Over the next few weeks Leila Josefowicz performs John Adams Scheherazade.2 in San Francisco and Chicago before travelling to Amsterdam to play Berg.

The performances of Scheherazade.2 – which was written for her and given its world premiere with the New York Philharmonic in spring 2015 ­– begin with four concerts at Davies Symphony Hall (22 – 25 February) with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas. Josefowicz then plays the same work on 2, 4 and 7 March with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

On 11 March Josefowicz then travels from Chicago to Amsterdam to perform Berg’s Violin Concerto with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and James Gaffigan.