Concerts

data-filter="[2019 11|2019 11|2019 11|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][November|November|November|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" You’ll know it from the first note! One of the most iconic openings in all of classical music is spun into a staggering tour de force for the ages in Tchaikovsky’s wildly popular concerto. No one plays it better than Daniil Trifonov, an artist who “reaches places other pianists can only dream about” (Daily Telegraph). Just like your favorite art gallery, Mussorgsky’s vivid, sonic sketches offer a feast for the senses and an escape from the ordinary, from the spooky haunts of Baba Yaga’s hut to the majestic gates of Kiev. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HS190RS.04A.mp3 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Krzysztof Urba\u0144ski|,|bio|:|In September 2019, Urba\u0144ski entered the ninth season of his tenure as music director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. In 2015, he became principal guest conductor of the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. In addition to concerts in Hamburg, last season he and the orchestra toured Japan and Europe and released, for Alpha Classics, \u201cwholly excellent renderings\u201d (Gramophone) of Lutos\u0142awski\u2019s works, Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s Symphony No.9, Stravinsky\u2019s The Rite of Spring, and Shostakovich\u2019s Symphony No. 5. His discography includes Chopin\u2019s small pieces for piano and orchestra with Jan Lisiecki and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon) and Martin\u016f\u2019s Cello Concerto No.1 with Sol Gabetta and the Berliner Philharmoniker (Sony).\nKrzysztof has appeared as guest conductor with numerous orchestras around the world, including the M\u00fcnchner Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Z\u00fcrich, Wiener Symphoniker, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Washington\u2019s National Symphony Orchestra, among others.\nKrzysztof served as chief conductor and artistic leader of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, 2010-2017, and embarked on a concurrent four-season tenure as principal guest conductor of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra in 2012. In 2017, he was appointed honorary guest conductor of the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra and Opera. In June 2015, Krzysztof received the prestigious Leonard Bernstein Award at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival. Notably, he is the first conductor to have received this award.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Daniil Trifonov|,|bio|:|Grammy Award-winning Russian pianist and composer Daniil Trifonov\u2014Musical America\u2019s 2019 Artist of the Year\u2014combines consummate technique with rare sensitivity and depth. \u201cHe has everything and more\u2026tenderness and also the demonic element. I never heard anything like that,\u201d marveled pianist Martha Argerich. Daniil won the 2018 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Solo Album with Transcendental, his third title as an exclusive Deutsche Grammophon artist. As\u00a0The Times (London)\u00a0notes, he is \u201cwithout question the most astounding pianist of our age.\u201d When he premiered his own Piano Concerto in 2013, The Plain Dealer\u00a0(Cleveland) marveled: \u201cEven having seen it, one cannot quite believe it. Such is the artistry of pianist-composer Daniil Trifonov.\u201d\nThis fall brings the release of\u00a0Destination Rachmaninov: Arrival, the third volume of the Deutsche Grammophon series he recorded with The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, following\u00a0Destination Rachmaninov: Departure, named\u00a0BBC Music\u2019s 2019 Concerto Recording of the Year, and\u00a0Rachmaninov: Variations, a 2015 Grammy nominee. Daniil begins his tenure as 2019\u201320 artist-in-residence of the New York Philharmonic with Scriabin\u2019s Piano Concerto under Jaap van Zweden. The residency includes the New York premiere of his own Piano Quintet; and he joins the music director and orchestra for Mozart\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 25 in New York and on a European tour. He performs with conductor Michael Tilson Thomas with the New World Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. Other highlights include Mosolov\u2019s First Piano Concerto with the Nashville Symphony and Beethoven concertos with The Philadelphia Orchestra and N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin. In recital, Daniil plays a Bach program in New York, Chicago, Boston, and European destinations, besides partnering with his mentor and fellow pianist Sergei Babayan at Carnegie Hall, Cornell University, Eastman School of Music, and in Dortmund, Germany.\nIt was during the 2010-11 season that Daniil won medals at three of the music world\u2019s most prestigious competitions: Third Prize in Warsaw\u2019s International Chopin Piano Competition, First Prize in Tel Aviv\u2019s Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, and both First Prize and Grand Prix in Moscow\u2019s International Tchaikovsky Competition.\nBorn in Nizhny Novgorod in 1991, Daniil began his musical training at age 5, and went on to attend Moscow\u2019s Gnessin School of Music as a student of Tatiana Zelikman before pursuing piano studies with Babayan at the Cleveland Institute of Music.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Nick Eanet|,|bio|:|A native of New York City, Nick Eanet has earned a reputation as a master violinist, musician, and teacher. He is in great demand as a soloist, concertmaster, chamber music performer, and teacher. Eanet has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School, Harvard University, North Carolina School of the Arts, and has given masterclasses all over the globe. His playing is hailed as \u201cbrilliant and passionate\u201d by the New York Times.\nEanet’s exposure to solo work began when he was very young. At the age of eight he was invited by Zubin Mehta to appear as soloist with the New York Philharmonic. Two years later, he again performed a series of concerts as soloist with the New York Philharmonic and was invited to play at their New Year’s Eve gala concert. Eanet has since performed as soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra led by James Levine at Carnegie Hall, the Minnesota Orchestra with Sir Neville Marriner, and again with the New York Philharmonic.\nAppointed by James Levine in 1999 at the age of 27, Eanet was the senior concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra through 2014. During his tenure with the orchestra, Eanet regularly performed across Europe and Japan, and appeared in orchestral and chamber music concerts at all three venues at Carnegie Hall.\nAs former leader and first violinist of the Juilliard String Quartet, Eanet performed in all the famous concert halls throughout the United States, Europe, and Japan. The Juilliard String Quartet has been in residence at The Juilliard School since 1946 and has mentored nearly every major American string quartet and has commissioned hundreds of new works. Eanet is currently very involved in teaching violin and chamber music, and spends his summers at the Marlboro Music Festival, working with some of the greatest young musicians from around the world.\nEanet began his violin studies at the age of three with Nicole DiCecco, and was quickly an avid chamber musician, playing string quartets by the age of five. When he was eleven, his string quartet was invited to perform in Matsumoto, Japan, by Shinichi Suzuki. At the age of twelve, he was admitted to The Juilliard School Pre-College where he studied with Dorothy DeLay, continuing at the college level with DeLay and Robert Mann. Immediately after graduating from Juilliard, Eanet joined the Mendelssohn String Quartet as leader and first violinist. During his years with the Mendelssohn String Quartet, Eanet performed around the world in major venues such as Carnegie Hall in New York City, Wigmore Hall in London, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Library of Congress in Washington D.C.\nIn 2011, Eanet was honored to receive a Grammy award for lifetime achievement.\n|,|title|:|guest concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} GUILLAUME CONNESSON Celephais from The Cities of Lovecraft TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition

data-filter="[2019 11|2019 11|2019 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][November|November|December|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Just how great is the Houston Symphony? You’ll find out in this program of lush, full-orchestra showpieces from the greatest symphonic poet of all time. To start, hear two of the most soul-stirring works ever written in Strauss’ poignant musings on life, death and transcendence. Then sparks fly and spirits soar as we feel the racing pulse of history’s most legendary ladies’ man and encounter a loveable trickster who always gets the last laugh. Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. These concerts are part of the Margaret Alkek Williams Sound + Vision Series, which is also supported by The Cullen Trust for the Performing Arts Endowed Fund for Creative Initiatives. https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HSYMP-102119-All-Strauss-Thanksgiving-30-Radio.mp3 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Miah Persson|,|bio|:|Internationally-renowned Swedish soprano Miah Persson has worked all over the world as a recitalist, concert, and operatic artist.\nThroughout her distinguished career, she has performed Fiordiligi in Cos\u00ec fan tutte, Gretel in H\u00e4nsel und Gretel and Pamina in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te at the Metropolitan Opera; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro and Zerlina in Don Giovanni at Covent Garden; the title role of L’incoronazione di Poppea and the Governess The Turn of the Screw at Teatro alla Scala; Fiordiligi, Sophie, and Susanna at the Wiener Staatsoper; several roles at the Glyndebourne Festival; Donna Elvira at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es\u00a0 and with the Liceu Opera Barcelona; Fiordiligi at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Staatsoper Hamburg, New National Theatre Tokyo, in Stockholm and for a Deutsche Grammophon recording at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden; and L\u2019incoronazione di Poppea at Carnegie Hall. She sang Michel van der Aa\u2019s Blank Out, a chamber opera for solo soprano, for Netherlands Opera with performances in Amsterdam, Rome, Aix-en-Provence, and New York.\nIn concert, Miah has sung Bach\u2019s Mass in B minor at Teatro la Fenice; Bach\u2019s St. Matthew Passion with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra; Beethoven\u2019s Ninth with the London Symphony Orchestra with conductor Vladimir Jurowski at the BBC Proms; Brahms\u2019s Requiem with the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia and the London Philharmonic Orchestra; Peer Gynt with the Vienna Symphony; Mahler 2 with the MDR Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, London Symphony Orchestra, Teatro alla Scala, and the Philharmonie Luxembourg; as well as recitals at London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus, Amsterdam\u2019s Concertgebouw, Spivey Hall, the Schubert Club of St. Paul, Cal Performances at Berkeley, Vancouver Playhouse, and Carnegie Hall.\nEngagements in 2019-20 include role debuts as Elettra in Idomeneo at the Teatro dell\u2019Opera di Roma; Cleopatra Giulio Cesare at the New National Theatre Tokyo; Countess Almaviva at Staatsoper Berlin; Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni on tour with Kammerorchester Basel at the George Enescu Festival and Theater an der Wien; Donna Elvira at the Verbier Festival; Les nuits d’\u00e9t\u00e9 on tour with the Budapest Festival Orchestra; Mahler 2 with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic; Vier letzte Lieder with the Houston Symphony and National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra; Mozart\u2019s Mass in C minor with the New York Philharmonic; Beethoven\u2019s Ninth at the Prague Spring International Festival; the Nobel Prize Concert in Stockholm; and Mozart\u2019s Concert Arias on tour with the Freiburger Barockorchester.\n|,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Juliette Kang|,|bio|:|Appointed First Associate Concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2005, Canadian violinist\u202fJuliette Kang enjoys an active and varied career.\u202fPreviously Assistant Concertmaster of the Boston Symphony and member of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Juliette\u2019s solo engagements have included the San Francisco Symphony, l\u2019Orchestre National de France, the Baltimore Symphony, the Boston Pops, the Omaha Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, and every major orchestra in Canada. Internationally, she has performed with the Czech Philharmonic, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the Singapore Symphony, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the KBS Symphony in Seoul. She has given recitals in Philadelphia, Paris, Tokyo, and Boston. In 1994 she won the gold medal of the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis and was presented at Carnegie Hall in a recital that was recorded live and released on CD. She has also recorded the Schumann and Wieniawski violin concertos with the Vancouver Symphony for CBC Records.\nIn 2012, Juliette was again a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall for the visit of her hometown orchestra, the Edmonton Symphony, and she is a regular soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, most recently featured in the Bruch Scottish Fantasy conducted by music director Yannick Nezet-Seguin.\nJuliette has been a chamber musician since studying at the Curtis Institute of Music. Festivals she has participated in include Bravo! Vail Valley, Bridgehampton, Kingston, Marlboro, Moab, Skaneateles, and Spoleto USA. In New York, she has performed with the Chamber Music Society of\u202fLincoln Center; at the Mostly Mozart Festival with her husband, cellist Thomas Kraines; and at the Bard Music Festival. With Philadelphia Orchestra violist Che Hung Chen, pianist Natalie Zhu, and cellist Clancy Newman, she is a member of the Clarosa Quartet, which is dedicated to exploring and enriching the piano quartet repertoire.\nAfter receiving a Bachelor of Music degree at age 15 from the Curtis Institute of Music as a student of Jascha Brodsky, she earned a Master of Music degree at the Juilliard School under the tutelage of Dorothy Delay and Robert Mann. She was a winner of the 1989 Young Concert Artists Auditions and received first prize at the Menuhin Violin Competition of Paris in 1992. She serves on the Board of Trustees at Philadelphia\u2019s Settlement Music School. One of the oldest and largest community schools of the arts in the country, the Settlement School has served more than 300,000 students since its founding in 1908.\n|,|title|:|guest concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration STRAUSS Four Last Songs STRAUSS Don Juan STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

