3 Primo Artists featured in Houston Symphony 22/23 Season
The Houston Symphony Orchestra’s 22/23 season features 3 Primo Artists
For Immediate Release
The Houston Symphony and Music Director Juraj Valčuha are announcing today details of the 2022−2023 Season, which marks Valčuha’s inaugural season as music director. Hallmarks of Valčuha’s programming include embracing programmatic themes that unify his multi-week appearances, exploring operatic repertoire in concert alongside great choral works from the symphonic repertoire, continuing to spotlight Houston Symphony musicians as soloists, and welcoming the greatest guest artists in the world to Houston.
The season features return appearances by a plethora of the world’s greatest guest artists such as violinists Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, Elina Vähälä, and Augustin Hadelich; pianists Yefim Bronfman, Stephen Hough, Lise de la Salle, and Jeffrey Kahane; vocalists Ana María Martnez, Sasha Cooke, and Michelle DeYoung; and conductors Jane Glover, Thomas Søndergård, Matthew Halls, and Jukka-Pekka Saraste, as well as guest artists making their Houston Symphony debuts: pianists Katia Buniatishvili, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, violinist Tai Murray, cellist Camille Thomas, shakuhachi soloist Kojiro Umezaki, and conductors Jonathon Heyward, Osmo Vänskä, and Gemma New.
THE 2022−2023 CLASSICAL SEASON
September 23, 24, and 25, 2022, the new Music Director leads the orchestra in Shostakovich’s famed grand musical response to Stalin-era oppression, the Symphony No. 5, as well as the world premiere of an as-yet untitled Houston Symphony commission by Nico Muhly. Violin superstar Joshua Bell joins the concert as soloist in Sibelius’ captivatingly melodic Violin Concerto, the composer’s only concerto.
In the midst of his three-year tenure as Houston Symphony Artistic Partner, Itzhak Perlman is making three appearances in the 2022–2023 season, beginning with his performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Juraj Valčuha conducting, October 20, 22, and 23, 2022. Valčuha leads the orchestra in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s The Bamboula, Rhapsodic Dance for orchestra, as well as the suite from Richard Strauss’ lush, post-Romantic opera Der Rosenkavalier to round out the program.
Perlman returns in recital with his friend and artistic partner pianist Rohan De Silva on February 26, 2023, before coming back in April to conduct the orchestra, soloists to be announced, and the Houston Symphony Chorus in Mozart’s emotionally stirring choral masterpiece, the Requiem Mass, April 2 and 3, 2023.
Rising young New Zealand-born conductor Gemma New makes her Houston Symphony debut alongside cellist Camille Thomas in a true benchmark of the cello repertoire, Elgar’s elegiac Cello Concerto. New also leads the orchestra in Russian-British composer Alissa Firsova’s Bride of the Wind, and they’re joined by the Women of the Houston Symphony Chorus for Gustav Holst’s vividly colorful symphonic suite, The Planets, November 11, 12, and 13, 2022.
Friday September 23 at 8pm
Saturday September 24 at 8pm
Sunday September 25 at 2:30pm
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Joshua Bell, violin
N. MUHLY Houston Symphony Commission, World Premiere
SIBELIUS Violin Concerto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5
Thursday October 20 at 8pm
Saturday October 22 at 8pm
Sunday October 23 at 2:30 pm
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Itzhak Perlman, violin
BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR The Bamboula, Rhapsodic Dance for Orchestra
STRAUSS/RODZINSKI Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Friday November 11 at 8pm
Saturday November 12 at 8pm
Sunday November 13 at 2:30pm
Gemma New, conductor
Camille Thomas, cello
A. FIRSOVA Bride of the Wind
ELGAR Cello Concerto
HOLST The Planets
Sunday February 26 at 2:30pm
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Rohan De Silva, piano
Saturday April 1 at 8pm
Sunday April 2 at 2:30pm
Itzhak Perlman, conductor
Houston Symphony Chorus
MOZART Requiem
To learn more about the season, click here.