In its 90th season, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal hopes to draw attention to the Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique, the spectacular organ in its home all, the Maison Symphonique de Montréal. Thus, the season finale on May 28-30 features four organists: Shin-Young Lee, Isabelle Demers, Jean-Willy Kunz, and Olivier Latry. With Rafael Payare on the podium, […]
Mitsuko Uchida will play Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G major with the Philadelphia Orchestra May 30-June 2, 2024, in a program closing with Debussy’s La mer. Sandwiched between these French classics is a world premiere by an American: Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Orchestra. This is the fourth commission by the Philadelphia Orchestra from this composer. […]
Thomas Adès leads the London Symphony Orchestra in the U.K. premiere of his new violin concerto, Air, with Anna Sophie Mutter as soloist. The May 30 program also includes two works by Stravinsky—Orpheus and Agon—as well as Witold Lutosławski’s Partita. https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/myth-and-magic-thomas-ades/
Innocence, an opera by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, will receive its U.S. premiere June 1-21 at the San Francisco Opera. The story, told in eight languages through Sofi Oksanen’s libretto, deals with the long-term emotional consequences of a school shooting in Helsinki. The production will be conducted by Saariaho specialist Clément Mao-Takacs. https://www.sfopera.com/
Spoleto USA will present the world premiere of Reena Esmail’s String Quartet. The June 5-6 chamber program also includes Darius Milhaud’s Suite for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, and the Schumann Piano Quartet. https://spoletousa.org/events/bank-of-america-chamber-music/
In a program entitled Darkness to Light on June 7-9, 2024, the Pittsburgh Symphony will open with Jessie Montgomery’s 2017 piece Coincident Dances, celebrating the diversity and energy of New York City. The orchestra commissioned a new work by Michael Daugherty, Double Concerto for Oboe and Horn, which will receive its world premiere featuring oboist […]
For its 2023-24 season finale on June 7-9, the New Jersey Symphony and music director Xian Zhang will present the world premiere of a new work by Daniel Bernard Roumain. Daniil Trifonov will be the soloist for Gershwin’s Concerto in F in a program that also includes Robert Russell Bennett’s Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic […]
Fast-rising violinist Randall Goosby makes his Toronto Symphony debut playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto on June 7-9. The program, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno, starts with the world premiere of Ikiru by Métis composer Ian Cusson, created in partnership with the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). After intermission, the orchestra will play Bartók’s Divertimento […]
Join Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid on June 13 at National Sawdust for an evening of excerpts from her provocative new opera, The Shell Trial, fresh on the heels of its world premiere in Amsterdam. Based on the play De zaak Shell by Rebekka de Wit and Anoek Nuyens, the opera explores climate devastation as a crisis […]
To close out his inaugural season as music director of the Baltimore Symphony on June 13-16, Jonathon Heyward conducts a new work by James Lee III, who has written many commissions for the BSO. Soprano Christine Goerke will be on hand to sing Strauss’ Four Last Songs in program that also includes Jessie Montgomery’s Records […]
On June 15-17, Atlanta Opera will give the world premiere of Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier) as part of its 96-Hour Opera Project. The one-act dark comedy by Marcus Norris explores some of Georgia’s terrifying, uncomfortable, and uncanny happenings at Lake Lanier in Forsyth County, Georgia. Chaowen Ting conducts. https://www.atlantaopera.org/forsyth-county-is-flooding/
British composer Sally Beamish finally gets to hear her new concerto performed in her native city as the London Symphony plays the U.K. premiere of Distans, a concerto for violin and clarinet. The soloist are violinist Janine Jansen and clarinetist Martin Fröst. LSO principal guest conductor will also lead the orchestra in Prokofiev’s Symphony No. […]
Pianist Jonathan Biss returns to Ravinia with works classic and new. He opens the program with two Franz Schubert's Impromptus, following with For Anthony Braxton, a new work that former MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey wrote to honor his mentor. Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major bookends the performance on June 20. https://ravinia.org/Online/Article/062024-JonathanBiss
The Grant Park Festival Orchestra, under the baton of guest conductor Ludovic Morlot, will present the world premiere of Water Nymphs by the eclectic Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad. Two tried-and-true orchestral works follow on this June 26 program: Strauss’ Suite from Der Rosenkavalier and Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, London. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/haydn-london-symphony
The world premiere of Jessica Mays’ A Shoreline Willow will be performed at Caramoor as part of a concert by the Abeo Quartet on June 27. The Abeo, which has been in residence at Caramoor throughout the season, will also play an intriguing variety of works for quartet by Joaquin Turina, Erwin Schulhoff, Rhiannon Giddens, […]
Bravo! Vail has commissioned a new work by Anna Clyne. Her ATLAS for piano and orchestra will be premiered at the festival by the Dallas Symphony with Jeremy Denk as soloist. Fabio Luisi also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony on this June 29 program. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/dallas-symphony-orchestra-2/luisi-conducts-tchaikovskys-fifth/
A world premiere by Annie Nikunen will be included on the June 30 program that opens an all-day String Quartet Marathon at Tanglewood. Also on the bill are works by Detlev Glanert, Nick DiBerardino, Steve Reich, plus a reach back into the late 16th century with some Canzonas by Giovanni Gabrieli. https://www.bso.org/events/tmc-chamber-music
To open its 75th anniversary season, the Aspen Music Festival has co-commissioned a new work by Alan Fletcher, called Three American Songs. The soloist will be soprano Renée Fleming, who will also sing three songs by Richard Strauss, a nod to the first work of the evening, Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra. Respighi’s Pines of Rome […]
