Composer

Experience a rich tapestry of styles, languages, and eras — an ideal introduction or a fresh rediscovery of unforgettable scenes from beloved operas. Selections include Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, and John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles.

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Fall Opera Scenes 2026

Yale University

A performance by violin faculty member Wendy Sharp and pianist Sophiko Simsive.

Wendy Sharp, violin

Start the season with music that speaks for itself. Byron Hitchcock, our concertmaster, shines in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto, a piece full of sweeping melodies inspired by Finland’s landscapes. Corigliano’s Promenade Overture is lively and playful, while Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7 blends drama and heartfelt beauty, showing the composer’s deep connection to his Bohemian roots

Music: The Purest Art

The Lincoln Center

The Festival Strings Lucerne and Daniel Dodds are tying together a delightful garland of the loveliest melodies and dances from the New World in keeping with this summer’s theme, “American Dreams.” Though the program begins with a Czech composer — Antonín Dvořák, with the vibrant and feather-light Scherzo from his Serenade for Strings — it fits perfectly, since Dvořák was the “midwife” who helped American music discover its own identity. The African American composer Florence Price carries his musical language forward: her touching Andante cantabile goes straight to the heart. Also on board is the “Bad Boy of Music,” George Antheil, with a cheeky Allegro from his First Serenade. John Corigliano sends us traveling toward a better world filled with pleasure and brightness in his sonorous Voyage, inspired by Charles Baudelaire’s famous poem L’Invitation au voyage. George Gershwin enchants with a gentle lullaby, and Leonard Bernstein invites us to waltz. And how to top all that? With the Hoe-Down from Aaron Copland’s ballet Rodeo, of course — a square dance in classic country style.

Festival Strings Lucerne | Daniel Dodds | Karl-Heinz Schütz

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Giancarlo Guerrero leads the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s soul-stirring Requiem, left incomplete at the time of the composer’s premature death at 35. Written during the height of the AIDS crisis, John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1 is another requiem of sorts, memorializing friends and colleagues lost to the disease.

Mozart Requiem

Millennium Park

Violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen (’94), guitarist Hao Yang (’22), and cellist Romain-Olivier Gray present a program celebrating America’s 250th anniversary, featuring works by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, George Gershwin, George Rochberg (’48), and others, including a special arrangement of Pat Metheny’s Always and Forever arranged by Curtis guitar faculty member Jason Vieaux.

Gershwin, Corigliano, and more

Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis on Tour in Siasconset, Nantucket, MA

Siasconset Casino Association

CMS’s summer tradition returns for its 11th year. Get the summer’s hottest ticket, featuring favorite chamber music works in the cool atmosphere of Alice Tully Hall. Stay after the performance and get to know the artists in the lobby with a complimentary glass of wine. 

Summer Evenings I 2026

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Known for his bold programming and artistic vision, Artistic Director finalist Michael Lewanski leads a powerful and eclectic program that bridges cultures, eras, and emotions. The evening begins with Carlos Chávez’s energetic Sinfonia India, followed by Jessie Montgomery’s luminous Hymn for Everyone. Acclaimed violinist MingHuan Xu takes center stage in John Corigliano’s haunting Red Violin Chaconne, a work of cinematic beauty and emotional depth. The concert concludes with the striking wit and youthful brilliance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1—a landmark debut from one of the 20th century’s most iconic voices.

Lewanski Conducts Shostakovich

Athenaeum Center for Thought & Culture

Chamber music visionaries, ambassadors, impresarios, and virtuosos—as co-directors of both Music@Menlo and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, cellist David Finckel and pianist Wu Han are a ubiquitous presence on both coasts. The energy they bring to their leadership in the arts is matched only by the powerful synergy of their duo performances.

David Finckel, cello Wu Han, piano

University of California, Berkeley

String Theory

Foothills Performing Arts & Civic Center / Black Hole Studios

Wind Ensemble

Music Building and Recital Hall

Impressive, athletic – and so vivid that individual scenes of our antics will be clearly recognizable: We are looking forward to performing a few lighthearted musical recreations under the direction of Robert Treviño. We will be playing a musical team game composed by Charles Ives, and our audience can look forward to seeing how this "Football Game," complete with woven-in fan chants and a referee's whistle to ensure fair play, unfolds. 

