Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more.
Gustavo Dudamel does not officially take over as the New York Philharmonic’s music and artistic director until fall 2026. But he will be a fixture on the podium in the orchestra’s coming season, leading six weeks of concerts and several world premieres, the ensemble announced on Tuesday.
Matías Tarnopolsky, the Philharmonic’s president and chief executive, said that the new season, which includes a celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States as well as a centennial tribute to the eminent French composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, “gives us a glimpse into a supremely exciting, joyful and embracing future with Gustavo Dudamel.”
Dudamel will lead the world or local premieres of an oratorio by David Lang based on Adam Smith’s “The Wealth of Nations”; an orchestral reimagining of Frederic Rzewski’s “The People United Will Never Be Defeated”; and a choral work by Ellen Reid, which the Philharmonic commissioned with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, where Dudamel is the music and artistic director through the end of next season.
At the opening night concert, in September, Dudamel will be on the podium with Yunchan Lim as the soloist in Bartok’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason will serve as the Philharmonic’s artist in residence; Barbara Hannigan will make her conducting debut with the ensemble; and stars like the violinist Joshua Bell, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the violinist Nicola Benedetti will return.
Here are 10 highlights of the coming season, chosen by critics for The New York Times. JAVIER C. HERNÁNDEZ
Boulez Centennial, Oct. 3-11
The Philharmonic will celebrate the centennial of the composer and conductor Pierre Boulez, a former music director of the orchestra’s, with two programs. First, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will present some of the composer’s early Notations for piano, and Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct Boulez’s later orchestral adaptations of those pieces, alongside works by Debussy. The following week, dancers choreographed by Benjamin Millepied will accompany Salonen and the orchestra in Boulez’s “Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna.” SETH COLTER WALLS
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