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During the 2025/26 season Mr. Ax undertakes an extensive tour of Asia featuring concerts in Tokyo, Seoul and Hong Kong. Following the world premiere at Tanglewood in summer 2025, the concerto written for him by John Williams will have its Boston Symphony Orchestra subscription debut in January with the New York premiere one month later with the New York Philharmonic. The European premiere will take place with the Berlin Philharmonic in April and during the season Mr. Ax returns to the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic, Orchestra dell'Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Orchestra RAI.

Emanuel is a committed exponent of contemporary composers, and as well as the Anders Hillborg, he has premiered works by Krzysztof Penderecki, John Adams, Samuel Adams, HK Gruber, Christopher Rouse, Bright Sheng and Melinda Wagner.

Emanuel has been a Sony Classical exclusive recording artist since 1987 and following the success of the Brahms Trios with Kavakos and Ma, the trio launched an ambitious, multi-year project to record all the Beethoven Trios and Symphonies arranged for trio of which the first two discs have recently been released. He has received GRAMMY® Awards for the second and third volumes of his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas. He has also made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano.