Wintergreen Music Festival, Nellysford, VA
MountainTop Masterworks II
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Kelly Mozeik, oboe
Jacob Wilder, horn
Wintergreen Music Festival, Nellysford, VA
MountainTop Masterworks II
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Wintergreen Festival Orchestra
Kelly Mozeik, oboe
Jacob Wilder, horn
Venue: California Theatre
Program:
Antonín Dvořák Carnival Overture
Mason Bates Philharmonia Fantastique
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Pastorale)
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Symphony San Jose
Experience the majesty of nature through Beethoven’s musical landscape, where every note tells the story of harmony between humanity and earth. This supremely evocative journey takes you on an unforgettable journey through our serene, powerful, and breathtaking world.
Mason Bates’ concerto for orchestra and animated film explores the age-old connection between creativity and technology as our magical Sprite gives us a kinetic and cutting-edge guide to the orchestra.
Opening the concert is Dvořák’s high-spirited depiction of a festive carnival setting – a rousing testament to our capacity for joy and celebration.
Venue: California Theatre
Program:
Antonín Dvořák Carnival Overture
Mason Bates Philharmonia Fantastique
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 6 (Pastorale)
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Symphony San Jose
Experience the majesty of nature through Beethoven’s musical landscape, where every note tells the story of harmony between humanity and earth. This supremely evocative journey takes you on an unforgettable journey through our serene, powerful, and breathtaking world.
Mason Bates’ concerto for orchestra and animated film explores the age-old connection between creativity and technology as our magical Sprite gives us a kinetic and cutting-edge guide to the orchestra.
Opening the concert is Dvořák’s high-spirited depiction of a festive carnival setting – a rousing testament to our capacity for joy and celebration.
Venue: Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
Program:
Benjamin Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Sarah Ina Meyers, director
Curtis Symphony Orchestra
Magic and mischief intertwine in Benjamin Britten’s enchanting adaptation of William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Critically acclaimed director Sarah Ina Meyers and dynamic international conductor Vinay Parameswaran lead a dazzling cast of young opera stars and members of Curtis Symphony Orchestra in this spellbinding production. Prepare to be transported to a twilight world where feuding fairies meddle with mortals, hearts are led astray, and the surreal world of dreams blurs the edges of reality.
In the depths of a dark forest outside Athens, the fairy king Oberon and his queen, Tytania, clash in a battle of wits and wills as a group of impulsive lovers and an unsuspecting band of amateur actors wander into their moonlit realm. Seizing the opportunity to manipulate fate, Oberon entrusts the impish sprite Puck to squeeze the juice of a mystic flower into the eyes of his queen and the quarreling lovers, sparking a night of romantic chaos and surprising transformations.
Venue: Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
Program:
Benjamin Britten A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Sarah Ina Meyers, director
Curtis Symphony Orchestra
Magic and mischief intertwine in Benjamin Britten’s enchanting adaptation of William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Critically acclaimed director Sarah Ina Meyers and dynamic international conductor Vinay Parameswaran lead a dazzling cast of young opera stars and members of Curtis Symphony Orchestra in this spellbinding production. Prepare to be transported to a twilight world where feuding fairies meddle with mortals, hearts are led astray, and the surreal world of dreams blurs the edges of reality.
In the depths of a dark forest outside Athens, the fairy king Oberon and his queen, Tytania, clash in a battle of wits and wills as a group of impulsive lovers and an unsuspecting band of amateur actors wander into their moonlit realm. Seizing the opportunity to manipulate fate, Oberon entrusts the impish sprite Puck to squeeze the juice of a mystic flower into the eyes of his queen and the quarreling lovers, sparking a night of romantic chaos and surprising transformations.
