CHRISTIAN REIF CONDUCTOR

upcoming Concerts


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December 13-14, 7:30pm
Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Shostakovich: Festive Overture
Bartok: Violin Concerto No.2 with Nicola Benedetti

Mussorgsky: „Pictures at an Exhibition“


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January 10+11, 8pm
San Antonio Symphony
San Antonio Symphony Mastersingers

John Silantien, Director

Brahms: Symphony No.1
Wagner: "Walkürenritt"
Brahms: "Schicksalslied"
Wagner: Suite from "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" 


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January 23, 12:30pm
Ulster Orchestra

Haydn: Symphony No.27
Stravinsky: Symphony in C

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January 29, 8pm
Belgian National Orchestra

GALA Olivia Foundation

With
Timothy Chooi & Sylvia Huang (violin)
Les Pastoureaux (children's choir)



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February 15, 8pm
February 16, 3pm

Santa Barbara Symphony

Michael Gilbertson: Graffiti (Concerto for Chamber Orchestra)
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme (soloist: Thomas Mesa)
Mozart: Overture to "Clemenza di Tito"
Mozart: Symphony No.39

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February 22, 7:30pm
February 23. 2:30pm

Colorado Springs Philharmonic

Cecilia Damström: "Tundo!" (US Premiere)
Mozart: Symphony No.41
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4

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March 12, 7:30
​Symphony Nova Scotia

Jocelyn Morlock: "My Name is Amanda Todd"
Bartok: Violin Concerto No.2 (soloist: Kerson Leong)
Dvorak: Slavonic Dances op.46


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March 19, 8pm
Orchestre National de Lyon
Soloist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Beethoven: Symphony No.4
Connesson: "Flammenschrift"
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1

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March 21, 6pm
Orchestre National de Lyon
Soloist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.2
Dean: Adagio molto e mesto - Testament
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3

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March 26+27, 7:30pm
Brno Philharmonic

Tüür: Phantasma (Czech Premiere)
Vasks: Concerto for English Horn (soloist: Dominik Wollenweber)
Schumann: Symphony No.3 "Rhenish"

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April 16+17, 7pm
Gävle Symphony

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Bo Linde: Cello Concerto (soloist: Amalie Stalheim)
Cecilia Damström: "Lucrum"
Dvorak: Symphonic Variations

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April 24+25, 9pm
San Francisco Symphony 
SOUNDBOX

Curator/Soprano: Julia Bullock

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May 8, 7:30pm
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra

Britten: "Les Illuminations" (with Julia Bullock)
Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Shostakovich: Symphony No.6


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July 5, 7:30pm
Interlochen Center for the Arts
World Youth Symphony Orchestra 

Program TBD

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July 31
August 2

Music Academy of the West

Humperdinck: "Hänsel und Gretel"

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August 15+16
Lakes Area Music Festival

Wagner: "Der Fliegende Holländer"
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recent events

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November 21, 7:30pm
November 22-23, 8pm

North Carolina Symphony

Barber: School for Scandal Overture
McKay: Violin Concerto (soloist: Brian Reagin)
Copland: Symphony No.2
Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from "West Side Story"

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November 12, 8pm
Toledo Symphony

Gala Concert
​with Itzhak Perlman



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October 31, 7:30pm
Orquesta Clásica Santa Cecilia
Fundacion Excelentia - Madrid

Mendelssohn: Overture to "Summernight's Dream"
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4

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October 25
Presidential Symphony Orchestra Cyprus

Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 (soloist: Nihat Agdac)
Schumann: Symphony No.3 "Rhenish"

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October 11
Romanian Radio National Orchestra
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Schumann: Piano Concerto (soloist: Matei Varga)
Mussorgsky/Ravel: "Pictures at an Exhibition"

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September 28
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
GALA Concert
with Joshua Bell

Beethoven: Leonore Overture No.3
​Brahms: Violin Concerto

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July 17, 8pm
Utah Symphony

Deer Valley Music Festival

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture
Honegger: Pastorale d’été
Schumann: Cello Concerto (soloist: Rainer Eudeikis)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2

