On June 27, Teddy Abrams begins the summer season with Chris Thile at the Aspen Music Festival conducting a program that includes the composer’s “ATTENTION! A narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra.” In July, Abrams and the Louisville Orchestra resume their statewide “In Harmony” tour, which was recently renewed for another two seasons of funding by the Kentucky legislature.

Abrams begins the month of August at Carnegie Hall, leading NYO2 in a program featuring works by Bernstein, Tchaikovsky, Stavinsky, and a world premiere by Jasmine Barnes to kick off the start of World Orchestra Week (WOW!). Following that concert, the entire program tours to Dallas for a reprise performance (August 6). Later in the month, Abrams returns to the Hollywood Bowl to conduct the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, on a program with Agnegram by Abrams’s mentor, Michael Tilson Thomas (August 22).