2023 - 2024 Highlights
May 19 - July 21, 2023
Berg: Wozzeck
Levi Hammer, musical assistance
Simon Rattle, conductor
Simon McBurney, stage director
London Symphony Orchestra
With Christian Gerhaher, Malin Byström, Thomas Blondelle, Brindley Sherratt, Peter Hoare
Aix-en-Provence, France
September 3, 2023
Craig Urquhart: 70th Birthday Concert
Music of Urquhart, Bernstein and Copland
A celebration of the life and work of composer Craig Urquhart, featuring his music and that of his mentors, and including world premieres by Urquhart and Bernstein
Levi Hammer, piano/conductor
With Alexander Frey, Byron Knutson, Kim Criswell, Collin Rich
Knutson Studios - Berlin
September 25, 2023
Het Collectief
Busoni: Berceuse Elégiaque
Zemlinksy-De Leeuw: Sechs Gesänge nach Maeterlinck
Schoenberg-Hammer: Pelleas und Melisande
Festival 20.21
Levi Hammer’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande.
Gregor Mayrhofer, conductor
October, 2023
Recording Project
Gershwin in Vienna: Gershwin and the Second Viennese School
November 3, 4, 5, 2023
Weill/Brecht: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
Levi Hammer, conductor
Barrie Kosky, stage director
With Nico Holonics, Gabriel Schneider, Cynthia Micas, Tilo Nest, Constanze Becker, Pauline Knof, Kathrin Wehlisch, Laura Balzer, Bettina Hoppe, Sonja Beißwenger, Amelie Willberg, et al.
November 27, 2023
Tempe Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D-minor, K. 466
Levi Hammer, piano
Douglas Akey, conductor
Tempe Center for the Arts
Tempe, Arizona (USA)
December 30, 31, 2023, January 1, 2024
Weill/Brecht: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
Levi Hammer, conductor
Barrie Kosky, stage director
With Nico Holonics, Gabriel Schneider, Cynthia Micas, Tilo Nest, Constanze Becker, Pauline Knof, Kathrin Wehlisch, Laura Balzer, Bettina Hoppe, Sonja Beißwenger, Amelie Willberg, et al.
January 3 - 21, 2024
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Levi Hammer, musical assistance
Gustavo Dudamel, conductor
Alberto Arvelo, stage director
Frank Gehry, scenic design
Walt Disney Concert Hall
With Ryan Speedo Green, Raehann Bryce-Davis, Simon O’Neill, Barry Banks, Jochen Schmeckenbecher, Morris Robinson, Peixin Chen, Jessica Faselt, Ann Toomey, Alexandria Shiner, Taylor Raven, Tamara Mumford, John Matthew Myers, Kyle Albertson, et al.
January 19, 2024
Gershwin in Vienna: Gershwin and the Second Viennese School
Gershwin: Three Preludes
Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
Gershwin: George Gershwin’s Songbook - Part 1
Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27
Gershwin: George Gershwin’s Songbook - Part 2
Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Gershwin: Jazzbo Brown Blues
Levi Hammer, piano
UCLA
(University of California, Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, California (USA)
January 30, 2024
Schoenberg Perspectives
Schoenberg: Lieder
Schoenberg: String Trio, Op. 45
Schoenberg-Hammer: Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5
Levi Hammer, conductor
Musicians of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Memorial Hall
Cincinnati, Ohio (USA)
February 1, 2024
Gershwin in Vienna: Gershwin and the Second Viennese School
Gershwin: Three Preludes
Schoenberg: Drei Klavierstücke, Op. 11
Gershwin: George Gershwin’s Songbook - Part 1
Berg: Piano Sonata, Op. 1
Webern: Variations for Piano, Op. 27
Gershwin: George Gershwin’s Songbook - Part 2
Schoenberg: Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19
Gershwin: Jazzbo Brown Blues
Levi Hammer, piano
First Unitarian Church of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio (USA)
February 9, 2024
Albanian National Symphony
Levi Hammer, conductor/pianist
Sibelius: Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 46
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D-minor, K. 466
Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B♭ major, D. 485
February 25, 2024
Blutenburg Kammerphilharmonie München
Levi Hammer, conductor/pianist
C.P.E. Bach: Symphony in D major, Wq. 183/1
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D-minor, K. 466
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36
March 26, 2024
Festkonzert • Symphonische Kammermusik
Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie op. 9
Schoenberg-Hammer: Pelleas und Melisande
Levi Hammer’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande.
Members of the Vienna Philharmonic
Katharina Wincor, conductor
March 27, 28, 2024
Lapland Chamber Orchestra
Schoenberg-Hammer: Pelleas und Melisande
Levi Hammer’s arrangement of Schoenberg’s Pelleas und Melisande.
John Storgårds, conductor
(Rovaniemi, Finland)
March 29, 2024
Athens State Orchestra
Levi Hammer, conductor
LINA TONIA: Ganymede (World Premiere)
GIORGOS KOUMENDAKIS: Requiem
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Damoiselle élue
BOHUSLAV MARTINU: Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
With Aphrodite Patoulidou, Kora Karvouni, Lenia Zafeiropoulou, Panagiotis Trochopoulos, Apostolos Palios, the Meizon Ensemble and the Equabily Ensemble
Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall
(Athens, Greece)
April 22 - May 17, 2024
Wagner: Die Walküre
Levi Hammer, assistant conductor/pianist
Sir Donald Runnicles and Nicholas Carter, conductors
Stefan Herheim, stage director
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
With Michael König, Tobias Kehrer, Derek Welton, Elisabeth Teige, Annika Schlicht, Ricarda Merbeth, Irene Roberts, et al.
April 22 - May 17, 2024
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Levi Hammer, assistant conductor/pianist
Sir Donald Runnicles and Nicholas Carter, conductors
Stefan Herheim, stage director
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
With Clay Hilley, Thomas Lehman, Jordan Shanahan, Albert Pesendorfer, Annika Schlicht, Ricarda Merbeth, Felicia Moore, et al.
May 13, 21-22, 2024
Weill/Brecht: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
Levi Hammer, conductor
Barrie Kosky, stage director
With Nico Holonics, Gabriel Schneider, Cynthia Micas, Tilo Nest, Constanze Becker, Pauline Knof, Kathrin Wehlisch, Laura Balzer, Bettina Hoppe, Sonja Beißwenger, Amelie Willberg, et al.
June 7-14, 2024
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Levi Hammer, assistant conductor/pianist
Erik Nielsen, conductor
Brigitte Fassbaender, stage director
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
Orchester und Chor der Tiroler Festspiele Erl
June 17- July 14, 2024
Peter Maxwell Davies: Eight Songs for a Mad King
György Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente
Levi Hammer, musical assistance
Barrie Kosky, stage director
Pierre Bleuse, conductor
Johannes Martin Kränzle, Baritone
Anna Prohaska, Soprano
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Violin
Ensemble Intercontemporain
Aix-en-Provence, France
June 5-6, 29-30, 2024
Weill/Brecht: Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera)
Levi Hammer, conductor
Barrie Kosky, stage director
With Nico Holonics, Gabriel Schneider, Cynthia Micas, Tilo Nest, Constanze Becker, Pauline Knof, Kathrin Wehlisch, Laura Balzer, Bettina Hoppe, Sonja Beißwenger, Amelie Willberg, et al.