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/
On Nov. 10, JACK Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with a program at the 92nd St. Y with the world premiere of a new work by Anthony Cheung. The bill includes works by Eduardo Aguilar, Seare Farhat, and Juri Seo. This concert will also be livestreamed. https://www.92ny.org/event/jack-quartet
Annapolis offers an ambitious and innovative program Nov. 1-2, with José-Luis Novo conducting. Adolphus Hailstork’s Three Spirituals opens the proceedings, followed by Óscar Navarro’s 2019 Horn Concerto, with soloist Alex Kovling. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 concludes the program. https://annapolissymphony.org/events/masterworksiiconnections/
Two works new to the Pittsburgh Symphony will be performed Nov. 15-17 under conductor Donald Runnicles: Hamish MacCunn’s The Land of the Mountain and the Flood and Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Dances with the Winds, a concerto for flute featuring Lorna McGhee. The program concludes with Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92948/strauss-alpine-symphony
Filippo Ciabatti, a finalist for the post of music director of the Delaware Symphony, will lead Tommy Mesa in Shostakiovich’s Cello Concert No. 1 on Nov. 15. The program also includes Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.delawaresymphony.org/dso_events/ciabatti-conducts-beethoven-wilmington/
The Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series will present two masterworks by Telemann, interwoven into one theatrical fabric, on Nov. 20-Dec. 1. Enjoy a rare staged performance of Telemann’s lovely serenata, Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho, interspersed with movements from Telemann’s delightful orchestral suite Burlesque de Don Quichotte. Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs will serve […]
Under the baton of its incoming chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs the U.S. premiere of a new work by Ellen Reid at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 22. Lisa Batiashvili will play Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the evening ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/11/22/Royal-Concertgebouw-Orchestra-0800PM
French composer Guillaume Connesson has written a new Cello Concerto, which will receive its U.S. premiere on Nov. 22-23 at the hands of Gautier Capuçon, as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Stéphane Denève conducts this thoroughly French program, which also includes Augusta Holmès’ “La Nuit et l’amour” from her Ludus pro patria and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://www.philorch.org/performances/our-season/events-and-tickets/2024-2025-season/verizon-hall/symphonie-fantastique/
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough makes his debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Nov. 24. The program combines Liszt’s virtuosic sonata with works by Chopin and Cécile Chaminade. Hough is joined by the enthralling Viano Quartet for the world premiere of his Piano Quintet. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/an-evening-with-sir-stephen-hough/
The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kazuki Hamada (making his debut with the orchestra), will give the U.S. premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Entwine Nov. 27-Dec. 1. Young piano star Yunchan Lim plays Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 in this program that ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/lim-yamada/
Worcester Chamber Music will present J.S. Bach’s “Christmas Cantata” (BWVs 32, 151, 132) on Dec. 6. The program is a collaboration with Music Worcester’s The Complete Bach, an 11-year project to present all of J.S. Bach’s music in advance of his 350th birthday. https://worcesterchambermusic.org/bach-christmas-cantatas/
Brother-sister team Sheku (cello) and Isata (piano) Kanneh-Mason will play the New York premiere of a new work by British violinist and composer Natalie Klouda. The Dec. 15 Carnegie Hall program also includes cello sonatas by Fauré, Poulenc, and Mendelssohn. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/12/15/Sheku-KannehMason-Cello-Isata-KannehMason-Piano-0200PM
