NEXT CONCERT

11 SEPTEMBER 2026 SEASON OPENING

Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

BERNSTEIN

‍ ‍Fancy Free Three Dance Variations
On the Waterfront Symphonic Suite
On the Town Three Dance Episodes
West Side Story Symphonic Dances Candide Overture

UPCOMING CONCERTS

8 October 2026 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Mozart Masonic Funeral Music Swensen Sinfonietta No.1 Shizue Takemitsu Requiem for strings Fauré Requiem

14 - 15 November 2026 Orquestra Sinfónica Portuguesa

Claude Debussy Prélude à l'après midi d'un faune
Luís de Freitas Branco Concerto para violino e orquestra Maurice Ravel Pavane pour une Infante défunte
Claude Debussy La mer

17 - 20 December 2026 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Christmas Concert recorded by Radio Classique

7 January 2027 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine Berlioz Overture 'Le Corsaire' Dutilleux Tout un monde lointain Frank Symphony in D minor with Edgar Moreau (Cello)

21 - 29 January 2027 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Mozart Requiem

4 March 2027 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Beethoven Violin concerto Bruckner Symphony No 4. with Christian Tetzlaff,violin

18 - 19 March 2027 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Joseph Haydn
Symphonie en mi bémol majeur
Symphonie en ré majeur « L’Horloge »
Symphonie en mi bémol majeur « Roulement de timbales »

15 April 2027 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine ‍Sergueï Rachmaninov
Vocalise op. 34 n° 14
Concerto pour piano n°4
Jean Sibelius Symphonie n°2 ‍with Roman Rabinovich

23 April 2027 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Beethoven Triple concerto Schumann Symphony No2 with Marie-Astrid Hulot (Violin) Angèle Legasa (Cello) Marie-Ange Nguci (Piano)

8 May 2027 Leopoldinum Orchestra Wroclaw

R.Strauss String Sextet from Capriccio op. 85, TrV 279a
G. Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (arr. A. Schönberg, R. Riehn)

11 June 2027 Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

Joseph Swensen Mahler in Manhattan
Gustav Mahler Le Chant de la Terre‍ ‍ with Marianna Crebassa Mauro Peter , Marie-Astrid Hulot , Victor Haviez , Benjamin Chartre

SELECTED PAST CONCERTS & REVIEWS

MAY 2026

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Belgrade, Serbia Ives · Bernstein · Nelson with Zlatomir Fung ,violoncello

Joseph Swensen made his debut with the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra in a programme celebrating the rich diversity of American music, featuring works by Michael Daugherty, Leonard Bernstein and Charles Ives, together with Zlatomir Fung, the youngest-ever winner of the International Tchaikovsky Competition, as soloist in Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei.

23 APRIL 2026

Hafiz — World Premiere

Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine. Borodin · Swensen · Rimsky-Korsakov with Angélique Boudeville, soprano

“Hafiz stands between inherited tradition and a search for continuity.”
 — Frédéric Lacoste, Courrier de Gironde

JANUARY 2025

Scottish Chamber Orchestra Queen's Hall, Edinburgh Bacewicz · Sibelius with Geneva Lewis, violin

“Swensen knows this concerto inside-out as soloist and conductor.”

— David Smythe, Bachtrack