Gustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic in a January 2026 performance at Radio City Music Hall, the orchestra’s first-ever appearance there. Photo credit: MSG Entertainment.
In Thursday’s (2/24) New York Times, Adam Nagourney writes, “After 17 years as the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s artistic and music director, Dudamel has begun an extended cross-country transition as he prepares to officially take on the same title with the New York Philharmonic in September. It is as much a new chapter for this 45-year-old conductor … as it is for New York’s 184-year-old orchestra … Dudamel said that while his relationship with the Los Angeles Philharmonic ‘was great,’ he was leaving because ‘I need this new chapter for me.’… His last performances as the orchestra’s music and artistic director at Disney Hall will be in June, followed by the official end of his tenure in August at the Hollywood Bowl, where he will conduct Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony … Dudamel, in interviews at his soon-to-be office at David Geffen Hall in New York and at his soon-not-to-be office at Disney Hall in Los Angeles, said he was using this time to manage an appropriately elaborate farewell to Los Angeles while planning his first years in New York…. Dudamel and the New York Philharmonic are preparing to announce their ambitious schedule of events for next season in early March.”