Visiting Erlangen

Heinrich-Lades-Halle

Impressive, athletic – and so vivid that individual scenes of our antics will be clearly recognizable: We are looking forward to performing a few lighthearted musical recreations under the direction of Robert Treviño. We will be playing a musical team game composed by Charles Ives, and our audience can look forward to seeing how this "Football Game," complete with woven-in fan chants and a referee's whistle to ensure fair play, unfolds. The composer himself described the piece as a "caricature in two two-minute halves" and added: "Funny to listen to – but difficult to play!" We will also present the equally witty pranks of Till Eulenspiegel, that profound rogue whom Richard Strauss captured with all manner of mischief – and with such delight, because he wanted to hear "the people in the concert hall really laugh.

Robert Treviño, Janos Wollenweber

Bamberger Symphoniker

Experience music of the late 20th and 21st centuries, including premieres, in the intimate setting of the Rose Studio at CMS.

Sonic Spectrum III

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Wind Ensemble – Donald McKinney, conductor

Auer Hall

Musical Arts Center

We open our 2026 season united in music by American composers John Corigliano, David Amram, and Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson as well as Eduard Grieg's jaunty “Holberg Suite”.

Idealism

Calvary Baptist Church

Prepare for a feast for the senses with this captivating programme. Star percussionist Alexej Gerassimez takes centre stage in Corigliano’s thrilling Concerto ‘Conjurer’, showcasing his artistry on a myriad of instruments, from marimba to cymbals. Each composer offers a unique orchestral palette: Corigliano highlights percussion, Stravinsky focuses on winds, and Bartók blends the full symphonic forces. United by the elemental sounds of wood, metal, skin, and wind, the music feels almost tangible. Under the dynamic baton of Tito Muñoz, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra delivers a performance that will leave you spellbound.

Concerto for percussion

Queen Elisabeth Hall

Beethoven’s Fifth! Opening Weekend

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

A rare performance of Academy Award-winning composer John Corigliano’s The Red Violin by the Eastman Philharmonia, featuring celebrated violinist and Eastman faculty member YooJin Jang, with special guest conductor Jeff Beal ’85E. Corigliano’s lush score follows a mysterious antique violin as it travels through four centuries, impacting all who come in contact with it.

Kodak Hall Series: The Red Violin in Concert

Eastman Theatre

Demarre McGill is internationally recognized as one of today's most compelling flutists as well as celebrated for his lyrical expressiveness and technical prowess. Currently serving as the principal flute of the Seattle Symphony, McGill has also appeared as a soloist with many of the nation’s leading orchestras. This performance is presented in collaboration with SFCM alumni, faculty, and students.

Chamber Music Tuesday with Demarre McGill

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Symphonic Journey Through Time

Kölner Philharmonie

Prepare for a musical journey around the world with the Newfoundland Symphony Orchestra’s Songs of Travel, on October 4, 2025, at 8 pm at the D.F. Cook Recital Hall, MUN—presented by Quidi Vidi Brewery as part of the Sinfonia series and led by conductor Juliane Gallant.

Songs of Travel

Memorial University School of Music

Gustavo Dudamel — the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music and Artistic Director Designate — leads the Orchestra in symphonies separated by centuries, yet equally mining the depths of the human condition. Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony journeys from turmoil to triumph, while American John Corigliano’s First Symphony — called by The New York Times “by turns anguished, hysterical, and deeply moving” — commemorates those lost in the AIDS epidemic.

Dudamel, Beethoven’s Fifth & Corigliano

David Geffen Hall

Join us for an evocative evening of orchestral storytelling featuring Barber’s nostalgic Knoxville: Summer of 1915 and Beethoven’s electrifying Symphony No. 7. Barber’s lyrical setting captures the innocence and wonder of childhood on a summer evening, while Beethoven’s rhythmic masterpiece pulses with dance-like energy from start to finish. Experience these two powerful works up close—and hear them like never before!

