“Nicholas McGegan is launching his 34th and final season at the head of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale, lighting 70 candles on Jan. 14, 2020,” writes Janos Gereben in Tuesday’s (9/17) San Francisco Classical Voice. “Philharmonia will open the 2019–2020 season with … two works by Handel … and a very un-Baroque piece, the world premiere of Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners…. The Philharmonia season will be very much in the tradition of what McGegan created over the years…. With 70 approaching … McGegan has already launched his guest-conducting season, appearing with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Hollywood Bowl … and he returns to the Southland in October to conduct the LA Chamber Orchestra…. He will lead the Cleveland Orchestra and the Houston Symphony in November, orchestras in Baltimore, St. Louis … Pasadena, and New Jersey next year…. Somehow during the same period, McGegan also makes debuts with two orchestras in Poland: Szczecin Philharmonic and the NFM Wrocław Philharmonic in October, ringing in the new year conducting the Royal Scottish National Orchestra in Glasgow. Later in 2020, he returns to Göttingen International Handel Festival, where he spent 20 years (1991–2001) as the festival’s artistic director.”
Posted September 19, 2019
