Swedish composer Hannah Helgegren’s The Nordic Seasons will receive its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 23, played by the Camerata Nordica Octet. Chamber works by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn are also on the program. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/02/23/Camerata-Nordica-Octet-0800PM
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1 event, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events,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/ Featuring a Spring theme, the Baltimore Symphony’s Feb. 26 – March 1 program begins the orchestra’s EARTH/Songs Festival. Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Boulanger's Of a Spring Morning explore the vernal theme. BSO Principal Percussionist Edouard Beyens will solo in Tan Dun's The Tears of Nature, while Jonathon Heyward conducts. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19603 | 0 events, | 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 | 1 event,The entire 2025-26 season at Symphony NH will be conducted by finalists for the role of music director. Among those is Adam Kerry Boyles, whose March 7 program is a tribute to the influence of Leonard Berstein, including works by Carl Nielsen, Ruth Crawfuld Seeger, and David Diamond. Representing composers who influenced Bernstein will be […] | 0 events, |
1 event,Lise Davidsen sings Isolde in a new Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, staged by Yuval Sharon, with tenor Michael Spyres as Tristan. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes his role debut as King Marke, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the opera for the first time. (March 9-April 2) https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/tristan-und-isolde/ | 0 events, | 2 events,Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, America Composers Orchestra’s Hello America: Letters To Us, From Us focus on artists’ musical open letters to America, which reflect narratives around the summer homes of turn-of-the-century Black folk, rituals of celebration, and the connection between the historic and current patriotism of Black American women. March […] 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 | 5 events,Washington National Opera will present a new production of Scott Joplin’s 1910 opera, Treemonisha. This powerful work reimagines the incomplete piece with direction by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, musical arrangement and orchestrations by composer Damien Sneed, and additional dialogue and lyrics by playwright Kyle Bass. (March 12-22) https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/treemonisha/ 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/ Ruth Reinhardt will conduct the New Jersey Symphony in a program of Bartók and Chopin on March 12-15. Two orchestral works by Bartók bookend the evening: the Romanian Folk Dances and the Concerto for Orchestra. Eva Gevorgyan will be the soloist for Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/bartoks-concerto-for-orchestra - Early-music ensemble Le Consort makes its New York City debut on March 12 at 92NY. The four-person group will play music by Albinoni, Telemann, Bach, and some lesser-known Baroque composers. https://www.92ny.org/event/le-consort | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, |
| 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,Boston Lyric Opera + Community Studios will present a semi-staged version of Mahler’s Song of the Earth in its chamber arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg. Conducted by David Angus, and directed by Anne Bogart. (March 20-29) https://blo.org/song/ Marin Alsop conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in the city’s premiere of a work by Ukrainian composer Iryna Aleksiychuk on March 20-22. Rachmaninoff’s blazing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini will be performed by pianist Haochen Zhang, and Schumann’s Second Symphony ends the program. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2025-26-season/marin-and-the-many-moods-of-schumann | 0 events, | 0 events, |
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