July 2022 Artist Updates
Cristian Măcelaru, conductor: Cristian Măcelaru has been announced as Artistic Director of the George Enescu Festival and Competition and will lead the festival for the next three cycles beginning in 2023. This summer, Măcelaru returns to Interlochen’s World Youth Symphony Orchestra on July 10 in his role as Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, the Cabrillo Festival from July 29 to August 7 in his role as Music Director, and makes his Boston Symphony Orchestra debut at Tanglewood on August 14 in a program with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist.
Seong-Jin Cho, piano: This month, Seong-Jin Cho performs Beethoven’s “Emperor” Piano Concerto No. 5 with the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden on July 20 at Bravo! Vail Music Festival. Cho then joins Andris Nelsons and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood on Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 on July 24 before going on to the Hollywood Bowl to perform the “Emperor” Concerto with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic on July 26.
Itzhak Perlman, violin: Itzhak Perlman returns to Tanglewood for the first time in 11 years to perform Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Dima Slobodeniouk conducting, on August 21.
Randall Goosby, violin: Randall Goosby begins his summer festival performances with the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at the Aspen Music Festival on July 8 with Nicholas McGegan followed by an appearance at the Colorado Music Festival of Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 2 and Saint-Saëns’ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso on July 21 and 22. Goosby performs Price’s Second Violin Concerto again at Interlochen on July 31 with Robert Trevino, Price Violin Concerto No. 1 at Brevard Music Festival with Keith Lockhart on August 6, and gives his final U.S. festival performance on August 11 at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performing Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1.
Christian Reif, conductor: In his second season as Music Director of Minnesota’s Lakes Area Music Festival, Christian Reif will lead six different programs over ten concerts this summer. Concert programs feature Mahler’s Symphony No. 5, Sibelius Symphony No. 2, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, newly commissioned works by Elizabeth Ogonek and Isaac Santos, a world premiere by Jimmy López Bellido, and a fully staged production of Strauss’ Ariadne Auf Naxos. The performances take place July 29-31, August 6, 7, 12, 14, 17, 20 and 21.
Gemma New, conductor: On July 14, Gemma New leads a program at the Chautauqua Festival featuring works by Barber, Beethoven, and Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony No. 1. On July 17, she conducts the Orchestra of St. Luke’s at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts on a program of Jessie Montgomery’s Strum, Mozart’s “Haffner” Symphony No. 35 and Brahms Violin Concerto with soloist Karen Gomyo. New then travels to Festival Napa Valley for a fully staged performance of Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore before leading the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra’s Winter Festival for concerts in Wellington on August 5-7 and in Auckland on August 12-14.
James Gaffigan, conductor: James Gaffigan conducts a production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at Santa Fe Opera from July 23 to August 23 with a cast that includes Simon O’Neill, Tamara Wilson and Jamie Barton, directed by Zack Winokur and Lisenka Heijboer Castañón. He also conducts a festival co-commission and New Mexico premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Semafor for Eight Instruments at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival on July 17 and 18.
Incontri in Terra di Siena: Praised as “one of the most enjoyable musical enterprises of the Tuscan summer”, Incontri in Terra di Siena 2022 takes place from July 21-29. In its 34th year, directed by Antonio Lysy with Artistic Director Alessio Bax, the festival based at Villa La Foce in Tuscany continues to spread the appreciation of music and art through concerts, exhibitions and cultural events to be held in the beautiful neighboring towns of the Val d’Orcia. Programs feature Poulenc’s Flute Sonata with Emmanuel Pahud, Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto with James Ehnes, wind quintets by Barber and Milhaud, and the Orchestra Della Toscana.
John-Henry Crawford, cellist: CORAZÓN: The Music of Latin America, a new album by PR client John-Henry Crawford and published by Orchid Classics, entered the charts at No. 5 on this week's Billboard Traditional Classical charts. Gramophone Magazine also premiered a music video from the new album.
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin and conductor: This summer, Dmitry Sitkovetsky travels to Japan, the U.K., Finland, and Slovenia for masterclasses and performances. On July 9-10, Sitkovetsky conducts Schumann’s Genoveva opera overture and performs Brahms’ Violin Concerto in D major with the Yamagata Symphony Orchestra followed by a performance of Shostokovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 at the Petworth Festival on July 19. Back in the U.S., after a nearly 20-year tenure as Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, the 2022/2023 season will be his last, and promises to be a remarkable one with appearances by soloists Michelle Cann, Sergey Antonov, James Ehnes, Trio Zimbalist and Branford Marsalis.
Steve Mackey, composer: On July 23, Steven Mackey’s Eating Greens will close the New Jersey Symphony’s 2022 Edward T. Cone Institute concert in Princeton, where Mackey serves as Director. The Institute is an annual opportunity for selected emerging composers to participate in in-depth sessions with industry leaders and closes with a concert of their works with the New Jersey Symphony. Shortly after, Mackey’s musical theater work Memoir will be performed by the Dover String Quartet, percussionists arx duo, and narrator Natalie Christa at the Kingston Chamber Music Festival in Rhode Island on July 26.
Jerod Tate, composer: PR client Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's MoonStrike for String Quartet, which initially premiered in 2019, was performed on June 24, 2022 at the Miller Outdoor Theatre in Houston by fellow PR client Apollo Chamber Players and the first Native American NASA astronaut, John Herrington. MoonStrike celebrates the Apollo space program and NASA through multicultural new music and art inspired by American Indian moon legends, Turkish folk music, and poetry. Watch Apollo Chamber Players’ Matthew Detrick and John Herrington on KPCC Houston Life.
