Artist Updates from Primo Artists

James Gaffigan, conductor: Primo Artists expands its representation of James Gaffigan from North and South American Management to Exclusive Worldwide General Management, effective immediately.?As the Music Director of Komische Oper Berlin, he opens productions of Barrie Kosky's?Sweeney Todd on November 17 and Kirill Serebrennikov's?Marriage of Figaro on November 23.

Itzhak Perlman, violin: Itzhak Perlman is joined by Emanuel Ax, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the Juilliard String Quartet on a West Coast tour of “Itzhak Perlman & Friends” to LA Phil's?Walt Disney Concert Hall on November 6, UC Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre on November 7, and San Francisco’s Davies Symphony Hall on November 10. Rohan De Silva celebrates his 25th anniversary with Perlman in recitals presented by the Oregon Symphony at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall on November 12 and at Taper Auditorium presented by the Seattle Symphony on November 13.

Randall Goosby, violin: Randall Goosby returned to his hometown of Memphis to perform as a soloist with?Iris Collective on November 2 and will debut with the Minnesota Orchestra on November 14 and 15, led by Music Director Thomas S?nderg?rd. He performs with his Renaissance String Quartet for two recitals at the McCarter Theater in Princeton on November 21 and Troy Music Hall in New York State on November 23.

Gemma New, conductor: Gemma New leads the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra?in Wellington on November 22 and Auckland on November 23. The program features the New Zealand premiere of Kaija Saariaho’s Asteroid 4179: Toutatis, Elgar’s Violin Concerto with violinist Christian Tetzlaff and Holst’s The Planets.

Christian Reif, conductor: Christian Reif makes his debut with the Phoenix Symphony on November 22, 23, and 24 in a program celebrating the 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue with pianist Conor Hanick. The concert features other works that premiered in 1924, including Honegger’s Pacific 231, Sibelius's Symphony No. 7, Respighi's Pines of Rome,?and Shostakovich's Tahiti Trot.

Cristian M?celaru, conductor: Cristian M?celaru led his?WDR Symphony Orchestra in Mahler Symphony No. 3 on November 1 and 2. He conducts Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with Rudolf Buchbinder on November 15. On November 28, he returns to conduct his Orchestre National de France in a program of Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with pianist Beatrice Rana. The concert will be broadcast live on Radio France.?

Valerie Coleman, composer/flutist: Valerie Coleman returns to her hometown of Louisville as a guest resident composer at?Louisville Orchestra to perform her Concerto for Orchestra on November 15 and 16 under the direction of Music Director Teddy Abrams.

Santiago Ca?ón-Valencia, cello: PR client Santiago Ca?ón-Valencia joins the Phoenix Symphony for Tchaikovsky’s Rococo Variations with guest conductor Julian Rachlin from November 8 to 10. He appears as a guest artist at the 2024 Brussels Cello Festival on November 16 and 17.

JACK Quartet, ensemble: PR client JACK Quartet returns to 92NY to celebrate its 20th anniversary on November 10, featuring the world premiere of a new JACK-commissioned work by Anthony Cheung and works commissioned by the ensemble through JACK Studio.?

Jeffrey Kahane, conductor: Following the performance as soloist and conductor of Ravel’s Piano Concerto on November 1 with the Calgary Philharmonic, PR client Jeffrey Kahane leads the San Antonio Philharmonic and San Antonio Mastersingers in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and performs as a soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in concerts on November 16 and 17.

David T. Little, composer: The world premiere of a new film Beside Myself by H. Paul Moon on November 8 will feature a new score by PR client David T. Little. On November 8 and 9, his one-act opera Vinkensport, or The Finch Opera with libretto by Royce Vavrek will see its New York City premiere at the Mannes School of Music.

London Philharmonic Orchestra: PR client London Philharmonic Orchestra received rave reviews and saw full houses throughout its first nationwide tour of the United States in 10 years, culminating in a performance at Carnegie Hall which marked both Principal Conductor Edward Gardner and violin soloist Patricia Kopatchinskaja’s house debuts. San Francisco Classical Voice praised Gardner’s “flowing but fiercely concentrated focus” and the orchestra’s “lush sound and muscular mass.”

