozart and Barber. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/felix-hell-organist/ | 0 events, | 3 events, Featuring a Spring theme, the Baltimore Symphony’s Feb. 26 – March 1 program begins the orchestra’s EARTH/Songs Festival. Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Boulanger's Of a Spring Morning explore the vernal theme. BSO Principal Percussionist Edouard Beyens will solo in Tan Dun's The Tears of Nature, while Jonathon Heyward conducts. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19603 Reena Esmail’s new double concerto (featuring violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Orli Shaham) will receive its world premiere Feb. 26-28 with the National Symphony under David Robertson. The program opens with Nielsen’s Helios Overture and closes with the Sibelius Fifth Symphony. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/robertson-shaham/ On Feb. 26-28 flutist Emmanuel Pahud will join the Detroit Symphony for a performance of Samy Moussa’s Flute Concerto, a DSO co-commission. The program, which ends with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, will be conducted by Fabian Gabel. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/25-26-winter/symphonie-fantastique | 3 events, The Phoenix Symphony marks America’s 250th birthday in a special program Feb. 27-March 1, conducted by Mélisse Brunet. Works by Copland, Ives, and Mason Bates, along with Gershwin’s Concerto in F, featuring pianist Stewart Goodyear. https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/shows/celebrating-america-at-250-gershwin-copland-more/ As part of its multi-program Brahms Festival, the San Diego Symphony will perform the composer’s First and Second Symphonies on Feb. 27-March 1. Rafael Payare conducts. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/brahms-festival-symphonies-1-2/?performance=9673 The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra will give the world premiere of Jens Ibsen’s “metal-inspired” Scene Symphony, a work commissioned by the SFCO. The Feb. 27-March 1 program, conducted by Jory Fankuchen, also includes Philip Glass’ Concerto for Harpsichord (featuring Jory Vinikour) and Haydn’s Symphony No. 49. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstage-3-seeing-double-tickets-1425938142369?aff=oddtdtcreator | 1 event, Pittsburgh Opera will perform the world premiere of Time to Act, a new opera with music by Laura Kaminsky and a libretto by Crystal Manich. The plot: A group of high school students prepares for a production of Sophocles’ Antigone, joined by a new student, Alona, who comes with a formidable secret. (Feb. 28-March 8) https://pittsburghopera.org/season/time-to-act | 1 event, WindSync wind quintet will join with pianist Daniel Anastacio on March 1 for a program presented by the San Antonio Chamber Music Society. The concert includes works by Elliott Carter, Kenji Bunch, Quincy Jones, and George Gershwin. https://www.sacms.org/windsync-daniel-anastasio-piano |
