As its season opener Oct. 4-6, the Annapolis Symphony will play an eclectic mix of old and new music. Tania León’s 2022 work Pasajes will be followed by Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, featuring soloist Brian Ganz. The second half of the program, conducted by artistic director José-Luis Novo, comprises two symphonies: Bruckner’s Third (second […]
The Oct. 7 program Magnificent Madrigals: Monteverdi's Greatest Choral Music is part of Merkin Hall’s "What Makes It Great?" series. Rob Kapilow and the celebrated 12-singer vocal group Fourth Wall Ensemble explore the life and career of Claudio Monteverdi – the key transition figure from Renaissance to Baroque music – through his dazzling madrigals. https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/magnificent-madrigals-monteverdis-greatest-choral-music/
The U.S. premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Neharot, a tribute to those who suffered in the pandemic, will occur on Oct. 10-13, with Pintscher himself conducting the New York Philharmonic. Gil Shaham will play Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and the program concludes with Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/pintscher-shaham/
Elizabeth Raum’s miniature Romance for Horn and Piano, featuring hornist Michael Stevens, is the newest work on Society for Chamber Music Rochester’s Oct. 13 program, sandwiched between pieces by Milhaud and Saint-Saëns. The second half of the program will be Beethoven’s Septet, Op. 20. https://www.chambermusicrochester.org/concerts/beethovens-inadvertent-masterpiece
Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future is the title of the Sphinx Virtuosi’s Carnegie Hall program on Oct. 16. Hear several works by Joplin, Derrick Skye’s multifaceted and optimistic American Mirror, Part One, and a New York premiere by renowned violinist-composer Curtis Stewart. Violinist Njioma Chinyere Grievous takes a solo turn in Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s […]
Opera Baltimore opens its season Oct. 18-20 with La Bohème. Edward Graves sings Rodolfo and Toni Marie Palmertree is Mimì in this production conducted by Domenico Boyagian. https://www.operabaltimore.org/la-boheme
During its season opener on Oct. 19, the Albany Symphony will perform the world premiere of Tania León’s Pregón. Pianist Yuval Chen makes his debut with the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. David Alan Miller conducts the program, which concludes with Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2024/10/19/opening-night-tania-len-tchaikovskys-first-concerto
New England will present the world premiere of a Flute Concerto by Eric Nathan on Oct. 20, featuring flutist Alejandro Escuer. The program also includes the Boston premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s Antropolis and Stravinky’s The Rite of Spring. https://nephilharmonic.org/concerts/ancient-cultures-new-musics
Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion return to the 92nd St. Y with an all-new collaborative soundscape, featuring gospel and jazz singer Alicia Olatuja. Details on this Oct. 23 program to be announced. https://www.92ny.org/event/caroline-shaw-and-so-percussion
On Oct. 24-26, British composer Hannah Kendall will receive the American premiere of her work O flower of fire, inspired by Guyanese-British poet Martin Carter, with Antonio Pappano leading the Boston Symphony. Jean-Yves Thibaudet will play Liszt’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 2, and the program concludes with Strauss’ philosophical tone poem, Also sprach Zarathustra. https://www.bso.org/events/kendall-liszt-strauss?performance=2024-10-24-19:30
In its Oct. 30 Carnegie Hall appearance called The New Virtuoso: Borders, American Composers Orchestra presents world premieres by rising composers Paul Novak and Kebra-Seyoun Charles plus New York premieres by Michael Abels and Victoria Poleva. Featured soloists are cellist Inbal Segev, guitarist Mak Grgic, and violinist Curtis Stewart; Mei-Ann Chen conducts. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/10/30/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
On Oct. 30, the American Composers Orchestra will present two world premieres at Carnegie Hall: a new work by Kebra-Seyoun Charles (part of the EarShot CoLABoratory project in support of Black composers) and Forest Migrations by Paul Novak. The program, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen, also includes pieces by Michael Abels, Curtis Stewart, and Victoria Polevá. https://www.americancomposers.org/performances-events/new-virtuoso-borders […]
Gianandrea Noseda leads the National Symphony and oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk in the U.S. premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s Oboe Concerto, Time’s River, on Oct. 31-Nov. 2. Prokofiev’s Summer Night opens the program, which ends with Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Pathétique Symphony No. 6. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/noseda-ogrintchouk/
