Two artists are making their Minnesota Orchestra debuts on Feb. 9-10: saxophonist Steven Banks and conductor Ruth Reinhardt. Banks will be the soloist for Billy Child’s Diaspora. Also on the roster are “Šárka,” from Smetana’s Má vlast, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet suite. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/prokofievs-romeo-and-juliet/
Mexican conductor Iván López-Reynoso makes his U.S. symphonic debut on Feb. 9-10, leading the Milwaukee Symphony in the Ravel orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio will play Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto in a program that opens with a suite from the 1936 film Redes (“Nets”) by Mexican composer Silvestre Revueltas. https://www.mso.org/concerts/pictures-at-an-exhibition/
Eun Sun Kim, music director of the San Francisco Opera, makes her debut with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal Feb. 15-17. She will conduct Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition as well as two works featuring pianist Louis Lortie: Mozart’s Rondo, K. 382, and Fauré’s Ballade, Op. 19. https://www.osm.ca/en/concerts/mozart-and-faure-with-louis-lortie-and-eun-sun-kim/
