Named Music Director of the Milwaukee Symphony. Kicked off 2018-19 season making his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Ravinia in two all-Tchaikovsky programs. Returned to Tanglewood to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a program of Glinka, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 with Kirill Gerstein, and Stravinsky’s Firebird.
Conducted workshops and a concert celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Mendelssohn Foundation in Tokyo. Took charge of the fall subscription week with the BSO, where he continues as associate conductor. Included guest engagements with the Louisville Orchestra, the Detroit and Milwaukee symphonies, and the Chicago Civic Orchestra, plus concerts abroad with the National Philharmonic of Russia, Collegium Musicum Basel, the Stavanger Symphony and the Mulhouse Symphony Orchestra in France. Co-founders and artistic directors, with his wife and pianist Melinda Lee Masur, of the Chelsea Music Festival in New York. Recorded with the English Chamber Orchestra and violinist Fanny Clamagirand, and with the Stavanger Symphony. As founding music director of the Bach Society Orchestra and Chorus at Columbia University, toured Germany and released a critically acclaimed album of symphonies and cantatas by W.F. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and J.S. Bach. Recordings of Gisle Kverndokk: Symphonic Dances with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra was named by WQXR as one of the “Best New Classical Releases of July 2018.” Received a Grammy nomination from the Latin Recording Academy in the category Best Classical Album of the Year for his work as a producer of the album Salon Buenos Aires.
