Leonid Desyatnikov is a Ukrainian composer born in 1955. His piano duet Trompe-l'œil will receive its U.S. premiere at a Carnegie Hall recital by pianists Pavel Kolesnikov and Samson Tsoy on Feb. 13. The duo will also play Stravinsky’s four-handed arrangement of The Rite of Spring and Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor, D. 940. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/02/13/pavel-kolesnikov-piano-samson-tsoy-piano-0730pm
Pianist Timo Andres will play the world premiere of one of his own new works at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 23. The wide-ranging program opens with Robin Holcomb’s Wherein Lies the Good and proceeds through works by Ellington, Copland, and Philip Glass, plus the New York premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Imaginary Pancake. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/02/23/timo-andres-piano-0730pm
On Feb. 29-March 1, Long Yu will conduct the New York Philharmonic orchestra and chorus in the U.S. premiere of Émigré, a semi-staged oratorio by Aaron Zigman and Mark Campbell about Jewish refugees who fled to Shanghai to escape the Holocaust. The work was co-commission by the NY Phil and the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra. Soloists […]
