New World Symphony 2026 / 2027 Season

The program at New World is the sum of meaningful contributions from Artist Planning team, and should not been interpreted as a singular vision.

Denève’s Iberia

Stéphane Denève, conductor
Anne Akiko Meyers, violin
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow


Gabriela Ortiz: Kauyumari
Arturo Márquez: Fandango
Claude Debussy: Iberia
Maurice Ravel: Bolero

Beethoven 9

Stéphane Denève, conductor

Master Chorale of South Florida

Ziwei Ma, NWS Conducting Fellow

Adolphus Hailstork: Fanfare on Amazing Grace
Jessie Montgomery: Hymn for Everyone
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony 9

Glass & Reich @ 90

Andre de Ridder, conductor

Jennifer Koh, violin


Steve Reich: Three Movements for Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Philip Glass: Violin Concerto #1

Mozart’s Requiem

Stephanie Childress, conductor
Master Chorale of South Florida


Vaughan Williams: Towards an Unknown Region
W.A. Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K. 626

All Sergey, All the time

Stéphane Denève, conductor
James Ehnes, violin
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow

All-Prokofiev Program:

Classical Symphony
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19
Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63
Suite from The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33bis

Contact

Stéphane Denève, conductor
Time for Three
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow

Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Missy Mazzoli: Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres)
Kevin Puts: Contact

Fantasia in Concert

Anthony Parnther, conductor

Fantasia in Concert

Bad Boys With Toys

Stéphane Denève, conductor
Isabel Leonard, mezzo-soprano

Igor Stravinsky: Petrushka
Maurice Ravel: L'enfant et les sortilèges

Rach 2

Leonard Slatkin, conductor
Steven Isserlis, cello
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow

Clyne: Masquerade
Walton: Cello Concerto
Rachmaninoff: Symphony 2

Mahler 1

Stéphane Denève, conductor 
Gabriela Montero, piano 
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow 

Bacewicz: Overture
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1
Mahler: Symphony No. 1

Let’s Go Branden

Jeannette Sorrell, conductor and harpsichordist

J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1046
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048
Vivaldi / Arr. Sorrell: La Folia
W.A. Mozart: Overture to The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492
W.A. Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

The Cleveland Orchestra Side-By-Side

Stéphane Denève, conductor
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider, violin

Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Respighi: Fountains of Rome

Trees

Stéphane Denève, conductor 
Sam Green, narrator 

Caroline Shaw: TREES (NWS Co-commission) 

From Gotterdammerung

Sir Mark Elder, conductor 
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow 
Christine Goerke, soprano 

Elgar: Chanson de Nuit
Elgar: Falstaff
Wagner: Dawn and Journey Down the Rhine
Wagner: Funeral March from Gotterdammerung  
Wagner: Brunnhilde Immolation Scene from Gotterdammerung  

Kinds of Trains

Stéphane Denève, conductor 
Steven Banks, saxophone  
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow 

Honegger: Pacific 231
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Connesson: Kind of Trane
Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances
Gershwin: Catfish Row

Unfinished

Xian Zhang, conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Ziwei Ma, NWS conducting fellow

Webern: Im Sommerwind
Schubert: Unfinished Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto