HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COMING SEASON

  • “Monuments of Music” compositions shape the
    2025/26 season featuring seminal works by major
    contemporary composers.
  • Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series: The long awaited

    concert & recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solem-
    nis in the new edition slated for London.

  • ICCM welcomes distinguished scholars to the In-
    ternational Conference on performance prac-
    tice of the early 19th century.
  • Premieres of new works in New York, California,
    and Warsaw.
  • Beethoven/Stravinsky Summit to take place in
    the fall of 2026 in New York City.
  • Upcoming recordings: Best of Lutoslawski; a new re-
    cording cycle of Schnittke & The Russian Connection.
  • Release of new recodings on Signum Classics:
    Penderecki/Mykietyn/Błażejczyk; & Gubaidulina/
    Schnittke.

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE COMING SEASON

  • “Monuments of Music” compositions shape the
    2025/26 season featuring seminal works by major
    contemporary composers.
  • Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series: The long awaited

    concert & recording of Beethoven’s Missa Solem-
    nis in the new edition slated for London.

  • ICCM welcomes distinguished scholars to the In-
    ternational Conference on performance prac-
    tice of the early 19th century.
  • Premieres of new works in New York, California,
    and Warsaw.
  • Beethoven/Stravinsky Summit to take place in
    the fall of 2026 in New York City.
  • Upcoming recordings: Best of Lutoslawski; a new re-
    cording cycle of Schnittke & The Russian Connection.
  • Release of new recodings on Signum Classics:
    Penderecki/Mykietyn/Błażejczyk; & Gubaidulina/
    Schnittke.

Featured Composer

WITOLD LUTOSŁAWSKI

Lutoslawski is the composer of choice for this season. Often

overlooked though acknowledged as an unsurpassed mas-
ter of invention and beauty, Lutoslawski deserves far more

exposure than currently being given. For this reason we are

featuring some of his greatest works that include his Sym-
phonies No. 3 and 4, his Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto,

Concerto for Orchestra, and Mi Parti and a series of three
recordings exclusively dedicated to his output.

Lutoslawski is the composer of choice for this season. Often

overlooked though acknowledged as an unsurpassed master of invention and beauty, Lutoslawski deserves far more

exposure than currently being given. For this reason we are

featuring some of his greatest works that include his Symphonies No. 3 and 4, his Piano Concerto, Cello Concerto,

Concerto for Orchestra, and Mi Parti and a series of three
recordings exclusively dedicated to his output.

FEATURED ORCHESTRAS, CHORUSES, & ENSEMBLES
2025/26 Season

Orchestra of St. Luke’s (New York)

Pacific Symphony (California)

Sinfonia Varsovia (Warsaw)

English Chamber Orchestra

New York Choral Society

Budapest Symphony Orchestra

The Hanover Band (London)

Tenebrae (choir), (London)

New Amsterdam
     New Amsterdam Singers
     New Amsterdam Chorus
     New Amsterdam Sinfonia

Hashtag Ensemble (Warsaw)

Książek Piano Duo (Poland)

UPCOMING CONCERTS
2025/26 Season
Awakening...

CONCERT / New York

ALREADY IT IS DUSK
Thursday, October 16 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, NYC
Hanzhi Wang, bayan
Orchestra of St. Luke’s
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor

Works by Henryk Górecki, Sofia Gubaidulina &
Witold Lutosławski

 

The opening concert brings home the central
theme of the season: Awakening . . . a call for
reflection and action in the rapidly changing
times. Three seminal pieces, the best in genre,
speak to the issue of our survival: Górecki’s call

to transcendent simplicity; Gubaidulina’s med-
itation and a rant of religious fervor; and Lu-
tosławski’s bold individualism.

CONCERT / Costa Mesa, California

ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES
Saturday, November 8, 2025, 8:00 p.m.
Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Costa Mesa
Steven Osborne, piano
Pacific Symphony
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor

Works by Mason Bates, Witold Lutosławski, and
John Adams

 

Mason Bates electronic/orchestral mix unapologetically launches the concert into another

sound-world. Lutosławski’s superbly inventive and
virtuosic piano concerto follows. But the crowning

jewel of the evening is John Adams’ colossal minimalistic creation, Harmonielehre. Calling for an

orchestra of more than a hundred musicians, the

piece gyrates, swoons, explodes, and pulsates ef-
fortlessly, sometimes dramatically, as an apt finale

to this groundbreaking acoustical drama.

Works by Mason Bates, Witold Lutosławski, and
John Adams

 

Mason Bates electronic/orchestral mix unapol-
ogetically launches the concert into another

sound-world. Lutosławski’s superbly inventive and
virtuosic piano concerto follows. But the crowning

jewel of the evening is John Adams’ colossal min-
imalistic creation, Harmonielehre. Calling for an

orchestra of more than a hundred musicians, the

piece gyrates, swoons, explodes, and pulsates ef-
fortlessly, sometimes dramatically, as an apt finale

to this groundbreaking acoustical drama.

