2022 in classical music

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List of years in classical music

This article is for major events and other topics related to classical music in 2022.

2022 in music
By location
By genre
By topic

Events[]

  • 1 January – The Vienna Philharmonic performs its annual Neujahrskonzert, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with a live audience for the first time since the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic,[1] and with Eva Teimel as the presenter for the ORF radio transmission of the concert, the first female radio presenter for ORF in the history of the concert.[2]
  • 4 January – The Komische Oper Berlin announces the appointment of James Gaffigan as its next music director, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.[3]
  • 7 January
  • 12 January – The Toronto Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Mark Williams as its next chief executive officer, effective April 2022.[6]
  • 18 January – In Milan, the first night of the new La Scala production of Bellini's I Capuleti e i Montecchi takes place, conducted by Speranza Scappucci, the first female Italian conductor ever to conduct a production at La Scala.[7]
  • 19 January
    • At the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, 'Kapsalon Theater' ('Hair Salon Theatre'), a piece of performance art, takes place with hairdressers serving patrons in the presence of performing musicians from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, in protest at the Dutch government's then-most recent restrictions on concerts with live audiences in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
    • English Touring Opera announces that James Conway is to stand down as its artistic director at the close of 2022, and to serve in a part-time capacity in the post for the remainder of the calendar year.[9]
    • The Colorado Springs Philharmonic announces that Josep Caballé Domenech is to conclude his tenure as its music director at the close of the 2022-2023 season.[10]
  • 25 January - The Landestheater Detmold announces the appointment of Per-Otto Johansson as its next Generalmusikdirektor, effective with the 2022-2023 season, with an initial contract of 4 years.[11]
  • 1 February
  • 8 February – The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra announces the appointment of Ryan Wigglesworth as its next chief conductor, effective September 2022.[16]
  • 9 February – The Barbican Centre announces the appointment of Claire Spencer as its first-ever chief executive officer, effective May 2022.[17]
  • 12 February – The Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century announces the appointment of Kate Rockett as its next general director, effective 1 September 2022. In parallel, Sieuwert Verster is to stand down as the orchestras general director.[18]
  • 13 February – Never produced during the creators' lifetimes, the first performance of the opera Grete Minde, with music by Eugen Engel and libretto by Hans Bodenstedt, takes place at the Theater Magdeburg, 79 years after the March 1943 death of the composer in Sobibor, following preparation of a complete performing score from the surviving papers.[19]
  • 15 February
  • 23 February – The North Carolina Symphony announces the appointment of Carlos Miguel Prieto as its next music director, effective with the 2023-2024 season, with an initial contrac of 4 years.[22]
  • 28 February – The Edinburgh International Festival announces the resignation of Valery Gergiev as its honorary president, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[23]
  • 1 March
    • The Edinburgh International Festival announces the appointment of Nicola Benedetti as its next festival director, the first woman and the first Scot to hold the post, effective 1 October 2022. [24]
    • Munich mayor Dieter Reiter announces the dismissal of Valery Gergiev as principal conductor of the Munich Philharmonic, with immediate effect, after his request to Gergiev to denounce the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine received no response.[25]
    • The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra announces the termination of its artistic relationship with Valery Gergiev, rescinding his title of eredirigent (honorary conductor) and discontinuing its Gergiev Festival.[26]
  • 2 March
  • 7 March – Thomas Sanderling resigns as principal conductor of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra, with immediate effect, in the wake of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[29]
  • 14 March – Trinity Wall Street dismisses Julian Wachner as its director of music, with immediate effect, following its suspension of Wachner on 12 March 2022 after allegations against him of sexual misconduct.[30]

New works[]

  • Unsuk Chin – Scherben der Stille (Shards of Silence), for violin and orchestra[31]
  • HK Gruber – Short Stories from the Vienna Woods (selections)[32]
  • Sauli Zinovjev – Piano Concerto[33]
  • Erika Fox – David spielt vor Saul (piano concerto)[34]
  • Mason Bates – Piano Concerto[35]
  • Joseph Davies – Parallax (for violin and orchestra)
  • Carlos Izcaray – Under the Shadows, An Immigrant's Journey
  • Simon Holt – The Sower[36]
  • Tyshawn Sorey – Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)[37]
  • Derrick Skye - As Water, Freedom
  • Tyler White – The Four Elements
  • Mason Bates – Rhapsody of Steve Jobs
  • Jeff Beal – The Great Circle
  • Jimmy Lopez – Piano Concerto[38]
  • Gabriela Ortiz – Clara[39]
  • Stacy Garrop – Goddess Tryptich[40]
  • Ville Raasakka - The Harvest
  • Andreia Pinto Correia – Os pássaros da noite (The Birds of Night)

New operas[]

Albums[]

Deaths[]

  • 1 January – Richard Freed, American music critic, radio broadcaster and arts administrator, 93[49]
  • 2 January – András Ágoston, Hungarian violinist and past leader of the Philharmonia Hungarica, 74[50]
  • 5 January – Dale Clevenger, American orchestral French horn player and past principal French horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 81[51]
  • 9 January
  • 10 January – Francis Jackson, British organist and composer, 104[54]
  • 12 January – Everett Lee, American conductor, 105[55]
  • 13 January – Terry Teachout, American critic, playwright and opera librettist, 65[56]
  • 14 January – Angelo Gilardino, Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist, 80[57]
  • 16 January – Lucy Rowan Mann, American music administrator, 100 (from COVID-19)[58]
  • 18 January
  • 19 January – Nigel Rogers, British tenor and early music specialist, 86[57]
  • 20 January
    • Juro Mětšk, Serbian composer, 67[57]
    • Karolos Trikolidis, Greek-Austrian conductor, 74[57]
  • 27 January
    • Alain Bancquart, French composer and conductor, 87[57]
    • Georg Christoph Biller, German choral conductor, composer, baritone and pedagogue, 66[61]
  • 1 February – Leslie Parnas, American cellist, 90[62]
  • 6 February
  • 10 February – Rolf Wollrad, German bass and opera administrator, 84[65]
  • 12 February - William Kraft, American composer, percussionist, and conductor, 98[66]
  • 19 February – Nigel Butterley, Australian composer 86[67]
  • 21 February – Julie Ann Giacobassi, American orchestral English horn player, 72[68]
  • 23 February - Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Brazilian guitarist, 77[69]
  • 4 March - Iwan Edwards, Welsh-born choral conductor resident in Canada, 84[70]
  • 7 March – Jan Welmers, Dutch organist and composer, 84[71]
  • 8 March - René Clemencic, Austrian composer, conductor and early music instrumentalist, 94[72]
  • 10 March – Annerose Schmidt, German pianist and pedagogue, 85[73]
  • 13 March - Li Guangxi, Chinese tenor, 92[70]
  • 18 March - Bernabé Martí, Spanish tenor, 93[70]

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