Paavo Jarvi will take the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra on its first domestic tour together in the 2002-03 season.

Paavo Jarvi

        Mr. Jarvi's second season at the head of the orchestra will be a collection of firsts. On tour, he'll appear for the first time with the CSO in Carnegie Hall, Boston's Symphony Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

        The East Coast tour (March 30-April 5, 2003) is just part of the news for the 2002-03 season, the orchestra's 108th. At home, the exceptional lineup of soloists includes Chinese pianist Lang Lang, hailed as the keyboard discovery of the decade; the all-female Eroica Trio; Siberian-born violin virtuoso Vadim Repin; and piano legends Radu Lupu and John Browning.

        Eager to show off his new orchestra to the country, the 39-year-old maestro plans a challenging Carnegie Hall program: Estonian composer Erkki-Sven Tuur's Exodus (a New York premiere), Sibelius' D Minor Violin Concerto (with Mr. Repin) and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10.

        “I know it's an important moment,” Mr. Jarvi says. “I don't want to go to Carnegie Hall with the orchestra for the first time with a kind of sure-bet success program. Because that would be a little bit too easy, and we need to show, really, our strength there.”

        Mr. Jarvi will conduct 12 of 24 concert weekends. When he's not in town, his guest conductor roster includes six Americans: John Adams (who will conduct his own music), James DePreist, Robert Spano, Jahja Ling, William Eddins and Robert Porco, director of the May Festival Chorus.

        Next season he'll record two albums for Telarc, a Prokofiev and a Ravel disc — with his own take on Ravel's steamy Bolero.
       

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