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New York Philharmonic Launches EUROPE 2026, Gustavo Dudamel’s Inaugural Tour
The New York Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel — the Orchestra’s Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Music and Artistic Director — have embarked on EUROPE 2026, a two-week, ten-concert tour across six cities running October 9–22, 2026. The tour is Dudamel’s first with the Philharmonic and the Orchestra’s first tour of Europe since 2017, with stops in Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Berlin, Hamburg and Vienna.
One program pairs Tania León’s Imágenes Mestizas, a New York Philharmonic commission premiered in September at David Geffen Hall, with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5 — the work Dudamel conducted when he won the Mahler Conducting Competition in 2004. The second program features Zosha Di Castri’s Invisible House, co-commissioned with the Los Angeles Philharmonic; John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, the Philharmonic’s 9/11 reflection that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Music and three Grammy Awards, performed with Spain’s Orfeó Català and its children’s choirs; and Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, which closed Dudamel’s Philharmonic debut appearances in 2007.
While the Orchestra is in Austria, the Jewish Museum Vienna presents The Special Case of Steffy Goldner, an installation honoring the harpist who in 1922 became the first woman to serve as a permanent member of the New York Philharmonic.
WQXR and Carnegie Hall have announced the lineup for the 2026–27 season of Carnegie Hall Live, the broadcast series that brings performances from the legendary New York venue to audiences nationwide and around the world. Now in its 16th season, the series airs live on WQXR-FM and streams at WQXR.org and CarnegieHall.org, with broadcasts also distributed to public radio stations across the country.
The season opened on October 9 with the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Kirill Petrenko, joined by pianist Víkingur Ólafsson in a program of Brahms and Strauss — part of the orchestra’s four-concert Carnegie Hall residency that launched the Hall’s 2026–27 season.
Among the season’s highlights, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs an all-Berlioz program on November 5, 2026, led by Louis Langrée and starring tenor Benjamin Bernheim in a rare New York appearance, pairing Les nuits d’été with the Symphonie fantastique. On January 19, 2027, Franz Welser-Möst conducts The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus in Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, with soloists Golda Schultz, Taylor Raven, Julian Prégardien, and Anthony Robin Schneider.
The series also carries performances by the Vienna Philharmonic and The Philadelphia Orchestra as part of Carnegie Hall’s season-long Mahler symphony cycle led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, alongside chamber music programs spotlighting Beethoven and Brahms.
Carnegie Hall Live is hosted by WNYC and WQXR’s John Schaefer, with guest hosts Elliott Forrest and Paul Cavalconte. The series is produced by WQXR in partnership with Carnegie Hall and American Public Media. For the full broadcast schedule, visit carnegiehall.org.
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