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8. February 2018

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.

2. February 2018

Kent Nagano conducts concerts in Elbphilharmonie, together with German lyricist Ulla Hahn (February 2018)

Together with German lyricist Ulla Hahn, Kent Nagano and the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg will perform Franz Schubert’s incidental music of Rosamunde on 4 and 5 February, with texts written by Ulla Hahn specifically for this production and herself as narrator during these concerts. These performances will mark the world premiere of this project.

Find here more information.

1. February 2018

Jan Vogler performs with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra (February 2018)

On 3 February cellist Jan Vogler will be guest at Esplanade Concert Hall in Singapore, performing Shostakovich’s cello concert No. 2 op. 126 with the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carlos Kalmar.

Find more information on the concert here.

29. January 2018

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.

25. January 2018

Kent Nagano conducts revival performances of Stilles Meer and Lulu (January 2018)

Kent Nagano, General Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera, will conduct the revival performances of Alban Berg’s Lulu and of Tosho Hosokawa’s Stilles Meer.

In 2016 (Stilles Meer) and 2017 (Lulu) Nagano premiered both new productions.

The performance dates this season are the following:

Lulu:

27, 30, January, 3, 8 February

Stilles Meer:

31 January, 2, 7 February

Find further information on the webpage of the Hamburg State Opera.

24. January 2018

Debut CD Francisco Fullana: Release Recital in New York (January 2018)

On 17 March 2018 the debut CD “Through the lens of time“ by violinist Francisco Fullana will be presented in the Rose Studio in Lincoln Centre, New York, on the occasion of its release in March 2018 by Orchid Classics.

At the recital Francisco Fullana will perform together with the renowned Metropolis Ensemble, conducted by Andrew Cyr.

Find more information on the event here.

23. January 2018

Omer Meir Wellber gives debut concerts with the Houston Symphony Orchestra (January 2018)

On 25, 27 and 28 January 2018 conductor Omer Meir Wellber will give his debut concerts with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. Together will violinist Simone Lamsma they will perform Britten’s violin concerto. Also on the program will be Mozart’s Ouverture of Idomeneo as well as Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.

Find here further information on the concerts.

19. January 2018

Radio broadcast: Jan Vogler & Manfred Honeck together in concert (January 2018)

On Sunday, 21 January 2018 at 21:05 the concert with cellist Jan Vogler, conductor Manfred Honeck and Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin (from 10 January 2018) at Berlin Philharmonie will be broadcast at Deutschlandfunk.

Among others, the world premiere of Daj Fujikura’s cello concerto was on the program.

Find here more information.

18. January 2018

Gregory Kunde as Peter Grimes in Valencia (January 2018)

American tenor Gregory Kunde is currently rehearsing Benjamin Britten’s opera Peter Grimes at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia. He performs the title role. The revival performance will take place on 1 February. Further performances are on 4, 7, 10 and 13 February.

Find here more information about this production.

Gregory Kunde as Peter Grimes in Valencia.
(c) Miguel Lorenzo / Mikel Ponce

18. January 2018

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.

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