2011
Music Director, San Francisco Symphony (since 1995)
Artistic Director, New World Symphony (since 1990)
Principal Guest Conductor, London Symphony Orchestra (since 1995)
Tours:
San Francisco Symphony, Spring European tour: Prague, Vienna, Brussels, Luxembourg, Essen, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Lisbon
Guest Engagements:
Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Recordings for SFS Media:
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Grammy Award Winner, Best Classical Album); San Francisco Symphony
Summer Festivals:
Tanglewood
Special Projects:
Opening of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center for the New World Symphony.
YouTube Symphony Orchestra; Sydney Opera House (March 21, 2011)
The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater (Blazer, Hensley, Brancoveanu, Widmann-Levy; P. Birch, director) Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, New World Symphony
Television:
The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater (Blazer, Hensley, Brancoveanu, Widmann-Levy; P. Birch, director) New World Symphony. Aired on PBS March 2012.