In its Oct. 30 Carnegie Hall appearance called The New Virtuoso: Borders, American Composers Orchestra presents world premieres by rising composers Paul Novak and Kebra-Seyoun Charles plus New York premieres by Michael Abels and Victoria Poleva. Featured soloists are cellist Inbal Segev, guitarist Mak Grgic, and violinist Curtis Stewart; Mei-Ann Chen conducts. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/10/30/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
On Oct. 30, the American Composers Orchestra will present two world premieres at Carnegie Hall: a new work by Kebra-Seyoun Charles (part of the EarShot CoLABoratory project in support of Black composers) and Forest Migrations by Paul Novak. The program, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen, also includes pieces by Michael Abels, Curtis Stewart, and Victoria Polevá. https://www.americancomposers.org/performances-events/new-virtuoso-borders […]
Gianandrea Noseda leads the National Symphony and oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk in the U.S. premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s Oboe Concerto, Time’s River, on Oct. 31-Nov. 2. Prokofiev’s Summer Night opens the program, which ends with Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Pathétique Symphony No. 6. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/noseda-ogrintchouk/
The world premiere of a new work by Stephanie Orlando, commissioned through the Maria Anna Mozart Award, will be presented by Symphony Nova Scotia on Oct. 31. Santiago Cañón Valencia will be on hand to play Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, and the program, conducted by Holly Mathieson, will conclude with Copland’s Appalachian Spring. https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/rebecca-cohn-auditorium/shostakovich-coplands-appalachian-spring/
Former music director Riccardo Muti returns to the Chicago Symphony for an all-Beethoven concert on Oct. 31-Nov. 3. Mitsuko Uchida will be the soloist for the Emperor Piano Concerto, and the program closes with Symphony No. 3, Eroica. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/muti-uchida-emperor-and-eroica/
As a lead-up to the Dallas Symphony’s sixth annual Women in Classical Music Symposium, the orchestra will play a program centering two women: Alisson Kruusmaa and Amy Beach. Anne-Maria McDermott will solo in Beach’s Piano Concerto. The Nov. 1-3 program, conducted by Anu Tali, will conclude with Elgar’s Enigma Variations. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/elgars-enigma-variations/
Antonio Cagnoni’s Don Bucefalo will be performed for the first time in the U.S. since 1867 when Pacific Opera Project presents this slapstick comedy at the Garibaldina Society, one of LA’s hottest retro spots. This production will offer an optional Italian dinner add-on complete with pasta, salad, and wine! Kyle Naig conducts, with Josh Shaw […]
The Nov. 2 program by the Anchorage Symphony will open with two meditative works. The first is “Athabaskan Prayer Song” from Echoes by former ASO music director Randall Craig Fleischer, inspired by Native American indigenous music. Then John Luther Adams’ An Atlas of Deep Time paints a mesmerizing sonic landscape. The program concludes with Beethoven’s […]
Laura Karpman’s new work will receive its world premiere at the Nov. 2-3 program by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Jeff Beal’s Body in Motion for Violin and Orchestra, featuring Kelly Hall-Tomkins, will also be performed on the West Coast for the first time. The program includes two symphonies under the baton of Jaime Martín: […]
The Vancouver Chamber Music Society will host a recital program by violist Hung-Wei Huang and pianist Aslan Aslanov on Nov. 4-6. The duo will play Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70, Alan Shulman’s Theme and Variations, and Brahms’ Viola Sonata No. 2. https://www.vancouverchambermusic.com/hungweihuangaslanalsanov
John Adams’ Frenzy will receive its Canadian premiere by the Toronto Symphony on Nov. 6-9 under the composer’s baton. Two other Adams works are also on the program: his orchestral arrangement of Debussy’s Le Livre de Baudelaire and the aria “This is prophetic!” from Nixon in China, featuring soprano Anna Prohaska. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/john-adams-returns/
The Nov. 6-7 chamber concert by members of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will feature the String Quintet in A minor by composer Johanna Müller-Hermann, paired with Verklärte Nacht by her much better-known contemporary, Arnold Schoenberg. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/transfigured-romanticism
On Nov. 7-10 music director Nathalie Stutzmann leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s mysterious and otherworldly Mass in C minor. Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska, Mezzo-soprano Julia Lezhneva, tenor Lunga Eric Hallam, and bass Harold Wilson join as soloists in a program that opens with Mozart’s 40th Symphony. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/all-mozart-with-stutzmann-chorus
Guest conductor Marek Janowski will help the Cincinnati Symphony bid Anton Bruckner a happy 200th birthday when he leads the orchestra in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. The Nov. 8-9 program also features Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E flat. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/mozart--bruckner/
Conductor Bernard Labadie will make his debut with the San Diego Symphony on Nov. 9-10. The program includes two Mozart works—the overtures to The Magic Flute and La clemenza di Tito—as well as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Jonathan Biss) and Haydn’s Drum Roll Symphony No. 103. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/biss-plays-beethoven/
