2019–20 Season Highlights:

The 2019–20 season is anchored by three special initiatives:

Project 19 marks the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment with commissions by 19 women composers;.

The Hotspots Festival spotlights three new-music centers: Berlin, Reykjavík, and New York

Mahler’s New York Jaap van Zweden and the Orchestra examine Mahler as a composer and his time in New York as the Philharmonic’s tenth Music Director.

Jaap van Zweden began his second season by conducting the opening subscription program featuring the World Premiere of a New York Philharmonic commission by Philip Glass; Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with soprano Kelli O’Hara; and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.

• Jaap van Zwedenwill conducted the US Stage Premiere of director / designer Bengt Gomér’s production of Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, which incorporates video, lighting, and additional roles to integrate the two one-act operas into a complete narrative united by an exploration of the unconscious. Bluebeard’s Castle will feature soprano Nina Stemme as Judith and baritone Johannes Martin Kränzle as Duke Bluebeard; Erwartungwill feature mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus as A Woman.
• Jaap van Zweden will conduct the World Premieres of seven New York Philharmonic commissions by Philip Glass(September 18–21, 2019); Nina C. Young (February 5–11, 2020), Tania León (February 13–18, 2020), and Ellen Reid (February 20–22, 2020) as part of Project 19; David Hertzberg (April 17­–18, 2020) as part of Mahler’s New York; Nico Muhly (June 4–9, 2020) as part of the hotspots festival; and Sarah Kirkland Snider (June 11–13, 2020) as part of hotspots and Project 19.

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• Jaap van Zweden will lead symphonic cornerstones including Mozart’s Mass in C minor, Great(February 5–11, 2020); Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, Romantic (February 20–22, 2020); Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 (April 1–4, 2020); Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 (April 15–21, 2020) and Symphony No. 2, Resurrection (April 23–25, 2020); and John Adams’s Harmonium (June 11–13, 2020).
• The two new-music series introduced in Maestro van Zweden’s inaugural season will return: the Kravis Nightcap series and the GRoW @ Annenberg Sound ON series, both hosted by The Marie-Josée Kravis Creative Partner Nadia Sirota. Nightcap curators will include Laurie Anderson(October 5, 2019), Bryce Dessner (November 16, 2019), Steve Reich (December 7, 2019), Tania León (February 15, 2020), Olga Neuwirth (May 30, 2020), Nico Muhly(June 6, 2020), and Sarah Kirkland Snider (June 13, 2020).

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• The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence Daniil Trifonov will perform two concertos with the Orchestra, both led by Jaap van Zweden: Scriabin’s Piano Concerto (November 27 and 29–30 and December 3, 2019) and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 (April 15–16, 18, and 21, 2020). He will also perform an all–J.S. Bach recital at Alice Tully Hall, presented in association with Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series (March 3, 2020), and chamber music with the New York Philharmonic String Quartet at 92nd Street Y in a program that will include the New York Premiere of Daniil Trifonov’s Piano Quintet (December 1, 2019).

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• The 2019–20 season of Young People’s Concerts(ages 6–12) will include Orchestral Music in America, conducted by Francesco Lecce-Chong (November 9, 2019); A Composer’s Toolkit, conducted by Jaap van Zweden (December 7, 2019); Music as a Change Agent, conducted by Roderick Cox (March 21, 2020); and The Woman’s Voice, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen (May 30, 2020). Each concert is preceded by YPC Overtures, at which children can meet Philharmonic musicians, try out orchestral instruments, and hear music newly written by composers their own age through the Philharmonic Very Young Composers Program. The 2019–20 season of Very Young People’s Concerts (ages 3–6), hosted by Associate Principal Viola Rebecca Young and designed / directed by Doug Fitch, will feature three programs on the theme of Philharmonic Families:“Strings” at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall (February 2, 2020) and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (February 8, 2020); “Brass” at Merkin Hall (March 29, 2020) and Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (April 4, 2020), and “Woodwinds” at Merkin Hall (June 7, 2020) and Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning (June 13, 2020).

Single tickets are now available for purchase online at nyphil.org, by phone at (212) 875-5656, and in person at the David Geffen Hall Box Office. Curated, Matinee, Young People’s Concerts, Very Young People’s Concerts, and Create Your Own subscription series continue to be on sale.