| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 19-Feb-2013 Walt Disney Concert Hall | Dudamel and Paredes lead Colburn Orchestra in music by Revueltas, Copland, Tchaikovsky |
 Among the most memorable and exciting evenings of my concert-going experience have been some excellent performances by student orchestras. You would think there is a trade-off for this sort of experience and that often is the case: in exchange for that last degree of technical polish you’re recompensed with performances often more thrilling than those by their professional peers. A very fair price to hear music-making wrought boldly by musicians whose sensibilities have yet to be calloused by the dullness of age, routine, and careerism.
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| 13-Sep-2012 De Doelen: Grote Zaal | A new world from the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Nézet-Séguin at the Gergiev Festival |
 Aaron Copland was one of the most important American composers of the last century. The inclusion of his Clarinet Concerto and Dvořák’s Symphony no. 9 made this program one inspired by the US. The theme of this year’s Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival, Sea & You, of course suits this beautifully – after all, we hear the skyscrapers coming up from the sea in Dvořák’s symphony. Above all, both pieces signify a new world, or “Your New World”, as the concert’s program would have it.
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