Press release for next season:
Major programming highlights include Nuestros sonidos (Our Sounds), a season-long festival celebrating the vibrant sounds, diverse traditions, and influence of Latin culture in the United States with performances spanning a range of genres, highlighting the game-changing contributions and constant evolution of Latin music; four Perspectives series curated by celebrated artists—pianists Lang Lang and Mitsuko Uchida, violinist Maxim Vengerov, and vocalist, composer, and visual artist Cécile McLorin Salvant; and the season-long appointment of Gabriela Ortiz to hold the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair.
Carnegie Hall’s 2024–2025 season launches on Tuesday, October 8 with a festive Opening Night Gala performance by Gustavo Dudamel leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic featuring Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Carnegie Hall Perspectives artist Lang Lang, plus Ginastera’s ballet Estancia with baritone Gustavo Castillo. Mr. Dudamel and the Philharmonic return the following evening, October 9, with the New York premiere of a new work for cellist Alisa Weilerstein by Gabriela Ortiz (this season’s holder of the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair), and Felix Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, narrated by internationally renowned Spanish actress María Valverde. For their third and final performance, on October 10, Mr. Dudamel and the orchestra reunite with Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade, a four-time Grammy and 17-time Latin Grammy winner who returns following her sold-out Carnegie Hall debut in 2022. These concerts launch Carnegie Hall’s season-long festival Nuestros sonidos: Celebrating Latin Culture in the US.
The Nuestros sonidos festival continues on October 23 with soprano Lisette Oropesa—one of the most sought-after lyric coloratura artists today—performing an evening of songs that includes works by Cuban composers such as Joaquín Nin, Ernesto Lecuona, Eduardo Sánchez de Fuentes, Jorge Anckermann, and Gonzalo Roig with pianist Ken Noda in Zankel Hall. Cuban American soprano Elena Villalón offers a program that includes songs by Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona and Mexican composer María Grever with pianist Craig Terry on November 13 in Weill Recital Hall.
Additional fall festival highlights include a performance in Zankel Hall by Quetzal (pictured), the Grammy Award-winning, genre-crossing group from East Los Angeles in a program that traces the history of Mexican music in the US on November 15. The “Queen of Reggaeton” Ivy Queen—Billboard’s 2023 Women in Music Icon, who first emerged on the music scene in the 1990s with a powerful ethos of empowerment and self-determination—makes her Carnegie Hall debut on November 20.
Composer Gabriela Ortiz continues her series on October 18, with the New York premiere of Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness, a groundbreaking collaborative performance by The Crossing, flutist Alejandro Escuer, and others merging her music with visual art, dance, movement, and spoken word. Violinist María Dueñas presents the New York premiere of a new work by Ortiz on her October 22 recital with pianist Alexander Malofeev. Ortiz curates a program for a double-bill concert with Roomful of Teeth featuring the world premiere of her new work for the ensemble, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall; and Tambuco Percussion Ensemble, playing music by Ortiz and other contemporary Latin American composers on January 25 in Zankel Hall Center Stage as part of the Nuestros sonidos festival. She serves as Artistic Partner for an Ensemble Connect Close Up concert on January 27 in the Resnick Education Wing, to include the world premiere of a Carnegie Hall commission by Colombian composer Carolina Noguera. The Attacca Quartet plays the world premiere of a new work (co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall) on a program that also includes Ortiz’s Altar de muertos in Zankel Hall on May 1. Her residency concludes on June 18 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin leading The Met Orchestra in Ortiz’s Antrópolis, a work which offers a reflection of Mexico City as told through its legendary dance halls.
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