Noseda Comes to Carnegie Hall On May 30 With Met Orchestra; Concludes First National Symphony Orchestra Season On May 17-19, 2018

Gianandrea Noseda concludes his critically acclaimed first season as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra with a program including Berg's Violin Concerto with James Ehnes, and Brahms' Symphony No. 4 on May 17, 18, and 19, 2018 in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The concert on May 18 is part of the Declassified series presented by the NSO and includes excerpts from the subscription concerts along with other pieces by and influenced by Bach, as well as a solo appearance by James Ehnes.

On May 30, 2018 Noseda returns to Carnegie Hall to lead the MET Orchestra in a much-anticipated concert, marking the first time he conducts the orchestra in concert since making his MET debut in 2002 with Prokofiev's epic War and Peace. The program, at Carnegie Hall's Stern Auditorium, features Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 with violinist James Ehnes, and Mahler's Symphony No. 5. This concert with the MET Orchestra at Carnegie Hall marks the first time Noseda will conduct the orchestra in its acclaimed annual Carnegie Hall series.

Noseda has enjoyed a long and cherished relationship with the Metropolitan Opera and the MET Orchestra. Since his debut in 2002 he has gone on to conduct over 80 performances with the company. In 2014, Noseda conducted the first performances of Borodin's Prince Igor at the MET since 1917, in a new version fashioned by Noseda and director Dmitri Tcherniakov, which received wide critical acclaim. A DVD of the production was released on Deutsche Gramophon in 2014. In recent years, Noseda has conducted new productions of Bizet's Les pêcheurs des perles and Gounod's Roméo et Juliette for the MET's New Year's Eve Galas in 2015 and 2016, respectively.

Noseda was named the seventh music director of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) in January 2016. He inaugurated his four-year tenure with the orchestra on September 24, 2017, with a season-opening gala celebrating the Leonard Bernstein Centennial, followed by subscription concerts conducting music by a wide-range of composers from Saint-Saëns and Respighi to Britten, Dallapicola, and Gershwin. Recently, Noseda led the orchestra in John Adams' The Gospel According to the Other Mary and Verdi's Requiem, both in March 2018, and conducted a special program dedicated to Dmitri Hvorostovsky at the SHIFT Festival in April 2018.

For his final concerts of his inaugural season as Music Director, Noseda will conduct the National Symphony Orchestra in J.S. Bach's Contrapunctus XIX (arr. Berio), Berg's Violin Concerto with James Ehnes, and Brahms' Symphony No 4 on May 17 at 7:00 p.m. and May 19 at 8:00 p.m. The program is Noseda's way to honor Bach and the works he inspired. The concert on May 19 will be livestreamed via medici.tv. The concert on May 18 is part of the NSO's Declassified series, where audience members can experience the NSO in a more casual setting. For this concert, Noseda will conduct excerpts from the subscription concerts and other music by and influenced by Bach, and will be joined by violinist James Ehnes as soloist in works by Bach and and Berg.

In November 2017, Noseda made a long-awaited and critically-acclaimed return to the New York Philharmonic conducting the orchestra in works by Saint-Saëns, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Rachmaninoff. In-demand internationally as one of the world's eminent conductors, Noseda's 2017/2018 season also included return appearances with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris.

This spring, Noseda and the London Symphony Orchestra became the first orchestra to be featured on the new MelodyVR platform, which uses virtual reality headsets to create a dynamic and immersive digital performance experience. Noseda and the LSO will transport audiences to Barbican Hall to hear Debussy's La mer, Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5, and Haydn's Trumpet Concerto with soloist Philip Cobb, and get an up-close view of the conductor's cues from the orchestra's vantage point, sit inside the string section, or watch the low brass section up-close. For more information, click here.

Noseda will return to the Metropolitan Opera in the 2018/2019 season, once again conducting the New Year's Eve Gala with a new production of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur starring Anna Netrebko in her house role debut.

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GIANANDREA NOSEDA CONDUCTS THE NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Thursday, May 17, 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, May 19, 8:00 p.m.

Kennedy Center Concert Hall

James Ehnes, violin

J.S. BACH Contrapunctus XIX (arr. Berio)

BERG Violin Concerto

BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

DECLASSIFIED: BACH AND BEYOND

May 18, 2018, 9:00 p.m.

Kennedy Center Concert Hall

James Ehnes, violin

J.S. BACH Toccata and Fugue BWV 565 (organ solo)

J.S. BACH Contrapunctus XIX (arr. Berio)
J.S. BACH Chaconne - fifth movement from Partita No.2 BWV 1004
J.S. BACH/RESPIGHI Prelude and Fugue in N*E*R*D major BWV 532
BERG Violin Concerto - Adagio section from second movement
MARCELLO/J.S. Bach Adagio from Oboe Concerto in N*E*R*D minor (harpsichord solo)
BRAHMS Symphony No. 4

GIANANDREA NOSEDA CONDUCTS THE MET ORCHESTRA AT CARNEGIE HALL

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

8:00 p.m.

Stern Auditorium/Carnegie Hall

The MET Orchestra

James Ehnes, violin

MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5

MAHLER Symphony No. 5

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GIANANDREA NOSEDA AND LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ON MELODYVR

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