Primo celebrates our 9th Anniversary

Primo turns 9 today!

Primo turns 9 today! As we enter our tenth year, we reflect upon key highlights from the last year:

MILESTONES:

Christian Reif appointed Chief Conductor of Gävle Symphony Orchestra

Randall Goosby announced as Artist-in-Residence of Southbank Centre’s 2023/24 Season

Valerie Coleman announced as 2024/25 Sandbox Composer-in-Residence of Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Cristian Măcelaru announced as Artistic Partner of the WDR Sinfonieorchester

PERFORMANCES:

Cristian Măcelaru opens George Enescu Festival in inaugural season as Artistic Director

James Gaffigan leads inaugural season as General Music Director of Komische Oper Berlin

Christian Reif leads inaugural season as Chief Conductor of the Gävle Symphony Orchestra

Gemma New makes her BBC Proms debut

Joshua Bell gives World Premiere of “The Elements” Concerto with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester

Beatrice Rana makes her Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut

Valerie Coleman’s “Giants of Light” receives World Premiere at Carnegie Hall by the National Youth Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis

Gemma New leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic in her subscription debut

Seong-Jin Cho performs with Zubin Mehta and Los Angeles Philharmonic

Randall Goosby makes his LA Phil, Cincinnati Symphony and Dallas Symphony debuts

Itzhak Perlman performs at White House State Dinner honoring Australian Prime Minister

Nicola Benedetti, Wynton Marsalis and James Gaffigan make an appearance at the Verbier Festival to perform the Marsalis Violin Concerto with the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra

Randall Goosby and Gemma New make their Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra debuts

James Gaffigan leads the New York Philharmonic and pianist Yunchan Lim in three sold-out concerts

Wynton Marsalis’s Trumpet Concerto receives World Premiere by Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst

Itzhak Perlman performs at Carnegie Hall with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra 

Gemma New leads “Susannah” at Opera Theatre of St. Louis

Joshua Bell plays U.S. Premiere of “The Elements” with the New York Philharmonic and Jaap van Zweden

NEWS:

Six Primo clients receive GRAMMY® nominations

Four Primo artists featured in LA Phil’s 2023/24 Season

Two Primo artists featured in New York Philharmonic’s 2023/24 Season

Two Primo artists featured in Carnegie Hall’s 2023/24 Season

Four Primo artists featured in Chicago Symphony’s 2023/24 Season

Four Primo artists featured in San Francisco Symphony’s 2023/24 Season

Four Primo artists featured in Pittsburgh Symphony’s 2023/24 Season

Three Primo artists featured in Cincinnati Symphony’s 2023/24 Season

Four Primo artists featured in St. Louis Symphony’s 2023/24 Season

Four Primo artists featured in Seattle Symphony’s 2023/24 Season

Seong-Jin Cho awarded 2023 Samsung Ho-Am Prize in the Arts

Wynton Marsalis awarded the 34th Praemium Imperiale Award

Randall Goosby receives the 2024 Harmony for Change Award

Nicola Benedetti receives Award of Excellence at Dallas Symphony Women in Classical Music Symposium

Valerie Coleman’s “Umoja: Anthem for Unity” featured in the New York Youth Symphony’s GRAMMY®-winning album

MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS:

Seong-Jin Cho, Beatrice Rana and James Gaffigan highlighted in The New York Times Spring 2023 Season Preview

James Gaffigan and Komische Oper Berlin featured in The New York Times

Randall Goosby mentioned in The New York Times’ Best Classical Music Performances of 2023

Sphinx Organization featured on Good Morning America

Verbier Festival featured in Opera News for their 30th anniversary

ALBUMS:

Joshua Bell releases“Butterfly Lovers” album on Sony Classical with Singapore Chinese Orchestra

Cristian Măcelaru releases Bartok album with WDR Sinfonieorchester

Beatrice Rana releases Clara and Robert Schumann album on Warner Classics with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe

Seong-Jin Cho releases “The Handel Project” Deutsche Grammophon album

Randall Goosby releases Decca Classics album with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra featuring music of Bruch and Price

Sphinx Virtuosi releases debut album “Songs for Our Times” on Deutsche Grammophon including music by Valerie Coleman