NJPAC To Include London Symphony Orchestra, Renee Fleming and More!

Recognized the world over not only by their bold-face names, but especially by their superb talents, the artists headlining New Jersey Performing Arts Center's 2016-17 Classical season validate the Arts Center as the state's most diverse and artistically excellent presenter.

NJPAC's previously announced Bank of America Classical Series gets under way on October 29 with pianist Yuja Wang and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, in a program of Wagner, Ravel and Shostakovich. Other concerts include:
• Renée Fleming in recital, November 4
• Mozart for Thanksgiving, November 27. The Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra,
conducted by Matthew Halls. Radovan Vlatkovich on horn.
• Budapest Festival Orchestra, all-Beethoven program with pianist Richard Goode,
February 4, 2017. Iván Fischer, conductor.
• Orchestre National de Lyon, conducted by Leonard Slatkin, February 19, 2017.
Guest soloist George Li on piano. Works by Ravel, Slatkin, Liszt and Berlioz.
• Munich Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev conducting and pianist Pierre-Laurent
Aimard, April 2, 2017. Beethoven's "Eroica" and works by Strauss and Ravel.

Get your tickets now at NJPAC.org or 888.GO.NJPAC (888.466.5722)

Renée Fleming

Friday, November 4, 2016 8pm
Tickets: $24 - $109
Prudential Hall

Hers is a voice of uncommon radiance. The voice of our time. Experience the exquisite Renée Fleming-in recital, in the acoustic splendor of Prudential Hall.

Hers is a voice of uncommon radiance. The voice of our time. Experience the exquisiteRenée Fleming - in recital, in the acoustic splendor of Prudential Hall. "America's reigning diva for more than a decade now. The Beautiful Voice soared, swelled and glistened in recital. The shining freshness that grabbed everyone's attention when she was just coming onto the scene ..." (Washington Post).

Event Link: http://www.njpac.org/events/detail/renee-fleming-in-recital

Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra: Mozart for Thanksgiving

Matthew Halls, Conductor
Radovan Vlatkovich, Horn

Sunday, November 27, 2016 3pm
Tickets: $39.00 - $99.00
Prudential Hall

The authentic Mozart sound direct from his hometown of Salzburg, in a concert also featuring Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His was a genius that revealed itself early, developed swiftly, and vanished all too soon. The authentic Mozart sound direct from his hometown of Salzburg, in a concert also featuring Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Share the magic of Mozart with family and on Thanksgiving weekend!

Program:
Mozart: Jupiter Symphony
Mozart: Horn Concerto TBA
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Event Link: http://www.njpac.org/events/detail/mozart-for-thanksgiving

Handel's Messiah

George Manahan, Conductor
New Jersey Symphony Chamber Orchestra
Members of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Featured Soloists
Montclair State University Singers

Sunday, December 18, 2016 3pm
Tickets: $24 - $89
Prudential Hall

One of the most magnificent achievements in music, Handel's Messiah is an annual holiday season must for music lovers everywhere.

This iconic, centuries-old oratorio has come to be known as Handel's masterpiece. TheMessiah has become a Christmas tradition, even though in 1742 it was introduced as a work commemorating Easter. A soaring showpiece for chorus, soloists and orchestra, considered one of the most majestic compositions in Western music, Messiah is a soul-stirring way to celebrate Advent.

Event Link: http://www.njpac.org/events/detail/handels-messiah-1

Budapest Festival Orchestra
Iván Fischer, Conductor
Richard Goode, Piano

Saturday, February 4, 2017 8pm
Tickets: $39.00 - $99.00
Prudential Hall

The acclaimed Budapest Festival Orchestra performs the Fifth Symphony in an all-Beethoven program featuring pianist Richard Goode.

No other musical statement can match its raw power and bracing energy. The acclaimedBudapest Festival Orchestra performs Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, concluding this all-Beethoven program featuring legendary pianist Richard Goode. For two nights, The New York Times raved, "There was no better orchestra on the planet." Played under the inspired leadership of one of its founders, Iván Fischer.

Program:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 1, Piano Concerto No. 2, and Symphony No. 5

Event Link: http://www.njpac.org/events/detail/all-beethoven-with-richard-goode

Orchestre National de Lyon

Leonard Slatkin, Conductor
George Li, Piano

Sunday, February 19, 2017 3pm
Tickets: $24 - $99
Prudential Hall

Pianist George Li, Tchaikovsky Competition silver medalist for 2015, performs Liszt's famously challenging Piano Concerto No. 1. Leonard Slatkin, the orchestra's music director, conducts Berlioz's vivid Symphonie Fantastique.

Twenty-year-old George Li is one of five recipients of a 2016 Avery Fisher Career Grant. He recently returned from Russia, where he performed as part of the Stars on Baikalconcert showcasing the winners of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition. Li was among the soloists who participated in Folk, Form, and Fire, an evening of Prokofiev's piano concertos at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. The NJPAC program also includes Ravel's poetic Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie and Leonard Slatkin's Kinah, a musical elegy dedicated to his musician parents. "Mr. Li's playing combined youthful abandon with utter command." (The New York Times).

Program:
Ravel: Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie
Slatkin: Kinah
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Event Link: http://www.njpac.org/events/detail/orchestre-national-de-lyon

Munich Philharmonic

Valery Gergiev, Conductor
Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano

Sunday, April 2, 2017 7pm
Tickets: $24 - $109
Prudential Hall

Valery Gergiev conducts Beethoven's mighty Symphony No. 3, the "Eroica." And the brilliant Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns to perform Ravel's astonishing Piano Concerto for the Left Hand.

NJPAC favorite Valery Gergiev returns to conduct one of music's towering achievements-Beethoven's mighty Symphony No. 3, the "Eroica." Plus, the brilliant Pierre-Laurent Aimard returns to perform Ravel's astonishing Piano Concerto for the Left Hand. "He takes exploration to exhilarating extremes," says The New York Times.

Program:
Strauss: Don Juan
Ravel: Piano Concerto in D (for the Left Hand)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica")

Event Link: http://www.njpac.org/events/detail/gerviev-conducts-beethovens-eroica