Welcome to the website for British conductor James Lowe.
James Lowe will be the new Music Director of the Spokane Symphony from the 2019/20 season. His work as a conductor has ranged over five continents including collaboration with orchestras in the UK and Europe, Japan, Australia and the USA. He is currently Chief Conductor of the Vaasa City Orchestra, Finland. Passionately committed to the belief that classical music is for everyone, he balances his conducting schedule with his work to engage new audiences and a long-standing commitment to youth music.
DIARY, 2019/2020 Season
AUGUST 2019
- 9th – Musique Cordiale International Festival, Eglise de Seillans 19:00
- 13th – Musique Cordiale International Festival, Fayence Theatre de Verdure 21:00
- 16th – Musique Cordiale International Festival, Eglise de Seillans 19:00
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante KV.364 (Collete Overdijk – violin, Ian Anderson, viola)
Arnold Schoenberg – Verklärte Nacht
Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 5, D185 in B flat
Felix Mendelssohn – Hebrides Overture
Felix Mendelssohn – Violin Concerto (Judith de Haas – violin)
Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No.6 in F major, Op. 68, Pastoral
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Concerto fro Flute and Harp KV.299, in C major (Trond Brekka – flute, Michela Zanoni – harp)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 35 in D, KV.385, Haffner
SEPTEMBER 2019
- 1st – West of Scotland Youth Orchestra, City Halls, Glasgow 19:00
- 14th – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 20:00 Inaugural concert as Music Director
- 15th Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 15:00
- 1st – 20th – Collegium Musicum Basel, Musical Theater Basel, 19:30
- 26th – Vaasa City Orchestra, Vaasa City Hall 19:00
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.1 in D major
John Adams – Short Ride in a Fast Machine
George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue (William Wolfram, piano)
George Gershwin – I Got Rhythm
Aaron Copland – Symphony No.3
Programme as for September 14th
Gioacchino Rossini – Overture to the Barber of Seville
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat KV.495 (Felix Klieser, horn)
Luigi Cherubini – Sonata No. 2 for Horn and Strings (Felix Klieser, horn)
Felix Mendelssohn – Symphony No.4 in A majo, Op.90r, Italian
Lauch concert for the book and recording of The Bluebird
Jonne Valtonen – Lintu Sininin “The Bluebird” – (Nazig Azezian – piano, Jussi Makkonen cello)
OCTOBER 2019
- 5th – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 20:00
- 6th – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 15:00
Dimitri Shostakovich – Selections from Suite for Variety Orchestra No.1 (Jazz Suite No.2)
Erik Satie – Gymnopédies No. 1 and 3
Joaquin Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez (Robert Bellnic – guitar)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No.40 in G minor KV. 550
Programme as for October 6th
NOVEMBER 2019
- 31st – Vaasa City Orchestra, Ritz Cinema, 19:00
- 19th-23rd – Teaching at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki
- 28th – Vaasa City Orchestra, Vaasa City Hall 19:00
Screening of Nosferatu with the music of Hans Erdmann
Bravo! Jubilee concert
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.4 in G major arranged for Chamber Orchestra by Ian Farrington (Virva Puumala – Soprano)
DECEMBER 2019
- 21st – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 20:00
- 22nd – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 14:00
- 28th – 31st – Viennese Concerts with Opera North
Holiday Pops with Vanessa Williams
Holiday Pops with Vanessa Williams
JANUARY 2020
- 5th – 11th Conducting workshop with Johannes Schlaefli, Sofia, Bulgaria
- 23rd – Vaasa City Orchestra, Vaasa City Hall 19:00
Programme TBC
FEBRUARY 2020
- 8th – Spokane Symphony with the Spokane Symphony Chorale, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 20:00
- 9th Spokane Symphony with the Spokane Symphony Chorale, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 15:00
- 20th – Vaasa City Orchestra, Vaasa City Orchestra, Vaasa City Hall 19:00
Claude Debussy – Nocturnes
Henri Tomasi – Trumpet Concerto (Allen Vizzutti, trumpet)
Maurice Ravel – Daphnis and Chloé Suites 1 and 2Programme as for February 9th
Concert with soloists from the Kuula Institute
MARCH 2020
- 13th Vaasa City Orchestra, Vaasa City Orchestra, Vaasa City Hall 19:00
- 28th – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 20:00
- 29th Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 15:00
Programme TBC
Igor Stravinsky – Divertimento from The Fairy’s Kiss
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Joyce Yang, piano)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.6 in B minor, Pathétique
Programme as for March 28th
APRIL 2020
- 18th – Spokane Symphony , Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 20:00
- 19th – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 15:00
Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35 (Mateusz Wolski, violin)
Anton Bruckner – Symphony No.9 in D minor
Programme as for April 18th
MAY 2020
- 2nd – Spokane Symphony with the Spokane Symphony Chorale, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 20:00
- 3rd – Spokane Symphony, Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox, Spokane WA. 15:00
Gustav Mahler – Symphony No.2 in C minor, Resurrection
Soprano – Sarah Schafer
Programme as for May 2nd
