Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is widely regarded for her performances and commissions of new music – and this month her advocacy is on gorgeous display as she premieres Michael Daugherty’s Blue Electra with Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra, and tours Arturo Márquez’s Fandango with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic!
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Paul Jacobs returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra in a program with Nicholas McGegan, performing Handel’s imaginative “Cuckoo and the Nightingale” Concerto.
Other 22/23 season highlights include the Nashville Symphony with Giancarlo Guerrero; the season opener of the Charlotte Symphony, where he performed the Cuckoo and Nightingale and Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3; the Pacific Symphony as part of its celebration of its refurbished Hazel Wright Organ at Christ Cathedral; and the Hartford Symphony as part of the Albert Schweitzer Organ Festival Hartford.
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In October, Asbury began an exciting 2022-23 season by leading the Grossman Ensemble at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition at the University of Chicago. And just last week, Asbury wrapped up a Halloween program with the Indianapolis Symphony that Included Night on Bald Mountain and the Bernstein Serenade.
This month, Asbury joins the Tulsa Symphony before returning to Europe to appear with the Norrkoping Symphony and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester.
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Rob Kapilow, whose communicative gifts are so keen and whose musical language is so fluent, just opened the Kaufman Music Center‘s 22/23 series of What Makes it Great? with a new program examining the original 1924 jazz band version of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
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This weekend violinist Tai Murray open the Sacramento Philharmonic‘s season with the Wynton Marsalis Violin Concerto. She next performs the piece in November with the Rochester Philharmonic.
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Conductor Jacques Lacombe opens his busy 2022/2023 season with back-to-back opera productions: first with Il Trovatore at L’Opera de Montreal in September, and this week making his debut leading the Canadian Opera Company in Carmen.
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In this thrilling collaboration by the imaginative Calder Quartet and dancer, choreographer, and Deaf artist and advocate, Antoine Hunter, audiences are offered an immersive and joyful journey into chamber music and dance – and a special insight into Beethoven’s Op. 130 String Quartet and Grosse Fugue, written toward the end of his life, when his hearing loss had a profound impact on his life and work.
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This Thursday, the phenomenal JACK Quartet opens the 2022/23 Season of the Miller Theatre Composer Portrait Series with an evening dedicated to the work of Liza Lim, recognized as “one of Australia’s most important cultural exports” (Limelight Magazine).
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This season the phenomenal a cappella ensemble amarcord celebrates its 30th year anniversary with signature programs and collaborations with the German-French horn ensemble Hornsound; Germany’s Thuringian Bach Collegium; the Art of the Fugue with the Schumann Quartet; and a benefit Concert of Christmas Music from the Middle Ages and Renaissance for UNICEF at the Thomaschoir.
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he brilliant Marc-Andre Hamelin kicks off his 22-23 season at the Berlin Philharmonic this week, performing Max Reger’s Piano Concerto with Marek Janowski. Further orchestral engagements this fall include the San Diego Symphony with Rafael Payare and a return to Symphony Nova Scotia.
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