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2019 - 2020 
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC 
!!cancelled due to covid-19

April 22 - 26, 2020 Walt Disney Concert Hall
Cover conductor for Susanna Mälkki
Claire Chase, flut
Esperanza Spalding, bass

FELIPE LARA Double Concerto (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission)
HOLST The Planets
Los Angeles Master Chorale
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NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
!!cancelled due to covid-19
April 27 - May 3, 2020 NJPAC
Cover conductor for 
Nicholas McGegan
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Rubén Rengel, violin    Eduardo Rios, violin 
Adriana Rosin, violin    Na-Young Baek, cello
BRAHMS: Variations on a Theme by Haydn                                             
VIVALDI: Concerto for 2 Violins in B-flat Major (RV 529)   
VIVALDI: Concerto for Violin and Cello B-flat Major (RV 547)     
VIVALDI: Concerto for Three Violins in F Major      (RV 551)              
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 2  
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NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
!!cancelled due to covid-19
May 11-17, 2020 NJPAC
Cover conductor for Andrey Boreyko

Akiko Suwanai, violin 
MASON BATES: Attack Decay Sustain Release                                   
TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto                          SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No. 10     
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YONKERS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
!!cancelled due to covid-19
May 31, 2020
42nd Annual Concerto Competition Concert


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NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
!!cancelled due to covid-19
June 1-7, 2020 NJPAC
Cover conductor for Xian Zhang

Louis Lortie, piano 
BEETOVEN: Overture to Egmont
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 24                        STRAVINSKY: Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
BARTOK: Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC 
August 18, 2020 Hollywood Bowl
cover conductor for Marin Alsop
Celebrating Women's Suffrage 
Program: TBA 
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LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC 
August 22, 2020 Hollywood Bowl
cover conductor for Thomas Wilkins
James Blake with Orchestra

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​RUTGERS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
September 28, 2019 NBPAC
SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture
SHAWN Concerto for clarinet and cello (World Premiere)
Maureen Hurd, clarinet
Jonathan Spitz, cello
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
October 7-13, 2019 NJPAC
Cover conductor for Xian Zhang
ELGAR: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1        
SARAH KIRKLAND SNIDER: Hiraeth 
HOLST: The Planets: An HD Odyssey With NASA Imagery
Women of Newark Voices
YONKERS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
October 27, 2019 3PM
FROM THE NEW WORLD
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3
Alan Murray, piano
Dvorak Symphony No. 9 "From the new world"
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
October 28 - November 3, 2019 NJPAC
Cover conductor for Markus Stenz
Juho Pohjonen, piano 
REBEL: “Chaos” from Les élémens                              
GRIEG: Piano Concerto                                                           
​BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2   
 
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
November 4-10, 2019 NJPACK
Cover conductor for Xian Zhang
Ning Feng, violin
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio espagnol                          
QIGANG CHEN: Violin Concerto “La joie de la souffrance”            

(US Premiere and NJSO Co-Commission)
SAINT-SAENS: Introduction and Rondo capriccioso               
FALLA: Suite No. 2 from The Three Cornered Hat  
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
November 12-15, 2019 NJPAC & other locations
Education Concert 

COPLAND Fanfare for the Common Man 
ST. GEORGES Symphony No. 2 Mvmt 1
TCHAIKOVSKY Valse-Scherzo 
FAURE Elegie 
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Starburst 
MOZART Presto from Sinfonia concertante
Rubén Rengel, violin

Nygel Witherspoon, cello
Daniel Soto, narrator 
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
​November 16, 2019 2 PM & 3:30 PM NJPAC

ST. GEORGES Symphony No. 2 Mvmt 1 
MOZART Presto from Sinfonia concertante
PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf 
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Rubén Rengel, violin
Nygel Witherspoon, cello
Ben Steinfeld, narrator 

SHANGHAI PHILHARMONIC
January 19, 2020 Shanghai Concert Hall
SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No.1 
Jia Peng Nie, cello
RIMSKY KORSAKOV: Scheherazade
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
January 20-25, 2020 NJPAC
Cover conductor for Xian Zhang
CHINESE NEW YEAR CONCERT
​Program: TBD
YONKERS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
February 2, 2020 3PM
6th Annual BEETHOVEN FESTIVAL
Beethoven's 250th Anniversary
BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto
Chin Kim, violin
BEETHOVEN Symphony No.1 

NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
February 24 - March 1, 2020 NJPAC
Cover conductor for Christoph Konig
Simone Porter, Violin
MOZART: Overture to The Magic Flute 
MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto

BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6    
NEW JERSEY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
March 16-22, 2020 NJPAC
Cover conductor for Xian Zhang
Louis Lortie, Piano
March 19-20, 2020
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.1
​BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.5
March 21-21, 2020
​BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.2
​BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3
​BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.4
YONKERS PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
March 29, 2020 3PM
"JOURNEY TO THE FAR EAST"
MILHAUD GLINKA: Ruslan and Ludmila Overture
REINHOLD GLIÈRE: French Horn Concerto
David Jolly, French Horn
RIMSKY KORSAKOV Scheherazade 









​PREVIOUS SEASON



LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC

July 22 – 23, 2019 Hollywood Bowl
Cover conductor for Gustavo Dudamel
MAHLER Symphony No.2 
LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC
July 24–25, 2019 Hollywood Bowl
Cover conductor for Gustavo Dudamel
BARBER Adagio for Strings
ADAMS Must the Devil Have All the God Tunes?
Yuja Wang, Piano
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.4 
BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
July 29–30, 2019 Hollywood Bowl
Cover conductor for Iván Fischer
BEETHOVEN Egmont Overture
BRUCH Violin Concerto
Nicola Benedetti, Violin
BRAHMS Symphony No.1


BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

July 29–August 1, 2019 Hollywood Bowl
Cover conductor for Iván Fischer
Haydn Symphony No.88
HANDEL Selected Arias
Jeanine De Bique, Soprano 

DVORÁK Symphony No.8

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