Gustavo Dudamel, the famed music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic whose face plasters banners across the city, is set to leave L.A. and join New York’s top orchestra beginning in 2026.
Dudamel will conduct three more seasons with the L.A. Phil to conclude his contract, ending a 17-year tenure leading one of the country’s preeminent orchestras and becoming one of the most well-recognized maestros in pop culture. In joining the New York Philharmonic, Dudamel will be exiting his post to lead one of the so-called “Big Five” orchestras in the U.S. alongside Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland.
“I gaze with joy and excitement at the world that lies before me in New York City, and with pride and love at the world I have shared — and will continue to share — with my dear Angelenos over the next three seasons and beyond,” Dudamel said in a statement on Tuesday.
Dudamel will conduct three more seasons with the L.A. Phil to conclude his contract, ending a 17-year tenure leading one of the country’s preeminent orchestras and becoming one of the most well-recognized maestros in pop culture. In joining the New York Philharmonic, Dudamel will be exiting his post to lead one of the so-called “Big Five” orchestras in the U.S. alongside Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland.
“I gaze with joy and excitement at the world that lies before me in New York City, and with pride and love at the world I have shared — and will continue to share — with my dear Angelenos over the next three seasons and beyond,” Dudamel said in a statement on Tuesday.
- 2/7/2023
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall, two of New York’s most iconic venues, announced their reopening plans today as the city continues its climb out of the pandemic shutdown era. Leading the charge will be band Foo Fighters, with a June 20 concert that marks Msg’s return as a full-capacity arena rock venue.
The Foo Fighters news comes a day after Bruce Springsteen announced his June 26 return to Broadway in a revival of Springsteen on Broadway and Mayor Bill de Blasio broke news that a massive concert in Central Park, with Clive Davis recruiting talent, will take place in August.
Carnegie Hall, meanwhile, said today that it will reopen in October, with its 2021-2022 season to include more than 100 performances presented on the Hall’s three stages and across New York City. Presented from October through June, the season will feature performances encompassing classical, jazz, and popular music, with...
The Foo Fighters news comes a day after Bruce Springsteen announced his June 26 return to Broadway in a revival of Springsteen on Broadway and Mayor Bill de Blasio broke news that a massive concert in Central Park, with Clive Davis recruiting talent, will take place in August.
Carnegie Hall, meanwhile, said today that it will reopen in October, with its 2021-2022 season to include more than 100 performances presented on the Hall’s three stages and across New York City. Presented from October through June, the season will feature performances encompassing classical, jazz, and popular music, with...
- 6/8/2021
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
In another historic Covid first, the New York Philharmonic said Tuesday it won’t be resuming live concerts in January as hoped but will return in June, skipping an entire season.
It’s a shock but not a surprise. The news follows the Metropolitan Opera last month canceling its entire season. It won’t open until next September.
Broadway will be dark until at least through May.
NY Phil CEO Deborah Borda said the shift was due to mandatory state and city government health regulations. “With deep regret, all previously scheduled concerts from January 6 to June 13, 2021, must now be cancelled,” she said, noting that shutting down an entire season is a first in the organization’s 178-year history.
“Please know how devastated we all are by this turn of events. The health and financial challenges, indeed the experiential challenges we all face, are profound,” she said. The lineup for the...
It’s a shock but not a surprise. The news follows the Metropolitan Opera last month canceling its entire season. It won’t open until next September.
Broadway will be dark until at least through May.
NY Phil CEO Deborah Borda said the shift was due to mandatory state and city government health regulations. “With deep regret, all previously scheduled concerts from January 6 to June 13, 2021, must now be cancelled,” she said, noting that shutting down an entire season is a first in the organization’s 178-year history.
“Please know how devastated we all are by this turn of events. The health and financial challenges, indeed the experiential challenges we all face, are profound,” she said. The lineup for the...
- 10/13/2020
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
This New Year's Eve, Live From Lincoln Center rings in 2019 by celebrating the beautiful intersection of classical music, popular musical theater, and dance. Marking the beginning of Lincoln Center's 60th anniversary celebration, Grammy winner and beloved soprano Renee Fleming performs as soloist alongside the New York Philharmonic, led by new Music Director Jaap van Zweden in his Live From Lincoln Center debut. Tony winner and Grammy and Emmy nominee Kelli O'Hara guest hosts the broadcast, airing live on PBS Monday, December 31 at 900 pm.
- 12/10/2018
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Jaap van Zweden brings the excitement, over and over and over.
- 9/20/2017
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
Shortly after announcing that Jaap van Zweden would become the next music director of the New York Philharmonic, the orchestra’s executive director Matthew VanBiesen (having a van in your name is apparently a plus when leading an orchestra so loyal to Beethoven) explained the selection committee’s rationale. “We were very much concerned not only about the what but the how,” he said. “We knew that whatever he was conducting, he’d be all in.”Every appointment of a music director, like every presidential election, is at least partly a reaction to the incumbent. The current leader, Alan Gilbert, is bold in his programming and judicious in his interpretations. Van Zweden promises consistently intense performances, but his artistic vision seems open to negotiation. Hiring the un-Gilbert was not the point, VanBiesen says, and neither was the predictable choice of a middle-aged European strongly rooted in the romantic tradition. “We...
- 1/27/2016
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
The New York Philharmonic, facing a near-future that looks rocky even by the standards of a modern orchestra, has appointed the 55-year-old Dutch violinist and conductor Jaap van Zweden to succeed Alan Gilbert as music director next year. It’s hardly an obvious choice. As music director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra since 2008, van Zweden has been slowly ratcheting that group’s reputation up from second-tier to mezzanine. The step to the New York Philharmonic is a major leap. In hiring him, the orchestra is acknowledging that the age of the celebrity conductor has passed — only the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Gustavo Dudamel has anything resembling popular fame. The choice is also significant for what the orchestra didn’t, or couldn’t, do: hire a woman (Susanna Mälkki and Marin Alsop were plausible options); go for an aged eminence of undisputed gravitas (they are in dwindling supply); pluck a young...
- 1/27/2016
- by Justin Davidson
- Vulture
Ravinia Festival President and CEO Welz Kauffman announced the festivals 2012 season, which offers more than 100 separate events exemplifying most musical genres, including the 77th residency of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The summer boasts a variety of musics legends from Philip Glass to James Taylor, along with 43 debuts, including Glee and Wicked star Idina Menzel, reggae master Jimmy Cliff, classic rocker Santana, Grammy-and-Oscar sensation Esperanza Spalding, and Musical Americas conductor of the year Jaap van Zweden. Ravinia Music Director James Conlon celebrates the 35th anniversary of his own festival debut as his contract is extended through 2014.
- 3/8/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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