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PIERRE BOULEZ AT 100 

 

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Photo by Jörg Reichardt

 

New York Philharmonic Marks Former Music Director’s Centennial with 

Two Subscription Programs Led by ESA-PEKKA SALONEN October 3–11, 2025

 

 Notations Selections<> Performed by Pierre-Laurent Aimard and the Orchestra Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna, Featuring L.A. Dance Project in Choreography by Benjamin Millepied

 

Concerts Complemented by Pierre Boulez: A 21st Century Legacy, Post-Concert Discussion, October 11, 2025

The Boulez Ethos, Archival Exhibit Exploring Boulez’s Life and Legacy September 11–December 1, 2025

 
The New York Philharmonic’s celebration of the centennial of Pierre Boulez (1925–2016) — composer, conductor, innovator, educator, and the Orchestra’s Music Director, 1971–77 — culminates with back-to-back subscription programs spotlighting Boulez compositions, October 3–11, 2025; a post-concert discussion; as well as an archival exhibit exploring Boulez’s life and legacy.
 
Composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen — Boulez’s close associate and friend, who was recently named the future creative director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, creativity and innovation chair of the Philharmonie de Paris, and principal conductor of the Orchestre de Paris — leads the Orchestra in both concert programs.
 
The details of the concerts, which take place at the Wu Tsai Theater, David Geffen Hall, are as follows:
 
• The October 3–5, 2025, concerts feature three selections from Boulez’s Notations in both their original solo-piano versions — with Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Boulez’s former student, as soloist — and their full orchestral versions, led by Salonen. The program also features several works by Boulez’s countryman Debussy: Gigues and Rondes de Printemps, from Images; Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra, with Aimard as soloist; and La Mer.
 
• On October 9–11, 2025, Salonen leads Boulez’s Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna in the New York Premiere of a production co-commissioned by the NY Phil, LA Phil, and Orchestre de Paris. The production features original choreography by Benjamin Millepied (in his NY Phil debut) performed by L.A. Dance Project (NY Phil debut). The program also includes works by two composers Boulez championed as NY Phil Music Director: Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and Stravinsky’s Octet. 
 
Complementing the orchestral performances are the following Philharmonic presentations: 
 
• The Boulez Ethos, a New York Philharmonic archival exhibit on display in David Geffen Hall’s Bruno Walter Gallery, September 11–December 1, 2025. The exhibit includes selected essays on Boulez by his closest collaborators, photographs, facsimile materials, and an original Sogitec 4X machine constructed for his work Répons. 
 
• Pierre Boulez: A 21st Century Legacy, a post-concert discussion immediately following the concert on October 11, 2025, featuring Esa-Pekka Salonen, former Juilliard provost and dean Ara Guzelimian, flutist Emi Ferguson, and cellist Jay Campbell. 
 
The event will be held at the Wu Tsai Theater and will be open to ticketholders for the October 11 concert. The New York Philharmonic’s celebration of Boulez’s centennial, which began in the 2024–25 season, has included a side-by-side performance of his Sur Incises by Musicians from the Philharmonic and students from the Juilliard Orchestra, in October 2024; a remounting of a program Boulez curated as Music Director on a Sound On concert in January 2025; the unveiling of C’est Boulez!, an archival exhibit in David Geffen Hall, in the spring of 2025; and the release of more than 13,000 pages of Boulez materials by the New York Philharmonic Shelby White & Leon Levy Digital Archives in March 2025. 
 
Tickets Tickets to New York Philharmonic performances may be purchased online at nyphil.org or by calling (212) 875-5656, 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Monday through Friday; 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Saturday; and noon to 5:00 p.m. Sunday. Tickets may also be purchased at the Welcome Center at David Geffen Hall. The Welcome Center opens at 10:00 a.m. Monday through Saturday, and at noon on Sunday. On performance evenings, the Welcome Center closes one-half hour after performance time; other evenings it closes at 6:00 p.m.  
 
 
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