Jonathan Hayward makes his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, featuring Yeol Eum Son – IMG Artists

On Thursday, October 24, 2024 Jonathan Hayward makes his debut with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra at Birmingham Symphony Hall. The program features William Grant Still Threnody (In memory of Jean Sibelius), Sibelius Symphony No. 5 and Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Yeol Eum Son.

Yeol Eum will return to the UK with Jonathon in December for her orchestral debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican Centre, London. She will perform Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with the electrifying program also featuring music by James Lee III Sukkot through the Orion Nebula and To Ottorino Respighi The fountains of Rome and The pines of Rome. This concert will also be Yeol Eum and Jonathon’s Barbican Center debut.

Yeol Eum’s orchestral debuts this season include Düsseldorf Symphony Orchestra at the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Vienna Tonkünstler Orchestra at Vienna Musikverein and London’s Cadogan Hall, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Galicia Symphony Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, St. Louis, Colorado, Baltimore, Symphony Orchestras, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Yeol Eum also returns to NAC Ottawa, Scottish Chamber, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Orquestra Sinfónica do Porto.

Jonathon’s recent and future conducting highlights in the UK and Ireland include debuts and repeat engagements with the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, The Hallé in Manchester, the Royal Academy of Music, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and the National Symphony orchestra of ireland. In continental Europe, Jonathon’s recent and upcoming debuts include collaborations with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester, Galicia Symphony, Danish National Symphony, Castilla y León Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Orchester National Bordeaux Aquitaine and Tonhalle Düsseldorf among many others.

In high demand in the US and in addition to his positions as Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Lincoln Center in New York, Jonathon conducts prominent orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic; the Atlanta, Detroit, Houston, Seattle, Dallas, and St. Louis symphonies; and the Minnesota Orchestra.

Video Credit: Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No.1 with the Detroit Symphony

Photos: Jonathon Heyward (c) Laura Thiesbrummel; Yeol Eum Son (c) Marco Borggreve