Debuts

Making her London Philharmonic debut on Dec. 6, conductor Tianyi Lu, winner of the 2020 Sir Georg Solti Conductors’ Competition, takes on a classic: Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherezade. Pianist Tom Borrow will be on hand to play Beethoven’s Fifth Piano Concerto, the Emperor. https://lpo.org.uk/event/scheherazade/

Robin Ticciati, chief conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, makes his conducting debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Dec. 7-9, tackling Mahler’s Fourth Symphony with soprano Elsa Benoit. The program opens with Dvořák’s The Noon Witch followed by Ondřej Adámek’s Sinuous Voices. https://www.berliner-philharmoniker.de/en/concerts/calendar/details/55039/