On Saturday, 22 September, Manfred Honeck will conduct the celebration concert on the occasion of the 470. birthday of Staatskapelle Dresden. The concert will take place in the Kulturpalast Dresden. On the program will be works by Dvorak and Brahms.
Find here more information on the concert.
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Conductor Omer Meir Wellber will again be guest at Gewandhausorchestra Leipzig and will, among others, conduct Leonard Bernstein’s Facsimile, a choreographed and seldomly performed work for orchestra, together with ballet dancers from the Musikalische Komödie Leipzig.
Find here further information on the concerts on 20 and 21 September.
You can listen to the concert on Thursday, 20 September as live broadcast on MDR Kultur at 20.05. Click here for more details.
On 17 September, Manfred Honeck will celebrate his 60. Birthday. In honour of this anniversary, the PSO has commissioned a new work by American composer Mason Bates, Resurrexit, which will have its world premiere on 28 September in Heinz Hall, Pittsburgh. Mason Bates is Composer of the Year 2018 at Musical America.
28, 30 September
Pittsburgh, Heinz Hall
Bates: Resurrexit, Commissioned by the PSO on the occasion of Manfred Honeck’s 60. birthday (UA)
Bruch: Violin concerto No. 1
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Pinchas Zukermann – Violin
Today, 12 September, Artistic Director Jan Vogler announced the festival program of the Dresden Music Festival 2019, following the motto “Visions”. From 16 May until 10 June 2019, the festival will also refer to the Bauhaus centennial. Within the 56 events at 22 venues Jan Vogler wants to break genre boundaries and revive traditions in the sense of the Bauhaus philosophy, together with artists and fellow musicians from all over the world.
Find here more information about the entire festival program for 2019.
On Saturday, 15 September, Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut at the Lucerne Festival – together with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra he will give concerts in Lucerne, as well as at the Dortmund Concert House and Birmingham.
Find here an overview of the concerts with the CBSO:
12 September
Birmingham
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Bartok: Violin concerto No. 1
Dvorak: Ouverture “Otello”
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “Symphony of the new world”
Gidon Kremer – Violin
13 September
Birmingham
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Dvorak: Ouverture “Otello”
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 “Symphony of the new world”
Jan Lisiecki – Piano
15 September
Luzern, KKL Luzern Konzertsaal Lucerne Festival
s. 12 September
16 September
Dortmund, Konzerthaus
s. 13 September
From 9 – 19 September Kent Nagano and musicians of the OSM will go on tour to the very north of Quebec and will trace a path from the arctic down through Quebec’s interior toward the Côte-Nord. The chamber opera Chaakapesh of the young Canadian composer Matthew Ricketts was commissioned especially for this upcoming tour. 10 years after their first visit, Kent Nagano and the OSM will visit Inuit, Cree and Innu villages and will perform Chaakapesh, composed for five languages (Cree, Inuktitut, Innu, French and English). Cree playwright Tomson Highway provided the idea and wrote the libretto. It is based on a Cree legend, similar to the biblical Noah story. Find here an interview with the composer Matthew Ricketts about the OSM commission.
Find here the performances dates and venues of the tour:
10 September
Kuujjuaq
12 September
Salluit
14 September
Kuujjuarapik
17 September
Oujé-Bougoumou
18 September
Mashteuiatsh
19 September
Uashat mak Mani-Utenam
With the beginning of the fall semester on 4 September 2018, Midori will officially join the Violin Faculty at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. She joins a storied violin lineage and robust community engagement program at Curtis.
During the 2017–18 academic year, Midori already visited Curtis a number of times to give masterclasses, attend student-centered activities, and work with students participating in the school’s community engagement programs and Artist-Citizen courses.
Midori comes to Curtis after 14 years on the faculty of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where she was a distinguished professor, a department chair for eight years, and holder of the esteemed Jascha Heifetz Chair in Violin. She will assume a role as a visiting artist at USC beginning with this semester.
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The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and its Music Director Kent Nagano present this year’s Virée Classique in Montréal from 29 August until 2 September.
The festival will offer concerts with soloists like violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaïa or pianists Paul Lewis and Alexei Volodi.
Find here more information on the concerts and the dates.
The OSM has created a trailer announcing the festival. You can click on it here.