Conductor Manfred Honeck guest at Munich Philharmonic (April 2018)

On 12, 13 and 15 April Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will be guest with the Munich Philharmonic at the Philharmonic Hall Gasteig. On the program will be Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, sung by the Philharmonic Choir Munich.

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Manfred Honeck at ICMA Award Ceremony & Gala Concert (April 2018)

Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck was awarded “Conductor of the Year” 2018 by the ICMA in January 2018. On 6 April 2018 the Award Ceremony & Gala Concert will take place in Katowice in Poland.

Manfred Honeck will conduct the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra with Dvorak’s Rusalka-Suite.

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Manfred Honeck conducts Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (March 2018)

Austrian conductor Manfred Honeck will conduct two concerts with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra on 22 and 23 March 2018 at Alte Oper Frankfurt. Soloist of the concerts will be violist Antoine Tamestit. Works by MacMillan, Walton and Tchaikovsky will be on the program.

The concert on 23 March will be streamed live on YouTube at 8 p.m.. Find here the link to the live stream.

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PSO and Manfred Honeck announce season 2018/19 (February 2018)

The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and its Music Director Manfred Honeck have announced season 2018/19.

Under the direction of Manfred Honeck, the PSO will welcome a number of world-renowned return and debut guest conductors, composers/commissions and soloists to Heinz Hall this season including Renée Fleming, Mason Bates, Jonathan Leshnoff, Joshua Bell, Pinchas Zukerman, Vilde Frang, Till Fellner, Emanuel Ax, and many more.

To mark the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, Manfred Honeck conducts pieces Bernstein himself conducted with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra early in his career: Works by Beethoven, Haydn and Stravinsky’s Firebird. And Bernstein’s own First Symphony, which the Pittsburgh Symphony premiered in 1944.

On the occasion of Manfred Honeck’s 60. birthday, Pinchas Zukerman will play Bruch’s romantic First Violin Concerto. Manfred Honeck conducts Brahms’ lyrical Second Symphony. And Mason Bates has been commissioned to create a new work for the occasion.

Find here all concerts and highlights of the PSO’s season 2018/19.

Grammy Award goes to Manfred Honeck and PSO (January 2018)

The latest CD by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck with Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Barber’s Adagio (Reference Recordings) has won two Grammy Awards 2018: the Grammy for “Best Orchestra Performance” as well as for “Best engineered classical album”.

Find more information on this on the Grammy’s website.

Manfred Honeck | ICMA „Artist of the Year“ 2018 (January 2018)

Conductor and Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck has been awarded the International Classical Music Award 2018 “Artist of the Year“. This has been officially announced today, 18 January 2018 by the ICMA.

Manfred Honeck: “It is a great honour for me to receive this prestigious award from leading international music journalists. I am very grateful that my work is being appreciated and distinguished in this particular way.”

Find here more information about the ICMA 2018.

The orchestra and its Music Director have released three SACDs with the audiophile label Reference Recordings in the years 2016 and 2017: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 & Barber’s Adagio (2017), Richard Strauss‘ Suites (2016) as well as Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 & Dvorak’s Rusalka Suite (2016).

Find here a detailed list of all SACDs that have so far been released by the PSO, Manfred Honeck and Reference Recordings.