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July 12, 6:30pm
Festival Napa Valley

Opening Night Gala

Francesco Demuro, Tenor
Joyce El-Khoury, Soprano
Lucas Meachem, Baritone

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San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
European Tour: 


6/23: Odense, Koncerthus TICKETS
6/24: Copenhagen, Tivoli Concert Hall TICKETS
6/26: Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie TICKETS SOLD OUT
6/29: Berlin, Philharmonie TICKETS
7/2: Vienna, Musikverein TICKETS
7/4: Budapest, Summer Festival TICKETS


Glanert: American Prelude No.1
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Mahler: Symphony No.1

soloist: Nicola Benedetti 
Karen Gomyo (6/24)

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June 16, 8pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Bon Voyage Concert

Glanert: American Prelude No.1
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto (soloist: Karen Gomyo)
Mahler: Symphony No.1

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June 4, 8pm
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco Symphony Chorus


Orff: Carmina Burana

Soprano: Nikki Einfeld
Tenor: Nick Phan
Baritone: Hadleigh Adams

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May 19, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Stookey: Ma(h)lerwerk
Mahler: Symphony No.1

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May 2, 8pm
Berkeley Symphony 

with ODC/Dance

Bizet: Carmen Suite No.1
Ades: Dances from 
Powder Her Face
Clyne: This Midnight Hour
Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite


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April 23, 7:30
San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Mussorgsky: Night On Bald Mountain
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No.5 ("Egyptian")
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4


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March 9
San Francisco Symphony

Family Concert

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March 4 - 8
San Francisco Symphony 


Education Concerts
Adventures in Music
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March 3
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (Overture, Arias and Ensembles) with SFO Adler Fellow
Debussy: Images "Iberia"
Bizet: L'Arlesienne Suite No.2

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February 11 - 15
San Francisco Symphony 

Education Concerts
Adventures in Music

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January 28 - February 1
San Francisco Symphony 

Education Concerts
Adventures in Music

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January 24 -26
San Francisco Symphony 

Strauss: Don Juan
Lutoslawski: Cello Concerto
with Johannes Moser
Prokofiev: Symphony No.5

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January 12, 9pm
National Symphony Orchestra

In Your Neighborhood
The Lincoln Theater, DC
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Soloist: Ted Hearne
Works by Leonard Bernstein, Ted Hearne, Gabriela Lena Frank, Jimmy Lopez and others


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January 6
Omaha Symphony

Farrenc: Overture No.1
Foss: Salomon Rossi Suite
Foss: Renaissance Concerto
Mendelssohn: Symphony No.4 "Italian"

2018


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December 21-22
MetLiveArts

Nativity Reconsidered
At the Met Cloisters

John Adams: El Niño
Chamber Version (World Premiere)

Julia Bullock, soprano
Anthony Roth Costanzo, countertenor
American Modern Opera Company (AMOC)
Christian Reif, conductor

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 December 9
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Holiday Concert
Peter and the Wolf with Richard Dreyfuss
and other classics

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November 17 - December 2
Opera San José

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci

Christian Reif, Conductor
Chuck Hudson, Stage Director

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November 11
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Adams: Chairman Dances
Séjourne: Concerto for Marimba and Strings
Dvorak: Symphony No.7

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October 12-13
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

Britten: Sinfonietta
Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony

Haydn: Symphony No.92 "Oxford"

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September 21-22
Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Stookey: The Composer is Dead

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August 25-26
Lakes Area Music Festival

Kevin Puts: Millenium Canons
Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915

Mahler: Symphony No.4 

Soprano: Julia Bullock

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August 11-12
Lakes Area Music Festival

Barber: Old American Songs, Book I, with John Taylor Ward
Barber: Violin Concerto with Suliman Tekalli
Copland Appalachian Spring with Saint Paul Ballet

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August 4
Lakes Area Music Festival

John Williams Gala
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August 2
International Contemporary Ensemble

Mostly Mozart Festival (Debut)

​John Adams: Grand Pianola Music

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July 20-21
Indianapolis Symphony

