News from Primo Artists | Winter 2022
On February 8, Valerie Coleman’s new work “This is Not a Small Voice” was premiered at Carnegie Hall by soprano Angel Blue and Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading The Philadelphia Orchestra. This followed the success of “Seven O’Clock Shout” which opened Carnegie Hall’s 2021/22 Season on October 6 and was also commissioned and premiered by Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra. This summer, Coleman leads wind and composition workshops including Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s new Composition Fundamentals and Woodwind Quintet workshops.
Joshua Bell embarks on a 13-city tour with the Academy of St Martin in the Fields from February 22 to March 14, taking him from Miami to San Francisco. Earlier this month, he performed recitals with pianist Peter Dugan in Santa Barbara and Athens along with a “Voice and the Violin” duo program with soprano Larisa Martínez in Akron. On March 18, Joshua Bell performs at Carnegie Hall in their Annual Isaac Stern Memorial Concert with the Galilee Chamber Orchestra. In the 2023/24 season, Bell premieres a suite of new works entitled The Elements which he will perform with orchestra.
On February 12-13, Christian Reif stepped in for John Storgårds with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra to conduct John Adams’ City Noir and Piazzolla Aconcagua. This week, he leads the Gävle Symphony following successful performances in October. On April 1-3, he conducts the Kansas City Symphony on a program of Joan Tower and Stravinsky, and from April 18 to 24, he leads an opera production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at Juilliard Opera in his New York City opera debut.
Wynton Marsalis has seen the World Premieres of two greatly-anticipated new works in recent months. On December 9, his Tuba Concerto was premiered by The Philadelphia Orchestra, Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and tubist Carol Jantsch at the Kimmel Center. On January 22, Marsalis’ first-ever fanfare was premiered by Xian Zhang leading the New Jersey Symphony at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center for the orchestra’s 100th Anniversary. The fanfare will next be performed by its co-commissioners including the Pittsburgh Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony and Baltimore Symphony.
Seong-Jin Cho begins his North American tour on March 2. He plays seven recitals including at Koerner Hall in Toronto, New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek’s Vilar Performing Arts Center and Houston’s Society for the Performing Arts. He makes his New York Philharmonic subscription debut with Music Director Jaap van Zweden and performs Bartók with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. He culminates his tour on April 7 and 9 in duo recitals in La Jolla and San Francisco with baritone Matthias Goerne, whom he collaborated with on his recent Deutsche Grammophon album.
Gemma New has been busy in North America leading the Atlanta Symphony in concerts on January 20-22 that premiered Joby Talbot’s Ink Dark Moon with guitarist Miloš Karadaglić, the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center on February 3-5 in concerts that premiered Missy Mazzoli’s Violin Concerto with Jennifer Koh, and the New World Symphony on February 11-12. On April 1-2, Gemma makes her debut with the WDR Sinfonieorchester at the Kölner Philharmonie.
