Pierre Boulez News

The world premiere of Alon Nechushtan's 'Loose Winds' for Andalus Ensemble and a concert band will be December 10, 2022 at 8pm at Sally A. Rocker Theater at The Trevor Day School, 312 E. 95th Street, NYC.

The Christmas season is on its way, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine is ready to celebrate with two Joy of Christmas concerts on Friday, December 9 and Saturday, December 10 at 7 pm at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1047 Amsterdam Avenue (at 112th Street). 

After the release of their acclaimed first Ravel album together, fast-rising Mexican-American conductor Robert Treviño and the Basque National Orchestra are set to release a follow-up – 'Ravel 2'. The release comes shortly after the orchestra extended Treviño's tenure as Music Director in perpetuity, and is his fifth collaboration with Ondine.

Austrian violist Thomas Riebl will be performing a rare US concert as part of the Walter W. Naumburg Foundation's distinguished series featuring past winners, Naumburg Looks Back, on Monday, November 7, 2022 at 7:30pm in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.  This concert celebrates the 40th anniversary of Mr. Riebl's winning of the first-ever Naumburg Viola Award in 1982.

Members of Hoff-Barthelson Music School’s Faculty will take the stage to kick-off the 2022-2023 HB Artist Faculty Performance Series on Friday, October 14, 2022, at 7:30 pm in the School’s Joan Behrens Bergman Auditorium.

New Focus Recordings today releases composer Michael Hersch's the script of storms. The album (digital only) features two works by Hersch: cortex and ankle based on texts by Christopher Middleton, and the script of storms based on texts by Fawzi Karim.

Boston Baroque Founding Music Director Martin Pearlman was awarded the Samuel Simons Sanford Medal by the Yale School of Music on September 8, 2022. In his remarks upon receiving the award, Mr. Pearlman noted, “I'm grateful to receive this honor from the Yale School of Music, which was so important in my evolution as an artist.”

Con Vivo Music will present the world premiere of Chilltown Boogie by Alon Nechushtan on Sunday, October 2, 2022 at 12:30pm, beginning at J Owen Grundy Pier. This original new opera is inspired by the events surrounding the formation of Hudson County and Jersey City.

BroadStage is inaugurating a new and engaging chamber music series Sunday Morning Music / Santa Monica curated by award-winning cellist and longtime BroadStage collaborator Antonio Lysy, musical director of the annual Incontri in Terra di Siena Chamber Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy that he founded in 1989. 

Larry Rachleff, former Music Director of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, passed away on  August 8th in Houston, TX. He served as Music Director from 1996-2017 and conducted his final  concerts with the orchestra in May 2017, his farewell as Music Director. That concert featured his wife, mezzo-soprano Susan Lorette Dunn. 

Internationally renowned piano virtuoso Olli Mustonen will make his much-anticipated return to Australia to perform a national tour with the Australian Chamber Orchestra in September.

Highlights of the upcoming season include Osvaldo Golijov's genre-defying Falling Out of Time, performed by members of the Silk Road Ensemble; the world premiere of Houston native jazz drummer and composer Kendrick Scott's Unearthed, inspired by the Sugar Land 95; and the Texas debut of Paris's Ensemble Intercontemporain, founded by composer Pierre Boulez and conducted by Matthias Pintscher.

DACAMERA, the Houston-based presenting and producing organization, announces programming for its 2022/2023 season, encompassing both jazz and chamber music.

Palm Beach Symphony has announced its 2022-2023 Masterworks Season featuring an expanded schedule of six concerts that will feature legendary guest artists drawn from the world’s great stages – violinists Joshua Bell and Sarah Chang, pianists Garrick Ohlsson, Misha Dichter and Maria João Pires and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and more.

The Secret Trio featuring Ismail Lumanovski, Tamer Pinarbasi and Ara Dinkjian, will perform at Roulette, 509 Atlantic Ave at 3rd Ave, Downtown Brooklyn, on Thursday, April 28, 2022 at 7:30pm. Learn more and purchase tickets at https://www.robertbrowningassociates.com/21-22-the-secret-trio.html​​​​​​​.

Tod Machover's visionary opera Schoenberg in Hollywood, will have its European Premiere at the Vienna Volksoper on April 9, with performances through April 24. (The premiere was originally scheduled for April 2020, but postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)

On April 22nd, Naïve Classiques will release an album of six never-before recorded string quartets by 18th century Milanese composer Carlo Monza, performed by violinist Fabio Biondi and members of his Europa Galante ensemble: violinist Andrea Rognoni, violist Stefano Marcocchi, and cellist Alessandro Andriani.

Carnegie Hall today announced new programming that has been added this month to Carnegie Hall+, a new premium subscription video on-demand channel, curated by Carnegie Hall, that offers instant access to unforgettable performances by celebrated artists from renowned stages all around the world.

The 2021-2022 Hoff-Barthelson Music School HB Artist Faculty Performance Series concludes on Friday, April 1, 2022, at 7:30 pm in the School's Joan Behrens Bergman Auditorium, 25 School Lane, Scarsdale, New York. 

James Gaffigan will become the next Music Director of the Komische Oper Berlin, beginning in 2023/24. Susanne Moser, Managing Director and designated Artistic Co-Director, and Philip Bröking, Opera Director and designated Artistic Co-Director, presented the newly appointed Music Director at a press conference on Tuesday morning at the Komische Oper Berlin.