2025–2026 is going to be an exceptionally busy year for me. Harmonia’s season keeps expanding, with a 7-concert mainstage series, a 4-concert chamber series, a special concerto performance, and a season-closing gala concert. In Sedona, we’ve got a 4-concert classics series (plus a great Pops concert, but I won’t be conducting that show.) Plus, I committed (perhaps foolishly) to writing three large new works.

I’ll have all these events listed in my event listings (which you can see on the right-hand sidebar) but I wanted to put everything in one place in chronological order, partially just to help myself in grappling with all this stuff.

Everett Philharmonic (Guest Conductor)
September 28
BARBER School for Scandal Overture
BOLCOM Violin Concerto
BRAHMS Symphony No. 3

Harmonia Mainstage: A Joyous Trilogy
October 4
MASON A Joyous Trilogy
DVORAK Te Deum
BRAHMS Symphony No. 1

Sedona: The Classics
October 19 & 21
HANDEL Acis and Galatea Overture (arr. Mozart)
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
HAYDN Symphony No. 99

Harmonia Chamber Players I
October 25
N. BOULANGER 3 Pieces
BEETHOVEN Sextet for two horns and strings
WHITE Trio for Viola, Horn, and Piano

Harmonia Mainstage: Dances of Death
November 8
SCHNITTKE Agitato I from Story of an Unknown Actor
RACHMANINOFF “Blessed Art Thou, O Lord” from All-Night Vigil
WHITE Dies Irae (world premiere)
RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances

Central Kentucky Youth Orchestras
November 16
WHITE We, The People (world premiere)

Sedona: Mozart and Marimba
November 23
GALBRAITH Midnight Stirring
PUTS Marimba Concerto
PORPORA Carlo il Calvo Overture
MOZART Symphony No. 36

Harmonia: Messiah
December 13 & 14
HANDEL Messiah

Harmonia Chamber Players III
January 24
BRISTOW New work (world premiere)
DVORAK Serenade for Winds
HAYDN Symphony No. 52

Sedona: The Romantics
February 1
C SCHUMANN 3 Romances for Violin (orch. White)
R SCHUMANN Cello Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3

Harmonia: Reflections
February 7
BEYER Reflections (world premiere)
BARBER Reincarnations
other choral selections by BRISTOW, PURCELL, ESMAIL, etc.

Harmonia: Pathos
February 28
SIBELIUS Karelia Overture
GARCIA Violin Concerto (world premiere)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6

Sedona: Discovery
March 15
GLUCK Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
CPE BACH Symphony in D
JS BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3

Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra
March 22
WHITE New Work (world premiere)

Harmonia: Israel in Egypt
March 28
HANDEL Israel in Egypt

Harmonia: The Planets
May 8
KECHLEY Fanfare
L BOULANGER Psaume XXIV: “La terre appartient à l’éternel”
L BOULANGER Psaume CXXX: “Du fond de l’abîme”
HOLST The Planets

Harmonia Gala: Peacocks and Pearls
May 29
WHITE La bonne chose

With all that, I’ve decided to limit my pre-concert lecture work to just two talks for the Seattle Symphony (Jan 8-10, and Apr 16-19) and even that seems like pushing the limits.

Wish me luck!