This October, Gilbert leads the NDREO in their first Asia tour in two years (Oct 22–29). They start with a program of Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, Restless Oceans by Grammy-nominee Anna Clyne, and Brahms Violin Concerto. Their superstar violinist is Joshua Bell, with whom Gilbert and the orchestra previously got their 2023-24 season “off to a dream start” (Die Welt, Germany).
They will bring this program to Taiwan’s Kaohsiung and South Korea’s Seoul and Daegu; Gilbert then leads the NDREO in a pairing of two 20th-century Russian masterworks – Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite and Prokofiev’s “Classical” Symphony – with two late-Romantic classics: Strauss’s tone poem Don Juan, and Saint-Saëns’s Third Violin Concerto in Taipei; and Gilbert and the orchestra undertake both programs in Shanghai, at the China Shanghai International Arts Festival.