Venue: Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music
Program:
Barber Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, Op. 9
Rodrigo Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Bizet Selections from Carmen
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Samantha Sosa (MM ‘25), soprano
MSM Symphony Orchestra
Venue: Neidorff-Karpati Hall, Manhattan School of Music
Program:
Barber Symphony No. 1 in One Movement, Op. 9
Rodrigo Cuatro madrigales amatorios
Bizet Selections from Carmen
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Samantha Sosa (MM ‘25), soprano
MSM Symphony Orchestra
Venue: Mandel Concert Hall
Program:
James Horner How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
The Cleveland Orchestra
Discover the magic of the Mean One this holiday season. Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a celebration of the holiday spirit no home should be without! Why is the Grinch such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and the Grinch’s world upside down, inside out, and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.
Venue: Mandel Concert Hall
Program:
James Horner How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
The Cleveland Orchestra
Discover the magic of the Mean One this holiday season. Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a celebration of the holiday spirit no home should be without! Why is the Grinch such a grouch? No one seems to know, until little Cindy Lou Who takes matters into her own hands and turns both Whoville and the Grinch’s world upside down, inside out, and funny side up in her search for the true meaning of Christmas.
Celestial Illuminations featuring The Planets
Venue
Atlanta Symphony Hall
Program
Nina Shekar: Lumina
Reena Esmail/Kala Ramnath: The Voice of Nature (Concerto for Hindustani violin)
Performers
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Kala Ramnath, hindustani violin
Atlanta Symphone Orchestra Chorus
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Experience The Planets, the astrological romp that turned Gustav Holst into a rock star. The off-world orchestral suite spawned rock-and-roll remakes by bands such as Led Zeppelin and King Crimson. The one planet that didn't make the cut in Holst’s score—Earth—gets its due when the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra does a mashup with Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath. Her scintillating, genre-bending evocation of the ancient elements of space, air, water, fire, and earth comes to life with composer Reena Esmail. Guest conductor Vinay Parameswaran launches the evening on a cosmic journey with Nina Shekhar’s seductively mesmerizing Lumina.
Celestial Illuminations featuring The Planets
Venue
Atlanta Symphony Hall
Program
Nina Shekar: Lumina
Reena Esmail/Kala Ramnath: The Voice of Nature (Concerto for Hindustani violin)
Performers
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Kala Ramnath, hindustani violin
Atlanta Symphone Orchestra Chorus
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
Experience The Planets, the astrological romp that turned Gustav Holst into a rock star. The off-world orchestral suite spawned rock-and-roll remakes by bands such as Led Zeppelin and King Crimson. The one planet that didn't make the cut in Holst’s score—Earth—gets its due when the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra does a mashup with Hindustani violinist Kala Ramnath. Her scintillating, genre-bending evocation of the ancient elements of space, air, water, fire, and earth comes to life with composer Reena Esmail. Guest conductor Vinay Parameswaran launches the evening on a cosmic journey with Nina Shekhar’s seductively mesmerizing Lumina.
S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium - Benaroya Hall, Seattle
Seattle Symphony
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
PROGRAMME
Various: Bollywood Uptempo Medley
Reena Esmail: Ram Tori Maya
Various: Bollywood Romantic Medley
Maida Vale, London
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Soloist: Elizaveta Ivanova (BBC New Generation Artist), flute
PROGRAMME
Simon: Fate Now Conquers 5'
J. Ibert: Concerto 20’
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 7 31’
Kodak Hall, Eastman Theatre
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
PROGRAMME
Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Kodak Hall, Eastman Theatre
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Stewart Goodyear, piano
PROGRAMME
Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Naperville
Chicago Sinfonietta
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
PROGRAMME
Frank: Elegia Andina (Andean Elegy)
Contreras: Alma Monarca (Monarch Soul)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
FOLK & SOUL is the second subscription concert of Chicago Sinfonietta’s 2024-25 Season. Guest Conductor Vinay Parameswaran collaborated with Music Director Mei-Ann Chen to bring audiences a program that contemplates ancestry, homelands and guiding spirits.
The concert opens with Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegia Andina (Andean Elegy). The piece marks the composer’s first musical foray into exploring her diverse ethnic background, Chinese-Peruvian-Spanish (her mother) and Lithuanian-Jewish (her father). It draws on the Peruvian arca/ira zampoña panpipe to form musical elegiac poetry.