Soloist: Drew Petersen
Grieg, Prokofiev, Strauss

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May 23-24
Brucknerorchester Linz

"Hexen und Dämonen"

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May 19, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony 

Family Concert

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May 13, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Faure: Pelleas et Melisande
Ligeti: Concert Romanesc

Stravinsky: Rite of Spring



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April 28, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony

Family Concert

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April 26-29
San Francisco Symphony

Wagner: Morgengrauen und Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt
Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2
Holst: The Planets

Soloist: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Women of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus

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April 16
REIMAGINE Festival
End of Life

Opening Night
Mezzosoprano: Renée Rapier
Piano: Christian Reif

other guests: Dr. BJ Miller, Dr. Ira Byock, Chris Garcia a.o,

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March 4th, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)

Anahita Abbasi: ...within the shifting grounds... (World Premiere)
Beethoven Symphony No. 7

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February 23, 7pm

Sursum Corda Recital Series

Piano Four Hands

Pianists: Stefano Flavoni, Christian Reif

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February 8+9
San Francisco Symphony 
ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)
Stefan Weinzierl, Timpani

SoundBox
Curator: Christian Reif

works by Bartok, Beethoven, Debussy, Oliveros, Sello, Thorvaldsdottir...

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February 3, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony

Family Concert

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January 14, 3pm
Bay Area Youth Orchestra Festival
SFSYO
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January 12
Berkeley Symphony

Concerto competition winners of SFCM

2017


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December 21 -23
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Moniuszko: Bajka
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (with Aurelia Shimkus)
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9


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December 10, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Selections of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker
Prokofiev Peter & the Wolf with Zachary Quinto

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December 8+9, 9pm
San Francisco Symphony 

SoundBox

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November 19th, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Glanert: American Prelude No.1
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.2
​Elgar: Enigma Variations

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November 16-18
San Francisco Symphony

Ives: Symphony No. 4

Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Conductor: Christian Reif
Solo Piano: Peter Dugan
SFS Choir

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November 4th, 3pm + 6pm
Orchestre National de Lyon

Prokofiev: Symphony No.1 ("Classical")
​Stookey: The Composer is Dead

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October 21st + 22nd
San Francisco Conservatory of Music Orchestra

Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 2
​Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances

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August 19th + 20th
Lakes Area Music Festival


Dvorak: Cello Concerto (with Joseph Johnson)
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra
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July 15th + 16th
San Francisco Symphony 

PIXAR in Concert



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May 17th, 18th, 19th
Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Yesilcay: Lieder aus der Fremde
Tone poem with actress, traditional Turkish instruments and orchestra, dealing with the European Refugee Crisis

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May 14th, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
Davies Symphony Hall

Hindemith: Mathis der Maler
​Brahms: Symphony No. 4

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May 4th, 8pm
Berkeley Symphony
Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley

Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 "Babi Yar"
Soloist: Denis Sedov

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April 6, 7:30pm
Opening Concert Neuland.Lied
Heidelberger Frühling

Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

Mozart: Jupiter Symphony
Mahler: Lied von der Erde (with Michelle DeYoung and Toby Spence)

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March 10 + 11, 9pm
San Francisco Symphony

Soundbox
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Curated and conducted by: Christian Reif

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March 5, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
Davies Symphony Hall

Barber: Second Essay
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"
Dvorak: Symphony No. 8

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January 26, 8pm
Berkeley Symphony
Zellerbach Hall, Berkeley

Bates: Cello Concerto
Beethoven: Symphony No.4

Soloist: Joshua Roman

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January 13+14, 8pm
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

Beethoven: Leonore No.3
Schubert: Symphony No.3
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.22
Prokofiev: Symphony Classique

Soloist: Charles Richard-Hamelin


2016


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December 11, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
Davies Symphony Hall

Christmas Concert
incl.: Tchaikovsky Nutcracker selections and Prokofiev Peter and the Wolf

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December 7+8, 7:30pm
San Francisco Symphony
Davies Symphony Hall

A Classic Christmas
Selections of Britten Ceremony of Carols, Tchaikovsky Nutcracker Suite, and Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel

with the Pacific Boychoir, Kevin Fox, director

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November 13, 2pm
San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra
Davies Symphony Hall

