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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Created by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, Elizabeth Cree is a highly suspenseful and theatrical opera taking place in 1880s London. The new production at Glimmerglass is directed by Alison Moritz and stars Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught. (July 28-Aug. 16) https://glimmerglass.org/events/elizabeth-cree/
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
