The Los Angeles Philharmonic has announced its 2023–24 concert season, and featured among the performers taking the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage in its 20th anniversary season are John Adams, Thomas Adès, Timo Andres, Brad Mehldau, Natalie Merchant, and Cécile McLorin Salvant.

Natalie Merchant kicks things off when she performs songs from her new album, Keep Your Courage, and more on Saturday, September 30. It’s culmination of her months-long US tour of music from her tenth solo studio album and the first of new material since her 2014 self-titled record, due April 14 on Nonesuch.

Brad Mehldau Trio—drummer Jeff Ballard and bassist Larry Grenadier—is next with a performance on Wednesday, November 8. The Trio’s latest album, 2018’s Seymour Reads the Constitution!, was nominated for two Grammy Awards, for Best Jazz Instrumental Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo "This is sumptuous, collective improvisation of the highest order," exclaims The Arts Desk. "It's so good, it sounds effortless ... Gorgeous." Mehldau’s latest solo album, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays The Beatles, was released last month on Nonesuch.

Thomas Adès leads two programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall in February 2024. First, he conducts the LA Phil New Music Group and singers in Oliver Leith’s Last Days, based on Gus Van Sant’s film of the same name about Kurt Cobain’s final days, on Tuesday, February 6. That weekend, he leads the LA Phil and pianist Kirill Gerstein in three performances, Friday, February 9–Sunday, February 11, pairing his own works The Tempest Symphony and Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with works by Ravel. Nonesuch releases the premiere recording of Adès’ Dante—a ballet score in three acts based on Dante Alighieri’s La Divina Commedia—recorded by the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel in concert at Disney Hall, this April 21.

Timo Andres joins fellow pianists Anton Batagov and Maki Namekawa for a performance of the complete Philip Glass Etudes, 1–20, on Tuesday, March 19. Andres can be heard performing Glass’s Evening Song No. 2, written for Nonesuch Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz, on the 2020 album I Still Play.

John Adams, LA Phil’s Creative Chair, leads the orchestra and pianist Aaron Diehl in three performances, Friday, March 22–Sunday, March 24, of his 2009 LA Phil-commissioned piece City Noir (the Grammy-winning St. Louis Symphony recording of which Nonesuch released in 2014) paired with the world premiere performance of a new LA Phil-commissioned piano concerto by Timo Andres and Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale. Adams returns on Tuesday, April 16, to lead the LA Phil New Music Group in a performance of Anthony Davis’s You Have the Right to Remain Silent, a world premiere by Zosha Di Castri, and more. Adams’s 1999 piece Naive and Sentimental Music, also an LA Phil commission, will be performed by the San Francisco Symphony and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen on Friday, March 22. Salonen led the LA Phil in the premiere recording of the piece, released on Nonesuch in 2002.

Cécile McLorin Salvant closes out the season on a double bill with singer/songwriter/guitarist Silvana Estrada on Friday, May 31. Salvant’s new album, Mélusine, a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl, is due on Nonesuch later this month.

Subscriptions for the LA Phil 2023–24 season are on sale now. For all the details, visit laphil.com.