data-filter="[2019 12|2019 12|2019 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][December|December|December|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" No concerto unleashes the singing sweetness or heroic power of the violin more profoundly or poetically. Breathtaking virtuoso Gil Shaham scales the towering heights of Brahms’ masterpiece, widely considered the pinnacle of the repertoire. Music is your gateway to velvet-black skies, celestial grandeur and starry expanses in a monumental world premiere by Houston Symphony Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López Bellido. The Houston Symphony’s commitment to new music and continually expanding the symphonic repertoire sees the world premiere in 2019–2020 of a Houston Symphony commission from Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López Bellido, in the third and final year of his residency. López’s Symphony No. 2, Ad Astra (December 2019), takes its inspiration from a subject near and dear to Houston’s heart: the space program and humankind’s exploration of the stars. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. Saturday night attendees are invited to stay late for an “Out of This World” after party! Sip celestial inspired cocktails, dance the night away to DJ tracks under a luminous moon globe, and mingle with Houston Symphony musicians! Your ticket to the concert is all you need for entry. Featuring: Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO Symphony No. 2, Ad Astra (Houston Symphony Commission, World Premiere) https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HSYMP-110619-ShahamPlaysBrahms-Radio-30.mp3   Watch a concert preview:   {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Gil Shaham|,|bio|:|Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time: his flawless technique, combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit, has solidified his renown as an American master. He is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the world\u2019s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.\nHighlights of recent years include a recording and performances of J.S. Bach\u2019s complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin and recitals with his long-time duo partner pianist, Akira Eguchi. He regularly appears with the Berlin Philharmonic; Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras; San Francisco Symphony; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics; and Orchestre de Paris. He serves multi-year residencies with the orchestras of Montreal, Stuttgart, and Singapore.\nGil has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, earning multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d\u2019Or, and\u00a0Gramophone\u00a0Editor\u2019s Choice. His most recent recording in the\u00a01930s Violin Concertos series, Vol. 2,\u00a0was nominated for a Grammy Award.\nGil Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008, he received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. In 2012, he was named Instrumentalist of the Year by\u00a0Musical America. He plays the 1699 \u201cCountess Polignac\u201d Stradivarius and lives in New York City with his wife, violinist Adele Anthony, and their three children.\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Jimmy L\u00f3pez Bellido|,|bio|:|An \u201cundeniably exciting composer\u201d (Opera News) with \u201ca brilliant command of orchestral timbres and textures\u201d (The Dallas Morning News), and \u201ca virtuoso mastery of the modern orchestra\u201d (The New Yorker), Jimmy L\u00f3pez Bellido has created works performed by the world\u2019s leading orchestras in prestigious venues such as Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Kennedy Center, Wiener Musikverein, and Konzerthaus Berlin. His works have also been featured at Nordic Music Days; the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore; and the Aspen, Tanglewood, and Grant Park music festivals.\nFiesta!, one of his most famous works, has received more than 90 performances worldwide, making it one of the most performed contemporary orchestral works. Bel Canto, a full-length opera based on Ann Patchett\u2019s bestselling novel, and commissioned by Lyric Opera of Chicago as part of the Ren\u00e9e Fleming initiative, premiered in December 2015 to wide critical acclaim and was broadcast nationwide on PBS\u2019s Great Performances.\nJimmy is the Houston Symphony\u2019s composer-in-residence through the 2019\u201320 season. He recently completed Dreamers, an oratorio he wrote in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz for Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and the Philharmonia Orchestra of London. A new album with Miguel Harth-Bedoya and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra was released this summer on MSR Classics. He is published by Filarmonika Music Publishing.\nJimmy is composer-in-residence at the Houston Symphony through the 2019\u201320 Season.\n|,|title|:|Houston Symphony Composer-in-Residence|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Alexander Velinzon|,|bio|:||,|title|:|guest concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} JIMMY LÓPEZ BELLIDO Symphony No. 2, Ad Astra (Houston Symphony Commission, World Premiere) BRAHMS Violin Concerto

data-filter="[2019 12|][midtown-arts-and-theater-center|][December|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" The opening concert in our four-concert Chamber Music Series features violin virtuoso Gil Shaham and a small ensemble of Houston Symphony musicians. Participating Houston Symphony Musicians STRAUSS Metamorphosen for String Septet: Tong Yan, violin; Anastasia Sukhopara, violin; Sheldon Person, viola; Wei Jiang, viola; Christopher French, cello; Louis-Marie Fardet, cello; Robin Kesselman, bass. BEETHOVEN Trio for Two Oboes and English Horn: Jonathan Fischer, oboe; Colin Gatwood, oboe; Adam Dinitz, English horn. BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet (with Gil Shaham): Mark Nuccio, clarinet; MuChen Hsieh, violin; Joan DerHovsepian, viola; Brinton Averil Smith, cello. LOCATION: MATCH Box 4 – Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston, 3400 Main St. Houston, Texas 77002 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Gil Shaham|,|bio|:|Gil Shaham is one of the foremost violinists of our time: his flawless technique, combined with his inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit, has solidified his renown as an American master. He is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearances with leading orchestras and conductors and regularly gives recitals and appears with ensembles on the world\u2019s great concert stages and at the most prestigious festivals.\nHighlights of recent years include a recording and performances of J.S. Bach\u2019s complete sonatas and partitas for solo violin and recitals with his long-time duo partner pianist, Akira Eguchi. He regularly appears with the Berlin Philharmonic; Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras; San Francisco Symphony; Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Los Angeles and New York Philharmonics; and Orchestre de Paris. He serves multi-year residencies with the orchestras of Montreal, Stuttgart, and Singapore.\nGil has more than two dozen concerto and solo CDs to his name, earning multiple Grammys, a Grand Prix du Disque, Diapason d\u2019Or, and\u00a0Gramophone\u00a0Editor\u2019s Choice. His most recent recording in the\u00a01930s Violin Concertos series, Vol. 2,\u00a0was nominated for a Grammy Award.\nGil Shaham was awarded an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1990, and in 2008, he received the coveted Avery Fisher Prize. In 2012, he was named Instrumentalist of the Year by\u00a0Musical America. 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data-filter="[2019 12|][toyota-center|][December|][[{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Symphony Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:6,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Andrea Bocelli in Concert with the Houston Symphony and Chorus Andrea Bocelli, who has sold 80 million records and performed countless worldwide tours, returns to the Toyota Center with the Houston Symphony. The world’s most beloved tenor performs his unmatched repertoire of famed arias, love songs and beloved crossover hits, live with the Houston Symphony. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Eugene Kohn|,|bio|:|Eugene Kohn was immersed in opera from a very young age, accompanying the vocal classes of such \u201cgolden age\u201d stars as Giovanni Martinelli and Maria Jeritza. He became the conducting \u201cprot\u00e9g\u00e9e\u201d of the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Fausto Cleva, and in the 1970\u2019s began performing in public as recital accompanist to some of opera\u2019s greatest voices: Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe DiStefano, Franco Corelli, Maria Callas, and the young Luciano Pavarotti.\nKohn had the opportunity to study the central European symphonic repertoire with Erich Leinsdorf, and was assistant in symphonic, choral, and operatic repertoire to Thomas Schippers. Several years of conducting regional symphony orchestras and opera companies led to his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1980, conducting \u201cLa Gioconda\u201d. His reengagement at the MET for several different productions led to debuts in major international theatres.\nWhile based in Europe through the 1980\u2019s and 1990\u2019s Kohn conducted at the opera houses of Vienna, Hamburg, Berlin (both), Barcelona, Rome, Naples, Paris, Buenos Aires, etc. He held the position of Principal Guest Conductor at the Bonn Opera, where he broadened his German repertoire with productions of \u201cFliegende Hollaender\u201d, \u201cRosenkavalier\u201d, \u201cZauberfloete\u201d, \u201cFidelio\u201d etc. He also served for eight years as Music Director of the Puerto Rico Symphony, increasing their repertoire with cycles of Mahler, Stravinsky, and Bruckner.\nFor the last ten years Kohn has divided his time equally between symphony and opera. He is also active as Music Director for concerts worldwide with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, a collaboration of several decades well documented on DVD and recordings. He tours as Music Director for tenor Andrea Bocelli, and has conducted as well for Brynn Terfel, Anna Netrebko, and Angela Georhgiu, Next season he debuts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus in a Verdi Gala featuring Placido Domingo.\nKohn has precorded for EMI, Sony, and DECCA, and can also be seen as screen actor in Zeffirelli\u2019s film \u201cCallas Forever\u201d (with Jerermy Irons and Fanny Ardant) where he recreates his real life role from years earlier as Ms. Callas\u2019 accompanist.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Andrea Bocelli|,|bio|:||,|title|:|tenor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2019 12|2019 12|2019 12|2019 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][December|December|December|December|][[{|term_id|:1595,|name|:|Holiday|,|slug|:|holiday-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1595,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:6,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS Series|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:9,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" It’s the most wonderful time of the year—and there’s no better way to celebrate! Former Principal Pops Conductor Michael Krajewski returns, joining Symphony and Chorus for a sparkling concert filled with all the merry sounds of the season. Hear a host of festive favorites, including the Houston Symphony commission Glad Tidings, a musical and narrative telling of the Christmas story packed with classic carols like What Child is This?, Silent Night and Joy to the World. https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HSYMP-102819-Very-Merry-Pops-30-Radio-1.mp3 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Michael Krajewski|,|bio|:|Known for his entertaining programs and clever humor, Michael Krajewski is a much sought after conductor of symphonic pops.