Cellist Tommy Mesa performs Wynton Marsalis' newly commissioned cello concerto on March 10 at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, alongside Interlochen Arts Academy students and members of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under conductor Cristian Măcelaru. The concerto received its world premiere on March 7 at Interlochen with Yo-Yo Ma as soloist, with Mesa taking the baton for the Detroit leg of the "Imagine US: Celebrating America at 250" tour. This program marking both the U.S. semiquincentennial and a century of partnership between Interlochen and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.

Pianist Stewart Goodyear will be performing alongside three American orchestras this season. He returns to the Phoenix Symphony under Mélisse Brunet from February 27 to March 1, performing Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F, a 100 year old work weaving together jazz, ragtime, and classical idioms, as part of a program celebrating American music. On March 7 and 8, he joins the Greenwich Symphony under Stuart Malina for Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Egyptian"). He then returns to the Baltimore Symphony under Jun Märkl, again performing the Saint-Saëns "Egyptian" Concerto, this time alongside works by Pépin, Debussy, and Ravel.

The Lysander Piano Trio concluded its winter West Coast tour, starting with performances at Chamber Music Monterey Bay and Music in Corrales in January and concluding with a debut at Camerata Musica in the Tri-Cities in Washington state and a return to Kohl Mansion in Burlingame, California.