January 2023 Artist Updates from Primo Artists
Itzhak Perlman, violin: On January 14, Itzhak Perlman embarks on a 5-city west coast recital tour to the Mondavi Center, Davies Symphony Hall and the Gallo Center for the Arts. From there, he will perform with the Oregon Symphony before ending the tour in a recital at the McCallum Theatre on January 24.
Seong-Jin Cho, piano: Seong-Jin Cho returns to the United States this month for recitals at the Seattle Symphony’s Benaroya Hall on January 6 and the LA Phil’s Walt Disney Concert Hall on January 8. Then he performs Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with the National Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda on January 12 to 14, and Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2. with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin from January 19 to 21.
James Gaffigan, conductor: On February 3 and 4, James Gaffigan returns to The Kennedy Center for his second appearances this season with the National Symphony Orchestra, on a program of Dvořák Symphony No. 7 and Robert Schumann Piano Concerto with Beatrice Rana in her NSO debut.
Nicola Benedetti, violin: From January 19 to 21, Nicola Benedetti makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut, joining conductor Karina Canellakis in Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 2.
Catalyst Quartet: PR client Catalyst Quartet has announced the third volume in its UNCOVERED series, described as “one of the most worthwhile recording projects around” by The New York Times. UNCOVERED Volume 3 will be released on Azica Records on February 3, 2023 and will feature the works of three American composers, George Walker, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, and William Grant Still, who lived through the various Black artistic, political, and social projects that transformed the 20th century.
Samantha Hankey, mezzo-soprano: PR client Samantha Hankey makes her debut at Chicago Lyric Opera this month as the title character Hänsel in Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel from January 25 to February 5.
Allison Loggins-Hull, composer/flutist: On January 19, yMusic performs the world premiere of PR client Allison Loggins-Hull’s Supply, co-commissioned and presented by Carnegie Hall. The Zankel Hall performance is the first Center Stage configuration in many years, and will also feature collaboratively composed works by yMusic and a New York premiere by Andrew Norman.
Karen Slack, soprano: On January 12 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, PR client Karen Slack performs in MetLiveArts’ world premiere of Songs in Flight, a program by composter Shawn Okpebholo and Duke University professor and poet Dr. Tsitsi Ella Jaji that was inspired by Cornell University’s Freedom on the Move, a database of “runaway ads” collected from early newspapers in the United States.
Dmitry Sitkovetsky: On January 21, Dmitry Sitkovetsky leads the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra (GSO) and renowned violinist James Ehnes at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts. Celebrated Ukrainian conductor Natalia Ponomarchuk leads the first half of the program.
Sphinx Organization: PR client Sphinx Organization presents its annual convening, SphinxConnect: Impact, in Detroit on January 26 to 28, 2023. As the largest and longest-standing organization dedicated to diversity and inclusion in classical music, Sphinx will hold the final round of their competition on the final evening of the conference. On January 29 and 31, Sphinx Symphony Orchestra and EXIGENCE Vocal Ensemble will also collaborate for the first time with concerts at University Musical Society and at The Kennedy Center co-presented by Washington Performing Arts.
Seth Parker Woods: On January 28, the Great Northern Festival presents PR client Seth Parker Woods in his critically acclaimed, interactive, performance installation Iced Bodies for cellist and electronic instrumental ice sculpture. Together with collaborator Spencer Topel, Iced Bodies is inspired by Jim McWilliam’s 1972 piece called Ice Music for London and premiered on the 45th anniversary of the original work.