\u00a0He is Music Director of The Philly Pops and Principal Pops Conductor of the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. He previously served as Principal Pops Conductor of the Houston Symphony and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.\nAs a guest conductor Michael has performed with the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras; the Boston and Cincinnati Pops; the San Francisco, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Seattle, Dallas, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and National Symphonies, and numerous other orchestras across the United States. In Canada he has led Ottawa\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic, and the Edmonton, Winnipeg and Kitchener-Waterloo Symphonies. Other international appearances include performances in Dublin and Belfast with the Ulster Orchestra as well as performances with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra and Spain\u2019s Bilbao Symphony Orchestra.\nWith degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, Michael furthered his training at the Pierre Monteux Domaine School for Conductors. Michael lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife Darcy. When not conducting he enjoys travel, photography and solving crossword puzzles.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Bree Welch|,|bio|:||,|title|:|narrator|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2019 12|2019 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][December|December|][[{|term_id|:1035,|name|:|Family Series|,|slug|:|family-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1035,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:|Now in his tenth season, our Associate Conductor Robert Franz is ready to help your family create cherished memories. Buckle up! Our Family Series is taking you on a magical, musical quest on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nAlso, enjoy pre- and post-concert activities, including our Instrument Petting Zoo, young musician performances in the lobby as well as crafts and musical activities. \r\n\r\n|,|parent|:0,|count|:4,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:1595,|name|:|Holiday|,|slug|:|holiday-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1595,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:6,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" ’Twas the Night Before Christmas and all through Jones Hall, the Symphony played to delight one and all. Envision sugar plums, flying reindeer and a sleigh filled with toys as the classic holiday story ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas comes to life with live music and narration, plus sing along to festive favorites like “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” If you sing loudly enough, you might even receive a visit from a very special man in a red suit… Children of all ages, including infants, are welcome at Family Series performances. All patrons must have a ticket when entering the concert venue. Lap children are welcome for free. For lap child tickets, please contact our Patron Services Center at 713.224.7575, 12 noon–6 p.m., Monday–Saturday. Family Concert Activities Families can enjoy a craft station and other musical activities, like our Instrument Petting Zoo, in the Jones Hall lobby! Activities take place from 9–9:50 a.m. before the 10 a.m. concert, and from 12:30–1 p.m. after the 11:30 a.m. concert. https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/HSYMP-103019-Night-Before-Christmas-30-RadioV2.mp3 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Robert Franz|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/robert-franz\/|}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Madison Turner|,|bio|:||,|title|:|narrator|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Kinder High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Handbell Choir|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Dorothy Patel, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2019 12|2019 12|2019 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][December|December|December|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:1595,|name|:|Holiday|,|slug|:|holiday-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1595,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:6,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Symphony Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:6,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" This Christmas, be moved by Handel’s ever-glorious setting of the greatest story ever told. The Houston Symphony, chorus and guest soloists join forces to fill Jones Hall with joyous refrains and exultant arias, including the powerful “Hallelujah” Chorus. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Nicholas McGegan|,|bio|:|As he embarks on his sixth decade on the podium, Nicholas McGegan\u2014long hailed as \u201cone of the finest baroque conductors of his generation\u201d (The Independent) and \u201can expert in 18th-century style\u201d (The New Yorker)\u2014is recognized for his probing and revelatory explorations of music of all periods. The 2019\u201320 season marks the final year of his 34-year tenure as music director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale. He is also principal guest conductor of the Pasadena Symphony.\nBest known as a baroque and classical specialist, Nicholas\u2019s approach\u2014intelligent, infused with joy, and never dogmatic\u2014has led to appearances with many of the world\u2019s major orchestras. At home in opera houses, he shone new light on close to 20 Handel operas as the artistic director and conductor at the G\u00f6ttingen International Handel Festival for 20 years and the Mozart canon as principal guest conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. At the same time, he was principal conductor of the Drottningholm Opera in Sweden.\nNicholas\u2019s prolific discography includes more than 100 releases spanning five decades. Having recorded more than 50 albums of Handel, he has explored the depths of the composer\u2019s output through recordings of a dozen of his oratorios and close to 20 of his operas. Under its own label, Philharmonia Baroque Productions, Philharmonia has released almost a dozen acclaimed albums of Handel, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Brahms, Haydn, Beethoven, and more.\u00a0Since the 1980s, Nicholas has released more than 20 recordings with Hungary\u2019s Capella Savaria on the Hungaroton label, the latest being Haydn\u2019s Symphonies 79, 80, and 81. He has also released two recent albums with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra: Josef Myslive\u010dek\u2019s Complete Music for Keyboard with soloist Clare Hammond and an album of early horn concertos with soloist Alec Frank-Gemmill.\nBorn in England, Nicholas was educated at Cambridge and Oxford. He is an honorary professor at the Georg-August University in G\u00f6ttingen and was also given an honorary doctorate of music at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. In 2010, he was made an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire \u201cfor services to music overseas.\u201d He was also awarded the Verdienstkreuz (am bande) from Nieders\u00e4chsen, Germany, in 2011.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Sherezade Panthaki|,|bio|:|Soprano Sherezade Panthaki’s international success has been fueled by superbly honed musicianship, \u201cshimmering sensitivity\u201d (Cleveland\u2019s The Plain Dealer), a \u201cradiant\u201d voice (The Washington Post), and vividly passionate interpretations, \u201cmining deep emotion from the subtle shaping of the lines\u201d (The New York Times). An acknowledged star in the early-music field, Sherezade has ongoing collaborations with leading early music interpreters including Nicholas McGegan, Simon Carrington, Matthew Halls, and Masaaki Suzuki, with whom she made her New York Philharmonic debut. A recent performance with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and conductor McGegan was described as \u201ca breathtaking combination of expressive ardor, tonal clarity, technical mastery and dramatic vividness\u201d (San Francisco Chronicle).\nSherezade\u2019s 2019\u201320 orchestral season includes returns to both the Houston Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra (Messiah) and the Bach Festival Society of Winter Park (Brahms\u2019 Requiem) and performances with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, St. Thomas Church in New York, and Santa Fe Pro Musica (Telemann\u2019s Passion Cantata). This season, she also rejoins the viol consort Parthenia for an \u201cElizabethan Christmas\u201d program and returns to Boston Early Music Festival for an overseas trip to Bremen, performing the role of Ellenia in Graupner\u2019s Antiochus und Stratonica. In recital, Sherezade will be featured at Caramoor Summer Music Festival in \u201cLove and Revenge: The Baroque Diva\u201d with The Helicon Ensemble.\nSherezade has performed repertoire well beyond the music of the Renaissance and Baroque, including Orff\u2019s Carmina Burana with the Houston Symphony, John Tavener\u2019s The Last Discourse with Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s, Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9 with American Classical Orchestra, and Rachmaninoff\u2019s Vocalise and Strauss lieder at the Bari International Music Festival.\nSherezade holds an artist diploma from the Yale School of Music and a master\u2019s degree from the University of Illinois.\n|,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Diana Moore|,|bio|:|English mezzo-soprano Diana Moore is lauded on both sides of the Atlantic for her \u201cemotional depth\u201d (The Guardian), \u201cthrilling\u201d technical bravura (Gramophone), and \u201crich, evocative sound\u201d (San Francisco Chronicle). She enjoys a varied and international career of opera, oratorio, and concert performances and is a popular soloist at many major music festivals.\nDiana\u2019s tall and graceful stature has made her the ideal trouser-role performer. With conductor Nicholas McGegan and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, she performed the role of Medoro in Handel\u2019s Orlando in an acclaimed American tour at the Ravinia Festival, Lincoln Center\u2019s Alice Tully Hall, and the Tanglewood Music Festival. Recent concert engagements include Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony and selections from Mahler\u2019s Des Knaben Wunderhorn with Royal Northern Sinfonia and Elgar\u2019s The Dream of Gerontius at Royal Albert Hall and Winchester, Ely, Gloucester, and York Minster Cathedrals.\nAs a recording artist, Diana is a soloist on the premiere recording of Scarlatti\u2019s La Gloria di Primavera with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, which was selected as an Editor\u2019s Choice recording in Gramophone. Her recording of Handel’s Parnasso in festa with The King\u2019s Consort and conductor Matthew Halls won the Stanley Sadie Handel Recording Prize. Her latest album is Handel\u2019s Messiah with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, released in fall 2018.\nDiana\u2019s charismatic vocal quality and training place her firmly within the fine heritage of English mezzo-sopranos. She is committed to celebrating the music and musicians of her homeland and has built a reputation as a leading exponent of English song. In 2007, she devised A Celebration of Kathleen Ferrier\u2014Her Life, Letters & Music to honor that legendary English singer, a program that has been endorsed by the Kathleen Ferrier Society.\nVisit dianamooremezzo.com and schwalbeandpartners.com\/diana-moore-mezzo-soprano to learn more.\n|,|title|:|mezzo-soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Benjamin Butterfield|,|bio|:|Praised by The New York Times as \u201cclarion-voiced and vibrant,\u201d Benjamin Butterfield is known for his performances throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He has performed with many of the world\u2019s leading conductors including Sir Andrew Davis, James Conlon, Nicholas McGegan, Charles Dutoit, Leonard Slatkin, Bramwell Tovey, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Labadie, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Jeffrey Thomas, Trevor Pinnock, Bruno Weil, and Marc Minkowski. In recent seasons, Benjamin has made multiple appearances with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra and orchestras in Houston, Baltimore, Nashville, St. Louis, and Vancouver. He performs regularly with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem and in his hometown of Victoria, British Columbia.\nRecent performance highlights include performances with the Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s, American Classical Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Orchestre Symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec, Orchestre Lyrique de Montr\u00e9al, and Victoria Symphony. He has also appeared with the Pacific Baroque Festival (under conductor Marc Destrub\u00e9), Luminous Voices, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra, and the Yellow Barn chamber music festival. As an interpreter of opera, he recently portrayed the role of Mime in Das Rheingold with Pacific Opera and was stage director for Gianni Schicchi at the Amalfi Coast Music & Arts Festival. Other operatic roles include Grimoaldo in Rodelinda and Jupiter in Semele with Pacific Opera Victoria, Fr\u00e8re Mass\u00e9e in Saint Fran\u00e7ois d\u2019Assise with Kent Nagano and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Tamino in The Magic Flute with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Calgary Opera.