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/
Vancouver’s Friends of Chamber Music welcomes the Isidore Quartet for its series debut on April 15, closing the season. The ensemble will play works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Billy Childs. https://friendsofchambermusic.ca/concert/isidore-quartet/
Stéphane Denève welcomes cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in his New World Symphony debut, performing Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. The April 19 program begins with John Williams' Suite from The Book Thief and concludes with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2024-2025/deneve-symphonie-fantastique/
Flutist Jasmine Choi makes her debut with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on April 24-27, playing Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2. The program also includes two works by Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins and Sonata No. 7, Stalingrad, in an arrangement for chamber orchestra. Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen for Flute and Orchestra (arr. by Choi) concludes the concert. […]
Conductor Marie Jacquot will make her debut with the North Carolina Symphony on April 25-26. She will conduct Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Marie-Ange Nguci), and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony 3, Organ. https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/633/saint-saens-organ-symphony/