Barber Knoxville Summer of 1915 and Beethoven Symphony No. 7

Christ the King Lutheran Church

Heritage Fellowship Church

For more than 50 years, music lovers have flocked to Carnegie Hall for the chance to hear Emanuel Ax in recital. In this performance, he treats listeners to musical fantasies by Beethoven, Robert Schumann, and more. Beethoven’s experimental pair of Op. 27 sonatas includes what is most popularly known as the “Moonlight” Sonata—but both pieces were originally marked “Sonata quasi una fantasia” by the composer. Between these sonatas, Ax performs John Corigliano’s Fantasia on an Ostinato, an explorative piece based on an unusual passage from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. The program’s second half comprises works by Robert Schumann, including the ever-popular Arabeske in C Major and the Fantasy in C Major—dedicated to fellow virtuoso Franz Liszt—which is one of the Romantic repertoire’s most demanding masterpieces, featuring a movement the composer professed as being “the most passionate I have ever composed.”

Emanuel Ax, Piano

Carnegie Hall

You’ve never seen an opera like this before. Step inside a world of fantasy, hilarity, and boundless imagination as Shepherd School Opera Department presents John Corigliano’s mesmerizing The Ghosts of Versailles. As the curtain rises, we encounter the ghosts of King Louis XVI’s court, including Marie Antoinette who is still haunted by the memory of her execution. Her favorite playwright tries to lift her spirits with an opera featuring the beloved characters from Rossini’s The Barber of Seville and Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. As the “opera within an opera” unfolds, realities blend, worlds collide, and events take an unexpected turn. An evening of spectacle, suspense, laugh-out-loud humor, and astonishing emotional poignancy awaits in this grand celebration of the power of opera.

*Sold Out* John Corigliano’s The Ghosts of Versailles

Brockman Hall For Opera

Shostakovich’s Fifth journeys from haunting depths to its famously ambiguous finale. Saxophone virtuoso Timothy McAllister is the soloist in John Corigliano’s Triathlon, which was written for him. With movements centered on soprano, alto, and baritone saxophones, the piece requires — in the composer’s words — “three feats of high athletic prowess.” Cindy McTee’s Double Play is inspired by mid-20th-century big-band jazz.

Slatkin Conducts Shostakovich’s Fifth

From Corigliano, “This a capella choral work, composed in 1971, is a setting of Richard Wilbur’s translation of Baudelaire’s L’Invitation au Voyage. Wilbur’s poignant setting pictures a world of obsessive imagination — a drugged vision of heaven full of sensual imagery. The music echoes the quality of the repeated refrain found in this lush translation: ‘There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, richness, quietness and pleasure.’”

Voyages

St. Stephen's Episcopal Church

The 222

St. Mark's Lutheran Church, San Francisco

All University of Texas at Austin students are allowed one free ticket as long as they are available. Student tickets must be picked up at the Box Office with valid student I.D. Seating is unassigned.

Symphony Orchestra

The University of Texas at Austin

In a Columbus Symphony co-commission, cellist Sterling Elliott performs famed composer John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria for solo cello and orchestra. Rossen leads the orchestra in Beethoven’s sweeping third symphony, the ‘Eroica,’ or “Heroic” Symphony, written in a time of great personal despair for Beethoven as he faced the loss of his hearing while still resolving to push the boundaries of the symphonic genre.

Beethoven’s Eroica

Ohio Theatre

At our New Year's Eve and New Year's concerts we will bring you into the New Year in high spirits - together with the exceptional 20-year-old talent from Bochum, the excellent violinist Darius Preuß.

New Year's concerts

Bochumer Symphoniker

Rice Chorale is one of the oldest ensembles on campus, comprised of voice and music majors and other talented singers from Rice University and the greater Houston community. 