\nA prolific recording artist, Benjamin has recently recorded the St. John Passion with The Bach Choir of Bethlehem (Analekta), the Rhien transcription of Mahler\u2019s Das Lied von der Erde for Yellow Barn, and a sixth CD of Ukrainian art song for the Ukrainian Art Song Project in Toronto. He has also been featured in Messiah on ZDF at the H\u00e4ndel-Festspiele Halle with Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert.\nIn 2018, Benjamin was named a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the country\u2019s highest academic honor. As professor, head of voice, and co-head of performance for the School of Music at the University of Victoria, he was the 2015 recipient of the university\u2019s Craigdarroch Award for Excellence in Artistic Expression.\n|,|title|:|tenor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Hadleigh Adams|,|bio|:|New Zealand baritone Hadleigh Adams has been featured in Opera News magazine as a Sound Bites artist and has received international acclaim for his performances on stage and in concert. Over the past season, Hadleigh has performed with Pittsburgh Opera, London\u2019s Philharmonia Orchestra, Cincinnati Opera, Oakland Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Michigan Opera Theatre, Colorado Symphony, and Opera Omaha. He has performed repeatedly with the San Francisco Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the San Francisco Symphony. Later this season, he performs with the American Bach Soloists and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.\nFollowing his formal studies, Hadleigh made his debut at London\u2019s Royal National Theatre singing the role of Christ in Jonathan Miller\u2019s staged production of Bach\u2019s St. Matthew Passion to critical acclaim. He performed in concert at London\u2019s St Martin-in-the-Fields, the London Song Recital series, and Wigmore Hall. He then joined the Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera, where he become an Adler Fellow, the first New Zealander to hold the position. During his two-year tenure with the company, Hadleigh appeared in more than 75 main stage performances and more than 20 concert performances.\nIn 2015, Hadleigh made his New York debut in R. B. Schlather\u2019s production of Handel\u2019s Orlando at Whitebox. This production, conducted by Geoffrey McDonald, won praise from critics for its visceral, modern treatment of the work. The New York Times wrote: \u201cA muscular stud in head-to-toe skin-tight leather…Overseeing all is the magician Zoroastro, sung by Hadleigh Adams with a dark yet flexible bass and a glowering presence.\u201d\nHadleigh began his operatic education at The University of Auckland, gaining a Bachelor of Music with first class, first division honours. After completing his Master of Music at the New Zealand School of Music, he joined the New Zealand Opera as a company artist. In 2009, he relocated to Australia as the inaugural Gertrude Johnson Scholar at The Opera Studio, Melbourne. He then received a full scholarship to London\u2019s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he studied with Rudolf Piernay and Janice Chapman, gaining a Master of Music with distinction and completing the opera program with first class, first division honours.\nVisit hadleighadams.com to learn more.\n|,|title|:|bass|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]} HANDEL Messiah

data-filter="[2020 01|2020 01|2020 01|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][January|January|January|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS Series|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:9,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" “DeSare is a lean, baby Sinatra with burning brown eyes and flashing teeth…his intonation and enunciation are impeccable.” – The New York Times The legend. The icon. The Voice. Frank Sinatra defined an entire generation of cool, and he did it His Way. Step back in time as Houston favorite Tony DeSare, one of today’s leading Sinatra interpreters, recreates the Rat Pack swagger and timeless magic of Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, delivering showstoppers like Come Fly with Me, It Was a Very Good Year and New York, New York. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Tony DeSare|,|bio|:|Tony DeSare performs with infectious joy, wry playfulness and robust musicality. Named a Rising Star Male Vocalist in Downbeat magazine, DeSare has lived up to this distinction by winning critical and popular acclaim for his concert performances throughout North America and abroad. From jazz clubs to Carnegie Hall to Las Vegas headlining with Don Rickles and major symphony orchestras, DeSare has brought his fresh take on old school class around the globe. DeSare has three top ten Billboard jazz albums under his belt and has been featured on the CBS Early Show, NPR, A Prairie Home Companion, the Today Show and his music has been posted by social media celebrity juggernaut, George Takei. DeSare has also collaborated with Youtube icons Postmodern Jukebox.\nNotwithstanding his critically acclaimed turns as a singer\/pianist, DeSare is also an accomplished award-winning composer. He not only won first place in the USA Songwriting Contest, but has written the theme song for the motion picture,\u00a0My Date With Drew, several broadcast commercials and has composed the full soundtracks for the Hallmark Channel’s\u00a0Love Always, Santa\u00a0and Lifetime’s\u00a0Nanny Nightmare. His sound is romantic, swinging and sensual, but what sets DeSare apart is his ability to write original material that sounds fresh and contemporary, yet pays homage to the Great American Songbook. His compositions include a wide-range of romantic, funny, and soulful sounds that can be found on his top-selling recordings.\nDeSare\u2019s forthcoming appearances include the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Grand Rapids Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and the Smith Center in Las Vegas.\nDeSare releases new recordings, videos of standards and new originals every few weeks on his YouTube channel, iTunes and Spotify. Follow Tony on Facebook, Twitter and subscribe on YouTube to stay connected.\nTony DeSare is a Yamaha Artist.\n|,|title|:|vocalist and pianist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2020 01|2020 01|2020 01|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][January|January|January|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" He was the original showman—and Paganini’s bag of musical tricks knows no limit in his Violin Concerto No. 1, a work of mind-blowing virtuosity that pushes the instrument to its very limits. Performing it is not for the faint of heart, but when it comes to daredevil violin feats, Grammy Award winner Augustin Hadelich has a knack for making it look easy. Visions of the Eternal City are brushed with a palette of infinite color in Respighi’s glittering tone poems. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Jader Bignamini|,|bio|:|Jader Bignamini is Resident Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica la Verdi, following his appointment as Assistant Conductor in 2010 by Riccardo Chailly.\nHighlights of the 18\u201319 season include debuts at the Vienna State Opera and Dutch National Opera conducting Madama Butterfly and a debut with the Milwaukee Symphony; return engagements with Oper Frankfurt conducting La forza del destino and Santa Fe Opera conducting La Boh\u00e8me; La Traviata in Tokyo directed by Sofia Coppola; and return engagements with the Slovenian and Freiburg Philharmonic Orchestras. He continues to tour extensively with soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Yusif Eyvazov.\nBignamini’s 17\u201318 season included his Metropolitan Opera debut conducting Madama Butterfly, \u00d3pera de Tenerife conducting Don Carlo, and the San Diego Symphony, as well as a return engagement with Teatro Massimo. He made his debut stepping in for Leonard Slatkin with the Detroit Symphony that resulted in an immediate reinvitation.\nRecent engagements include Manon Lescaut at the Bolshoi, Turandot at the Teatro Filarmonica, Il Trovatore at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera, the opening concert of the Orchestra Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna conducting Carmina Burana; La Boh\u00e8me at the Municipal de S\u00e3o Paulo and La Fenice; L’Elisir d’Amore in Ancona; Tosca at the Comunale di Bologna; La Forza del Destino at the Verdi Festival in Parma; La Boh\u00e8me, Cavalleria Rusticana, and L’Amor Brujo at Teatro Filarmonico di Verona; Aida at Rome’s Teatro dell’Opera; Madama Butterfly at La Fenice; engagements with Maggio Musicale in Florence, the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca, and the MITO Festival conducting Berlioz’ Messe Solennelle. In 2013, Bignamini assisted Riccardo Chailly on concerts of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony in Milan. He made his concert debut at La Scala in 2015.\nBignamini was born in Crema and studied at the Piacenza Music Conservatory.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Augustin Hadelich|,|bio|:|Augustin Hadelich has firmly established himself as one of the great violinists of today. Showcasing a wide-ranging and adventurous repertoire, he is consistently cited for his phenomenal technique, soulful approach, and beauty of tone. He has performed with every major orchestra in the U.S., as well as an ever-growing number of orchestras around the world, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Danish National Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, NHK Symphony (Tokyo), Norwegian Radio Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, and the radio orchestras of Frankfurt, Saarbr\u00fccken, Stuttgart and Cologne.\nMr. Hadelich is the winner of a 2016 Grammy Award for his recording of Dutilleux\u2019s Violin Concerto with the Seattle Symphony and Ludovic Morlot. Other releases include Paganini\u2019s 24 Caprices for Warner Classics, Tchaikovsky and Lalo Concertos with the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO Live), Sibelius and Ad\u00e8s Concertos with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Hannu Lintu (AVIE), which was nominated for a Gramophone Award, and Mendelssohn and Bart\u00f3k Concertos with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Miguel Harth-Bedoya (AVIE).\nAugustin Hadelich\u2019s career took off when he won the Gold Medal at the 2006 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. Since then, he has garnered an impressive list of honors, including a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship in the UK (2011), the inaugural Warner Music Prize (2015) and Musical America\u2019s \u201c2018 Instrumentalist of the Year.\u201d\nMr. Hadelich plays the 1723 \u201cEx-Kiesewetter\u201d Stradivari violin, on loan from Clement and Karen Arrison through the Stradivari Society of Chicago.\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} ROSSINI Overture to William Tell PAGANINI Violin Concerto No. 1 RESPIGHI Fountains of Rome RESPIGHI Pines of Rome

data-filter="[2020 01|2020 01|2020 01|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][January|January|January|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" “I have put my whole soul into this work…” –Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky’s ardent, deeply felt final Symphony awakens us to a universe of emotion, from wild euphoria to desolate caverns of despair. Get ready for a visceral, edge-of-your-seat experience when the Houston Symphony performs this unforgettable masterwork, known for its haunting conclusion that fades to black. Pristine, ethereal beauty meets frenetic energy in Shostakovich’s razor-sharp concerto, featuring unparalleled superstar Vadim Gluzman. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|John Storg\u00e5rds|,|bio|:|\u201cThe [New York] Philharmonic sounded sensational.\u201d New York Times\nChief Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of Canada\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa and Artistic Partner of the M\u00fcnchener Kammerorchester, John Storg\u00e5rds has a dual career as a conductor and violin virtuoso and is widely recognised for his creative flair for programming. He additionally holds the title of Artistic Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland.\nStorg\u00e5rds appears with such orchestras as WDR Sinfonieorchester K\u00f6ln, Bamberger Symphoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as all the major Nordic orchestras including Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra where he was Chief Conductor 2008-2015. Further afield, he appears with the Sydney, Melbourne and NHK Symphonies as well as the Boston, St Louis, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Soloists with whom he collaborates include Yefim Bronfman, Sol Gabetta, H\u00e5kan Hardenberger, Kari Kriikku, Gil Shaham, Baiba Skride, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Frank Peter Zimmermann.