Kensho Watanabe

Join us on Sunday, Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, Oct. 31 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you a performance recorded live this past March.

Join us on Sunday, September 11th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 12th at 7:30 PM on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast brings you a performance recorded live in November, 2021.

Tune in on Sunday, September 5th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1, and Monday, September 6th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 for this Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast from 2019.

As he wrapped up his third and final year as assistant conductor at The Philadelphia Orchestra back in 2019, Kensho Watanabe talked with Susan Lewis about his unusual path to the podium.

The Philadelphia Orchestra's assistant conductor Kensho Watanabe conducted Leonard Bernstein's Candide overture in an afternoon "Side-by-Side" concert on…

With the challenges of pro-Palestinian protests facing the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 2018 Tour of Europe and Israel, could anybody have foreseen the latest…