Rice Chorale

Alice Pratt Brown Hall

The KSO celebrates the Mexican festival Day of the Dead. Audience/musician face-painting, masks, candles and a large public ofrenda add to the atmospheric, ominous opuses the KSO will perform a frightfully fun evening of classics, premieres and Hispanic favorites and culture.

Sinister Sonorities

Greaves Concert Hall

“His greatness, his overwhelming authority as musician, technician and probing intellect emerges quickly as he plays. Within minutes we are totally captured by his intensity and pianistic achievement.” - Los Angeles Time

Emanuel Ax

Soka Performing Arts Center

Settle in as the world’s most electrifying artists and ensembles converge at Davies Symphony Hall. Beloved pianist Emanuel Ax, a regular on San Francisco Symphony concerts, returns for an intimate recital.


Emanuel Ax Piano Recital

Davies Symphony Hall

Beethoven’s groundbreaking C-minor Piano Trio kicks off a rousing evening alongside early pieces by two later composers: Johannes Brahms, whose G-minor Piano Quartet brims with youthful and expressive energy, and John Corigliano, who wrote a captivating work inspired by a rich and imaginative poem by Dylan Thomas.

Beethoven, Corigliano, and Brahms

Lincoln Center

**Event: Beethoven, Corigliano, and Brahms - Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center**

**Date & Time:** Friday, October 25, 2024, at 7:30 PM  
**Duration:** 2 hours, including intermission  
**Venue:** Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway at W 65th St, New York, NY 10023  

**Program Highlights:**  
- **Ludwig van Beethoven:** Trio in C minor for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 1, No. 3 (1794-95)  
- **John Corigliano:** CMS Commission, Poem in October for Tenor, Winds, Strings, and Harpsichord (1970)  
- **Johannes Brahms:** Quartet No. 1 in G minor for Piano, Violin, Viola, and Cello, Op. 25 (1860-61)  

**Featuring Artists:**  
- **Paul Appleby**, Tenor  
- **Juho Pohjonen**, Piano  
- **Sahun Sam Hong**, Harpsichord  
- **Stella Chen & Chad Hoopes**, Violin  
- **Paul Neubauer**, Viola  
- **Dmitri Atapine**, Cello  
- **Sooyun Kim**, Flute  
- **James Austin Smith**, Oboe  
- **Tommaso Lonquich**, Clarinet  

**About the Event:**  
Immerse yourself in an evening of classical music mastery with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This concert kicks off with Beethoven’s groundbreaking C-minor Piano Trio, setting the stage for a rousing journey through the early pieces of Johannes Brahms and a captivating work by John Corigliano inspired by Dylan Thomas's imaginative poetry. Join us at Alice Tully Hall for a night where the past and present converge in a celebration of chamber music’s enduring beauty.

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Join us for a memorable night of music that spans the ages, from Beethoven's profound contributions to the chamber music repertoire to the modern reflections of Corigliano and Brahms's youthful energy.

Pianist Alexander Gadjiev explores captivating solo works by Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin and Corigliano in this lunchtime concert.

New Generation Artists: Alexander Gadjiev

LSO St Luke's

The two sonatas of Beethoven’s Opus 27, rarely heard together, throw the form’s rules aside: tempo, structure, and flow are at the composer’s whim. Ax pairs the two works with Schumann's exquisite Arabeske, and his virtuosic showpiece Fantasie in C Major, dedicated to Liszt and published to raise funds for a statue of Beethoven in Bonn. Corigliano's Fantasia on an Ostinato reflects on an unconventional passage from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony to create a modern-day showpiece.

Emanuel Ax, piano

New England Conservatory of Music

Groton Hill Music Center

The two sonatas of Beethoven’s Opus 27, rarely heard together, throw the form’s rules aside: tempo, structure, and flow are at the composer’s whim. Ax pairs the two works with Schumann’s exquisite Arabeske, and his virtuosic showpiece Fantasie in C Major, dedicated to Liszt and published to raise funds for a statue of Beethoven in Bonn. Corigliano’s Fantasia on an Ostinato reflects on an unconventional passage from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony to create a modern-day showpiece.