\nStorg\u00e5rds\u2019s vast repertoire includes all symphonies by Sibelius, Nielsen, Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. He gave a historical cycle of all 54 symphonies by Mozart (including the unnumbered works) and conducted Finnish premieres of Schumann\u2019s only opera \u2018Genoveva\u2019, his early \u2018Zwickau\u2019 symphony, plus world premieres of Sibelius\u2019 Suite op. 117 for violin and strings and the Late Fragments. As a violinist, Storg\u00e5rds gave the Finnish premiere of Schumann\u2019s own violin version of the cello concerto and his Violin Sonata No 3. Storg\u00e5rds regularly performs world premieres of works by contemporary composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Brett Dean, Per N\u00f8rg\u00e5rd and P\u0113teris Vasks. Many of these composers have dedicated their works to him. In opera he conducted the Finnish premiere of Haydn\u2019s Orlando Paladino at the Finnish National Opera, a production which remains one of the most successful in Finland. He conducted major titles by Strauss, Verdi and most Mozart operas. Recently he led a new production by Paul-Emile Fourny of Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.\nHighlights of his 2017\/18 season include Storg\u00e5rds\u2019 return to the BBC Proms with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. He will give debut appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at Vienna\u2019s prestigious Musikverein and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall. Following their recent touring success, Storg\u00e5rds is taking the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland on tour to Ottawa. In opera Storg\u00e5rds will give the world premiere of Sebastian Fagerlund\u2019s new opera H\u00f6stsonaten \u2013 Autumn Sonata at the Finnish National Opera with Anne Sofie von Otter in the leading role of Charlotte.\nStorg\u00e5rds\u2019 award winning discography includes recordings of works by Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn but also rarities by Holmboe and Vasks\u2019 featuring him as soloist. Two cycles of symphonies by Sibelius (2014) and Nielsen (2015) with the BBC Philharmonic were released to critical acclaim by Chandos. Their latest recording, released earlier this year, includes works by American avant-garde composer George Antheil. Other successes include discs of works by N\u00f8rg\u00e5rd, Korngold and Rautavaara, the latter receiving a Grammy nomination and a Gramophone Award in 2012. Storg\u00e5rds\u2019s recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland of concertos for theremin and horn by Kalevi Aho received the distinguished ECHO Klassik award in 2015.\nStorg\u00e5rds studied violin with Chaim Taub and subsequently became concert master of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, before studying conducting with Jorma Panula and Eri Klas. He received the Finnish State Prize for Music in 2002 and the Pro Finlandia Prize 2012.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Vadim Gluzman|,|bio|:|Universally recognized among today\u2019s top performing artists, Vadim Gluzman brings to life the glorious violinistic tradition of the 19th and 20th centuries. Gluzman\u2019s wide repertoire embraces new music and his performances are heard around the world through live broadcasts and a striking catalogue of award-winning recordings exclusively for the BIS label.\nThe Israeli violinist has appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Orchestre de Paris, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Israel Philharmonic, London Symphony Royal Concertgebouw and many others. He collaborates with leading conductors including Riccardo Chailly, Christoph von Dohn\u00e1nyi, Tugan Sokhiev, Sir Andrew Davis, Neeme J\u00e4rvi, Michael Tilson Thomas, Semyon Bychkov and Hannu Lintu. Festival appearances include performances at Ravinia, Tanglewood, Verbier, and the North Shore Chamber Music Festival in Chicago, founded by Gluzman and pianist Angela Yoffe, his wife and recital partner.\nHighlights of the current season include performances with the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Sydney and Melbourne Symphonies, Tokyo\u2019s NHK Symphony Orchestra, and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Ohio, where he leads performances as its Creative Partner and Principal Guest Artist. He celebrates the 100th anniversary of the birth of violinist Henryk Szeryng with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie, Hamburg NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony and the Warsaw Philharmonic.\nGluzman serves as Distinguished Artist in Residence at the Peabody Conservatory and performs on the legendary 1690 \u2018ex-Leopold Auer\u2019 Stradivari, on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago.\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} OUTI TARKIAINEN Midnight Sun Variations (N. American premiere) SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 2 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

data-filter="[2020 01|][live-oak-friends-meeting-skyspace|][January|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" The second performance of our four-concert Chamber Music Series with leader John Storgårds, also on violin, and a small ensemble of Houston Symphony musicians. Participating Houston Symphony Musicians GREEN Chromatic Fox Trot | BREUER Back Talk | GENE KOSHINSKI As One: Mark Griffith, percussion; Leonardo Soto, percussion JANÁČEK Mládí for Wind Sextet: Anne Leek, oboe; Judy Dines, flute; Chris Schubert, clarinet; Alexander Potiomkin, bass clarinet; Isaac Schultz, bassoon; Ian Mayton, horn. POULENC Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone: John Parker, trumpet; Jesse Clevenger, horn; Bradley White, trombone. MENDELSSOHN String Octet (with John Storgårds): Yoonshin Song, violin; Eric Halen, violin; Boson Mo, violin; Joan DerHovsepian, viola; Dan Strba, viola; Anthony Kitai, viola; Charles Seo, cello. LOCATION:Live Oak Friends Meeting Skyspace, 1318 W. 26th St, Houston, Texas 77008 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|John Storg\u00e5rds|,|bio|:|\u201cThe [New York] Philharmonic sounded sensational.\u201d New York Times\nChief Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of Canada\u2019s National Arts Centre Orchestra Ottawa and Artistic Partner of the M\u00fcnchener Kammerorchester, John Storg\u00e5rds has a dual career as a conductor and violin virtuoso and is widely recognised for his creative flair for programming. He additionally holds the title of Artistic Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland.\nStorg\u00e5rds appears with such orchestras as WDR Sinfonieorchester K\u00f6ln, Bamberger Symphoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, BBC Symphony Orchestra as well as all the major Nordic orchestras including Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra where he was Chief Conductor 2008-2015. Further afield, he appears with the Sydney, Melbourne and NHK Symphonies as well as the Boston, St Louis, Toronto and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras, the Cleveland Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. Soloists with whom he collaborates include Yefim Bronfman, Sol Gabetta, H\u00e5kan Hardenberger, Kari Kriikku, Gil Shaham, Baiba Skride, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Frank Peter Zimmermann.\nStorg\u00e5rds\u2019s vast repertoire includes all symphonies by Sibelius, Nielsen, Bruckner, Brahms, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann. He gave a historical cycle of all 54 symphonies by Mozart (including the unnumbered works) and conducted Finnish premieres of Schumann\u2019s only opera \u2018Genoveva\u2019, his early \u2018Zwickau\u2019 symphony, plus world premieres of Sibelius\u2019 Suite op. 117 for violin and strings and the Late Fragments. As a violinist, Storg\u00e5rds gave the Finnish premiere of Schumann\u2019s own violin version of the cello concerto and his Violin Sonata No 3. Storg\u00e5rds regularly performs world premieres of works by contemporary composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Brett Dean, Per N\u00f8rg\u00e5rd and P\u0113teris Vasks. Many of these composers have dedicated their works to him. In opera he conducted the Finnish premiere of Haydn\u2019s Orlando Paladino at the Finnish National Opera, a production which remains one of the most successful in Finland. He conducted major titles by Strauss, Verdi and most Mozart operas. Recently he led a new production by Paul-Emile Fourny of Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni at the Savonlinna Opera Festival.\nHighlights of his 2017\/18 season include Storg\u00e5rds\u2019 return to the BBC Proms with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. He will give debut appearances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at Vienna\u2019s prestigious Musikverein and with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at Royal Festival Hall. Following their recent touring success, Storg\u00e5rds is taking the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland on tour to Ottawa. In opera Storg\u00e5rds will give the world premiere of Sebastian Fagerlund\u2019s new opera H\u00f6stsonaten \u2013 Autumn Sonata at the Finnish National Opera with Anne Sofie von Otter in the leading role of Charlotte.\nStorg\u00e5rds\u2019 award winning discography includes recordings of works by Schumann, Mozart, Beethoven and Haydn but also rarities by Holmboe and Vasks\u2019 featuring him as soloist. Two cycles of symphonies by Sibelius (2014) and Nielsen (2015) with the BBC Philharmonic were released to critical acclaim by Chandos. Their latest recording, released earlier this year, includes works by American avant-garde composer George Antheil. Other successes include discs of works by N\u00f8rg\u00e5rd, Korngold and Rautavaara, the latter receiving a Grammy nomination and a Gramophone Award in 2012. Storg\u00e5rds\u2019s recording with the Chamber Orchestra of Lapland of concertos for theremin and horn by Kalevi Aho received the distinguished ECHO Klassik award in 2015.\nStorg\u00e5rds studied violin with Chaim Taub and subsequently became concert master of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, before studying conducting with Jorma Panula and Eri Klas. He received the Finnish State Prize for Music in 2002 and the Pro Finlandia Prize 2012.\n|,|title|:|violin and leader|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Yoonshin Song|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/yoonshin-song\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Eric Halen|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Co-Concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/eric-halen\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Boson Mo|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Contracted Substitute|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/boson-mo\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Joan DerHovsepian|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/joan-derhovsepian\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Daniel Strba|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/daniel-strba\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Anthony Kitai|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/anthony-kitai\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Chanyoung (Charles) Seo|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/chanyoung-seo\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Judy Dines|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/judith-dines\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Anne Leek|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/anne-leek\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Christian Schubert|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/christian-schubert\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Alexander Potiomkin|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Bass Clarinet and Clarinet|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/alexander-potiomkin\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Isaac Schultz|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal, Contracted Substitute|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/isaac-schultz\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Jesse Clevenger|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Assistant Principal, Contracted Substitute|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/jesse-clevenger\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Ian Mayton|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/ian-mayton\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|John Parker|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/john-parker\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Bradley White|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/bradley-white\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Leonardo Soto|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal |,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/leonardo-soto\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Mark Griffith|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/mark-griffith\/|}],|without|:[]} GREEN Chromatic Fox Trot BREUER Back Talk GENE KOSHINSKI As One JANÁČEK Mládí for Wind Sextet POULENC Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone MENDELSSOHN String Octet