Henze: Mänadentanz
Sibelius: Violin Concerto (soloist: Jason Moon)
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 6

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Saturday, August 20, 7pm
Sunday, August 21, 2pm


Lakes Area Music Festival

Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 1
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

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June 21 - August 16
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Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the Berkshires, MA

Concerts every week; visit website for more info

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Friday, May 27
Saturday, May 28


Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz

"Lieder aus der Fremde"

Composer: Mehmet Cemal Yeşilçay
Libretto: Anja Kleinhans
Conductor: Christian Reif



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Friday, May 20
Meininger Hofkapelle
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Christian Reif, Conductor

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Friday, April 1, 8pm (incl. Wallcast)
Side by Side Concert
New World Symphony

Christian Reif, Conductor

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Saturday, March 26
New World Symphony

Stefan Asbury, Conductor
Christian Reif, Conductor

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Friday, March 18, 7:30pm
Fiesta Cubana!

Josh Cote, Host
Anthony Delivanis, Host
​Christian Reif, Conductor

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Sunday, February 28, 2pm

Iberian Impressions
Chamber Music Concert
with Musicians of the New World Symphony

Soprano: Julia Bullock
Conductor: Christian Reif

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February 26 +27, 7:30

Encounters: The Lure of the Latin
Northern Composers lean South
New World Symphony

Host: Jamie Bernstein
Conductor: Christian Reif




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Sunday, February 7th
11:30am + 2:30pm

CONCERT FOR KIDS: Making Waves
New World Symphony

Conductor: Christian Reif



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PULSE: White Out the New World Symphony

Friday, January 22
New World Symphony

Host & Conductor: Christian Reif
with DJ Le Spam


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January 15, 7:30
MIXTAPE
Special Concert

Nicholas Platoff, trombone fellow and host
Christian Reif, conductor
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, conductor
John Wilson, harpsichord
Ciro Foderé, piano
Jacqueline Bolier, soprano



​2015


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December 31, 6:30pm
Münchner Kammeroper

Unterhaching

Mozart: La Finta Semplice


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December 28
Münchner Kammeroper

Cuvilliés Theater München

Rossini: Genie und Geniesser


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December 26, 27, 29
January 1, 2

Münchner Kammeroper

Cuvilliés Theater München

Mozart: La Finta Semplice

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Holiday Concerts
Dec 18+19, 7:30 (19th incl Wallcast)
, 7:30
New World Symphony


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November 20 + 21, 7:30
New World Symphony

Discovery Concerts

Narration: Jamie Bernstein
​Conductor: Christian Reif

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PULSE - Late Night with the New World Symphony

Friday, November 13, 9pm
New World Symphony

Host & Conductor: Christian Reif

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Friday, Oct 30, 7:30
New World Symphony

Journey Concert

Conductors: 
Michael Tilson Thomas
Christian Reif

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Friday, Oct 23rd, 7:30
New World Symphony

Conductors:
Michael Tilson Thomas
Christian Reif

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Wednesday, Sept 30th
Thursday, Oct 1st
Friday, Oct 2nd
Saturday, Oct 3rd

San Francisco Symphony

Davies Symphony Hall


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Festival for Contemporary Music
at the Tanglewood Music Festival


Monday, July 20th
Saturday, July 25th


Monday, July 27th


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Thursday, June 4th
Tel Aviv
Israel Chamber Orchestra


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Saturday, April 11, 8pm (incl. WALLCAST)
Sunday, April 12, 2pm
New World Symphony

Conductors: 
Stéphane Denève
Christian Reif

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Monday, April 6, 7pm

Solo Concert

Viola: Hannah Nicholas

with friends from the New World Symphony

Piano: Christian Reif

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Friday, March 27, 7pm + 8pm
Saturday, March 28, 7pm + 8pm
New World Symphony

Mini Concerts ($2,50)

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

Respighi: Fontane di Roma

Conductor: Christian Reif

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Family Benefit Concert

Sunday, March 15
New World Symphony

Conductor: Christian Reif

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PULSE - Late Night with the New World Symphony