Celebrity Series of Boston presents Emanuel Ax

Giancarlo Guerrero explores the range of emotions of art borne from grief. After visiting a friend’s posthumous art exhibit, Mussorgsky exclaimed “Ideas, melodies, come to me of their own accord.” He penned Pictures at an Exhibition with a feverish intensity, and the result is a work that showcases the virtuosity found within the orchestra. Sasha Cooke joins us for One Sweet Morning, John Corigliano’s achingly beautiful song cycle written to commemorate the tenth anniversary of 9/11.

Pictures at an Exhibition

Shermerhorn Symphony Center

Student Recital: Haley Rasmussen

Carnegie Mellon University

Reflections on a legendary story. The 1720 Red Mendelssohn Stradivarius violin is said to be one of the world’s most legendary instruments. Its mysterious history and whereabouts after it went missing for 200 years, has inspired much speculation, and many tellings of its story, including the 1998, Academy Award winning film, The Red Violin. And the story of how it came into the hands of its current owner? It’s just as fascinating. Join us for a performance by world-renowned violin virtuoso, and longtime keeper of The Red Violin, Elizabeth Pitcairn, who, along with her legendary instrument, will lead the ASO Chamber Ensemble in performing captivating arrangements from the now famous movie. This concert will double both as the Season 39 finale, as well as the premiere for ASO’s first-ever international debut, a 10-day concert tour of Poland, where the Symphony will travel with Pitcairn and her Red Violin, performing at some of the country’s most prestigious concert halls and music festivals.

The Red Violin

St. Mary Catholic Church

Tonight’s program is focused on the inter- and intrapersonal impacts of the noun sanctuary. The two selected works, both by Pulitzer Prize winning composers, are Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands (2016) and John Corigliano’s Fern Hill (1999).

NEC Chamber Singers and Symphonic Choir: Great Music for a Great Space - Sanctuary

New England Conservatory

Exuberant moods were the norm in Vienna around 1900. Everyone lived out their carefree confidence in their own way. Some lost themselves in work: brushstroke by brushstroke, letter by..

euphoria

Mannheimer Rosengarten

Gastkonzert

Festhalle Wörth

Collaborative piano students of Jeanne Kierman Fischer

A performance by the Oberlin College Choir and the Oberlin Chamber Singers conducted by Gregory Ristow '01 in Warner Concert Hall. This program features a new work by Associate Professor of Horn Jeff Scott.

Concert: Oberlin College Choir and Oberlin Chamber Singers

Oberlin College

This performance reflects the diversity of the featured composers, including three women (women composers are still a relatively small percentage of the professional composer population), and brings attention to newer orchestral music that extends beyond a typical classical performance.

Symphony Orchestra and Camerata Chamber Orchestra, featuring Lilyanne Dorilas, violin: Divergent Voices

Maltz Performing Arts Center

American Beats

Merrill Auditorium

Nancy Zhou, violin

Bowes Center

Ravel’s homage-with-a-twist to Johann Strauss, Jr. imagines a mid-19th century imperial court with couples dancing and whirling in a voluptuous waltz that ends in a wild, shattering climax. Cellist Sterling Elliott–whose stellar stage presence and joy in music-making—solos in John Corigliano’s Phantasmagoria, a sort of “phantasy” on his opera Ghosts of Versailles, arranged for him by the composer. Rachmaninoff’s kaleidoscopic Symphonic Dances, his last—and many say his greatest—work, includes a haunting alto saxophone, mysterious tubular bells, allusions to Russian Orthodox chants, a thundering Dies irae from the Mass for the Dead, and a shadowy, eerie waltz that seems to echo the darker harmonies of La valse that opens our concert.

