Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead The Philadelphia Orchestra through at least the 2025-26 season, an extraordinary and significant long-term commitment.

 

 

Additionally, he became the third music director in the history of the Metropolitan Opera, beginning with the 2018-19 season. This consolidates his professional activity around two of the world’s pre-eminent artistic organizations, concentrating and honing his musical future.

 

 

Nézet-Séguin, who holds the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Chair, is an inspired leader of The Philadelphia Orchestra. Widely recognized for his musicianship, dedication, and charisma, he has established himself as a musical leader of the highest caliber and one of the most thrilling talents of his generation. His intensely collaborative style, deeply rooted musical curiosity, and boundless enthusiasm, paired with a fresh approach to orchestral programming, have been heralded by critics and audiences alike.

 

The New York Times has called him “phenomenal,” adding that under his baton, “the ensemble, famous for its glowing strings and homogenous richness, has never sounded better.”

 

 

Since his gold medal win at the 13th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2009, 26-year-old Chinese pianist ZHANG Haochen has captivated audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia with a unique combination of deep musical sensitivity, fearless imagination and spectacular virtuosity.

 

He has already appeared with many of the world’s leading festivals and concert series and his performance of Liszt’s Concerto No. 1 at the BBC Proms with YU Long and the China Philharmonic has received rave reviews, "He made the Allegretto dance with Mendelssohnian lightness and Lisztian diablerie, and played the melody of the Quasi Adagio with melting softness." Ivan Hewitt, The Telegraph.

 

 

The Philadelphia Orchestra is one of the preeminent orchestras in the world, renowned for its distinctive sound, desired for its keen ability to capture the hearts and imaginations of audiences, and admired for a legacy of imagination and innovation on and off the concert stage. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is now in his fifth season as the eighth artistic leader of The Philadelphia Orchestra.

 

May 17th
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, "Pastorale"

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Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43

May 18th
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
Pianist: ZHANG Haochen

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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, "The Great", D. 944