In its Nov. 4 season opener, the San Diego Symphony, conducted by music director Rafael Payare, will present the world premiere of A Casual Walk to Distinction, by Spanish composer Juan Colomer. The orchestra, along with soloist Steven Banks will also play Billy Child’s Saxophone Concerto in the work’s West Coast premiere. Soprano Liv Redpath […]
As part of the Sonic Spectrum series at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, five instrumentalists will offer 21st-century works on Nov. 9, including world premieres by Todd Cochran and Libby Larsen. The program also features pieces by Reena Esmail and Saad Haddad and the New York premiere of Wang Jie’s Blame the Obituary, […]
Victoria Vita Polevá is a Ukrainian composer. Her new cello concerto will receive its world premiere by its commissioning orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, on Nov. 9-12. Inbal Segev will be the soloist. Two works by Strauss—Don Juan and the Suite from Der Rosenkavalier—are also on the program, as is Terricone by fellow Ukrainian Anna Korsun. […]
Jannik Giger is a Swiss composer and video artist. The world premiere of his Troisième œil (“Third Eye”) will be given on Nov. 11 by the Basel Chamber Orchestra at Wigmore Hall. Music director Kristian Bezuidenhout will also play the fortepiano in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, and Alina Ibragimova will be the soloist for […]
Jeffrey Kahane, conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, will conduct the world premiere of Nina C. Young’s violin concerto, Traces, on Nov. 11 and 12, with Jennifer Koh as soloist. The program opens with C.P.E. Bach’s Symphony in D, H. 663, and closes with Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony No. 3. https://www.laco.org/events/pathways/
As part of the San Francisco Symphony’s California Festival, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the orchestra in his own work, Kínēma, featuring clarinet soloist Carey Bell. This Nov. 11-12 program will also present the world premiere of a commission by the orchestra, Jens Ibsen’s Drowned in Light. Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements completes the program. […]
At the Komische Oper Berlin, the world premiere of Nils Holgersson’s Wondrous Adventures will run Nov. 12-Jan. 11. This children’s opera, with music by Elena Kats-Chernin and a libretto by Susanne Felicitas Wolf, tells the story of a boy who is shrunken by the curse of an angry gnome, provoking him to run away on […]
Prepare for a night of wildness during the San Diego Symphony’s Nov. 17-18 program. Rafael Payare will conduct a line-up of high-energy music, including Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin Suite, Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 7, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring (complete). The orchestra will also present the world premiere of Danse Macabre by Russian-Ukranian composer Vladimir Tarnopolsky. https://jacobsmusiccenter.org/archives/events/stravinskys-rite-of-spring
Wigmore Hall is celebrating “Laurence Osborn Day” over the course of three short concerts on Nov. 25, including two world premieres and a London premiere by Osborn. The Britten Sinfonia will alternate between works by C.P.E. Bach and Osbourne; the Marian Consort will present his compositions surrounded by pieces from the 16th century; and the […]
John Williams composed Five Sacred Trees for the New York Philharmonic’s 150th anniversary in 1995. This cinematic piece for orchestra and solo bassoon will be performed on Nov. 30 and Dec. 2 by the Atlanta Symphony with soloist Andrew Brady, formerly the ASO’s principal bassoonist. Guest conductor Anthony Parnther will also lead the orchestra in […]
According to composer Estaban Benzecry, muyu is a Quechua word of native people of the Andes referring both to the circle of life and death and to disease that disrupts the circle’s balance. On Dec. 7, 9, and 10, the Philadelphia Orchestra presents the world premiere of Benzecy’s MUYUY, The circle of life, along with […]
Under director Teodor Currentzis, the SWR Symphonieorchester will premiere a new work by Cremean composer Alexey Retinsky on Dec. 12 at the Elbphilharmonie. The program also includes recent works by Philippe Manoury, Mark Andre, and Jay Schwartz, closing with the Adagio from Mahler’s 10th Symphony. https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/whats-on/swr-symphonieorchester-teodor-currentzis/20223
Sō Percussion returns to Carnegie Hall on Dec. 12 to play two world premieres: Fé Fé by Olivier Tarpaga and a new work by Vijay Iyer. The program opens with the New York premiere of Angélica Negrón’s Inward Pieces and closes with Jason Treuting's Go Placidly with Haste. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2023/12/02/so-percussion-0900pm
Japanese pianist Yu Kosuge will play the world premiere of a new piano sonata by Dai Fujikura, a composer whose work she has championed in the past. The performance at Wigmore Hall on Dec. 19 will open with Mendelssohn’s Fantasy in F sharp minor Op. 28, called the Sonate ecossaise, and close with Beethoven’s Waldstein […]
New York’s Prototype Festival presents the world premiere of Terce: A Practical Breviary, Jan. 10-20. The opera, with music and libretto by Heather Christian, was inspired by the writings of three female mystics, including Hildegard von Bingen, is billed as “a radical rethinking of a monastic 9:00 AM mass that reimagines the face of the […]
Adoration is a new opera by Mary Kouyoumdjian based on the film by Atom Egoyan, examining terrorism, mass hysteria, and personal loss from the perspective of an orphaned teen. The world premiere will take place on Jan. 11-21 at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture as part of the Prototype Festival. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/adoration/
A pipa is a traditional Chinese instrument similar to a lute, and Wu Man is a widely acclaimed pipa master. She joins the Philadelphia Orchestra on Jan. 11 and 13, 2024, for the world premiere of Du Yun’s Pipa Concerto. Guest conductor Anna Sułkowska-Migoń will also lead the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 as well […]
The current holder of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Sandbox Composer Residency, Brazilian-American composer and singer Clarice Assad is writing a new work that will receive its world premiere with SPCO on Jan. 12-13. The program also includes movements from autobiographical pieces by Smetana and Janáček. https://content.thespco.org/events/assad-janacek-and-smetana/
Angélica Negrón is a Puerto Rican composer and performer who works with experimental instruments. During the world premiere of some new songs by Negrón, at the Kaufmann Music Center on Jan. 18, she will use “playable sculptures” co-created by botanical artist Sophie Parker. https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/angelica-negron-sophie-parker/
On Jan. 19, the Washington National Opera’s American Opera Initiative will perform the world premieres of three 20-minute operas by paired teams of young composers and librettists and performed by young artists in this mentorship program’s 11th year. A chamber orchestra made up of musicians from the WNO Orchestra will accompany. https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2023-2024/aoi-20-minute-operas/
