On Feb. 24 at Chamber Music Pittsburgh, Grammy-nominated vocalist Nicholas Phan and early music ensemble Les Délices weave together Baroque masterpieces with the world premiere of a new work by Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong. The program also includes works by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Marin Marais, and François Couperin. https://www.chambermusicpittsburgh.org/lesdelices-nicholasphan/
Na’Zir McFadden conducts the world premiere of a new work by (and featuring) DSO trumpeter Kris Johnson. The Feb. 28-March 1 program, called Classical Roots, also features two pieces by Jessie Montgomery: Snapshots and Rounds, the latter featuring pianist Awadagin Pratt. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/24-25-winter/classical-roots
Italian conductor Valentina Peleggi makes her debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Feb. 28-March 1. Joyce Yang will be the soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Anna Clyne's Masquerade opens the program, which closes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s exotic Scheherazade. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/scheherazade/
Pianist Claire Huangci makes her Milwaukee Symphony debut with a rare treat: Beethoven’s reimagining of his Violin Concerto for solo piano and orchestra. This March 7-9 program, conducted by David Danzmayr, concludes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Scottish. https://www.mso.org/concerts/mendelssohns-third-symphony/62542/
Performing Haydn’s elegant Cello Concerto in D major, Sterling Elliot makes his Des Moines Symphony debut March 8-9. The program, conducted by Joseph Giunta, also includes Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha and Dvořák’s New World Symphony. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/from-the-new-world/
Lūcija Garūta’s Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor with be given its U.S. premiere by Élisabeth Pion and the Toledo Symphony under Alain Trudel, who will also be the piano soloist. This March 8 program includes Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. https://www.artstoledo.com/masterworks-24-25
Lawrence Power will be on hand to solo in the U.S. premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony on March 14. Kaija Saariaho’s atmospheric Ciel d'hiver opens the program, which culminates in Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C major. Hannu Lintu conducts. https://shop.slso.org/8098
One doesn’t often get to hear the powerful rumble of 8 timpani, but lucky listeners will get that chance March 21-22 when the Grand Rapids Symphony plays the Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani by Johann Carl Christian Fischer (featuring timpanist Daniel Karas. Marcelo Lehninger conducts this program, which also includes Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1 […]
The world premiere of new works from the Illinois Philharmonic’s two emerging-composer initiatives will open the March 22 program, under the baton of Stilian Kirov. Principat clarinet Trevor O’Riordan will solo in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, and the evening culminates in Schubert’s Symphony No. 5. https://ipomusic.org/2024-25-season/
In its spring edition of the MusicNOW series on March 23, the Chicago Symphony orchestra will provide players to perform works chosen by composer/curator Jimmy López Bellido. These include Boulez’s Domaines, Quinn Mason’s Weapon Wheel, Adam Schoenberg’s Reflecting Light, and two compositions by López Bellido. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-musicnow/inner-dialogues/
Keitaro Harada, former Cincinnati Symphony associate conductor, makes his CSO subscription debut with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers joins the program for Arturo Márquez’s Fandango, a work commissioned by Meyers. The March 28-29 program opens with Yuzo Toyama’s Rhapsody, which centers on folk songs from his native Japan. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/sheherazade/
The Milwaukee Symphony welcomes Ji Su Jung, the first percussion player to win an Avery Fisher Career Grant, to debut with Kevin Puts’ Marimba Concerto on April 4-5. MSO assistant conductor Ryan Tani also leads Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. https://www.mso.org/concerts/coplands-appalachian-spring/62548/
Matthias Pintscher will lead the Kansas City Symphony in the world premiere of a new work by Catalan composer Jan Magrané Figuera. This April 5-6 program also features Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto plus Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Pathétique. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/22172/22214
The world premiere of Reinaldo Moya’s Home, Run Away from Me, commissioned by Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and inspired by Greek poetry and the plight of refugees, will be performed by ICO on April 5, conducted by Matthew Kraemer. Then audiences will land in sunny California with Martinu’s Sinfonietta La Jolla. The program concludes with Haydn’s Mass […]
The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra has commissioned a new work for chorus and orchestra by Reinaldo Moya. Home, Run Away From Me will receive its world premiere April 5 with the ICO. Matthew Kraemer, marking his 10th year as music director, will also conduct Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War, plus works by Martinů and Ukrainian […]