For the second season in a row, the works of Mexican Composer Juan Pablo Contreras are celebrated at the Sinfonietta. Newly commissioned Alma Monarca (Monarch Soul) explores the flight of two Monarch butterflies as they soar to their Mexican homeland near the Day of the Dead.
We close the evening with a genre-defining piece. Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 is one of his best-known works, celebrated for its integration of Czech folk melodies with classical symphonic structure. The symphony, in four movements, exudes warmth, lyricism, and a joyful spirit, characteristic of Dvořák's style.
Naperville
Chicago Sinfonietta
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
PROGRAMME
Frank: Elegia Andina (Andean Elegy)
Contreras: Alma Monarca (Monarch Soul)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8
FOLK & SOUL is the second subscription concert of Chicago Sinfonietta’s 2024-25 Season. Guest Conductor Vinay Parameswaran collaborated with Music Director Mei-Ann Chen to bring audiences a program that contemplates ancestry, homelands and guiding spirits.
The concert opens with Gabriela Lena Frank’s Elegia Andina (Andean Elegy). The piece marks the composer’s first musical foray into exploring her diverse ethnic background, Chinese-Peruvian-Spanish (her mother) and Lithuanian-Jewish (her father). It draws on the Peruvian arca/ira zampoña panpipe to form musical elegiac poetry.
For the second season in a row, the works of Mexican Composer Juan Pablo Contreras are celebrated at the Sinfonietta. Newly commissioned Alma Monarca (Monarch Soul) explores the flight of two Monarch butterflies as they soar to their Mexican homeland near the Day of the Dead.
We close the evening with a genre-defining piece. Antonín Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 is one of his best-known works, celebrated for its integration of Czech folk melodies with classical symphonic structure. The symphony, in four movements, exudes warmth, lyricism, and a joyful spirit, characteristic of Dvořák's style.
St Mary’s Church, Ambleside, Lake District, England
An exclusive to Aerial Festival, acclaimed Scottish composer Erland Cooper will join forces with BBC Philharmonic Orchestra for an orchestral reimagining of his latest work ‘Carve the Runes Then Be Content With Silence’ for solo violin and orchestra, featuring Solo Violinist Freya Goldmark.
This very special concert will be presented by BBC Radio 3’s Elizabeth Alker and recorded for broadcast on her show ‘Unclassified’ by BBC Radio 3.
Eastbourne, England
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Sterling Elliott, cello
PROGRAMME
Sibelius: Finlandia
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven set out to make the whole world drunk with joy, and from first note to last, his Seventh Symphony simply blazes with pure, irrepressible life-force.
It’s a torrent, a celebration, a cosmic dance. Sounds like we’re overselling it? Just wait until you hear the Seventh played live by the full London Philharmonic Orchestra under our dynamic guest conductor Vinay Parameswaran. But then, everything about this concert is off-the-scale: from Sibelius’s stirring hymn to freedom, to the unchained melody of Dvořák’s glorious Cello Concerto – an ideal showcase for the inspirational young American cellist Sterling Elliott.
Bedford Corn Exchange
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Juho Pohjonen, piano
PROGRAMME
Nielson: Helios Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 would make it into many listeners’ top ten. It begins with a whisper from horns and timpani, which spreads through the woodwind section in a glorious evocation of sunrise. The second movement is a set of variations on a simple, wistful theme. Then comes the moment Sibelius fans have been waiting for – the magnificent ‘swan’ theme of the finale, with its jubilant horn chords and sweeping strings. Sibelius wrote it after witnessing the awe-inspiring sight of 16 swans in flight: “One of the great experiences of my life! God, how beautiful,” he wrote in his diary.
Grieg’s Piano Concerto is one of the most popular works in the orchestral repertoire. From its dramatic opening with its timpani roll to its anthemic finale, watch it in rehearsal with Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen.
