On December 10, David Afkham joins the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin for a concert featuring acclaimed violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Afkham will conduct Béla Bartók’s folk-inspired Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No. 2, one of the composer’s most beloved and accessible pieces and one of the last works he wrote in Hungary before {…}
On November 22, 23, and 24, David Afkham returns to the Orquestra y Coro Nacional de España, where he is Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, for Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5. One of the composer’s most deeply spiritual works, Bruckner draws on the sacred music of J.S. Bach, creating complex {…}
David Afkham returns to the Seattle Symphony Orchestra for a program of visionary French and Hungarian composers, featuring Olivier Messiaen’s Les offrandes oubliées, Lili Boulanger’s D’un soir triste, and Claude Debussy’s impressionistic masterpiece, La mer. Violist Tabea Zimmermann joins Maestro Afkham and the symphony for its first performance of Béla {…}
On July 16, Ray Chen brings the tender melodies, bright colors, and fiery cadenzas of Tchaikovsky’s lone Violin Concerto to the Hollywood Bowl. Be there to take it all in along with Mendelssohn’s feel-good Symphony No. 3 conducted by David Afkham.
Orchid Classics is set to release a new album, the first in a five-instalment series from pianist Jonathan Biss, pairing the piano concertos of Beethoven with newly commissioned concertos. Volume One pairs Beethoven’s Emperor concerto with Australian composer Brett Dean’s ‘A Winter’s Journey’. Maestro Afkham leads the Swedish Radio Symphony {…}
Today, The Cleveland Orchestra announced a guest conductor update for the concerts onApril 26, 27, and 28. David Afkham has graciously agreed to step in for Lahav Shani and will now conductThe Cleveland Orchestra and pianist Beatrice Rana in Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto and worksby Unsuk Chin and Béla Bartók. {…}