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“Kamensek is experienced in Glass’s operas, and under her the orchestra sounded right at home. There was an excellent balance of instrumental colors—and with the singers—and the playing had focus and equipoise, the kind of warmth one can feel, and it flowed and built a profoundly affecting momentum while always held with a light and certain grip.” – New York Classical Review, 2019
About Karen
The 2019/20 season demonstrates Karen Kamensek’s remarkable versatility and expansive artistry. Among her high-profile conducting debuts this season is her long-awaited Metropolitan Opera debut with Glass’ Akhnaten—a production, under her direction, that recently won the coveted Olivier Award in London—as well as debuts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Diverse repertoire, additional debuts, welcome returns and dynamic collaborations round out Ms. Kamensek’s 2019/20 season. Works by Glass, Takemitsu, Pépin, Shankar, Beethoven, Mozart, Walton and Ravel outline her numerous guest-conducting appearances.
Ms. Kamensek will make additional debuts in 2019/20 with the Malmö Symphony Orchestra, the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra as well as with the Minnesota Opera conducting Mozart’s Don Giovanni. A new production of Puccini’s La Bohème will usher in her welcome return to the Göteborg Opera.
In 2019/20 Ms. Kamensek will collaborate with such renowned singers as Anthony Roth Costanzo and J’Nai Bridges; directors such as Phelim McDermott; and instrumentalists such as Daniel Hope, Alban Gerhardt and Anoushka Shankar.
Upcoming Performances
March 05, 2020
Centre de Congrès
Julien Szulman, violon
Xavier Jeannequin, viola
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Mendelssohn — Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mozart — Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra E-flat major, K. 364
Beethoven — Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
March 07, 2020
Centre de Congrès
Julien Szulman, violon
Xavier Jeannequin, viola
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Mendelssohn — Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mozart — Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra E-flat major, K. 364
Beethoven — Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
March 08, 2020
Centre de Congrès
Julien Szulman, violon
Xavier Jeannequin, viola
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Mendelssohn — Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Mozart — Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra E-flat major, K. 364
Beethoven — Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60
March 20, 2020
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Laura van der Heijden, cello
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Pépin — Vajrayana
Haydn — Cello Concerto No. 1 in C
Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
March 21, 2020
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Kian Soltani, cello
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Pépin — Vajrayana
Schumann — Cello Concerto
Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
March 22, 2020
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Ralph Kirshbaum, cello
Karen Kamensek, conductor
Pépin — Vajrayana
Julia Adolphe — Cello Concerto (World Premiere, LA Phil Commission)
Mendelssohn — Symphony No. 3, “Scottish”
March 26, 2020
Göteborg Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Main Stage
Karen Kamensek, conductor
“...Karen Kamensek’s authoritative conducting of the Met orchestra...From the start of the overture, the score bathed the ear in textured sound that conveyed, in its gently shifting luminosity, something of the distance of the archaic.”
The Washington Post, 2019
"Kamensek…deservedly earning the biggest applause of the night during the final curtain.”
Opera Wire, 2019
“...conductor Karen Kamensek weaves everything into a wonderful, ever shifting tapestry of sound.”
Bachtrack, 2016
“Keeping it all under a tight rein was conductor Karen Kamensek, making a most laudable ENO debut. The orchestra clearly found her direction stimulating, as they were on top form throughout.”
Seen and Heard International, 2016
Ms. Kamensek talks with Operabiz Podcast host Daniel Welch about making her Metropolitan Opera conducting debut this season, her road to conducting, her collaboration with Philip Glass, and a largely European career. She shares her insights on Glass' music as well as a fresh perspective on life on the podium.
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