ICMA Nomination for Shostakovich CD by Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra & Manfred Honeck (November 2017)

The International Classical Music Award (ICMA) has nominated the most current CD by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck with Shostakovich’s 5. Symphony and Barber’s Adagio for the award ceremony in 2018.

Find the list of nominees here.

The award winners will be announced on 18 January 2018. Find here more infos about the ICMA.

Manfred Honeck conducts Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra WDR (October 2017)

Conductor Manfred Honeck, Music Director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra WDR on 12, 13 and 14 October in Essen (12 October) and in Cologne (13 & 14 October).

On the programm will be Beethoven’s Piano concert No. 1, performed by Paul Lewis as well as Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9.

The concert on 13 October in the Cologne Philharmonie will be livestreamed. Find here more infos about the livestream.

Concert streams – PSO on Europe tour (September 2017)

Listen and watch Manfred Honeck and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on their big Europe Festival tour live at Lucerne Festival on Facebook –  on 6 September at 21:00 (CET) performing Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6 “Pathétique“!

Click, like and share here: http://bit.ly/Facebook-Live_PSO

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Also the concert at the BBC Proms on 4 September can still be listened to until the end of September here.

Tourstart PSO (August 2017)

On 28 August 2017 the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and their Music Director Manfred Honeck celebrated the start of this year’s Europe festival tour at the Rheingau Musik Festival in Wiesbaden.

Until 8 September they will further be guests at the Salzburg Festival, the BBC Proms in London, at Lucerne Festival etc.

Find here all tour dates at a glance.

Manfred Honeck and PSO present new CD: out now (August 2017)

Today, 18 August the new CD of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck will be released on the label Reference Recordings. Shostakovich’s 5. Symphony as well as Barber’s Adagio can be heard on this.

Manfred Honeck conducts concert at “Klassik am Odeonsplatz” and goes on Europe Festival Tour with PSO (July 2017)

On Saturday, 15 July, Manfred Honeck will conduct the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra on the occasion of “Klassik am Odeonsplatz” with works by Dun, Corigliano, Hartl, Ziehrer, Dvorak and Shostakovich. Soloist will be percussionist Martin Grubinger.

Find more information on this concert here.

The PSO and Music Director Manfred Honeck will go on a festival tour through Europe – from August 28 to September 8, 2017 where they will perform concerts together with violinists Anne Sophie Mutter, Rainer Honeck, and baritone Matthias Goerne. The orchestra will perform at Rheingau Musik Festival, Salzburg Festival, Grafenegg Festival, BBC Proms, Lucerne Festival and Enescu Festival.

It will be the 7th European tour for the PSO and Manfred Honeck, and the very first concert at the Salzburg Festival under the direction of Manfred Honeck. The last time the PSO was in Salzburg, was in 2003 together with former Music Director Mariss Jansons.

Find the tour dates here.

In preperation of the trip the PSO has uploaded an illustrative tour video. Klick here.