EVENTS
Orchestre National de France
Apr.02.2026 | Maison de la Radio et de la Musique - Auditorium, Paris, France
Gabriella Smith: Rewilding (commande de Radio France / San Francisco / Cleveland Orchestra / Barcelona Symphony Orchestra - création française)
Dmitri Shostakovitch: Violin Concerto No. 1
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7
Orchestre National de France
Oksana Lyniv, conductor
Dmytro Udovychenko, violin
Soundbox: curated by Gabriella Smith
Apr. 10 & 11, 2026 | SF Symphony Soundbox - San Francisco, California
details TBA
LA Phil Green Umbrella curated by Gabriella Smith
May.5.2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
with special guests Gabriel Cabezas and Billy Childs
Sandbox Percussion
Mar.6.2026 | Emerald City Music - Seattle, Washington
Vivian Fung: New Work (World Premeire, ECM co-commission)
Gabriella Smith: FIVE
Joan Tower: To Sing or Dance (Seattle Premiere, ECM co-commission)
performed by Sandbox Percussion
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Feb. 5, 6 & 7, 2026 | Symphony Hall - Boston, MA
Gabriella Smith: Bioluminescence Chaconne
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante
Tchaikovsky: Suite from Swan Lake
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Anna Handler, conductor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.7.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.6.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Feb.5.2026 | Symphony Center - Chicago, Illinois
Debussy: Images
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Debussy: La Mer
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Orchestre National de Lyon
Jan.10&11.2026 | Auditorium Lyon - Lyon, France
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests [création française]
and more works TBD
Orchestre National de Lyon
Franck Ollu, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Jan. 9, 10 & 11, 2026 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Gabriella Smith: Rewilding
Intermission
Debussy: La damoiselle élue
Scriabin: Prometheus, Poem of Fire
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano
Liv Redpath, soprano
Jingjing Xu, mezzo-soprano
Los Angeles Master Chorale
yMusic and Gabriella Smith + Gabriel Cabezas
Nov.8.2025 | Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, Minnesota
copresented by Liquid Music, the Walker Art Center, and Schubert Club
Gabriella Smith + Gabriel Cabezas
Intermission
Aquatic Ecology by Gabriella Smith, performed by yMusic
Owls | Nova Linea Musica
Oct.29.2025 | Guarneri Hall Chicago, IL
6:30pm CDT
Chick Corea: Children’s Song No. 12
Paul Wiancko: Vox Petra
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh: Rəqs
François Couperin: Les Barricades Mystérieuses
Trollstilt (Monica Mugan and Dan Trueman): Ricercar
Paul Wiancko: When The Night
Terry Riley: Good Medicine
Gabriella Smith: Aegolius**NLM Commission and World Premiere
Artists: Owls (Alexi Kenney, violin; Ayane Kozasa, viola; Gabe Cabezas, cello; Paul Wiancko, cello)
Seattle Symphony
Oct.25.2025 | Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Seattle Symphony
Gemma New, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Gabriella Smith + Gabriel Cabezas | Octave 9
Oct.24.2025 | Octave 9, Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
7pm and 9pm, program details TBD
Seattle Symphony
Oct.23.2025 | Benaroya Hall - Seattle, Washington
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast
Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Seattle Symphony
Gemma New, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Oct.16.2025 | Cadogan Hall - London, UK
Gabriella Smith: Field Guide
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Kevin John Edusei, conductor
Boris Giltburg, piano
BBC Philharmonic
Oct.11.2025 | The Bridgewater Hall - Manchester, UK
Grażyna Bacewicz: Overture
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast [UK Premiere]
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2
BBC Philharmonic
Gemma New, conductor
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Sep.25.2025 | Sibeliustalo - Lahti, Finland
Claude Debussy: Rhapsody for Clarinet and Orchestra
John Adams: Frenzy [Finnish Premiere]
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails [Finnish Premiere]
Claude Debussy: La Mer
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
John Adams, conductor
Nora Niskanen, clarinet
Helsinki Philharmonic
Sep.19.2025 | Musiikkitalo Konserttisali - Helsinki, Finland
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests [Finnish Premiere]
