Jaap van Zweden Videos

'Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back YOUR New York Philharmonic and Music Director Jaap van Zweden!' President and CEO Deborah Borda announced on stage at their recent reopening concert.

Fifteen lines gush into cascades of sound as Anna Clyne's 'Within Her Arms' reaches a high point. An expression of grief at the loss of her mother, this piece, Clyne writes 'is music for my mother, with all my love.' This work opened the Philharmonic's 2021-22 season marking the Orchestra's return to live subscription performances after 18 months.

In this new series, the legendary New York Philharmonic, America’s first symphonic ensemble, showcases a wide array of orchestral artistry under the batons of electrifying Music Director Jaap van Zweden and longtime Bravo! favorite Bramwell Tovey.  

Today on NYPhil+ Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts Walker’s Lyric for Strings, composed in memory of his grandmother, an escaped slave, and Mozart’s intimate yet epic Gran Partita. The formidable Yefim Bronfman joins Principal Trumpet Christopher Martin in Shostakovich’s uncharacteristically optimistic concerto.

The New York Philharmonic has announced its 2021–22 season, marking the Orchestra’s long-awaited return to subscription performances following an 18-month period of cancellations due to the pandemic. For the first time in modern history the Philharmonic will be performing outside its home for an entire season. 

Watch below the festive and varied kick-off of Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances treats New Yorkers to music by past masters — including the Classical era’s Mozart and Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges — and American sounds, including an uplifting piece by Philharmonic Very Young Composer Ilana Rahim-Braden. Lina González-Granados conducts in her Philharmonic debut.

Tune in tonight at 7 PM ET for the festive and varied kick-off of Bryant Park’s Picnic Performances treats New Yorkers to music by past masters — including the Classical era’s Mozart and Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges — and American sounds, including an uplifting piece by Philharmonic Very Young Composer Ilana Rahim-Braden. Lina González-Granados conducts in her Philharmonic debut.

Watch as composer John Corigliano details his process for composition, mastering tension and release, and how he spends eight months preparing before writing down a single note.

Yefim Bronfman performs Debussy’s “Claire de lune” during Live with Carnegie Hall on April 23, 2020.