Kirill Gerstein – San Diego Story

Robert Spano Leads the San Diego Symphony in Compelling Lutosławski and Rachmaninoff

By Ken Herman | May 6, 2023 |

Robert Spano, who recently completed his lauded 20-year tenure as Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, conducted the San Diego Symphony Friday at the Rady Shell.

Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto Returns to San Diego Symphony After 45-year Absence

By Ken Herman | May 15, 2017 |

This weekend, the dashing young German conductor-composer Matthias Pintscher and the Russian-born pianist Kirill Gerstein visitted the San Diego Symphony for Béla Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto. Pintscher led the orchestra in vivid performances of Anton Webern’s early tone poem “Im Sommerwind” . . .