Oct 9 - 11, 2020
2020-21 Season
Opening Weekend: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony
Jennifer Koh performs a new violin concerto by Newark’s Tyshawn Sorey.
XIAN ZHANG conductor
JENNIFER KOH violin
- BEETHOVEN Wellington’s Victory
- TYSHAWN SOREY Work for Violin and Orchestra (World Premiere, NJSO Commission)
- BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Oct 15 - 18, 2020
2020-21 Season
Zhang Conducts Mozart’s ‘Jupiter’
Also featuring NJSO principal musicians performing concertos!
XIAN ZHANG conductor
BART FELLER flute
JONATHAN SPITZ cello
Nov 5 - 8, 2020
2020-21 Season
Mozart & Brahms
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 performed by Mexican-born pianist Jorge Federico Osorio.
JUN MÄRKL conductor
JORGE FEDERICO OSORIO piano
Dec 4 - 6, 2020
2020-21 Season
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto
Featuring the return of violinist Augustin Hadelich.
XIAN ZHANG conductor
AUGUSTIN HADELICH violin
Jan 15 - 17, 2021
2020-21 Season
Gershwin’s An American in Paris
2021 Winter Festival Week I: Gershwin & the Sounds of America
XIAN ZHANG conductor
TERRENCE WILSON piano
AARON DWORKIN narrator
Jan 21 - 24, 2021
2020-21 Season
Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F
2021 Winter Festival Week II: Gershwin & the Sounds of America
FABIEN GABEL conductor
AARON DIEHL piano
Jan 29 - 31, 2021
2020-21 Season
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
2021 Winter Festival Week III: Gershwin & the Sounds of America
XIAN ZHANG conductor
CHRIS KOMER horn
MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY CHOIR | Eric Conway, director
- VARIOUS Jazz French Horn Concerto (World Premiere, NJSO Commission) Movements by PAQUITO D’RIVERA, VIVIAN LI, CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE, GARY MORGAN
- GERSHWIN Selections from Porgy and Bess
Feb 25 - 28, 2021
2020-21 Season
Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto
Gemma New conducts the NJSO premiere of Walton Symphony No. 1
GEMMA NEW conductor
KAREN GOMYO violin
- THOMAS ADÈS New Work (US Premiere, NJSO Co-Commission)
- TCHAIKOVSKY Violin Concerto
- WALTON Symphony No. 1 (NJSO Premiere)
Mar 6 - 7, 2021
2020-21 Season
Zhang Conducts Mahler 7
2020–21 Season
XIAN ZHANG conductor
TOM BORROW piano
Mar 11 - 14, 2021
2020-21 Season
Chopin’s First Piano Concerto
Also featuring Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian”
XIAN ZHANG conductor
HAOCHEN ZHANG piano
Apr 8 - 11, 2021
2020-21 Season
Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
Vadim Gluzman returns to perform Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2
MARIO VENZAGO conductor
VADIM GLUZMAN violin
Apr 29 - May 2, 2021
2020-21 Season
Conrad Tao Plays Tchaikovsky
Also featuring Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 9
JADER BIGNAMINI conductor
CONRAD TAO piano
- CONRAD TAO Spoonfuls for Piano and Orchestra (East-Coast Premiere)
- SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 9
- TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1