Music Director Manfred Honeck leads the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
In Tuesday’s (2/18) Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jeremy Reynolds writes, “The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s 2025-26 season will include a return to Carnegie Hall in New York City and a variety of programming centered on America’s 250th anniversary. … The orchestra received yet another Grammy Award nomination for best orchestral performance for its most recent album, Bruckner Symphony No. 7. (The album did not win that award, but it did win a Grammy for sound engineering.) ‘We’re proud to embody the spirit of Pittsburgh—bold, fearless, and passionate—as we embark on the journey of defining what an American orchestra will be,’ said Melia Tourangeau, the orchestra’s president and CEO … The symphony’s season features a variety of star classical music names like pianists Yuja Wang, Emanuel Ax, Helene Grimaud and Yefim Bronfman, violinists Alexi Kenny and Augustin Hadelich, and popular returning guest conductors Petr Popelka and Juraj Valčuha. The repertoire includes a pair of world premieres by composers Michael Dougherty and Jacob Bancks as well as 21 pieces by American composers Julia Wolfe, George Walker, Jessie Montgomery and Carlos Simon. It also includes well-known works from the classical canon … The symphony will also continue to offer its popular PSO360 performances, with limited audiences onstage … as well as its ‘Disrupt’ concerts, which are shorter and feature a host to guide listeners through the music.”
