Week of Events
OSM Welcomes Khachatryan Debut
Violinist Sergey Khachatryan will make his debut on Feb. 19-20 playing the Tchaikovsky concerto with Rafael Payare on the podium. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905, completes the program. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/tchaikovskys-lustrous-violin-concerto
New Jersey’s New Version of Chamber Work
Allison Loggins-Hull’s Can You See?, originally a chamber work, will receive a performance of its new version for full orchestra by the New Jersey Symphony on Feb. 20-23. Christoph König conducts pianist Tony Siqi Yun in Chopin’s Concerto No. 1, and the program concludes with Brahms’ dramatic First Symphony. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/brahms-and-chopin
NYC: New Piano Work by Finnish Composer
On Feb. 20 at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, pianist Juho Pohjonen will give the world premiere of Jyrki Linjama’s Prélude oublié. Other works in this recital include two sonatas by Scriabin, Liszt’s Après une Lecture du Dante, and Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 27, No. 1. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/juho-pohjonen/
World Premiere in Pittsburgh, Plus Ax’s Mozart
The world premiere of a new work by Hannah Ishizaki will be played by the Pittsburgh Symphony Feb. 21-23. In this program conducted by Manfred Honeck, Emanuel Ax will be the soloist for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, and the evening concludes with Korngold’s Symphony in F-Sharp Major. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92957/emanuel-ax-plays-mozart-plus-world-premiere
New Work from San Francisco’s Black Composers Initiative
On Feb. 21-23, the San Francisco Symphony will present the world premiere of a new work by Xavier Muzik, winner of the 2023 Emerging Black Composers Project Michael Morgan Prize. Daniil Trifonov will solo in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will close the program with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2024-25/salonen-trifonov
Giddens Meets Beethoven in N.C.
An excerpt of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar will open the North Carolina Symphony’s Feb. 21-22 program, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto. After Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, the North Carolina Master Chorale and soloists yet to be announced will join the orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/629/beethoven-symphony-no-9/
Fannie Lou Hamer-Inspired Opera in Kentucky
With music by Chandler Carter and a libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover, This Little Light of Mine is inspired by the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a former Mississippi sharecropper’s daughter who rose to national prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Kentucky Opera will present this work Feb. 21-23. https://kyopera.org/this-little-light/
Spano in Fort Worth Chamber Evening
Music director Robert Spano, on piano, will be joined by other musicians from the Fort Worth Symphony in a program of chamber music. The Feb. 23 concert includes the string sextet version of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) as well as Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor. https://fwsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/24-25-season/chamber-series/brahms-and-schoenberg
St. Paul: Chamber Version of Award-Winning Opera
On Feb. 23, Turtle Island String Quartet will appear as a guest of St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, which does not perform on the program. The evening features a chamber-concert verson of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, by Terence Blanchard, with vocalists Nicholas Newton and Adrienne Danrich. https://content.thespco.org/events/fire-shut-up-in-my-bones-with-the-turtle-island-quartet/
