Carnegie Hall

The 2022–2023 season is Andris Nelsons’s ninth as the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s (BSO) Ray and Maria Stata Music Director. The 15th music director in the BSO’s history, Mr. Nelsons made his debut with the orchestra at Carnegie Hall in March 2011, his Tanglewood debut in July 2012, and his Symphony Hall debut in January 2013. He has led the orchestra on three tours of Europe and two of Japan. Mr. Nelsons and the orchestra give annual performances at Carnegie Hall, where this season they are joined by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and cellist Gautier Capuçon for commissioned works by Thomas Adès and Thierry Escaich, respectively. Mr. Nelsons’s expansive BSO repertoire in 2022–2023 ranges from Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Strauss, and Stravinsky to other commissioned works by Julia Adolphe, Steven Mackey, Elizabeth Ogonek, and Carlos Simon.

Mr. Nelsons and the BSO’s ongoing series of recordings of the complete Shostakovich symphonies for Deutsche Grammophon—which so far encompasses 11 of the 15 symphonies—has earned multiple Grammy Awards. Future releases will include the symphonies nos. 3 and 13, “Babi Yar,” being recorded this season; the composer’s concertos for piano, violin, and cello; and his monumental opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, which Nelsons and the BSO perform at Carnegie Hall in spring 2024.

As Gewandhauskapellmeister of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (GHO), Mr. Nelsons initiated a unique artistic alliance that includes joint commissions, a joint concert series at Boston’s Symphony Hall in November 2019, and a seven-CD set for Deutsche Grammophon that features the major orchestral works of Richard Strauss. His other recordings with the BSO include the complete Brahms symphonies for BSO Classics and a Naxos release of recent BSO-commissioned American works. Under exclusive contract with Deutsche Grammophon, Mr. Nelsons has recorded the complete Beethoven symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic and is recording the Bruckner symphonies with the GHO. Mr. Nelsons works with such orchestras as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and appears with such opera companies as the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and at the Bayreuth Festival. Born in Riga in 1978 into a family of musicians, Mr. Nelsons began his career as a trumpeter in the Latvian National Opera Orchestra before studying conducting. He has served as music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; principal conductor of Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie in Herford, Germany; and music director of the Latvian National Opera.

Performing each season with many of the world’s foremost conductors and instrumentalists, cellist Gautier Capuçon is also a passionate ambassador for the Orchestre à l’École Association, which brings classical music to more than 40,000 schoolchildren across France. In January 2022, Mr. Capuçon launched his own foundation to support talented young musicians. A multiple award winner, he is acclaimed for his expressive musicianship, exuberant virtuosity, and the deep sonority of his 1701 Matteo Goffriller cello, “L’Ambassadeur.” Committed to exploring and expanding the cello repertoire, Mr. Capuçon performs an extensive array of works each season and regularly premieres new commissions. Current projects include collaborations with Lera Auerbach, Danny Elfman, and Thierry Escaich. In the 2022–2023 season, Mr. Capuçon appears with, among others, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Manfred Honeck, San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Marie Jacquot, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Andris Nelsons, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and Pablo Heras-Casado, Munich Philharmonic and Lorenzo Viotti, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Christoph Eschenbach, Orchestre de Paris and Klaus Mäkelä, and the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov. A curating artist at the Konzerthaus Dortmund, Mr. Capuçon plays at festivals worldwide, including Salzburg, Grafenegg, and Verbier. In recital, he pairs regularly with Frank Braley and Jérôme Ducros; other chamber music partners include Nikolai Lugansky and Gabriela Montero as well as Martha Argerich, Daniel Barenboim, Lisa Batiashvili, Renaud Capuçon, Leonidas Kavakos, Andreas Ottensamer, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Daniil Trifonov, Yuja Wang, the Labèque sisters, Quatuor Ébène, and the Artemis and Hagen quartets. An exclusive Erato (Warner Classics) recording artist, Mr. Capuçon has won multiple awards. His latest album, Sensations, released in autumn 2022, explores short pieces from a range of genres. His album of works by Brahms and Rachmaninoff in collaboration with Andreas Ottensamer and Yuja Wang was also released in autumn 2022 by Deutsche Grammophon. Born in Chambéry, Mr. Capuçon began playing the cello at age 5. He studied at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Paris with Philippe Muller and Annie Zakine-Cochet, and later with Heinrich Schiff in Vienna.