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DAVID KATZENSTEIN Maurizio Pollini performs Oct. 5 and Regina Carter on Oct. 17 as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston events.

The veteran Italian pianist Maurizio Pollini, lionized for his technical brilliance but absent from Boston stages since 2010, will open the Celebrity Series of Boston’s 2014- 15 season, a lineup of music, dance, and spoken-word shows that balances returning favorites and new voices.

“I think everyone would recognize it as a Celebrity Series season, in that we have ongoing traditions of great classical music,” said Series president and executive director Gary Dunning in a phone interview. “I also like that it’s a combination of returning artists whom we know well and are enjoying seeing develop, and then there’s a good mix of artists we don’t know and are being introduced to.”

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Dunning noted the return of Russian pianist , who will play at Jordan Hall on March 13, a quick step forward from his sold-out 2012 performance in the Celebrity Series’ Debut Series for emerging artists. Boston audiences will get to see, Dunning said, “a short two seasons later, how is his voice developing as an artist?”

Besides Pollini, who will play music by Schumann and Chopin at Symphony Hall on Oct. 5, and Trifonov, other pianists include Richard Goode, who will play Beethoven’s last three sonatas (Nov. 1), and , who makes his Boston recital debut on May 8.

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under brings a program bookended by two works of its former music director, Felix Mendelssohn: the “Hebrides” Overture and the “Reformation” Symphony. Between them, Nikolaj Znaider plays the Beethoven Violin Concerto (Nov. 7). The San Francisco Symphony and music director bring an eclectic program of Liszt, Ravel, Prokofiev (the Second Violin Concerto, with Gil Shaham), and “Drift and Providence” by the young San Francisco-born composer Samuel Carl Adams (Nov. 16). And the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and pianist play Beethoven’s Piano Concertos Nos. 2-4 (Feb. 22).

The Juilliard String Quartet makes its first appearance since 2005, having replaced two members in the interim; they’ll play music of Webern, Berg, and Schubert (Oct. 18). Also appearing in a new configuration is the Emerson String Quartet, with a program that includes a new piece by Lowell Liebermann, a Celebrity Series co- commission (Jan. 22). The Calder Quartet brings one of its specialties — Thomas Adès’s “Arcadiana” — and a local premiere by Andrew Norman to Jordan Hall on Feb. 20. Mandolinist Chris Thile, who played a Bach-centric concert last year, returns to Sanders Theatre with bassist Edgar Meyer (Oct. 12); another “newgrass” musician, banjo player Béla Fleck, plays the same venue with his banjo-playing wife, Abigail Washburn (Oct. 30). Yo-Yo Ma brings his Silk Road Ensemble to Symphony Hall on March 4.

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Two intriguing violin-piano duos make their Boston debuts: Janine Jansen and Itamar Golan (Feb. 6), and Lisa Batiashvili and Paul Lewis (March 29). Both will play Beethoven’s final violin sonata. Other instrumentalists include (Nov. 23), organist Cameron Carpenter (March 5), and cellist Alisa Weilerstein with pianist Inon Barnatan (May 1). Vocal recitals include mezzo-soprano with pianist (Jan. 23), tenor Joseph Calleja (April 17), and the always popular Renée Fleming (Feb. 8).

The Debut Series, at the Longy School’s Pickman Hall, begins its third iteration with pianist Vadym Kholodenko, winner of the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (Oct. 29). The Simón Bolívar String Quartet, comprising the first-desk string players of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, plays Mendelssohn, Ginastera, and Brahms on Nov. 19. Rounding out the series are Barnatan (Dec. 10), the Dublin Guitar Quartet (April 8), and Trio Jean Paul (April 22).

Author David Sedaris returns to Symphony Hall on Oct. 15. An unusual partnership of “This American Life” host Ira Glass and dancers Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass comes to the Citi Shubert Theatre Jan. 24-25. Rosanne Cash plays music from her recent album, “The River & the Thread,” at Sanders on Nov. 13.

The new season is also the second in what Dunning called a commitment to “building our efforts in concert jazz.” The jazz offerings begin on Oct. 17 with Regina Carter’s Southern Comfort project, exploring the violinist’s Alabama roots. Other performances include Branford Marsalis (Jan. 29), the Christian McBride Trio and singer Cécile McLorin Salvant and her trio (Feb. 6), a duo piano concert by Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock (April 12), and a double bill of the Terence Blanchard Quintet and Ravi Coltrane Quartet (April 25).

Dance performances begin with Pilobolus at the Citi Shubert Theatre (Oct. 24-26) and continue with the Boston debut of the Tania Pérez-Salas Compañia de Danza (Nov. 22- 23). Also making its first Boston appearance is the Brian Brooks Moving Company with special guest Wendy Whelan (Feb. 28-March 1). The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater makes its annual visit March 26-29, and the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet closes the Series offerings May 15-17.

Subscription sales begin Wednesday; single tickets for most events go on sale Sept. 8. www.celebrityseries.org

David Weininger can be reached at [email protected].

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