Nicholas and the MSO conclude the season with Verdi’s transcendent Requiem Mass
PROGRAM
Verdi: Missa da Requiem
Nicholas and the MSO conclude the season with Verdi’s transcendent Requiem Mass
PROGRAM
Verdi: Missa da Requiem
Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the energy of youth featuring a side-by-side with the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra
PROGRAM
George Gershwin (arr. Hersh): Three Preludes
Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
Andrew Norman: Drip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash
Aaron Copland: Four Dance Episodes from RODEO (side-by-side with the MSYO)
Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the energy of youth featuring a side-by-side with the Modesto Symphony Youth Orchestra
PROGRAM
George Gershwin (arr. Hersh): Three Preludes
Camille Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
Andrew Norman: Drip Blip Sparkle Spin Glint Glide Glow Float Flop Chop Pop Shatter Splash
Aaron Copland: Four Dance Episodes from RODEO (side-by-side with the MSYO)
Nicholas makes his subscription debut in Nashville featuring Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony
PROGRAM
Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers
Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Intermission
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2024-2025-season/beethovens-ninth-ode-to-joy/
Nicholas makes his subscription debut in Nashville featuring Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony
PROGRAM
Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers
Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Intermission
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2024-2025-season/beethovens-ninth-ode-to-joy/
Nicholas makes his subscription debut in Nashville featuring Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony
PROGRAM
Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers
Maurice Ravel: Shéhérazade Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano
Intermission
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
https://www.nashvillesymphony.org/tickets/concert/2024-2025-season/beethovens-ninth-ode-to-joy/
Nicholas returns to the Florida Orchestra in a program of folk-inspired symphonic music
PROGRAM
William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
Intermission
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Geneva Lewis, violin
Georges Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Nicholas returns to the Florida Orchestra in a program of folk-inspired symphonic music
PROGRAM
William Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony
Intermission
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor Geneva Lewis, violin
Georges Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Nicholas debuts with the Omaha Symphony in an effervescent program for chamber orchestra
PROGRAM
Haydn: Symphony No. 60 “Il Distratto”
Jan Sandström: Wahlberg Variations Patrick Pfister, trombone
Intermission
Anna Clyne: Sound and Fury
Alberto Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
https://www.omahasymphony.org/concerts/symphony-joslyn-2-20th-century-neoclassical
Nicholas returns to the Tucson Symphony for his subscription debut, featuring the premiere of his arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Op. 5 “Four Characteristic Pieces”
PROGRAM
Bernard Herrmann: PSYCHO: A Short Suite
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto Kerson Leong, violin
Intermission
Clara Schumann: 4 Pièces Caractéristiques (orch. Hersh) World Premiere
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
https://www.tucsonsymphony.org/event/mendelssohn-and-korngold/2024-11-09/1/
Nicholas returns to the Tucson Symphony for his subscription debut, featuring the premiere of his arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Op. 5 “Four Characteristic Pieces”
PROGRAM
Bernard Herrmann: PSYCHO: A Short Suite
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto Kerson Leong, violin
Intermission
Clara Schumann: 4 Pièces Caractéristiques (orch. Hersh) World Premiere
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
https://www.tucsonsymphony.org/event/mendelssohn-and-korngold/2024-11-09/1/
Nicholas returns to the Tucson Symphony for his subscription debut, featuring the premiere of his arrangement of Clara Schumann’s Op. 5 “Four Characteristic Pieces”
PROGRAM
Bernard Herrmann: PSYCHO: A Short Suite
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto Kerson Leong, violin
Intermission
Clara Schumann: 4 Pièces Caractéristiques (orch. Hersh) World Premiere
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, “Reformation”
https://www.tucsonsymphony.org/event/mendelssohn-and-korngold/2024-11-09/1/
Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the changing of seasons in an intermission-less program designed for newcomers to the symphony.
PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture from Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21
Gabriela Ortiz: La Calaca for String Orchestra
The Four Seasons Mixtape: Audrey Wright, violin
Antonio Vivaldi: L'estate (Summer)
Max Richter: Autumn from The Four Seasons Recomposed
Eugène Ysaÿe: Chant d'hiver (Wintersong)
Astor Piazzolla: Primavera porteña (Buenos Aires Spring)
Nicholas and the MSO celebrate the changing of seasons in an intermission-less program designed for newcomers to the symphony.
PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn: Overture from Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21
Gabriela Ortiz: La Calaca for String Orchestra
The Four Seasons Mixtape: Audrey Wright, violin
Antonio Vivaldi: L'estate (Summer)
Max Richter: Autumn from The Four Seasons Recomposed
Eugène Ysaÿe: Chant d'hiver (Wintersong)
Astor Piazzolla: Primavera porteña (Buenos Aires Spring)
Nicholas debuts with the Madison Symphony in a program inspired by the supernatural.
