In 2022 Michelle Cann won the Sphinx Medal of Excellence. The brilliant pianist will make her Indianapolis Symphony debut on April 4, playing Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto. ISO assistant conductor Su-Han Yang conducts Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/tchaikovsky-1st-piano-concerto/
On April 4-6, two artists will make their debuts with the National Symphony: conductor Bernard Labadie and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel. Soprano Joèlle Harvey and the Washington Chorus for Fauré’s Requiem. The program opens with Symphony No. 4 by Henri-Joseph Rigel, written in 1774, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, Paris, composed four years later. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2023-2024/labadie-faure/
Leading the Bamberg Symphony, conductor Jakub Hrůša will make his Carnegie Hall debut on April 24. In an evening of Romantic powerhouse works, the Brahms Third Symphony and Schumann’s Piano Concerto are bookended by Wagner. Hélène Grimaud will play the Schumann. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/04/24/bamberg-symphony-0800pm
