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. 

In a new video from the NY Philharmonic, acting Principal Horn Richard Deane introduces the horn solo in the third movement of Mahler's Symphony No. 5, which he says a?oeruns the gamut of emotional expression, from pathos, tenderness, comedy, aggression, and everything in between.a??

New York Philharmonic has released a video of Jaap van Zweden conducting Act I of Wagner's 'Die Walküre'.

New York Philharmonic musicians won't stop the music. Cellists Sumire Kudo and Nathan Vickery perform the second movement of Barrière's Sonata No. 10 for Two Cellos from miles apart.

The third in a series of video profiles of Project 19 composers created by women filmmakers has been released today.

The first in a series of video profiles of Project 19  composers created by women filmmakers has been released today. Veena Rao's profile of Nina C. Young a?" the first composer whose work the New York Philharmonic is premiering as part of Project 19, the Orchestra's celebration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment through 19 commissions by women composers a?" is available here.

The New York Philharmonic Concerts in the Parks, Presented by Didi and Oscar Schafer, returned for the 54th season of priceless music, absolutely free, in every New York City borough.

Last night Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic gave the World Premiere performance of David Lang's prisoner of the state - a fully staged reimagining of Beethoven's Fidelio, directed by Elkhanah Pulitzer. The program concludes the Orchestra's three-week Music of Conscience series, exploring how composers respond to the social and political issues of their times.

This week baritone Matthias Goerne wraps up his tenure as the 2018–19 Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence, performing John Adams's The Wound-Dresserled by Jaap van Zweden, March 21, 23, and 26.

Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic will mark the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, granting equal voting rights to women, by commissioning works by 19 women. The multi-season initiative will launch with three consecutive weeks in February 2020, each featuring a World Premiere complemented by collaborations with partners across the city.

Tomorrow night, Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic will premiere Pulitzer Prize-winning composerJulia Wolfe's Fire in my mouth, part of New York Stories: Threads of Our City, two weeks of concerts and events examining NYC's roots as a city of immigrants.

Ashley Fure composed Filament as a site-specific work for the opening of the Philharmonic's 2018-19 season, placing the musicians among the audience at David Geffen Hall. Listen to Fure talk about the composition below!