Pianist Evgeny Kissin is paying tribute to Shostakovich at Carnegie Hall in May. The final program on this topic, on May 31, will be a star-studded soirée featuring the likes of violinist Gidon Kremer, cellist Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, and singers Susanna Phillips, Sasha Cooke, Brandon Jovanovich, and Alexander Roslavets. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/05/31/Evgeny-Kissin-and-Friends-A-Tribute-to-Shostakovich-0800PM
June 1-8 offers a rare opportunity to hear Wagner’s complete Tristan und Isolde in concert. The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will host tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Nina Stemme as the love-torn title characters. https://www.philorch.org/performances/our-season/events-and-tickets/2024-2025-season/verizon-hall/wagners-tristan-and-isolde/
Early-music ensemble L’Arpeggiata calls its Nov. 20 program at Carnegie Hall Wonder Women, which pays homage to colorful characters found in traditional Italian and Latin American songs. The list of short works on offer include composers such as Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, and Isabella Leonarda. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/11/20/LArpeggiata-0730PM
On June 5-8, Baltimore Symphony music director Jonathon Heyward will lead the orchestra in the world premiere of James Lee III’s Concerto for Orchestra. This is one of a series of concerts and educational programs focusing on the works of Lee, who is a native of Baltimore. Yefim Bronfman takes the stage for Beethoven’s Piano […]
Members of the Albany Symphony, calling themselves Dogs of Desire, will present an evening of new music on June 6, with David Alan Miller conducting. Featured composers will include Dai Wei, Tanner Porter, Juhi Bansal, JUAKHAN, and Brent Michael Davids. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2025/6/13/dogs-of-desire
The American Symphony Orchestra, under Leon Botstein, will present a rarely performed opera at Carnegie Hall on June 6. Guntram was Richard Strauss’ first opera; the young composer’s mastery of orchestral writing combines with the ethereal melodic arcs that anticipate his later, famous operas. Also featuring the Bard Festival Chorale. https://americansymphony.org/concerts/strauss-guntram/
On June 7, the American Music Festival, an evening hosted by the Albany Symphony, will present the world premiere of Bobby Ge’s Water Music. Global sensations Third Coast Percussion will be on hand to play Clarice Assad’s Percussion Concerto, and Stephen Williamson will solo in Christopher Theofanidis’ Clarinet Concerto. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2025/6/14/american-music-festival-water-music
Notes & Frames: A Film and Music Festival is a three-week initiative by the National Symphony. On June 20-21, the festival culminates in a world premiere by Academy Award®–winning director, composer, and pianist Kris Bowers, who will curate and perform a program of contemporary film music to be conducted by Anthony Parnther. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/kris-bowers/
A Mass for Women in Bathrooms is a new electronic chamber opera by Irish composer Emma O’Halloran and librettist Naomi Louisa O’Connell examining themes of infertility, reproductive rights and dementia, while reclaiming bodily autonomy for women in a historically violent space. It will be workshopped at Opera Saratoga’s summer festival on June 22 and 27. […]
On June 29 at Caramoor, the Boston Early Music Festival revives their acclaimed pairing of Telemann works in this fully staged production of the opera Pimpione and the cantata Ino. Inspired by the Italian comic intermezzi, Pimpinone approaches social class and seduction with stylish slapstick and evocative humanity. The cantata Ino features a thrilling story drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Paul O’Dette […]
