Rafael Payare
Rafael Payare concludes the 2023-24 San Diego Symphony season with two programs highlighting works from opera and ballet. On May 18, violinist Daniel Lozakovich makes his SDS debut in a program that includes Act I of Wagner’s Die Walküre alongside Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto. Pianist Jeremy Denk joins Payare and the San Diego Symphony for the...
The new album Strauss ‘Ein Heldenleben’ and Mahler ‘Rückert-Lieder,’ featuring Rafael Payare leading the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) and soprano Sonya Yoncheva in the latest extension of their Pentatone discography, has received steady critical acclaim since its March 15 release. In April, tracks from the album appeared on Apple Music Classical’s “The Late Romantics”...
On April 18, Rafael Payare makes his Orchestre national de France debut leading a program that includes the world premiere of Bechara El-Khoury’s Concerto for orchestra “Mont Hermon, the Sacred Mountain.” Payare also conducts Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, with violinist James Ehnes, and Strauss’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra.
The 2024 Conrad Prebys Summer Season at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park has been announced, showcasing the San Diego Symphony in a program lineup that includes Field of Dreams and Rent in concert, an evening with Ziggy Marley, and a celebration of Stephen Sondheim. On August 30, Rafael Payare will lead the symphony musicians...