Rachmaninoff & Ravel

Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts

Chooi Brothers, violins

Tucson Convention Center

Former concert master of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nikki Choi performs with his brother Timothy Choi, Queen Elisabeth Silver Medal winner. They will perform with pianist Clayton Stephenson, finalist at the 2022 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Two violins and piano

Rio Salado Park

Piano Department Recital

Anna Murphy, Flute – Doctoral Ensemble Recital

Our Saviour's Lutheran Church

In an exuberant takeoff to this program, John Corigliano’s playful STOMP features Sarasota Orchestra enjoying a “stomping” good time! Violinist Randall Goosby, who has wowed audiences since his debut at age nine, joins Johannes Debus and the Orchestra in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 3. Composed when Mozart was only 19, the work has long been a favorite of both violinists and listeners. Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3 evokes the sweeping beauty of the Scottish landscape with swaggering tunes.

The Scottish

Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall

San Francisco Choral Society

Calvary Presbyterian Church

The Cathedral of Christ the Light

Fall 2023 Concert

The LO welcomes famed guest conductor JoAnn Falletta for a program that is sure to captivate. The concert begins with one of Richard Strauss’s uplifting tone poems based on the German trickster, Till Eulenspiegel. The John Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto will be performed by our very own principal clarinetist, Andrea Levine. Followed by a spectacular performance of Debussy’s Ibéria. And our grand finale? Always a crowd-pleaser: the sensuous Bolero by Maurice Ravel.

Classics: Bolero & Friends

The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts

The LO welcomes famed guest conductor JoAnn Falletta for a program that is sure to captivate. The concert begins with one of Richard Strauss’s uplifting tone poems based on the German trickster, Till Eulenspeigel. The John Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto will be performed by our very own principal clarinetist, Andrea Levine. Followed by a spectacular performance of Debussy’s Ibéria. And our grand finale? Always a crowd-pleaser: the sensuous Bolero by Maurice Ravel.

Nightlites: Bolero & Friends

Indiana University Southeast

The LO welcomes famed guest conductor JoAnn Falletta for a program that is sure to captivate. The concert begins with one of Richard Strauss’s uplifting tone poems based on the German trickster, Till Eulenspiegel. The John Corigliano’s Clarinet Concerto will be performed by our very own principal clarinetist, Andrea Levine. And our grand finale? Always a crowd-pleaser: the sensuous Bolero by Maurice Ravel.

Coffee: Bolero & Friends

In Tchaikovsky’s native Russia, “pathétique” suggests impassioned suffering, an eerily suitable description for the psychological drama depicted in his final symphony. His death only nine days after the symphony’s premiere gives added weight to this defining work of the Romantic period.

Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 with Peter Oundjian

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Reprising a triumphant 2022 San Francisco Symphony premiere, Giancarlo Guererro and Timothy McAllister bring us John Corigliano’s aptly named Triathlon — an athletic feat, with McAllister switching among three saxophones. The San Francisco Chronicle raved “it grabbed a listener’s attention…and lingered long in the memory...” Respighi’s Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome — sweeping pictorials of his native Italy — round out this program that opens with a favorite Mozart overture.

Triathlon + Foundations and Pines of Rome

The SSSO launches their ’23-’24 season with two concerts featuring guest pianist Philip Edward Fisher in Barber’s “Piano Concerto, Op. 38,” Corigliano’s “Elegy (1965),” music from John Williams’ “Lincoln” and the Suite from Copland’s “Billy the Kid.”

Concert I: American Legends

Proctors Theatre

Music's Magic

MassBay Community College

Imagine as an aspiring tennis pro, you get an hour on the court with Venus Williams or Rafael Nadal. Or, as an early career golf talent, hitting the links with Tiger Woods? x2 is the classical music version of this dream – realized before a live audience. This unique series features our Academy Artists paired with the brilliant 2023 fellows – the energy is explosive as emerging talents dance with legends.

x2: Jake Heggie & Brahms Piano Quintet

Music Academy of the West

Eclectic Series: Richard Danielpour, Fazil Say, Julia Adolphe, Fanny Mendelssohn, John Corigliano, Beethoven / Inna Faliks

Bargemusic

Join us for the Season Finale of the Esprit Orchestra's 40th Anniversary Season, a night of evocative music and world premieres, set to take place on Sunday, April 23, 2023, at Koerner Hall, The Royal Conservatory of Music, located at 273 Bloor St W. The evening begins with a pre-concert chat at 7:15 pm, followed by the concert at 8:00 pm.

