The Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Fabio Luisi.
In Saturday’s (3/22) NBCDFW.com (Dallas/Fort Worth), Kimberly Richard writes, “The Dallas Symphony Orchestra has been making music for 125 years. To celebrate its quasquicentennial, the orchestra’s 2025-26 season highlights significant moments, artists and music from the orchestra’s history…. The 2025-26 season marks the sixth year of Fabio Luisi as the orchestra’s Music Director…. The 2025 Symphony Gala is a nod to the orchestra’s history. On Oct. 4, Luisi will lead the orchestra in Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, which Sir Georg Solti conducted at the first subscription concert of his tenure as Music Director in the early 1960s … Along with historic pieces, the 2025-26 season features six world premieres…. The orchestra commissioned former Composer-in-Residence Angélica Negrón to write an expansive work for orchestra, chorus and four vocalists in honor of the orchestra’s 125th anniversary…. Kathryn Bostic … pays homage to Harlem Renaissance blues singer Gladys Bentley in a new work commissioned by the orchestra…. Luisi will lead the orchestra in a program featuring two world premieres: Dallas-based composer Jonathan Cziner’s Clarinet Concerto featuring DSO Principal Clarinet Gregory Raden and composer/pianist Moni (Jasmine) Guo’s new work … Sphinx alumna Melissa White makes her Dallas Symphony Orchestra debut with the world premiere of Composer-in-Residence Sophia Jani’s Violin Concerto … Principal Viola Meredith Kufchak will be the featured soloist in a new concerto from … Jonathan Leshnoff.”
