U.S. West Coast

In its Nov. 4 season opener, the San Diego Symphony, conducted by music director Rafael Payare, will present the world premiere of A Casual Walk to Distinction, by Spanish composer Juan Colomer. The orchestra, along with soloist Steven Banks will also play Billy Child’s Saxophone Concerto in the work’s West Coast premiere. Soprano Liv Redpath […]

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor laureate of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, will conduct the world premiere of Nina C. Young’s violin concerto, Traces, on Nov. 11 and 12, with Jennifer Koh as soloist. The program opens with C.P.E. Bach’s Symphony in D, H. 663, and closes with Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony No. 3. https://www.laco.org/events/pathways/

As part of the San Francisco Symphony’s California Festival, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen will lead the orchestra in his own work, Kínēma, featuring clarinet soloist Carey Bell. This Nov. 11-12 program will also present the world premiere of a commission by the orchestra, Jens Ibsen’s Drowned in Light. Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements completes the program. […]