Robert Spano News

Back by popular demand - Apollo's Fire reprises its latest creative crossover program by Artistic Director Jeannette Sorrell, in collaboration with guest co-director Nell Snaidas.  “Sephardic Journey: Wanderings of the Spanish Jews” premiered in five sold-out concerts in February 2014.  The program will be performed during February 4-7 at several venues, including an important debut at the new Maltz Performing Arts Center of Case Western Reserve University. The performances will coincide with a highly anticipated release of the program on CD, for British record label AVIE.

On the heels of raising approximately $17 million of its $25 million Musicians' Endowment Campaign goal, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Robert Spano are announcing the appointment of three new musicians for the 2015-16 season.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) celebrates the 2015 holiday season with a wide variety of concert programming, from the traditional annual performances of Handel's Messiah with the Concert Artists of Baltimore to a one-of-a-kind experience that pairs world-class acrobats and gymnasts with music by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, in an exciting program titled Cirque de la Symphonie.

Celebrity Series of Boston will present What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and soprano Emily Albrink in All the Things You Are, American song from Kern to Copland and beyond today, November 6, 2015 at 8pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA. Sponsored by Amy and Joshua Boger, and the D.L. Saunders Real Estate & Hotel Investors Group, AMO.

Spread throughout intimate venues in Savannah's historic district, the 2016 Savannah Music Festival (SMF) lineup covers folk, traditional, popular, serious and studied music by renowned artists from across the globe.

In November the Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will take audiences everywhere from 'Innerspace' to a galaxy far, far away.

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra today announced that the organization has raised approximately $17 million of the $25 million goal for its Musicians' Endowment Campaign, meeting the Woodruff Arts Center matching gift goal in less than a year. The Musicians' Endowment Campaign is a key component of the $100 million Transformation Campaign launched by the Woodruff Arts Center in April.

Celebrity Series of Boston will present What Makes It Great? with Rob Kapilow and soprano Emily Albrink in All the Things You Are, American song from Kern to Copland and beyond on Friday, November 6, 2015 at 8pm at NEC's Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston, MA. Sponsored by Amy and Joshua Boger, and the D.L. Saunders Real Estate & Hotel Investors Group, AMO.

The Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will start October with three concerts featuring Music Director Robert Spano conducting Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, 'Emperor' featuring pianist Jonathan Biss. The performances will take place tonight, October 1, 2015, 8:00 p.m., October 2, 2015, 6:30 p.m. and October 3, 2015, 8:00 p.m. at Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. This is the first weekend of the Orchestra's Mostly Beethoven Festival, which will run through November 21, 2015.  

The Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will start October with three concerts featuring Music Director Robert Spano conducting Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra and Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5, "Emperor" featuring pianist Jonathan Biss. The performances will take place October 1, 2015, 8:00 p.m., October 2, 2015, 6:30 p.m. and October 3, 2015, 8:00 p.m. at Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center. This is the first weekend of the Orchestra's Mostly Beethoven Festival, which will run through November 21, 2015.  

Lyric Opera of Kansas City General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler today announced the four conductors for the 2015-2016 season in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Gary Thor Wedow (pictured, left, Mozart's Don Giovanni), and David Charles Abell (Bizet's Carmen) will be returning to the Lyric Opera. Alexander Polianichko (Dvorak's Rusalka) and Christopher Allen (Donizetti's The Elixir of Love) will be making their Lyric Opera debut.

Music Director Robert Spano will conduct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's premiere of Avner Dorman's Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony tonight and tomorrow, September 24 and September 26, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. at Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center.

ATLANTA – Music Director Robert Spano will conduct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's premiere of Avner Dorman's Spices, Perfumes, Toxins! and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony on September 24 and September 26, 2015 at 8:00 p.m. at Atlanta Symphony Hall at the Woodruff Arts Center.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Board Chair D. Kirk Jamieson today announced that Jennifer Barlament has accepted the position of Executive Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Barlament is currently the General Manager of The Cleveland Orchestra. She will begin in January 2016. She was selected after an international search overseen by a committee appointed by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Board of Directors, led by Vice Chair Tom Wardell.

Music Director Thierry Fischer and President & CEO Melia Tourangeau today announced the Utah Symphony's 2015-16 classical season programs and events celebrating the Orchestra's 75th anniversary.

The Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra is today releasing its sixth recording titled 'Christopher Theofanidis Creation/Creator' on its record label, ASO Media.  

Lyric Opera of Kansas City General Director and CEO Deborah Sandler today announced the four conductors for the 2015-2016 season in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Gary Thor Wedow (pictured, left, Mozart's Don Giovanni), and David Charles Abell (Bizet's Carmen) will be returning to the Lyric Opera. Alexander Polianichko (Dvorak's Rusalka) and Christopher Allen (Donizetti's The Elixir of Love) will be making their Lyric Opera debut.

Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, proudly announces its 24th season under Music Director Jeannette Sorrell.  Fresh from a series of highly prestigious international engagements this summer, Apollo's Fire enters a new era as one of Northeast Ohio's two world-class orchestras.  Following the ensemble's triumphant debut at the Tanglewood Festival in July, the press remarked simply: “Apollo's Fire conquered Tanglewood. The encore truly brought the house down.” (The Boston Music Intelligencer).  With AF's  already sold-out BBC Proms and Aldeburgh Festival debuts both slated for this August, “Apollo's Fire under the direction of Sorrell has put Cleveland firmly on the period-performance map” (The New Yorker). Cleveland's Baroque orchestra is setting the classical world Aflame. Surely some of those [tour audiences] are now jealous of Cleveland” (The Cleveland Plain Dealer).

The Grammy Award-winning Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus will hold auditions for the 2015-16 season August 23 and 24, 2015. 

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will perform an American Salute at Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre at Encore Park on Sunday, September 27, 2015, 7:00 p.m. ASO Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Orchestra in a program of American classics, including selections from Bernstein's West Side Story and Candide, Gershwin's An American in Paris, John Williams' Star Wars, and other American musical selections.