data-filter="[2020 01|2020 02|2020 02|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][January|February|February|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" It captivated listeners so completely when first premiered that an immediate, mid-symphony encore was demanded. More than 200 years later, from Hollywood to the concert hall, the bewitching “Allegretto” from Beethoven’s Seventh speaks to the heart just as intently—a vast, brooding midnight amidst a Symphony of sunny exuberance and surging high spirits. Kirill Gerstein kindles enough piano pyrotechnics to light up all of Texas with Liszt’s fiendish, explosive Totentanz (“Dance of Death”). Pre-Concert Activities: Chamber Music Prelude Your ticket includes a special chamber music performance by Houston Symphony musicians on the Jones Hall stage starting 45 minutes before the concert. Hear Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 9, IV. Allegro molto performed by Rodica Gonzalez, violin, Mihaela Frusina, violin, Wei Jiang, viola, and Jeff Butler, cello. The first people to arrive will be given the opportunity to sit onstage for the prelude performance. Those interested should line up outside the Jones Hall main entrance on the Louisiana Patio near the first door on the right before doors open, 1 hour before the concert begins. All others may watch the chamber music performance from the front orchestra seating of Jones Hall. The chamber music replaces the regularly scheduled Prelude discussion. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Dima Slobodeniouk|,|bio|:|\u201cSlobodeniouk\u2019s calm, clean direction helped hold the sprawling symphony tightly\u00a0together, ensuring that even the softest, slowest-moving passages had a compelling\u00a0edge.\u201d Baltimore Sun\nLauded for his deeply informed and intelligent artistic leadership, Dima Slobodeniouk has held the position of Music Director of the Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica de Galicia since 2013, which he combines with his more recent positions as Principal Conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Sibelius Festival following his appointment in 2016. Linking his native Russian roots with the cultural influence of his later homeland Finland, he draws on the powerful musical heritage of these two countries. He works with orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, London Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, Chicago, Houston and Baltimore as well as Sydney Symphony Orchestras.\nSummer 2018 sees Slobodeniouk give his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Joshua Bell at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Further highlights are his debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, Rotterdam Philharmonic, ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Musikverein, Bayerisches Staatsorchester Munich, Minnesota, Seattle and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestras, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra as well as West Australian Symphony Orchestra. He returns to WDR Sinfonieorchester Cologne with Yefim Bronfman, Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Dresdner Philharmonie, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic and New Zealand Symphony Orchestras. In Lahti, Slobodeniouk opens the 2018\/19 season with Joseph Canteloupe\u2019s Chants Auvergene and Beethoven\u2019s Eroica Symphony, before he takes the orchestra on tour to China including Shanghai Arts Festival. In Galicia he launches the new season with Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Shostakovich Symphony No 11. Other soloists he works with include Nicolas Altstaedt, Leif Ove Andsnes, Khatia Buniatishvili, Vilde Frang, Vadim Gluzman, Johannes Moser, Baiba Skride, Simon Trp\u010deski, Yuja Wang and Frank Peter Zimmermann.\nSlobodeniouk\u2019s discography was recently extended by recordings of works by Stravinsky with Ilya Gringolts and Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica de Galicia (BIS) and works by Aho with Lahti Symphony Orchestra (BIS), the latter received the BBC Music Magazine award 2018. He has previously recorded works by Lotta Wenn\u00e4koski with Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra (Ondine) and works by Sebastian Fagerlund with Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (BIS).\nMoscow-born Dima Slobodeniouk studied violin at Moscow Central Music School under Zinaida Gilels and J. Chugajev, the Middle Finland Conservatory as well as the Sibelius Academy under Olga Parhomenko. He continued his Sibelius Academy studies with Atso Almila also under the guidance of Leif Segerstam and Jorma Panula, and has also studied under Ilya Musin and Esa-Pekka Salonen. Striving to inspire young musicians of the future, Slobodeniouk has worked with students at the Verbier Festival Academy over recent years and furthermore began a conducting initiative with the Orquesta Sinf\u00f3nica de Galicia, providing an opportunity for students to work on the podium with a professional orchestra.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Kirill Gerstein|,|bio|:|Kirill Gerstein\u2019s natural versatility and curiosity has led him to explore a wide range of repertoire and styles. From Bach to Ad\u00e8s, his playing is distinguished by a discerning intelligence, great virtuosity and a clarity of expression which he combines with an energetic and imaginative musical presence. He has been described as \u201cgloriously free and unfazed by technical difficulties, he made the piano sing\u2026 The concerto that we\u2019ve heard so many times before gained new life.\u201d (Leipziger Volkszeitung)\nIn the 2018\/19 season Gerstein will give the world premiere performance of Thomas Ad\u00e8s\u2019 new Piano Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, with performances in Boston and in Carnegie Hall, New York. Gerstein and Ad\u00e8s will also give the European premiere with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. They will also collaborate for performances of In Seven Days in London with the London Philharmonic and in Los Angeles with the LA Philharmonic, and in recitals in New York and Boston.\nElsewhere in this season, Gerstein appears with the Czech Philharmonic and Semyon Bychkov, and will return to the London Symphony Orchestra under Sir Mark Elder. He will perform in China with the Shanghai and Guangzhou Symphony Orchestras, with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, Dresden Staatskapelle, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Helsinki Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, and the Orquestra Sinf\u00f4nica de S\u00e3o Paolo. He plays recitals in London, Stuttgart, Lisbon, Singapore, Melbourne and Copenhagen, as well as chamber performances with the Hagen Quartet, Veronika Eberle and Clemens Hagen in Lucerne, and with actor Bruno Ganz for recitals in Germany and Austria.\nIn Autumn 2018 Gerstein\u2019s recording of Scriabin\u2019s Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, with the Oslo Philharmonic and Vasily Petrenko will be reeleased on LAWO Classic\u2019s. Future recording releases this season include Busoni\u2019s Piano Concerto on myrios classics in spring 2019 and Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concerto Nos. 1-3 in summer 2019, part of Semyon Bychkov\u2019s Tchaikovsky Project recorded for Decca with the Czech Philharmonic. Recent recordings for myrios classics include The Gershwin Moment, released earlier this year; Liszt\u2019s Transcendental \u00c9tudes, picked by The New Yorker as one of 2016\u2019s notable recordings; and Tchaikovsky\u2019s First Piano Concerto in the composer\u2019s own final version from 1879. He also released Imaginary Pictures which couples Mussorgsky\u2019s Pictures at an Exhibition with Schumann\u2019s Carnaval, two discs with Tabea Zimmerman of sonatas for viola and piano by Brahms, Schubert, Franck, Clarke and Vieuxtemps, and a recital disc of works by Schumann, Liszt and Knussen.\nKirill Gerstein was brought up in the former Soviet Union studying both classical and jazz piano, and at the age of 14 years he moved to the US where he was the youngest student to attend Boston\u2019s Berklee College of Music. He subsequently shifted his focus to the classical repertoire and studied with Solomon Mikowsky in New York, Dmitri Bashkirov in Madrid and Ferenc Rados in Budapest. Gerstein won the first of a series of prestigious accolades in 2001: First Prize at the 10th Arthur Rubinstein Competition. In 2002, he won a Gilmore Young Artist Award, and in 2010 both an Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Gilmore Artist Award, which provided the funds for him to commission new works from Timothy Andres, Chick Corea, Alexander Goehr, Oliver Knussen and Brad Mehldau.\nA committed teacher and pedagogue, Gerstein taught at the Stuttgart Musik Hochschule from 2007-2017 and from autumn 2018, will teach as part of Kronberg Academy\u2019s newly announced Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff Performance Programme for Young Artists.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} LISZT Piano Concerto No. 1 LISZT Totentanz JÖRG WIDMANN Con brio BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7

data-filter="[2020 02|2020 02|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|February|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Robert Schumann’s music speaks to us in a timeless, universal language. His romance with virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck is a love story for the ages, while his ongoing battle with depression, and eventual descent into insanity, makes his noble, life-affirming creations all the more remarkable. Join us for a deep dive into the trials and the triumphs, the love and the madness, the man and the music. Catch all of the Schumann Festival performances! Enjoy Intimate Songs & Grand Choruses on February 13 and guest artist Alisa Weilerstein, cello, on February 15 & 16. Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Benjamin Grosvenor|,|bio|:|British pianist Benjamin Grosvenor is internationally recognised for his electrifying performances, distinctive sound and insightful interpretations. His virtuosic command over the most arduous technical complexities underpins the remarkable depth and understanding of his music making. Described as \u201cone in a million…several million\u201d by The Independent, he has also been lauded as \u201ca keyboard visionary\u201d by the S\u00fcddeutsche Zeitung.\nBenjamin first came to prominence as the outstanding winner of the Keyboard Final of the 2004 BBC Young Musician Competition at the age of eleven, and he was invited to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the First Night of the 2011 BBC Proms aged just nineteen. A pianist of widespread international acclaim, he was announced as the inaugural recipient of The Ronnie and Lawrence Ackman Classical Piano Prize with the New York Philharmonic in 2016.\nRecent and forthcoming concerto highlights include engagements with the Boston and Chicago Symphony Orchestras, The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, G\u00fcrzenich-Orchestra Cologne, Hall\u00e9 Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orquesta Nacional de Espa\u00f1a, Filarmonica della Scala, London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the London, Melbourne, San Francisco, and Washington National Symphony Orchestras. Benjamin works with such esteemed conductors as Vladimir Ashkenazy, Andrey Boreyko, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Alan Gilbert, Manfred Honeck, Vladimir Jurowski, Emmanuel Krivine, Andrew Manze, Ludovic Morlot, Kent Nagano, Sir Roger Norrington, Gianandrea Noseda, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Nathalie Stutzmann, Michael Tilson Thomas, Krzysztof Urba\u0144ski, and with Kazuki Yamada.\nAmong Benjamin\u2019s major recital dates in the 2018\/19 season are London\u2019s Barbican Hall, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs Elys\u00e9es Paris, Madrid\u2019s Ciclo Grandes Int\u00e9rpretes, San Francisco Performances, Sydney Symphony Orchestra\u2019s recital series, Munich\u2019s Herkulessaal, Milan\u2019s Societ\u00e1 dei Concerti and Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana Barcelona. Also a keen chamber musician, he joins Tabea Zimmermann and others for a performance of Schubert\u2019s Trout Quintet at Bonn\u2019s Beethovenwoche 2019, and together with the Doric String Quartet performs piano quintets by Faur\u00e9 and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k as well as chamber settings of Chopin\u2019s Piano Concertos as part of his concert series at London\u2019s Barbican in 2019.\nIn 2011 Benjamin signed to Decca Classics, becoming the youngest British musician ever, and the first British pianist in almost 60 years, to sign to the label. Benjamin\u2019s fourth CD on the label, Homages (2016), explores a number of works in which great composers pay tribute to their predecessors, including Busoni\u2019s transcription of Bach\u2019s great solo violin Chaconne, Franck\u2019s Choral, Prelude and Fugue and Liszt\u2019s tribute to Italian folk song, Venezia e Napoli. Named Instrumental Recording of the Month in BBC Music Magazine, the disc was also awarded a Diapason d’Or, with Diapason’s critic declaring that \u201chis pianistic ingenuity, his lyrical voice and aristocratic distinction remind one of the young Josef Hofmann or Ignaz Friedman. The whole recital is charged with Romantic \u00e9lan.\u201d\nDuring his sensational career to date, Benjamin has received Gramophone\u2019s Young Artist of the Year and Instrumental Awards, a Classic Brits Critics\u2019 Award, UK Critics\u2019 Circle Award for Exceptional Young Talent and a Diapason d\u2019Or Jeune Talent Award. He has been featured in two BBC television documentaries, BBC Breakfast and The Andrew Marr Show, as well as in CNN\u2019s Human to Hero series.\nThe youngest of five brothers, Benjamin began playing the piano aged 6. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Christopher Elton and Daniel-Ben Pienaar, where he graduated in 2012 with the \u2018Queen\u2019s Commendation for Excellence\u2019 and in 2016 was awarded a Fellowship. Benjamin has been supported since 2013 by EFG International, the widely respected global private banking group.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} SAT., FEB. 8 SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2 SUN., FEB. 9 SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 SCHUMANN Piano Concerto SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4

