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/
Pianist Claire Huangci makes her Milwaukee Symphony debut with a rare treat: Beethoven’s reimagining of his Violin Concerto for solo piano and orchestra. This March 7-9 program, conducted by David Danzmayr, concludes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Scottish. https://www.mso.org/concerts/mendelssohns-third-symphony/62542/
Performing Haydn’s elegant Cello Concerto in D major, Sterling Elliot makes his Des Moines Symphony debut March 8-9. The program, conducted by Joseph Giunta, also includes Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha and Dvořák’s New World Symphony. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/from-the-new-world/
American pianist Michelle Cann is soloist in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in her debut with the Phoenix Symphony. Katharina Wincor conducts this March 14-16 program, which also includes Mozart’s 39th Symphony and Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite, as well as one of the Phoenix Symphony’s patented “Mystery Pieces.” https://tickets.phoenixsymphony.org/Online/default.asp
Pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his debut with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on March 15, playing Mozart’s Concerto No. 23. The program, conducted by Jeannette Sorrell, also includes Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni, selections from Handel’s Water Music, and Haydn’s Eighth Symphony, Le soir. https://www.laco.org/events/mozart-haydn-handel/
On March 16, the Ulysses String Quartet makes its San Francisco debut as part of the Chamber Music SF series. The program includes Haydn’s Op. 33, No. 2, Mozart’s K. 516, and Dvořák’s Op. 105. https://chambermusicsf.org/
On March 23, the American Symphony orchestra will perform at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the first time. The program focuses on music of composers who came of age in the 1920s, including Edgar Varèse, John Alden Carpenter, Erwin Schulhoff, and William Grant Still. Leon Botstein conducts, and pianist Orion Weiss joins as […]
Marta Gardolińska will make her podium debut with the Toronto Symphony on March 26-29, conducting Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony No. 3. Angela Hewitt solos in Mozart’s dramatic yet charming Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/angela-hewitt-plays-mozart/
Keitaro Harada, former Cincinnati Symphony associate conductor, makes his CSO subscription debut with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers joins the program for Arturo Márquez’s Fandango, a work commissioned by Meyers. The March 28-29 program opens with Yuzo Toyama’s Rhapsody, which centers on folk songs from his native Japan. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/sheherazade/
Soprano Bryn Holdsworth will make her Pacific Northwest Opera debut in the title role of Dvořák’s Rusalka. Sung in Czech, the production will be directed by Mitchell Kahn and conducted by Jonathan Khuner. (March 28-April 6) https://purchase.mcintyrehall.org/EventAvailability?EventId=5001
The Milwaukee Symphony welcomes Ji Su Jung, the first percussion player to win an Avery Fisher Career Grant, to debut with Kevin Puts’ Marimba Concerto on April 4-5. MSO assistant conductor Ryan Tani also leads Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. https://www.mso.org/concerts/coplands-appalachian-spring/62548/
