Parnther’s upcoming engagements follow a full and varied summer. A master of multiple genres, who has conducted many of the world’s preeminent artists, he toured the States with twelve-time Grammy-winning singer, songwriter, and pianist John Legend, performing evenings of stories and song with the Atlanta, Cincinnati, St. Louis, and San Francisco Symphonies; with the Philadelphia and Wolf Trap Orchestras; and in debuts with both The Cleveland Orchestra and San Diego Symphony.
Having led the Gateways Festival Orchestra’s Chicago debut last spring, he further strengthened his Chicago ties this past summer. After making his Grant Park Music Festival debut with back-to-back concerts – a program of John Williams’s music and a collaboration with Grammy-, Emmy-, and Oscar-winning rapper Common – the conductor concluded his summer at Ravinia, where he made his Chicago Symphony Orchestra debut with Up in concert, performing Michael Giacchino’s Oscar-winning score to celebrate the Disney/Pixar blockbuster’s 15th anniversary.
This season, the conductor returns to the New York Philharmonic for three performances of Jaws in concert, featuring John Williams’s iconic Oscar- and Grammy-winning score (Sep 26–28). He joins the Houston Symphony for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas in concert, as scored by Danny Elfman (Nov 16 & 17); and leads the Philadelphia Orchestra’s accounts of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in concert, again scored by Williams (Nov 29 & 30).