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data-filter="[2020 02|][zilkha-hall-at-hobby-center|][February|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" The third performance of our Chamber Music Series, part of the Houston Symphony’s two-week Schumann Festival, takes place at Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center on Valentine’s Day. The program features a small ensemble of Houston Symphony musicians and Alisa Weilerstein (cello) in Schumann’s most romantic works. Participating Houston Symphony Musicians R. SCHUMANN Three Romances for Oboe and Piano: Jonathan Fischer, oboe; Scott Holshouser, piano. C. SCHUMANN Three Romances for Violin and Piano: Sophia Silivos, violin; Scott Holshouser, piano. R. SCHUMANN Piano Quartet (with Alisa Weilerstein): Yoonshin Song, violin; Joan DerHovsepian, viola; Scott Holshouser, piano. LOCATION: Zilkha Hall, 800 Bagby St. #300, Houston, TX 77002 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Alisa Weilerstein|,|bio|:|“A young cellist whose emotionally resonant performances of both traditional and contemporary music have earned her international recognition, … Weilerstein is a consummate performer, combining technical precision with impassioned musicianship.” So stated the MacArthur Foundation when awarding Alisa Weilerstein a 2011 MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship, prompting the New York Times to respond: “Any fellowship that recognizes the vibrancy of an idealistic musician like Ms. Weilerstein … deserves a salute from everyone in classical music.” In performances marked by intensity, sensitivity, and a wholehearted immersion in each of the works she interprets, the American cellist has long proven herself to be in possession of a distinctive musical voice.\nIn the 2017-18 season Weilerstein gives two performances of Schumann’s Cello Concerto, with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck and the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Christoph Eschenbach; two performances of the Barber Concerto, with the Chicago Symphony led by Jir\u00ed Belohl\u00e1vek and the Cleveland Orchestra under Alan Gilbert; and a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with conductor Jeffrey Kahane leading the New York Philharmonic. She also plays a series of duo recitals on tour with her regular recital partner, Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan, beginning at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center and Carnegie Hall. Repertoire includes Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata No. 2, the sole cello sonatas of Rachmaninoff and Britten, and a new work by Grammy-winning guitarist and composer Steven Mackey, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, where Weilerstein and Barnatan give its UK premiere in November. Other concerto appearances include Shostakovich with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester and James Conlon; Prokofiev with the Dallas Symphony under Jaap van Zweden; tours of the UK with the Czech Philharmonic and Belohl\u00e1vek playing Shostakovich and Dvor\u00e1k; and performances of Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony under the baton of Krzysztof Urban\u00b4ski.\nThe 2016-17 season saw Weilerstein release her new album of Shostakovich’s two cello concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony under Pablo Heras-Casado. In a career first, she gave performances of Bach’s complete suites for unaccompanied cello; toured nine U.S. cities, capped by a Lincoln Center performance at Alice Tully Hall, with Barnatan and New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill; and toured Europe with Barnatan, culminating with a return to London’s Wigmore Hall. In concerts around the globe she performed Britten’s Cello Symphony with the New World Symphony; Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic, and the National Symphony in both Washington, DC and Moscow; Prokofiev’s Sinfonia concertante with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony; Schumann with the San Francisco Symphony and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the latter at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Italy and Spain; Elgar with the Staatskapelle Weimar; Walton with Amsterdam’s Residentie Orkest; and Dvor\u00e1k with the Minnesota Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, and the Tokyo Symphony on a three-stop tour of Japan, where she also played four solo recitals. The cellist also performed Henri Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain… with Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, and gave the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Cello Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which co-commissioned the piece for her.\nIn recent years, Weilerstein recorded the Elgar and Elliott Carter cello concertos with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin. The disc was named “Recording of the Year 2013” by BBC Music, which featured the cellist on the cover of its May 2014 issue. Her next release, on which – as in concerts this season – she plays Dvor\u00e1k’s Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic, topped the U.S. classical chart. Her third album, a compilation of unaccompanied 20th-century cello music titled Solo, was pronounced an “uncompromising and pertinent portrait of the cello repertoire of our time” (ResMusica, France). Solo’s centerpiece is the Kod\u00e1ly sonata, a signature work that Weilerstein revisits on the soundtrack of If I Stay, a 2014 feature film starring Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz in which the cellist makes a cameo appearance as herself. In 2015 she released a recording of sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninoff, marking her duo album debut with Inon Barnatan, which earned praise from Voix des Arts as “a ravishing recording of fantastic music.\nWeilerstein has appeared with all the foremost orchestras of the United States and Europe, collaborating with conductors including Marin Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Mark Elder, Giancarlo Guerrero, Bernard Haitink, Marek Janowski, Neeme J\u00e4rvi, Paavo J\u00e4rvi, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Macelaru, Zubin Mehta, Ludovic Morlot, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Peter Oundjian, Matthias Pintscher, Donald Runnicles, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Osmo V\u00e4nsk\u00e4, Simone Young and David Zinman. Her major career milestones include an emotionally tumultuous account of Elgar’s concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim in Oxford, England, for the orchestra’s 2010 European Concert, which was televised live to an audience of millions worldwide and subsequently released on DVD by EuroArts. She and Barenboim reunited in 2012-13 to play Elliott Carter’s concerto on a German tour with the Berlin Staatskapelle. In 2009, she was one of four artists invited by Michelle Obama to participate in a widely celebrated and high profile classical music event at the White House, featuring student workshops hosted by the First Lady, and performances in front of an audience that included President Obama and the First Family. A month later, Weilerstein toured Venezuela as soloist with the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel. She has since made numerous return visits to teach and perform with the orchestra as part of its famed El Sistema music education program. Other highlights of recent seasons include her debut at the BBC Proms in 2010, and with England’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, which she joined in 2013 for a 16-city U.S. tour.\nCommitted to expanding the cello repertoire, Weilerstein is an ardent champion of new music. Two seasons ago she gave the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Outscape, which she performed with the co-commissioning Chicago Symphony before giving its first European performances with the Stuttgart and Paris Opera Orchestras; this past season she premiered Matthias Pintscher’s Cello Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She gave the New York premiere of Pintscher’s Reflections on Narcissus under the composer’s own direction during the New York Philharmonic’s inaugural 2014 Biennial, and subsequently the two also performed the work at the BBC Proms. She has worked extensively with Osvaldo Golijov, who rewrote Azul for cello and orchestra (originally premiered by Yo-Yo Ma) for her New York premiere performance at the opening of the 2007 Mostly Mozart Festival. Weilerstein has since played the work with orchestras around the world, besides frequently programming the Argentinean composer’s Omaramor for solo cello. At the 2008 Caramoor festival, she gave the world premiere of Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violoncello and Piano with the composer at the keyboard, and the two have subsequently reprised the work at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Kennedy Center, and for San Francisco Performances. Joseph Hallman, a 2014 Grammy Award nominee, has also written multiple works for Weilerstein, including a cello concerto that she premiered with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 2008, and a trio that she premiered on tour with Inon Barnatan and clarinetist Anthony McGill last season.\nWeilerstein has appeared at major music festivals throughout the world, including Aspen, Bad Kissingen, Delft, Edinburgh, Jerusalem Chamber Music, La Jolla SummerFest, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Tanglewood, and Verbier. In addition to her appearances as a soloist and recitalist, Weilerstein performs regularly as a chamber musician. She has been part of a core group of musicians at the Spoleto Festival USA for the past eight years and also performs with her parents, Donald and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, as the Weilerstein Trio, the trio-in-residence at Boston’s New England Conservatory.\nThe cellist is the winner of both Lincoln Center’s 2008 Martin E. Segal prize for exceptional achievement and the 2006 Leonard Bernstein Award. She received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2000 and was selected for two prestigious young artist programs in the 2000-01 season: the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) “Rising Stars” recital series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two.\nBorn in 1982, Weilerstein discovered her love for the cello at just two and a half, when her grandmother assembled a makeshift set of instruments from cereal boxes to entertain her while she was ill with chicken pox. Although immediately drawn to the Rice Krispies box cello, Weilerstein soon grew frustrated that it didn’t produce any sound. After persuading her parents to buy her a real cello at the age of four, she developed her natural affinity for the instrument and gave her first public performance six months later. At 13, in October 1995, she played Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo” Variations for her Cleveland Orchestra debut, and in March 1997 she made her first Carnegie Hall appearance with the New York Youth Symphony. A graduate of the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard Weiss, the cellist also holds a degree in history from Columbia University, from which she graduated in May 2004. In November 2008, Weilerstein, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was nine, became a Celebrity Advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.\n|,|title|:|cello|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Yoonshin Song|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/yoonshin-song\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Sophia Silivos|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/sophia-silivos\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Joan DerHovsepian|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/joan-derhovsepian\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Jonathan Fischer|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/jonathan-fischer\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Scott Holshouser|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/scott-holshouser\/|}],|without|:[]} R. SCHUMANN Three Romances for Oboe and Piano C. SCHUMANN Three Romances for Violin and Piano R. SCHUMANN Piano Quartet

