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.
Find here more information on the gala concert.
On 29, 30 and 31 March Kent Nagano will conduct concerts with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Symphony Centre of Chicago.
Works by Wagner, Bernstein and Schumann will be on the program.
Find here more information on the concerts.
On 25 and 26 March 2018, Midori and Omer Meir Wellber, Principal Guest Conductor of the Semperoper Dresden, will play concerts with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden:
25 and 26 March, 20.00 – Dresden, Semperoper
Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden
Ramérez: “Misa Criolla”
Bernstein: Serenade after Plato’s Symposion
Schubert: Mass in G major, D. 167
The concert will be recorded and broadcasted on 27 March at 20.05 on MDR Kultur and MDR Klassik and afterwards be available as a stream on demand and as a loop on the MDR’s webchannel “Klassik im Konzert”.
The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Kent Nagano unveiled the programming for season 2018/19, marking the OSM’s 85. season. At a glance, the season will offer more than 100 concerts, 60 or so programs, 112 artists and 2 tours.
“The OSM’s 85th season is a reflection of the strong Montreal tradition, a musical tradition which has always had a core. This is to say that in our tradition, a symphony is a picture or a metaphor for human life and human experiences. It is a gigantic palette of styles with special connections to the folklore of many countries and regions within. A symphony is “diversity in unity” and it is exactly that which makes up our special social life in both small and large scale. We invite you all to celebrate with us this rich musical tradition.” – states Music Director Kent Nagano.
The first tour in September 2018 will lead the OSM and Kent Nagano to Nunavik, the Far North of Quebec to visit six villages in three nations: Inuit, Innu and Cree. The opera Chaakapesh, The Trickster’s Quest by Tomson Highway and Matthew Ricketts was commissioned for the occasion. The idea of this tour is to share the OSM’s classical music with all the peoples of Quebec and is intended as a meeting point between the different cultures by way of rich and respectful interaction through music. Thus the project will consist of a musical journey from North to South, from Nunavik to the Côte-Nord, by way of Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean and northern Quebec.
A twelfth European tour is on the agenda for March 2019 (11 – 23 March 2019), when the Orchestra will be visiting some of the most highly esteemed concert halls of the great capitals of Europe: Dusseldorf (Tonhalle), Hamburg (Elbphilharmonie), Essen (Philharmonie), Vienna (Konzerthaus), Paris (Philharmonie), Brusells (Palais des Beaux-Arts), Munich (Philharmonie Im Gasteig), Regensburg (University Audimax) and Berlin, at the prestigious Philharmonie. Soloists will be pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Rafał Blechacz as well as Alto Marie-Nicole Lemieux.
In Montréal, Kent Nagano will stand at the rostrum of the orchestra with Bach’s Mass in b minor (4, 5 Dec 2018) and a Brahms Symphony cycle (7 – 10 Feb 2019), among others. Guests of the new OSM season will be violinists Anne-Sophie Mutter and Julian Rachlin, pianists Leif Ove Andsnes, Evgeny Kissin and Daniil Trifonov and the conductors Christoph Eschenbach and François-Xavier Roth, and many more.
Find here the OSM’s program for season 2018/19. And click here for the video trailer of the new season.
Spanish violinist Francisco Fullana receives an Avery Fisher Career Grant 2018. This has officially been announced by the Avery Fisher Artist Program’s Chairman, Joseph W. Polisi, Nancy Fisher, and Charles Avery Fisher.
The Career Grant performances on March 22, 6 pm are recorded for live webstream (click here) and radio broadcast by WQXR, New York’s classical music station, with host Elliott Forrest, and will air on Tuesday, April 24 at 9 pm on 105.9 FM and www.wqxr.org.
Since 1976, 149 Career Grants have been awarded (including this year’s grants), and all recipients are currently active musicians. Former Career Grant recipients include pianists Jonathan Biss and Yuja Wang, clarinetist Anthony McGill, violinists James Ehnes and Hilary Hahn an cellist Alisa Weilerstein.
On 25 March cellist Jan Vogler will give a concert with the Orchestra of the 18th Century conducted by Jonathan Nott in Rotterdam. Together with violinist Thomas Zehetmair they will perform Brahms‘ concerto for violin and violincello in a minor op. 102.
Find here further information about the concert.
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.
Click here to find more information on the concerts.
Kent Nagano and Mari Kodama will perform at the Trans-Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk:
Kent Naganao
9 March, Novosibirsk, Arnold Kats State Concert Hall
Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra
Strauss: “Also sprach Zarathustra”
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Beethoven: Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra
Vadim Repin –Violin, Konstantin Lifschitz – Piano
Mari Kodama
11 March, Novosibirsk, Arnold Kats State Concert Hall
Schumann: Arabeske
Schumann: Piano Quartett E Flat Major
Dvorak: Piano Quintet
Vadim Repin – Violin, Clara-Jumi Kang – Violin, Maxim Rysanov – Viola, Pablo Ferrandez – Violoncello
12 March, Berdsk, Palace of culture “Rodina”
Schumann: Piano Quartett E Flat Major
Dvorak: Piano Quintet
Vadim Repin – Violin, Clara-Jumi Kang – Violin, Maxim Rysanov – Viola, Pablo Ferrandez – Violoncello
You’ll find further information on the concerts here.
Verdi’s Les Vêpres siciliennes, staged by Antú Romero Nunes and conducted by Omer Meir Wellber, will celebrate its premiere on 11 March 2018 at the Bavarian State Opera. It will be Omer Meir Wellber’s first encounter with this rarely performed opera.
Find here further information on the production. The performance on 18 March will be streamed live on STAATSOPER.TV.
In July the opera will be part of the Munich Opera Festival.
From Wednesday, 7 March, American tenor Gregoy Kunde will perform in Verdi’s opera Aida , singing Radames. The production has been put on stage by Hugo de Ana in 1998.
Find here further information.