Finally, Nielsen’s Helios Overture. Inspired while travelling to Athens, the Danish composer traces the journey of the sun across the Aegean Sea in a wondrous celebration of the Greek god Helios.
Bedford Corn Exchange
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Juho Pohjonen, piano
PROGRAMME
Nielson: Helios Overture
Grieg: Piano Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Sibelius’s Symphony No. 5 would make it into many listeners’ top ten. It begins with a whisper from horns and timpani, which spreads through the woodwind section in a glorious evocation of sunrise. The second movement is a set of variations on a simple, wistful theme. Then comes the moment Sibelius fans have been waiting for – the magnificent ‘swan’ theme of the finale, with its jubilant horn chords and sweeping strings. Sibelius wrote it after witnessing the awe-inspiring sight of 16 swans in flight: “One of the great experiences of my life! God, how beautiful,” he wrote in his diary.
Grieg’s Piano Concerto is one of the most popular works in the orchestral repertoire. From its dramatic opening with its timpani roll to its anthemic finale, watch it in rehearsal with Finnish pianist Juho Pohjonen.
Finally, Nielsen’s Helios Overture. Inspired while travelling to Athens, the Danish composer traces the journey of the sun across the Aegean Sea in a wondrous celebration of the Greek god Helios.
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark™ Live in Concert.
John Williams’s score performed live-to-film by the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra
Sun Valley Pavilion
300 Dollar Rd, Sun Valley, ID 83353
Wade Oval
The Cleveland Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Chris Webb, emcee
PROGRAMME
Bernstein: Overture to Candide
Valerie Coleman: Seven O’ Clock Shout
Smetana: The Moldau
Still: Summerland
Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio espagnol
Wade Oval Wednesdays (WOW!) are presented by University Circle Inc. during summer months and feature live performances, food trucks, and activities for families. Bring a chair or blanket, and some friends to enjoy a fun and relaxing evening of music!
Congress Theatre, Eastbourne
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vinay Parameswaran, conductor
Sterling Elliott, cello
PROGRAMME
Sibelius: Finlandia
Dvořák: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
Beethoven set out to make the whole world drunk with joy, and from first note to last, his Seventh Symphony simply blazes with pure, irrepressible life-force.
It’s a torrent, a celebration, a cosmic dance. Sounds like we’re overselling it? Just wait until you hear the Seventh played live by the full London Philharmonic Orchestra under our dynamic guest conductor Vinay Parameswaran. But then, everything about this concert is off-the-scale: from Sibelius’s stirring hymn to freedom, to the unchained melody of Dvořák’s glorious Cello Concerto – an ideal showcase for the inspirational young American cellist Sterling Elliott.
John Matsumoto Giampietro, director
Curtis Opera Theatre
JANÁČEK -The Cunning Little Vixen
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102
John Matsumoto Giampietro, director
Curtis Opera Theatre
JANÁČEK -The Cunning Little Vixen
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102
John Matsumoto Giampietro, director
Curtis Opera Theatre
JANÁČEK -The Cunning Little Vixen
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102
John Matsumoto Giampietro, director
Curtis Opera Theatre
JANÁČEK -The Cunning Little Vixen
Perelman Theater, Kimmel Center
300 S Broad St, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Eugene Symphony
Fairytale characters are brought to life through sound during the Eugene Symphony’s annual Family Concert.
Stravinsky, The Firebird Suite
Hult Center for the Performing Arts
1 Eugene Center, Eugene, OR 97401
Eugene Symphony
Fairytale characters are brought to life through sound during the Eugene Symphony’s annual Family Concert.
Stravinsky, The Firebird Suite
Hult Center for the Performing Arts
1 Eugene Center, Eugene, OR 97401
Drew Petersen, Piano
SHEKHAR - Lumina
LISZT - Piano Concerto No. 1
TCHAIKOVSKY - Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”
Hult Center for the Performing Arts
1 Eugene Center, Eugene, OR 97401
