Reena Esmail’s new double concerto (featuring violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Orli Shaham) will receive its world premiere Feb. 26-28 with the National Symphony under David Robertson. The program opens with Nielsen’s Helios Overture and closes with the Sibelius Fifth Symphony. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/robertson-shaham/
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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, | 1 event,The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra will give the world premiere of Jens Ibsen’s “metal-inspired” Scene Symphony, a work commissioned by the SFCO. The Feb. 27-March 1 program, conducted by Jory Fankuchen, also includes Philip Glass’ Concerto for Harpsichord (featuring Jory Vinikour) and Haydn’s Symphony No. 49. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstage-3-seeing-double-tickets-1425938142369?aff=oddtdtcreator | 1 event,Pittsburgh Opera will perform the world premiere of Time to Act, a new opera with music by Laura Kaminsky and a libretto by Crystal Manich. The plot: A group of high school students prepares for a production of Sophocles’ Antigone, joined by a new student, Alona, who comes with a formidable secret. (Feb. 28-March 8) https://pittsburghopera.org/season/time-to-act | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,The world premiere of Jacob Bancks’ The Greatest Show on Earth will be played March 6-8 by the Pittsburgh Symphony under the direction of Manfred Honeck, who will also conduct Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/99023/ax-plays-brahms | 0 events, | 1 event,The Baltimore Symphony’s EARTH/Songs Festival continues March 8 with the world premiere of a new work by Grace-Evangeline Mason. Jonathon Heyward conducts the program, which includes Mahler’s Song of the Earth, with vocalists Russell Thomas and Sasha Cooke, as well as Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19604 |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,The American Composers Orchestra’s March 11 Carnegie Hall program is called “Hello, America: Letters to Us, from Us,” part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival. The ACO will play premieres by composers Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Suzanne Kite, Shelley Washington, Jessie Montgomery, and Brittany J. Green. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/03/11/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM | 2 events,Gianandrea Noseda will conduct the National Symphony in the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto for violin (Hilary Hahn) and cello (Seth Parker Woods) on March 12-14. Brahms Symphony No. 3 concludes the program. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/noseda-hahn/ To mark America’s 250th anniversary Gustavo Dudamel leads the world premiere of a new orchestration (by a team of important composers) of Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated. Rzewski’s work echoes the defiant spirit of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, which opens the March 12-17 program. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/dudamel-conducts-eroica-and-the-people-united/ | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,The world premiere of Daniel Godfrey’s Piano Concerto, featuring Gloria Cheng, will be performed by the New England Philharmonic on March 15. The other two works are Jason Huffman’s Alleles and Curtis Hughes’ Symphony in 3 Movements. https://nephilharmonic.org/concerts/new-music-new-england-2026 |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,Gustavo Dudamel will lead the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of David Lang’s the wealth of nations on March 19-22. The soloists for this oratorio inspired by economist Adam Smith’s 1776 magnum opus will be mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and bass-baritone Davóne Tines. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/dudamel-and-david-langs-the-wealth-of-nations/ | 2 events,Houston Symphony music director Juraj Valčuha conducts the world premiere of a new concerto for timpani by Andy Akiho, written for HSO principal timpanist Leonardo Soto. The second half of the program is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. (March 20-22) https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/beethoven-fifth-symphony-timpani-premiere/ The Colorado Symphony will play the world premiere of American composer Christopher Theofanidis’ new double concerto for violin and percussion, featuring Yumi Hwang-Williams and Svet Stoyanov. The March 20-22 program also includes Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. https://tickets.coloradosymphony.org/7401 | 0 events, | 0 events, |
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