Louis Lortie is having a busy season flitting between Europe and North America, to work with orchestras such as the San Franciso Symphony/Runnicles, Houston Symphony/Flor, Deutsche Sinfonie– Orchester/Inbal, Dutch Radio Philharmonic/Vonk, Komische Oper Berlin/Sloane, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Pesek. As we go to press he spends a week with the St Petersburg Philharmonic for a concerto appearance and recital in the famous Bolshoi Hall, and revisits Copenhagen to work with Michael Schonwandt. This Summer he joins Pehlivanian for concerts with Chailly’s Orquesta Sinfonica Verdi in Milan, returns to the BBC Proms to play Prokofiev No.1 with Vänska and the BBC Scottish Symphony, travels with the London Symphony Orchestra to their Summer residence in Daytona, Florida (conductor: Marin Alsop), and plays at the Hollywood Bowl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra.