Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and The Philadelphia Orchestra will embark on a European Festivals Tour, August 25–September 9, 2022.The seven-city tour marks the Orchestra’s first international tour since the fall of 2019, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and includes performances in Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of the Edinburgh International Festival; Hamburg, Germany; Berlin, Germany; Dresden, Germany; Lucerne, Switzerland, as part of the Lucerne Festival; Paris, France; and London, England, as part of the BBC Proms. Violinist Lisa Batiashvili and soprano Angel Blue will join as soloists.

The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform works never and rarely heard in concert in the tour locations, including Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 (premiering in Edinburgh, Hamburg, Berlin, and Lucerne), for which the Orchestra’s recording won the 2022 GRAMMY for Best Orchestral Performance; the European premiere of Valerie Coleman’s This Is Not a Small Voice, a Philadelphia Orchestra commission performed by Blue; and selections from Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout by Philadelphia Orchestra Composer-in-Residence Gabriela Lena Frank (only previously performed in Europe in Finland and Sweden). In addition, the Orchestra will present works by Beethoven, Dvořák, and Rachmaninoff. Batiashvili will perform Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 1, Chausson’s Poème, and Saint-Saëns’s Introduction and Rondo capriccioso. Blue will perform Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 in addition to the Coleman work.

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