Jessica Meyer, composer/viola: On November 4, PR client Meyer will perform with ChamberQUEER for the program The Nebula Project, Volume 1 at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music. Her newly-commissioned piece Forces of Nature, written for the Exponential Ensemble, will see its world premiere on November 7 at the National Opera Center in New York, and her new work Turbulent Flames will be performed by the Cape Symphony Orchestra (November 16-17) and Idaho Falls Symphony Orchestra (November 23).

Miro Quartet: PR client Miró Quartet performs in three concerts throughout Canada this month. On November 14, they appear at the Jane Mallett Theatre in Toronto for a concert featuring works by Haydn, Caroline Shaw, and Debussy, presented by Music Toronto, followed by a performance presented by The Jeffery Concerts in London, Ontario on November 15 and Chamber Music Hamilton on November 17. The 2024-2025 season marks Miró’s 30th Anniversary.?

Lembit Beecher, composer / Karen Ouzounian, cellist: On November 22 and 23, the world premiere of PR clients Lembit Beecher and Karen Ouzounian’s co-composed new work, DEAR MOUNTAINS?opens Cantori New York’s 40th Season. Commissioned by Cantori New York and conducted by Mark Shapiro, the piece combines a 100-year-old story from Ouzounian’s Armenian family’s history with Armenian folk songs and liturgy.

Hera Hyesang Park, soprano: PR client Hera Hyesang Park took on the role of Zerlina in Mozart’s Don Giovanni on November 3 at Staatsoper Hamburg. She returns to South Korea to perform a duo recital with Stephano Park as part of the Han-Na Chang’s Daejeon Grand Festival at Daejeon Arts Center on November 9, followed by a concert at the DMZ OPEN International Music Festival on November 16 led by conductor Jurek Dybal.?

Seth Parker Woods, cello: PR client Seth Parker Woods embarks on a tour of his new program Thus Spoke Their Verse from November 15 to February 13, 2025. Woods brings the program to Newport Classical in Rhode Island on November 15 and to Dumbarton Concerts in Washington D.C. on November 16. The Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal presents the Canadian premiere of Joachim Concerto from November 26 to November 30, led by Naomi Woo, marking Woods’ Canadian concerto and OM debuts. Woods also tours works by Eastman at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston on November 24.?

Karen Slack, soprano: As a 2024/25 Lyric Unlimited Artist-in-Residence at Lyric Opera of Chicago, PR client Karen Slack begins a three-recital series on November 12 with Of Thee I Sing! Songs of Love and Justice.?

Reginald Smith Jr., baritone: PR client Reginald Smith Jr. performs as a featured soloist at the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, South Carolina, from November 18 to 22 and with the Phoenix Symphony Orchestra and Chorus from November 29 to December 1.?

Kate Soper, composer: New Focus Readings releases the world premiere recording of PR client Kate Soper’s opera The Romance of the Rose on November 15, featuring the dynamic Wet Ink Ensemble. Soper blends medieval and contemporary allegory to dramatize how love, sex, and music wreak havoc on our sense of self with an original libretto inspired by the Medieval French poem Le Roman de La Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun.?

Sphinx Organization: PR client Sphinx Organization concluded their nationwide tour on their program American Form/s, making appearances at the Carnegie Hall, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Brevard Music Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, WVU College of Creative Arts and Media, and Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Sequenza21 called the program “a rolling cluster of excitement.”?

Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, composer: PR client Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate's first opera, Loksi' Shaali' (Shell Shaker) received its world premiere by Canterbury Voices and the Oklahoma City Philharmonic in October. Tate’s Woodland Songs and his orchestration of?Pura Fé's?Rattle Songs is performed by The Dover Quartet this season at UC Berkeley on November 3, with?additional performances at?Friends of Chamber Music Denver on November 17, Chamber Music Northwest on November 23, and University of Oregon on November 24. Texas Classical Review shared, “Woodland Songs is engaging in its sonic variety, even if the connections between the instrumental sounds and the animal names of the titles were not always apparent.”?

Young Concert Artists: Young Concert Artists has announced the winners of the 2024 Susan Wadsworth International Auditions. In the final round of competition, held on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at Merkin Hall at Kaufman Music Center in New York City, accordionist Radu Ratoi, 26, of Moldova, and pianist Kiron Tellian, 22, of Austria, were selected as winners and recipients of the YCA Jacobs Fellowship, a three-year program offering career support, industry connections and performance opportunities to extraordinary early-career artists.