Artist Updates from Primo Artists

Joel Thompson, composer:?Primo Artists announces the signing of composer Joel Thompson for worldwide general management, effective immediately.?Thompson has been commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Aspen Music Festival, Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Master Chorale, Atlanta Master Chorale, San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, Kansas City Symphony, American Composers Forum, Sphinx Organization’s EXIGENCE Vocal Ensemble (of which he is a founding member), amongst others.

Itzhak Perlman, violin: Itzhak Perlman opens the Richmond Symphony Orchestra's 2024-2025 season with a pair of performances featuring his signature John Williams orchestral program, titled Cinema Serenade on September 14 and his multimedia stand-alone program,?An Afternoon with Itzhak Perlman on September 15. He opens the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in their opening night gala on Cinema Serenade with Music Director?Manfred Honeck on September 21. On September 29, he opens the Harriman-Jewell?season?with his popular?klezmer program, In the Fiddler’s House.

Seong-Jin Cho, piano: Seong-Jin Cho plays the opening weekend concerts of The Philadelphia Orchestra's 2024-2025 season with Music Director?Yannick Nézet-Séguin, performing?Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 from September 27 to 29.

Joshua Bell, violin:?Joshua Bell plays the opening night of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's 2024-2025 season with Music Director JoAnn Falletta on September 28?to celebrate her 25th anniversary with the orchestra.

Gemma New, conductor: In her role as Artistic Advisor and Principal Conductor, Gemma New leads the?New Zealand Symphony Orchestra?in the?World Premiere of Lyell Cresswell’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with pianist Stephen De Pledge, alongside Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony.

Christian Reif, conductor:?Christian Reif commences his second season as Chief Conductor at the G?vle Symphony?Orchestra in Sweden on September 13. He conducts the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Bucharest in the Enescu Competition Piano Competition Finale on September 22.

Randall Goosby, violin: Randall Goosby performs in a coast-to-coast tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Conductor Edward Gardner in October. He plays Barber’s Violin Concerto at the Mondavi Center and The Soraya in California, Wharton Center for Performing Arts in Michigan and?Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in New York.

Enescu Festival:?The 2024 edition of PR client Enescu Festival’s biennial George Enescu International Competition takes place from August 31 to September 27, 2024, in Bucharest, Romania with its first edition under Artistic Director Cristian M?celaru. Finals will be held on September 10 (Cello Section), September 16 (Violin Section), and September 22 (Piano Section).

Miró Quartet, string quartet: PR client Miró Quartet marks their 30th anniversary season with a nationwide concert tour starting on September 30, appearing at Lee University’s Presidential Concert Series with clarinetist David Shifrin and pianist Gloria Chien as part of the chamber music series String Theory at the Hunter.?

Akropolis Reed Quintet: PR client Akropolis Reed Quintet kicks off its 2024/2025 season with performances at the First United Methodist Church of Oak Ridge (Tennessee) as part of the ORCMA Chamber Music Series?on September 21, and the Roger Glass Center for the Arts (Dayton, OH), presented by Dayton ArtsLIVE on September 22. A workshop in the Music Department at the University of Dayton will follow.

Santiago Ca?ón-Valencia, cello: PR client Santiago Ca?ón-Valencia embarks on a Camerata Pacifica California tour with Paul Huang and Gilles Vonsattel to Scherr Forum, Thousand Oaks (September 15), The Huntington, San Marino (September 17), The Colburn School (September 19), and Music Academy of the West (September 20).

David T. Little, composer:?On September 26, the Modlin Center for the Arts at the University of Richmond presents the world premiere of PR client David T. Little’s new monodrama based on Garth Greenwell’s critically acclaimed debut novel, What Belongs to You, in a production directed by Mark Morris, conducted by Alan Pierson and starring Karim Sulayman and Alarm Will Sound.

Curtis Stewart, violin: PR client Curtis Stewart has been awarded the 2025 Sphinx Medal of Excellence in recognition of extraordinary leaders in the classical music field who are transforming lives while addressing systemic obstacles within Black and Latino communities.?

Hera Hyesang Park, soprano: PR client Hera Hyesang Park makes her LA Philharmonic debut in a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 at the Hollywood Bowl led by Gustavo Dudamel on September 10.

Lucas Meachem, baritone: On September 12, Vocal Arts DC presents PR client Lucas Meachem and pianist Irina Meachem in a season-opening recital at the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater in Washington D.C. They will perform Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnet, Ravel’s Don Quichotte à Dulcinée and works by Rachmaninov and William Grant Still.?

Sphinx Organization: PR client Sphinx Organization announces the awardees of its 2025 Medals of Excellence. Soprano Gabriella Reyes, pianist Clayton Stephenson and violinist and composer Curtis Stewart have each been recognized with the highest honor bestowed by the Sphinx Organization as well as a $50,000 grant.

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor:?PR client Jeffrey Kahane launches his first official season as Music Director of the San Antonio Philharmonic by conducting the Classics Series featuring works by Gabriela Ortiz and Sarah Kirkland Snider on September 17 and 18 with violinist Nancy Zhou and September 27 and 28 with pianist Nicolas Namoradze.

Reginald Smith, Jr., baritone: PR client Reginald Smith, Jr. opens his 2024/25 season by taking on the role of Scarpia in Puccini’s Tosca at the New Orleans Opera from September 9 to 29.

Third Coast Percussion, ensemble:?PR client Third Coast Percussion returns to Germany for the first time in 10 years to perform the European premiere of Burritt’s Since Time Began at the überschlag Festival. The program also features new commissions by electronic musician Jlin, Armenian jazz pianist Tigran Hamasyan, and a mallet quartet by the composer Machado Mijiga. The next day, TCP presents a hands-on children’s concert, Think Outside The Drum and participates in a live interview.?