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
Helsinki Philharmonic
Pekka Kuusisto, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
PROMS | BBCSO
Sep.2.2025 | Royal Albert Hall - London
Jean Sibelius: The Swan of Tuonela
Gabriella Smith: Breathing Forests [UK premiere]
Intermission
Thomas Adès: Five Spells from The Tempest
Jean Sibelius: The Tempest – Suite No. 1
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès, conductor
James McVinnie, organ
The Cleveland Orchestra
Aug.16.2025 | Blossom Music Center - Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Gabriella Smith: Rewilding [Cleveland Orchestra co-commission]
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 2
Elgar: Enigma Variations
The Cleveland Orchestra
Daniel Reith, conductor
Stephen Tavani, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Tanglewood
Jul.13.2025 | Koussevitzky Music Shed - Lenox/Stockbridge, MA
Gabriella Smith: Tumblebird Contrails
Jean Sibelius: Violin Concerto
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thomas Adès, conductor
Pekka Kuusisto, violin
San Francisco Symphony
June 6, 7 & 8, 2025 | Davies Symphony Hall - San Francisco, California
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 7
Intermission
Gabriella Smith: Rewilding [San Francisco Symphony Commission and World Premiere]
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
San Francisco Symphony
Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor
Kronos Festival Lab feat. Gabriella Smith
Apr. 26, 2025 | Joe Henderson Lab, SFJAZZ Center - San Francisco, California
with special guests Friction Quartet
Kronos Festival
Apr. 25, 2025 | SFJAZZ Center - San Francisco, California
Kronos Festival, Night 1
Terry Riley: Good Medicine from Salome Dances for Peace
Hildur Guonadóttir: Folk Faer Andlit [world premiere]
Peni Candra Rini (arr. Jacob Garchik & Andy McGraw): Segara Gunung - IV. Hujan
Traditional (arr. Jacob Garchik): A Shout
Soo Yeon Lyuh: Sumbisori [world premiere], feat. Soo Yeon Lyuh
Aleksandra Vrebalov: Cardinal Directions [world premiere] feat. Vân-Ánh Võ
Gabriella Smith: Keep Going
I. Keep Going
II. Isabel
III. Water
IV. Driftwood Jam
V. What I love the most
performed by Kronos Quartet
with special guests Soo Yeon Lyuh & Vân-Ánh Võ.
LA Phil Green Umbrella curated by John Adams
Jan.28.2025 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles
Gabriella Smith: Quantum Ptarmigan [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Noah Jenkins: New work for ensemble [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Missy Mazzoli: Dark with Excessive Bright
Dylan Mattingly: a study of some of the terrible ways I love to play the cello [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Sammy Moussa: Jocelyn Morlock in memoriam [world premiere, LA Phil commission]
Donnacha Dennehy: Limina
LA Phil New Music Group
John Adams, conductor
Eliza McCarthy, piano
Christopher Hanulik, bass
Ben Ullery, viola
Robert deMaine, cello
Marion Arthur Kuszyk, oboe
San Diego Symphony
Jan. 10 & 11, 2025 | Jacobs Music Center - San Diego, California
Gabriella Smith: Bioluminescence Chaconne
Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
Augusta Holmès: “La nuit et l'amour” from Ludus pro patria
Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, Organ Symphony
San Diego Symphony
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Jeff Thayer, violin
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Nov.21.2024 | Sál Filharmonie Hradec Králové - Czechia
Ellen Reid: West Coast Sky Eternal
Gabriella Smith: Lost Coast: concerto for cello and orchestra
Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transfiguration
Julia Wolfe: Pretty
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Gabriel Cabezas, cello
Tomáš Brauner, conductor
more info
NY Phil Sound ON curated by John Adams
Nov.17.2024 | Museum of Modern Art - New York
John Adams: Rag the Bone and Judah to Ocean from John’s Book of Alleged Dances
Anthony Cheung: pulsate, fixate
Dylan Mattingly: Sunt Lacrimae Rerum (these are the tears of things)
Andrew Norman: For Chad
Gabriella Smith: Maré
Musicians from the New York Philharmonic
Anna Handler, conductor
John Adams, curator/speaker
Ara Guzelimian, speaker
Delirium Musicum | LA Phil Noon-to-Midnight
Nov.16.2024 | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles, California
Andrew Norman: The Companion Guide to Rome
Andrew Yee: Trees of Green-Wood, feat. Laurel Irene, soprano
Philip Glass: Violin Concerto No. 2, “The American Four Seasons,” fourth movement
Gabriella Smith: Desert Ecology
performed by Delirium Musicum