From the start of the 2009/10 season Lawrence Foster will become Music Director of Orchestre et Opéra National de Montpellier. He also begins his eighth season as Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra.
Highlights of this season include concerts with the Gewandhausorchester (with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, and an appearance with the Grafenegg Festival in July 2010. He will also conduct both Chopin concertos with Daniel Barenboim as soloist with the Gulbenkian Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo. Further ahead, other engagements include NDR Sinfonieorchester Hamburg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Residentie Orkest (with Aldo Ciccolini), plus the closing concerts of MDR Sinfonieorchester Leipzig’s 2010/11 season. After the success of his recent Schumann symphony cycle with the Czech Philharmonic (recorded for Pentatone), he will also return to the orchestra in spring 2011.
In the opera world, his commitments this season include a return to Hamburg Staatsoper for a production a of Weber’s Der Freischütz in autumn 2009, followed by a revival of Carmen in 2010/11. In spring 2011 he will return to Opéra de Marseille for a production of Wozzeck and will also conduct the world premiere of a new opera by René Koering with Opéra de Monte Carlo.
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