Karina Canellakis & Kirill Gerstein & National Youth Orchestra of the USA

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Experience America’s bright musical future on Carnegie Hall’s biggest stage. This evening’s performance by the National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America \(NYO-USA\) opens with Barber’s playful first orchestral work: Overture to The School for Scandal. Gershwin’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto in F follows, featuring soloist Kirill Gerstein—a pianist praised for his “blazing technique” \(The Wall Street Journal\) and “the kind of … virtuosic music-making that keeps classical music alive” \(The Observer\). Bartók’s quintessential Concerto for Orchestra rounds out the program. For the first time, NYO-USA is conducted by Karina Canellakis, the exemplary chief conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and principal guest conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Listed by WBGO Live Jazz.