Renegade Opera in Portland, OR will premiere two short operas Nov. 9-10. Little Ones, by composer Danielle Jagelski and librettist Rhiana Yazzie, explores the life of Indigenous students at Native American Residential Schools in the 1980’s, a topic close to the hearts of these two Indigenous creatives. The Raven is a setting of Poe’s famous […]
It’s surely no accident that Austin Opera programmed Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s opera The Manchurian Candidate, based on the political thriller, for the weekend after the U.S. presidential election. The opera debuted in Austin in 2016. (Runs Nov. 9-10) https://my.austinopera.org/overview/manchurian-candidate
The West Virginia Symphony’s Nov. 9 program is All-American, with Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia, and Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring Robert Turizziani. Music director Maurice Cohn also leads the orchestra in Ellington’s Harlem and Gershwin’s An American in Paris. https://wvsymphony.org/season-calendar/americanvoices2425
Violinist Paul Huang makes his Toledo Symphony debut performing Mozart's dazzling fourth violin concerto. Conducted byAlain Trudel, this Nov. 9 prgram opens with Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture and concludes with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, Romantic. https://www.artstoledo.com/masterworks-24-25
Leonard Slatkin conducts his first concert as Artistic Consultant of the Las Vegas Philharmonic on Nov. 9, leading vocalists Storm Large and the Hudson Shad Quartet in Weill/Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins. Also on the program are Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 2, The Mysterious Mountain, and Gershwin’s An American in Paris. https://lvphil.org/events/slatkin-conducts-gershwin/
On Nov. 10, JACK Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with a program at the 92nd St. Y with the world premiere of a new work by Anthony Cheung. The bill includes works by Eduardo Aguilar, Seare Farhat, and Juri Seo. This concert will also be livestreamed. https://www.92ny.org/event/jack-quartet
Dallas Chamber Music Society hosts the Fauré Quartett on Nov. 11. Often described as “visionary,” the ensemble will play works by Schubert, Dvořák, and Enescu. https://dallaschambermusicsociety.ticketleap.com/faure-quartett/details
Annapolis offers an ambitious and innovative program Nov. 1-2, with José-Luis Novo conducting. Adolphus Hailstork’s Three Spirituals opens the proceedings, followed by Óscar Navarro’s 2019 Horn Concerto, with soloist Alex Kovling. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 concludes the program. https://annapolissymphony.org/events/masterworksiiconnections/
Bring your appetite to Nashville Opera for the world premiere of Shawn E. Okpebholo and Mark Campbell’s The Cook-Off. As an appetizer, the company will open with Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appétit (The Julia Child Opera). Dean Williamson conducts the Nashville Opera Orchestra. (Nov. 15-17) https://www.nashvilleopera.org/performances/the-cook-off
Portland (OR) Opera presents a live performance of The Juliet Letters, orignially conceived as a 1993 album by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. The genre-bending collaboration produced a unique song sequence for string quartet and voice, an intimate journey of hope, loss, and longing - all seen through the lens of love. (Nov. 15-24) […]
To mark its 50th anniversary season, Indianapolis Opera will present The Barber of Seville Nov. 15-17. Jessica Burton directs this production, which will be conducted by Casey Robards, an IO Young Artists mentee. https://www.indyopera.org/barberofseville.html
Madison Symphony welcomes the debut of conductor Michael Stern on Nov. 15-17, when Garrick Ohlsson solos in Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. The program opens with Jonathan Leshnoff’s Rush and concludes with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/momentum/
The world premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Orchestra is one of many intriguing items in the Nov. 15-16 Louisville Orchestra program. Teddy Abrams also conducts works by Baldwin Giang, Brittany Green, Samuel Barber (the Violin Concerto, featuring Ray Chen), and Oswald Húynh. https://my.louisvilleorchestra.org/ray-chen-plays-barber/coffee
Filippo Ciabatti, a finalist for the post of music director of the Delaware Symphony, will lead Tommy Mesa in Shostakiovich’s Cello Concert No. 1 on Nov. 15. The program also includes Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.delawaresymphony.org/dso_events/ciabatti-conducts-beethoven-wilmington/
Two works new to the Pittsburgh Symphony will be performed Nov. 15-17 under conductor Donald Runnicles: Hamish MacCunn’s The Land of the Mountain and the Flood and Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Dances with the Winds, a concerto for flute featuring Lorna McGhee. The program concludes with Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92948/strauss-alpine-symphony
Join Barn Opera in Vermont on Nov 15 for an evening in three parts: 1) A lecture about Truman Capote given by a notable writer. 2) An introduction to the graphic novel genre, and the creation of Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks. 3) The world premiere of the chamber opera by William Zeffiro, Truman […]
Florida Grand Opera opens its season with Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The production runs Nov. 16-19 in Miami and Dec. 5-7 in Fort Lauderdale. The cast includes Ricardo Garcia as Tamino, Laura León as the Queen of the Night, and Sara Kennedy as Pamina. https://fgo.org/season/the-magic-flute/
Bass Kenneth Kellogg makes his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in Blue, by Jeanine Tesori and co-commissioned by the Lyric. The cast also includes mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams and baritone Norman Garrett in this production directed by Tazewell Thompson. (Nov. 16-Dec. 1) https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2024-25/blue/