Friday, March 13, 9pm
New World Symphony

Host & Conductor: Christian Reif

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Friday, Feb 27th, 7:30
Saturday, Feb 28th, 7:30

New World Symphony
Discovery Concerts

Tchaikovsky: Marche Slave
Shostakovich: Symphony No.8, Mvt III
Shostakovich: Symphony No.5, Mvt IV

Host: Jamie Bernstein
Conductor: Christian Reif

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Saturday, Feb 21st, 7:30 (incl. WALLCAST)
Sunday, Feb 22nd, 2pm
New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Works by Beethoven, Kirchner, Tilson Thomas and Sibelius
Conductors:
Christian Reif
Michael Tilson Thomas

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Friday, Jan 30th, 7:30
Saturday, Jan 31st, 7:30
(incl. WALLCAST)
New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Hearne: Dispatches
Hornsby: Four Songs from SCKBSTRD
Gordon: El Sol Caliente

Conductors:
Christian Reif
Michael Tilson Thomas

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Sunday, Jan 18th, 11:30am + 2:30pm
Family Concerts
New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Rossini: Overture to La gazza ladra
Anderson: The Waltzing Cat
Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake

Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf

Conductor: Christian Reif

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Thursday, Jan 15th, 7pm + 8pm
Friday, Jan 16th, 7pm + 8pm

New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Mini-Concerts ($2,50)

Strauss: Don Juan

Bernstein: Selections

Soprano: Julia Bullock
Conductor: Christian Reif

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Saturday, Jan 10th, 7:30
Musikalische Komödie, Leipzig, Germany

Selections of Operettas



2014


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Friday, Dec 19th, 7:30
Saturday, Dec 20th, 7:30
(incl. WALLCAST)
New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Christmas Favorites
Tchaikovsky Nutcracker (Selections)
Duke Ellington Nutcracker (Selections)
and others...

Conductor: Christian Reif

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Friday, Nov 14th, 9pm   Pulse - Late Night with the Symphony
New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Soloists: 
Julia Bullock - Soprano
D.J.Sparr - Electric Guitar

DJ: Panic Bomber

Conductor: Christian Reif

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Saturday, Nov 8th, 7:30pm (incl. Wallcast)
Sunday, Nov 9th, 2pm
New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Brahms: Tragic Overture
Mozart: Jupiter Symphony
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra

Conductors:
Christian Reif
Robert Spano

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Friday, October 24th, 7:30 pm
Saturday, October 25, 7:30 pm

New World Symphony
New World Center, Miami Beach

Beethoven: Music & Liberation
Eroica & Leonore No. 3

Host: Jamie Bernstein (10/24)
          Nathaniel Wolkstein (10/25)
Conductor: Christian Reif

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Friday, October 17th, 7:30 pm
New World Symphony
New World Center + Wallcast

Wagner: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Conductor: Christian Reif)
Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 
Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas
Soloist: Yefim Bronfman

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Wednesday, August 6th, 8pm
Festivo
Foyer Schattdecor
Dvorak: Piano Quartet No.2
Thomas Reif, violin
Johannes Erkes, viola
Johan von Iersel, cello
Christian Reif, piano

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Thursday, May 29th, 7pm                  
Friday, May 30th, 7pm        
Sunday, June 1st, 2pm

Metropolitan Museum of Art
NY PHIL  BIENNIAL 2014

HK Gruber: Gloria - A Pig Tale
Alan Gilbert, Conductor
Christian Reif, Assistant and Cover Conductor


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Tuesday, May 13th, 10:30am, (open dress rehearsal)
Orchestra Room 543 
The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center, NYC


Gustav Mahler Symphony Nr. 4
Chamber Ensemble Arrangement by Klaus Simon
Julia Bullock, Soprano
Christian Reif, Conductor



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Wednesday, April 23rd, 1pm
Juilliard Lab Orchestra
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, NYC

Works by Sibelius, Copland and Smetana
Conductors:
Christian Reif
Ruth Reinhardt
Jonathan Spandorf

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