2015

Jan 1, 2015

Concerts with the NDR Sinfonieorchester with pianist Alexander Melnikov (works by Beethoven and Stravinsky); Camerata Salzburg at the annual Mozartwoche; performances with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s; Britten’s War Requiem at the Teatro Real; appearances at Caramoor and Ravinia festivals; concerts with the Freiburger Barockorchester across Europe; concerts with violinist Joshua Bell joined by the San Francisco Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; concerts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; performance at the Luzern Festival with violinist Isabelle Faust; closes Los Angeles Philharmonic Hollywood Bowl season in concert with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet; leads open-air Klassik am Odeonsplatz concert; New Year’s Eve concert featuring Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Wiener Symphoniker; special concert in honor of Ayuda en Acción at Teatro Real; residency at Juilliard including master class for Juilliard Historical Performance program; celebrates 20 years on the podium (1995-2015)

Debuts

World premiere performances of works by Onishi and Stroppa with Ensemble Intercontemporain
NDR Sinfonieorchester
Juilliard Orchestra

Honors

Honored with PMI Grand Prix
Named Granada’s “hijo predilecto”
Two ECHO Klassik Awards – for DVD recording of L’elisir d’amore on Deutsche Grammophon (also his house debut at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden) as well as Schumann release on harmonia mundi

Operatic Projects

World premiere of El Público at the Teatro Real
La traviata and Orfeo at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Rigoletto at The Metropolitan Opera

Recording Projects

Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv Production releases “Praetorius” featuring music by Jacob, Hieronymus and Michael Praetorius, performed by the Balthasar-Neumann-Chor und Ensemble

Harmonia Mundi releases “Schumann: Piano Concerto, Piano Trio No.2” with pianist Alexander Melnikov and the Freiburger Barockorchester, as well as violinist Isabelle Faust and cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras