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Alan Gilbert

  • Isabelle Faust has short blonde hair and hazel eyes. She holds her violin up close to her face and smizes at the camera. Alan Gilbert wears a blue pinstripe blazer, a black shirt, and round glasses. He has salt and pepper hair and a beard. He smiles softly at the camera.
    Isabelle Faust and Alan Gilbert join the BSO for Haydn and Stravinsky
    Violinist Isabelle Faust is the soloist in Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and Alan Gilbert conducts two Haydn Symphonies.
  • Sunlight pours into an industrial-looking room. Between concrete walls, Kirill Gerstein sits on a wooden chair and plays an antique grand piano.
    Gerstein Plays Rachmaninoff at Tanglewood
    Kirill Gerstein is the soloist in Rachmaninoff’s passionate and technically daunting Piano Concerto No. 3, and Alan Gilbert leads the Boston Symphony in Stravinsky’s exhilarating - and timeless - “The Rite of Spring," on demand.
  • Gerstein wears a navy suit jacket and smiles at the camera. He has a short beard and brown eyes. Bell and Isserlis both wear black shirts. Bell smiles at the camera, tossing his shaggy, brown hair back. Isserlis looks left of camera and doesn't smile. He has long, curly gray hair.
    Bell, Gerstein, and Isserlis at Tanglewood
    In a Boston Symphony concert led by Alan Gilbert, violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Kirill Gerstein, and cellist Steven Isserlis are the soloists in Beethoven's Triple Concerto, part of a program that also includes the same composer’s buoyant Symphony No. 4.
  • Garrick Ohlsson
    A World Premiere with Ohlsson, Gilbert, and the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, Alan Gilbert conducts the Boston Symphony in a brimming program that includes Dvořák’s glittering "Carnival Overture" and the world premiere of Justin Dello Joio’s Piano Concerto, "Oceans Apart," with soloist Garrick Ohlsson.
  • Joshua Bell
    Bell, Beethoven, and the BSO
    The American violinist returns to the Boston Symphony as the soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and Alan Gilbert conducts the world premiere of a work by Bernard Rands and Debussy’s "La Mer."
  • Stefan Jackiw
    Jackiw Plays Mozart at Tanglewood
    Stefan Jackiw is the soloist in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 5, and Alan Gilbert leads the Boston Symphony in rarely heard works by Schumann and Stenhammar.
  • Leila Josefowicz
    Concerts
    Fierce Empowerment in "Scheherazade.2"
    Saturday, March 3, 2018 (encore Monday, March 12)8:00 PMViolinist Leila Josefowicz, conductor Alan Gilbert, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra perform John…