PREMIERES
World & Regional Premieres

SOFIA GUBAIDULINA / US, East Coast premiere
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
New York – October 16, 2025
     Fachwerk (rev.)
     for bayan solo, percussion & string orchestra

 

MASON BATES / US, West Coast premiere
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Costa Mesa — November 8, 2025
     Xinjiang Province, 2112
     from “Alternative Energy” for orchestra

 

ISIDORA ŽEBELJAN / US premiere
Hall tba, New York – October 2025
     Rukoveti (Garlands)
     Five songs for soprano and orchestra

 

WOJCIECH BŁAŻEJCZYK / American premiere
Hall tba, New York – October
     Concerto for Electric Guitar, Percussion,
     Live Electronics and Strings / new version

 

HENRYK GÓRECKI / US premiere
Hall tba, New York – June 7, 2026
     Symphony No. 2 “Copernican” Op. 31
     for soloists, chorus, and orchestra

 

HANNA KULENTY / Polish premere
Teatr Nowy, Warsaw – November 22, 2025
     Carrés Noirs – Double Concerto
     for piano four hands, two string orchestras,
     & percussion

PAWEŁ MYKIETYN / Polish premiere
Teatr Nowy, Warsaw – November 22, 2025
     “Prank” for chamber orchestra

 

SOFIA GUBAIDULINA / Polish premiere
Teatr Nowy, Warsaw – November 22, 2025
     Fachwerk (rev.)
     for bayan solo, percussion & string orchestra

 

HANNA KULENTY / World premiere
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
New York – May 31, 2025
     Carrés Noirs – Double Concerto
     for piano four hands, two string orchestras
& percussioin

 

ANDERS HILLBORG / US, East Coast premiere
Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center
New York – April 21 2026
     Violin Concerto No. 2
     for violin and orchestra

 

OUTI TARKIAINEN / New York premiere
Alice Tully Hall, New York — April 21 2026
     The Ring of Fire and Love
     for orchestra

 

THIERRY ESCAICH / American premiere
Chirch of St. Ignatius Loyola
New York — May 16, 2026
     Te Deum pour Notre-Dame
     for large chorus & orchestra

COMMISSIONS
2025/26 Season

WOJCIECH BŁAŻEJCZYK
composer
Poland
HANNA KULENTY
composer
Poland
AVNER DORMAN
composer
Israel/USA
RICCARDO RICCARDI
composer
Italy

ON THE COMMISSIONS FRONT

We are proud to announce new commissions by an exceptionally gifted group of composers listed above, hailing from various parts of the world. This coming season they will see their works premiered at Lincoln Center in New York, Nowy Teatr in Warsaw, Cadogan Hall in London, and Carnegie Hall in New York City by such notable ensembles as the Manhattan String Quartet, Sinfonia Varsovia, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s (NY), and others.

BEETHOVEN SUMMIT ‘26
Scholarly Conference
London

BEETHOVEN SUMMIT ‘26
International Conference
Beethoven, His Missa Solemnis and the Viennese Performance Practice
February 2026, London

A three-day immersive experience in the Viennese performance practice of the early 19th-century.

 

ICCM is pleased to announce a scholarly summit intended for music lovers, scholars, and performers
of Beethoven’s music and his Missa Solemnis in particular. World-renowned scholars and performers
will present lectures, hold public forums, and engage in panel discussions on the topics related to
Beethoven’s late period and his Missa Solemnis in particular.

 

Summit ‘26 is sponsored by ICCM London, ICCM New York, and The Friends of ICCM — with addition-
al support from private and corporate donors and affiliates.

 

More details to come soon.

A three-day immersive experience in the Viennese performance practice of the early 19th-century.

 

ICCM is pleased to announce a scholarly summit intended for music lovers, scholars, and performers
of Beethoven’s music and his Missa Solemnis in particular. World-renowned scholars and performers
will present lectures, hold public forums, and engage in panel discussions on the topics related to
Beethoven’s late period and his Missa Solemnis in particular.

 

Summit ‘26 is sponsored by ICCM London, ICCM New York, and The Friends of ICCM — with additional support from private and corporate donors and affiliates.

 

More details to come

UPCOMING RECORDINGS
2025/26

BEST OF  LUTOSŁAWSKI Vol. 2/3
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
Steven Osborn, piano
Royal Scotish National Orchestra
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
Lutosławski: Piano Concerto (1988)
Lutosławski: Symphony No. 4 (1992)
Lutosławski: Mi-parti (1976)

BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
Soloists tba
Tenebrae choir
The Hanover Band
     (on period instruments)
Zvonimir Hačko, conductor
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis Op. 123
     performed in the new Urtext Edition

SCHNITTKE & STRAVINSKY
Mavericks & Iconoclasts Series
Children’s choir tba
Tenebrae choir
Orchestra tba
Schnittke: Requiem
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
conductor tba

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