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Karina Canellakis

  • Karina Canellakis wears concert black and stands in front of a black backdrop. Her bright blonde hair and blue eyes stand out amidst the darkness. She stands in profile and looks at the camera over her shoulder. Leonidas Kavakos wears a blue button-up and glasses. He has salt & pepper hair reaching down to his shoulders. He holds his violin around the neck and smiles at the camera.
    Canellakis, Kavakos, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Conductor Karina Canellakis returns to Tanglewood to lead the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in rhapsodic music by Brahms and Ravel, and violinist Leonidas Kavakos is the soloist in Chausson’s “Poème” and Ravel’s “Tzigane.”
  • In this collage photo, Karen Cargill (left) wears a black dress against a black background. She has a blond bob that's softly curled and blue eyes. She looks up at the camera, smiling. Karina Canellakis (center) wears a black blazer and stands against a dark blue background. She has blonde hair that's pulled back into a ponytail and hazel eyes. She stands in profile and looks over her shoulder at the camera and smiles softly. Nathan Berg (right) wears a gray, paisley shirt and stands against a black background. He has long brown hair, a beard, and brown eyes. He looks at the camera and smirks.
    Canellakis Conducts the BSO in "Bluebeard's Castle"
    Karina Canellakis leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s chilling opera "Bluebeard’s Castle," with mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill and bass-baritone Nathan Berg.
  • Nicola Benedetti (left), Karina Canellakis (right)
    The Symphony Hall Debuts of Canellakis and Benedetti, with the BSO
    In an encore broadcast, Karina Canellakis takes up her baton at Symphony Hall for the very first time in a folk-inspired Boston Symphony program that features Dvořák’s "The Wood Dove" and Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra, and Nicola Benedetti makes her BSO debut with Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No. 2.
  • Dance Night with the BSO at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast, Karina Canellakis returns to the Berkshires to lead the Boston Symphony in Rachmaninoff’s “Symphonic Dances,” and Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Chopin’s dramatic Piano Concerto No. 2.
  • Clockwise, starting top left: John Williams, Karina Canellakis, Julia Bullock, JoAnn Falletta, Aaron Diehl, Andris Nelsons
    Blog
    New Voices, Traditions, and Celebrations at Tanglewood in 2022
    Brian McCreath
    The Boston Symphony Orchestra has announced its plans for its first full summer season in the Berkshires since 2019, featuring new works, new artists, and one very big birthday party.
  • Karina Canellakis's BSO Debut at Tanglewood
    In an encore broadcast from the 2021 Tanglewood season, the American conductor makes her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in a program featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma in Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme, plus a work by Missy Mazzoli.