PROGRAM
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Intermission
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Nicholas debuts with the Madison Symphony in a program inspired by the supernatural.
PROGRAM
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Intermission
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Nicholas debuts with the Madison Symphony in a program inspired by the supernatural.
PROGRAM
Anna Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Maurice Ravel: Tzigane Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violin
Intermission
Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Nicholas returns to Denver to conduct an eclectic program featuring Chris Thile and his mandolin concerto, Attention!
PROGRAM
Beethoven: Creatures of Prometheus Overture
Caroline Shaw: And So
Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite
Chris Thile Attention!
Nicholas and the MSO open their 94th Season with an invigorating dance-inspired program
PROGRAM
Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor
Darius Milhaud: Scaramouche Branford Marsalis, saxophone
John Williams: Escapades from Catch Me If You Can Branford Marsalis, saxophone
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
https://www.modestosymphony.org/season-calendar/oct24-marsalis
Nicholas debuts with the Apollo Orchestra in Washington, DC
PROGRAM
Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Samuel Barber: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14 Maria Loudenitch, violin
Intermission
Ludwig Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Nicholas travels with the Budapest Festival Orchestra to Brussels to assist Iván Fischer in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.
PROGRAM
Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom
Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin
INTERVAL
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Nicholas travels to Budapest to assist Iván Fischer and the BFO in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.
PROGRAM
Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom
Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin
INTERVAL
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Nicholas travels to Budapest to assist Iván Fischer and the BFO in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.
PROGRAM
Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom
Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin
INTERVAL
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Nicholas travels to Budapest to assist Iván Fischer and the BFO in a program featuring the premiere of Fischer’s Dance Suite, which Nicholas co-orchestrated.
PROGRAM
Manuel de Falla: Spanish Dance No. 1 from the opera La vida breve (Life Is Short), G. 35/39
Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 4 in D minor (arr. Doppler), S. 359/4 Jenő Lisztes, cimbalom
Iván Fischer: Dance Suite for Violin and Orchestra, in memoriam J. S. Bach Diana Tishchenko, violin
INTERVAL
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Nicholas and the NJ Symphony perform Nino Rota’s sweeping score live to projection of the F.F. Coppola classic.
https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/the-godfather-live-in-concert
Nicholas and the NJ Symphony perform Nino Rota’s sweeping score live to projection of the F.F. Coppola classic.
https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/the-godfather-live-in-concert
Nicholas makes his debut at the Skaneateles Festival
Program
GINASTERA Harp Concerto (Bridget Kibbey, harp)
Gabriela LENA FRANK Escaramuza
James P. JOHNSON arr. Rimelis/Hersh: Charleston
GERSHWIN Rhapsody in Blue (Aaron Wunsch, piano)
Program
DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
VIVALDI The Four Seasons (Simone Porter, violin)
ANNA CLYNE This Moment
GRIEG Selections from Peer Gynt: Suite No.1
Program
ROSSINI Barber of Seville Overture
SHOSTAKOVICH Capriccio from Two Pieces by Domenico Scarlatti
LÓPEZ "Techno" from Fiesta!
COPLAND Quiet City
FAURÉ Gavotte from Masques et bergamasques
MONTGOMERY Strum
BRAHMS Variations on a Theme of Haydn
Program
GOULD American Salute
BELLIDO “Techno” from Fiesta!
WORDSMITH New Work (world premiere)
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Source Code
JONATHAN LESHNOFF Dancing Blue Crabs!
GERSHWIN Promenade (Walking the Dog)
ANDERSON “Chicken Reel”
SIMON Meditations on Grace
SONDHEIM (Sebesky) Sweeney Todd Suite
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
The BSO’s annual Independence Day concert, complete with fireworks
Program
SMITH "The Star-Spangled Banner"
WILSON (Anderson) “Seventy-Six Trombones” from The Music Man
JONATHAN LESHNOFF Dancing Blue Crabs!
BERNSTEIN "Mambo" from West Side Story
WORDSMITH A Beautiful Life
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Starburst
HORNER (Moss) Music from Apollo 13
VARIOUS (Lowden) Armed Forces Salute
JOHN WILLIAMS “Raiders March” from Raiders of the Lost Ark
COPLAND Hoedown from Rodeo
JIMMY LOPÉZ BELLIDO “Techno” from Fiesta!
THOMSON Fugue and Chorale on "Yankee Doodle"
PAUL SIMON (Hersh) “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
TCHAIKOVSKY Finale from 1812 Overture