With two concerts at the Ravinia Festival on July 15 and 17, violinist and conductor Maxim Vengerov will make a much-anticipated return to the United States in both a recital and concert setting. On July 15, Vengerov reprises his recital program with pianist Itamar Golon that the two performed on July 12 in Bordeaux, which features sonatas by Beethoven, Schubert, and Franck, as well as Saint-Saëns’s Havanaise and Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso.

On July 17, Vengerov joins James Conlon and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for Britten’s Violin Concerto, marking the composer’s centennial with the first performances of his 1939 work at Ravinia. The program continues the Britten celebration with Four Sea Interludes from his opera Peter Grimes, and also celebrates Wagner’s bicentennial with overtures and preludes from Rienzi, Der fliegende Holländer, and Lohengrin.

Following recent successes in Tokyo with his first annual Vengerov Festival (where he performed four different programs as violinist, conductor, and teacher) as well as closing the Istanbul Music Festival with Dvorak’s Violin Concerto, Maxim Vengerov continues his busy summer with two concerts in Europe this week. This starts on July 10 when he joins the Filarmonica de Cámara de Valencia in Riga, Latvia. Comprised of members of the Valencia Opera House’s orchestra, hand-picked by Lorin Maazel and Zubin Mehta, the chamber orchestra performs at Riga’s Dzintari Concert Hall. Vengerov will be heard throughout the program with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in D minor, Bach’s Double Concerto in D minor, and three works by Tchaikovsky: Sérenade mélancolique, Souvenir d’un lieu cher, and Valse-scherzo in C major. Ricardo Casero conducts the evening’s proceedings.

Two days later, Vengerov turns to Bordeaux for Musique en Graves, of which he is honorary president. The festival’s opening night on July 12 finds Vengerov with frequent recital partner Itamar Golan in performance at the Domaine de Chevalier vineyard in Léognan. The pair offers sonatas by Beethoven, Schubert, and Franck, as well as Saint-Saëns’s Havanaise and Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso.

These two concerts precede Maxim Vengerov’s return to the American concert stage, where he reprises his recital program with Golan (July 15) and plays Britten with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (July 17), both at the Ravinia Festival.

On June 29 Maxim Vengerov will bring this year’s Istanbul Music Festival to a close, performing as guest soloist in Dvorak’s Violin Concerto in A minor with the Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Vengerov’s Istanbul performance is his first since last performing there twelve years ago.

Next month, Maxim Vengerov makes his highly anticipated return to the American concert stage, performing at the Ravinia Festival both in recital and in concert with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Following performances in Montreal, Lucerne, and Baden-Baden this past May, violinist and conductor Maxim Vengerov travels to Asia for the Vengerov Festival, a series of recitals, concerts, and masterclasses in Japan. The Festival’s public activities begin June 6 with a masterclass and concert at Kioi Hall. On June 10 Maxim guests with the, performing Brahms’s Violin Concerto along side Beethoven’s Triple Concerto with Dai Myata and Kazume Shimizu. The Russian violinist presents two further recitals as part of the Festival, the first in Nishinomiya at the Hyogo Performing Arts Center on June 11 and the second at the Japanese Capital’s Suntory Hall on June 12. The “Vengerov Festival” culminates in a June 13 concert with the Tokyo Philharmonic at Suntory Hall, where Maxim’s program comprises Bach’s Double Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, as well as  Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, which sees Vengerov doubling as conductor and soloist.

Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov gives a series of performances this May in Lucerne and Baden-Baden. On May 22 Vengerov opens the 2013 Zaubersee – Russian Music Lucerne festival, which celebrates the connections between the music of Russia and the lakes of Switzerland. This year’s festival spotlights composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who for many years lived in the Swiss city. The May 22 program comprises the Russian composer’s Lied, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio in A Minor, and Debussy’s Piano Trio in G Major.

On May 26 Vengerov presents a recital with longtime collaborator Itamar Golan, performing violin sonatas by Beethoven and Schubert in addition to selected works by Tchaikovsky. Click here for information on the Lucerne performances, tickets, and more.

Following his concert earlier this season with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Maxim Vengerov returns to the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden on May 24, presenting a recital with Itamar Golan in a program that showcases works by Franck, Saint-Saëns, Beethoven, and Schubert. For tickets, click here.