Under the baton of Music Director and Conductor Alex Pauk, and featuring RBC Associate Composer/Conductor Eugene Astapov and violinist Aaron Schwebel, this concert promises an unforgettable auditory journey. The program includes Max Richter’s "The Four Seasons Recomposed 2012" for Spring and Winter, with Aaron Schwebel bringing the violin parts to life. Eugene Astapov presents a World Premiere, "Burial Rites: In Memoriam Marcus Gibbons 2023," a tribute to a late, cherished teenage piano student. Chris Paul Harman offers a whimsical look at Clementi with "Clementi sottosopra," and John Corigliano’s "Symphony No. 1 1988" provides a profound commemoration of friends lost during the AIDS crisis.

This final concert not only showcases the innovative spirit of the Esprit Orchestra but also commemorates the talent and memories of those we've lost. The evening is supported by the generous contributions of the RBC Foundation, SOCAN Foundation, and Sofia Gomez Gibbons.

Don't miss this powerful conclusion to a season of spectacular performances. Share the experience with friends and family, and stay up-to-date with Esprit Orchestra’s offerings and future events.

Season Finale

The Royal Conservatory of Music

Transform your playing in the heart of the Bay Area music scene. About 50 students study violin at SFCM, learning from world-class faculty members, including the concertmasters of the nearby San Francisco Symphony, Opera, and Ballet ensembles. As a violinist at SFCM, you’ll perform with your peers, explore new possibilities for your instrument, and develop your voice through music from the baroque to the new.

Erika Aoki, violin - Second Year Master's Recital

​Glen Cortese, guest conductor  |  Miranda Cuckson, violin

The George Washington Masonic National Memorial

BMOP presents the East Coast premiere of composer John Corigliano and librettist Mark Adamo's striking new opera, The Lord of Cries. Weaving Bram Stoker's Dracula with Euripides's tragedy The Bacchae, Corigliano and Adamo lead the listener through a fever dream of ecstasy and ruin set in Victorian England. Featuring GRAMMY® Award-winning countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as the supernatural Dionysus-cum-Dracula, Lord of Cries reimagines timeless themes for contemporary audiences.

The Lord of Cries

John Corigliano long resisted writing a symphony, seeing it as a form that served a composer’s ego over the audience and performers. At the height of the AIDS crisis, Corigiliano overcame that hesitation and wrote his Symphony No. 1 as a way to memorialize friends lost to the epidemic. Though he was a member of the so-called “Silent Generation,” Corigliano’s symphony served as influential composition for those coming of age in symphonic circles when it premiered in 1990. In this Gen X program curated by Thomas Adès, the milestone Symphony No. 1 is paired with music by Andrew Norman and Jonathan Bailey Holland.

Corigliano and Norman

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero makes his SF Symphony debut with a program of Symphony premieres highlighting some of the most captivating 20th and 21st century music from the Americas. Works by Adolphus Hailstork, Antonio Estévez, and Astor Piazzolla paint vivid scenes of a bustling Virginia port, rolling Venezuelan countryside, and raucous Argentine tango club. Timothy McAllister, one of the greatest classical saxophonists of his generation, takes center stage for John Corigliano’s Saxophone Concerto, an SF Symphony commission and world premiere

Composer

John Corigliano

Events

Upcoming events

Nov 12, 2026

Joshua Bell and Peter Dugan · Teatro La Fenice

Nov 17, 2026

Joshua Bell violin; Peter Dugan piano · Wigmore Hall

Dec 5, 2026

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra · Northwestern Bienen School of Music

22 - 23 Jan, 2027

Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto · Minnesota Orchestra

Apr 15, 2027

A Night in Hollywood · Symphony Arlington

Past events

Oct 30 - Nov 1, 2026

Fall Opera Scenes 2026 · Yale School of Music

Oct 18, 2026

Wendy Sharp, violin · Yale School of Music

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