The Queen’s Cartoonists will appear on the Brookings Chamber Music Society season on Nov. 19. Perfectly synchronizing their performances with the films projected on stage, the band matches the energy of the cartoons, leading the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem and comedy. https://www.sdstate.edu/music-sdsu/brookings-chamber-music-society
The Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series will present two masterworks by Telemann, interwoven into one theatrical fabric, on Nov. 20-Dec. 1. Enjoy a rare staged performance of Telemann’s lovely serenata, Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho, interspersed with movements from Telemann’s delightful orchestral suite Burlesque de Don Quichotte. Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs will serve […]
The West Coast premiere of Laura Kaminsky and David Cote’s Lucidity will take place at Seattle Opera on Nov. 21-24. This intimate chamber opera sheds light on the tragedy of dementia and all those it touches. Geoffrey McDonald conducts and Sarah Meyers directs. https://www.seattleopera.org/performances-events/lucidity/
On Nov. 22, members of the Seattle Symphony will collaborate with the Iranian Female Composers Association, established in 2017 to support Iranian female and non-binary identifying musicians. Composer Deniz Tafaghodi’s new work receives its world premiere alongside fellow Iranian composer Golnaz Shariatzadeh’s Fabric of Sorrow. Part of Octave 9 series. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2024-2025/24octave3
Thomas Søndergård leads the Minnesota Orchestra in a contemplative program on Nov. 22-23. Oliver Messiaen’s Les Offrandes Oubliées will be followed by Mozart’s stirring Requiem, featuring soprano Andrea Carroll, tenor Jack Swanson, and baritone Dashon Burton. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-conducts-mozarts-requiem/
For the first time in its history, the Alabama Symphony will play Bartók’s seminal Concerto for Orchestra on Nov. 22-23 under music director Carlos Izcaray. The first half of the program will be Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. https://alabamasymphony.org/events/beethoven-bartok/
The Phoenix Symphony will celebrate with 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on Nov. 22-24. Pianist Conor Hanick is the soloist, and Christian Reif will conduct. Also on the program are Honegger’s Pacific 231, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7, and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. There will also be a “Mystery Piece,” something that Phoenix offers […]
Little Women, an opera by Mark Adamo using his own libretto based on the Louisa May Alcott novel, opens this season at Fort Worth Opera. The production runs Nov. 22-24. https://fwopera.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVo0000009Wa9MAE
Under the baton of its incoming chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs the U.S. premiere of a new work by Ellen Reid at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 22. Lisa Batiashvili will play Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the evening ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/11/22/Royal-Concertgebouw-Orchestra-0800PM
French composer Guillaume Connesson has written a new Cello Concerto, which will receive its U.S. premiere on Nov. 22-23 at the hands of Gautier Capuçon, as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Stéphane Denève conducts this thoroughly French program, which also includes Augusta Holmès’ “La Nuit et l’amour” from her Ludus pro patria and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://www.philorch.org/performances/our-season/events-and-tickets/2024-2025-season/verizon-hall/symphonie-fantastique/
On Nov. 22 members of the San Diego Symphony will give the city’s premiere of the chamber opera Tres Minutos. The opera, by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch, imagines the story of a brother and sister who share DNA but not citizenship. When one is deported, questions of identity, duty, and […]
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough makes his debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Nov. 24. The program combines Liszt’s virtuosic sonata with works by Chopin and Cécile Chaminade. Hough is joined by the enthralling Viano Quartet for the world premiere of his Piano Quintet. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/an-evening-with-sir-stephen-hough/
Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of a new work by Daniel Bernard Roumain, who also curates and performs in this Nov. 24 program featuring three of his pieces. Allison Loggins-Hull’s Homeland, inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, as well as Brittany J. Green’s shift.unravel.BREAK are also scheduled in […]
On its North American tour, the Berlin Philharmonic will stop at Chicago’s Symphony Center on Nov. 26 to mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth. Kirill Petrenko will conduct one of the composer’s grandest works, his Fifth Symphony. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/scp-featured-concerts/berliner-philharmoniker/
The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kazuki Hamada (making his debut with the orchestra), will give the U.S. premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Entwine Nov. 27-Dec. 1. Young piano star Yunchan Lim plays Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 in this program that ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/lim-yamada/
The Dallas Symphony will present the U.S. premiere of Kris Bowers’ For a Younger Self, featuring violinist Charles Yang. Markus Moschner also conducts Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, From the New World, in this Nov. 29-Dec. 1 program. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/dvoraks-new-world-symphony-2/
