Nathalie Stutzmann makes a fiery Boston Symphony debut on Feb. 6-8 conducting Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Also making her debut is violinist Veronika Eberle, who will play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Between those two masterworks is Alborada del gracioco, originally a movement from Ravel’s Miroirs piano suite and later orchestrated by the composer. https://www.bso.org/events/beethoven-ravel-stravinsky?performance=2025-02-06-19:30
Daniela Candillari makes her conducting debut with the Kansas City Symphony on Feb. 7-9, leading the orchestra in Ellen Reid’s Floodplain and the Shostakovich 10th Symphony. Karen Gomyo will solo in Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/22169
The Des Moines Symphony welcomes the debut of conductor Mei-Ann Chen on Feb. 8-9 in a wide-ranging program. The concert opens with Florence Price’s Dance of the Canebrakes, a lively work inspired by African American folk music. Anne Marie McDermott performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Rachmaninoff’s dramatic Symphonic Dances close the evening. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/chen-conducts-rachmaninoff/
Pianist Teo Gheorghiu makes his Symphony Nova Scotia debut playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto under conductor Andrei Feher. The Feb. 13 program, which will also be livestreamed, opens with Anna Clyne’s Stride and closes with Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Pastoral. https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/rebecca-cohn-auditorium/beethovens-pastoral-symphony/
Violinist Sergey Khachatryan will make his debut on Feb. 19-20 playing the Tchaikovsky concerto with Rafael Payare on the podium. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905, completes the program. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/tchaikovskys-lustrous-violin-concerto
Pianist Yunchan Lam, youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, makes his San Francisco debut on Feb. 25 in a recital on the Chamber Music SF series. He will play Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Webern’s Variations, Op. 27. https://chambermusicsf.org/
Italian conductor Valentina Peleggi makes her debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Feb. 28-March 1. Joyce Yang will be the soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Anna Clyne's Masquerade opens the program, which closes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s exotic Scheherazade. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/scheherazade/
Shira Samuels-Shragg makes her debut conducting the Spokan Symphony on March 1-2. Gabrielle Després will be the soloist in Erich Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D major. The program opens with Quinn Mason’s festive Toast of the Town Overture and concludes with Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, From the New World. https://foxtheaterspokane.org/event/masterworks-6-l-a-stories/
