Lawrence Golan

Conductor, Violin

Music director bringing a season-long Beethoven cycle, plus film scores, to York.

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In short

Lawrence Golan is a conductor who leads the York Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania, where he is presenting a 2026-27 season built around the complete symphonies of Beethoven alongside film music by John Williams and Philip Glass, and works by contemporary composers Jessie Montgomery and Christopher Theofanidis. Listeners can expect a mix of standard orchestral repertoire and popular film scores across the season.

What to listen for

Across these York Symphony programs, Golan pairs core Beethoven works, including the Fifth, Ninth, and First symphonies, the Egmont and Fidelio overtures, the Violin Concerto, and the Triple Concerto, with newer or contrasting pieces: Prokofiev's compact "Classical" First Symphony, Theofanidis's Cello Concerto, Jessie Montgomery's Starburst, and Philip Glass's string-quartet score for Dracula. One program is devoted entirely to John Williams around his 95th birthday, spanning music from E.T., Harry Potter, Superman, and Saving Private Ryan, and another presents Star Wars: A New Hope as a live-to-picture screening. A further concert sets Arvo Pärt's slow-moving Fratres against Louise Farrenc's Third Symphony. Listeners should expect large-scale, well-known repertoire delivered with attention to both the drama of Beethoven and the color of film scoring.

Written by OrchestraFinder, reviewed September 2026.

Lawrence Golan

In short

What to listen for

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