data-filter="[2020 02|2020 02|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|February|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Robert Schumann’s music speaks to us in a timeless, universal language. His romance with virtuoso pianist Clara Wieck is a love story for the ages, while his ongoing battle with depression, and eventual descent into insanity, makes his noble, life-affirming creations all the more remarkable. Join us for a deep dive into the trials and the triumphs, the love and the madness, the man and the music. Catch all of the Schumann Festival performances! Enjoy guest artist Benjamin Grosvenor, piano, on February 8 & 9 and Intimate Songs & Grand Choruses on February 13. Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Alisa Weilerstein|,|bio|:|“A young cellist whose emotionally resonant performances of both traditional and contemporary music have earned her international recognition, … Weilerstein is a consummate performer, combining technical precision with impassioned musicianship.” So stated the MacArthur Foundation when awarding Alisa Weilerstein a 2011 MacArthur “genius grant” Fellowship, prompting the New York Times to respond: “Any fellowship that recognizes the vibrancy of an idealistic musician like Ms. Weilerstein … deserves a salute from everyone in classical music.” In performances marked by intensity, sensitivity, and a wholehearted immersion in each of the works she interprets, the American cellist has long proven herself to be in possession of a distinctive musical voice.\nIn the 2017-18 season Weilerstein gives two performances of Schumann’s Cello Concerto, with the Pittsburgh Symphony under Manfred Honeck and the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Christoph Eschenbach; two performances of the Barber Concerto, with the Chicago Symphony led by Jir\u00ed Belohl\u00e1vek and the Cleveland Orchestra under Alan Gilbert; and a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with conductor Jeffrey Kahane leading the New York Philharmonic. She also plays a series of duo recitals on tour with her regular recital partner, Israeli pianist Inon Barnatan, beginning at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center and Carnegie Hall. Repertoire includes Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata No. 2, the sole cello sonatas of Rachmaninoff and Britten, and a new work by Grammy-winning guitarist and composer Steven Mackey, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall, where Weilerstein and Barnatan give its UK premiere in November. Other concerto appearances include Shostakovich with the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester and James Conlon; Prokofiev with the Dallas Symphony under Jaap van Zweden; tours of the UK with the Czech Philharmonic and Belohl\u00e1vek playing Shostakovich and Dvor\u00e1k; and performances of Lutoslawski’s Cello Concerto with the Indianapolis Symphony under the baton of Krzysztof Urban\u00b4ski.\nThe 2016-17 season saw Weilerstein release her new album of Shostakovich’s two cello concertos with the Bavarian Radio Symphony under Pablo Heras-Casado. In a career first, she gave performances of Bach’s complete suites for unaccompanied cello; toured nine U.S. cities, capped by a Lincoln Center performance at Alice Tully Hall, with Barnatan and New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill; and toured Europe with Barnatan, culminating with a return to London’s Wigmore Hall. In concerts around the globe she performed Britten’s Cello Symphony with the New World Symphony; Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto with the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic, and the National Symphony in both Washington, DC and Moscow; Prokofiev’s Sinfonia concertante with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic and the Dallas Symphony; Schumann with the San Francisco Symphony and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the latter at Carnegie Hall and on tour in Italy and Spain; Elgar with the Staatskapelle Weimar; Walton with Amsterdam’s Residentie Orkest; and Dvor\u00e1k with the Minnesota Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, and the Tokyo Symphony on a three-stop tour of Japan, where she also played four solo recitals. The cellist also performed Henri Dutilleux’s Tout un monde lointain… with Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, and gave the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Cello Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which co-commissioned the piece for her.\nIn recent years, Weilerstein recorded the Elgar and Elliott Carter cello concertos with Daniel Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin. The disc was named “Recording of the Year 2013” by BBC Music, which featured the cellist on the cover of its May 2014 issue. Her next release, on which – as in concerts this season – she plays Dvor\u00e1k’s Cello Concerto with the Czech Philharmonic, topped the U.S. classical chart. Her third album, a compilation of unaccompanied 20th-century cello music titled Solo, was pronounced an “uncompromising and pertinent portrait of the cello repertoire of our time” (ResMusica, France). Solo’s centerpiece is the Kod\u00e1ly sonata, a signature work that Weilerstein revisits on the soundtrack of If I Stay, a 2014 feature film starring Chlo\u00eb Grace Moretz in which the cellist makes a cameo appearance as herself. In 2015 she released a recording of sonatas by Chopin and Rachmaninoff, marking her duo album debut with Inon Barnatan, which earned praise from Voix des Arts as “a ravishing recording of fantastic music.\nWeilerstein has appeared with all the foremost orchestras of the United States and Europe, collaborating with conductors including Marin Alsop, Sir Andrew Davis, Gustavo Dudamel, Sir Mark Elder, Giancarlo Guerrero, Bernard Haitink, Marek Janowski, Neeme J\u00e4rvi, Paavo J\u00e4rvi, Lorin Maazel, Cristian Macelaru, Zubin Mehta, Ludovic Morlot, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Peter Oundjian, Matthias Pintscher, Donald Runnicles, Yuri Temirkanov, Michael Tilson Thomas, Osmo V\u00e4nsk\u00e4, Simone Young and David Zinman. Her major career milestones include an emotionally tumultuous account of Elgar’s concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic and Daniel Barenboim in Oxford, England, for the orchestra’s 2010 European Concert, which was televised live to an audience of millions worldwide and subsequently released on DVD by EuroArts. She and Barenboim reunited in 2012-13 to play Elliott Carter’s concerto on a German tour with the Berlin Staatskapelle. In 2009, she was one of four artists invited by Michelle Obama to participate in a widely celebrated and high profile classical music event at the White House, featuring student workshops hosted by the First Lady, and performances in front of an audience that included President Obama and the First Family. A month later, Weilerstein toured Venezuela as soloist with the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Symphony Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel. She has since made numerous return visits to teach and perform with the orchestra as part of its famed El Sistema music education program. Other highlights of recent seasons include her debut at the BBC Proms in 2010, and with England’s Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, which she joined in 2013 for a 16-city U.S. tour.\nCommitted to expanding the cello repertoire, Weilerstein is an ardent champion of new music. Two seasons ago she gave the world premiere of Pascal Dusapin’s Outscape, which she performed with the co-commissioning Chicago Symphony before giving its first European performances with the Stuttgart and Paris Opera Orchestras; this past season she premiered Matthias Pintscher’s Cello Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. She gave the New York premiere of Pintscher’s Reflections on Narcissus under the composer’s own direction during the New York Philharmonic’s inaugural 2014 Biennial, and subsequently the two also performed the work at the BBC Proms. She has worked extensively with Osvaldo Golijov, who rewrote Azul for cello and orchestra (originally premiered by Yo-Yo Ma) for her New York premiere performance at the opening of the 2007 Mostly Mozart Festival. Weilerstein has since played the work with orchestras around the world, besides frequently programming the Argentinean composer’s Omaramor for solo cello. At the 2008 Caramoor festival, she gave the world premiere of Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violoncello and Piano with the composer at the keyboard, and the two have subsequently reprised the work at the Schleswig-Holstein Festival, the Kennedy Center, and for San Francisco Performances. Joseph Hallman, a 2014 Grammy Award nominee, has also written multiple works for Weilerstein, including a cello concerto that she premiered with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 2008, and a trio that she premiered on tour with Inon Barnatan and clarinetist Anthony McGill last season.\nWeilerstein has appeared at major music festivals throughout the world, including Aspen, Bad Kissingen, Delft, Edinburgh, Jerusalem Chamber Music, La Jolla SummerFest, Mostly Mozart, Salzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Tanglewood, and Verbier. In addition to her appearances as a soloist and recitalist, Weilerstein performs regularly as a chamber musician. She has been part of a core group of musicians at the Spoleto Festival USA for the past eight years and also performs with her parents, Donald and Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, as the Weilerstein Trio, the trio-in-residence at Boston’s New England Conservatory.\nThe cellist is the winner of both Lincoln Center’s 2008 Martin E. Segal prize for exceptional achievement and the 2006 Leonard Bernstein Award. She received an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2000 and was selected for two prestigious young artist programs in the 2000-01 season: the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organization) “Rising Stars” recital series and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Society Two.\nBorn in 1982, Weilerstein discovered her love for the cello at just two and a half, when her grandmother assembled a makeshift set of instruments from cereal boxes to entertain her while she was ill with chicken pox. Although immediately drawn to the Rice Krispies box cello, Weilerstein soon grew frustrated that it didn’t produce any sound. After persuading her parents to buy her a real cello at the age of four, she developed her natural affinity for the instrument and gave her first public performance six months later. At 13, in October 1995, she played Tchaikovsky’s “Rococo” Variations for her Cleveland Orchestra debut, and in March 1997 she made her first Carnegie Hall appearance with the New York Youth Symphony. A graduate of the Young Artist Program at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where she studied with Richard Weiss, the cellist also holds a degree in history from Columbia University, from which she graduated in May 2004. In November 2008, Weilerstein, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was nine, became a Celebrity Advocate for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.\n|,|title|:|cello|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} SAT., FEB. 15 SCHUMANN Symphony No. 3 SCHUMANN Cello Concerto SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4 SUN., FEB. 16 SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1 SCHUMANN Cello Concerto SCHUMANN Symphony No. 2

data-filter="[2020 02|2020 02|2020 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|February|March|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS Series|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:9,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" His warm, velvety voice is unmistakable. His legacy is Unforgettable. Join the world in celebrating legendary crooner Nat King Cole in his centennial year as Ryan Shaw performs all the songs that made us fall in L-O-V-E with Nat—“When I Fall in Love,” “Mona Lisa,” “Stardust,”  “Straighten Up and Fly Right” and many more. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Ryan Shaw|,|bio|:|Ryan Shaw was born December 25, 1975 in Decatur, Georgia and grew up in a deeply religious Pentecostal family. He began singing in church at the age of five and later formed a family group with four of his brothers called the Shaw Boys. \u201cWe didn\u2019t listen to secular or pop music either in or out of our house,\u201d he explains. \u201cSo my early musical influences are all from the gospel world\u2014singers like Darryl Coley, Keith Brooks, James Moore, and the Pace Sisters.\u201d\nAfter briefly attending Georgia State University, Ryan successfully auditioned for the gospel musical A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Part II). In 1998, he joined the cast of I Know I\u2019ve Been Changed, written and directed by Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman). Ryan came to New York with this production and performed to sold-out crowds at the Beacon Theater.\nAfter the closing of I Know I\u2019ve Been Changed, Ryan joined the resident cast of the Motown Caf\u00e9 on West 57th Street where he performed Detroit soul favorites by the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye. Later he found another steady gig with a group that he says played \u201cjust about anything from the Fifties and Sixties that you could dance to\u2014Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole, Stax and Motown, Dion & the Belmonts, you name it.\u201d\n\u201cWith my church background, a lot of this material was new to me. But when I saw how those songs affected people, I began to understand how their own memories and emotions were invested in the music. Now that was pretty cool.\u00a0 The more Ryan heard of the sounds of the Fifties, Sixties, and Seventies, the more aware he became of the missing ingredients in contemporary music. \u201cI\u2019m into chords, melodies, lyrics, arrangements\u2014I\u2019m into music in all its aspects. It seems like the late Eighties were the last time we really had all these elements in Black music, with artists like Anita Baker and Luther Vandross. By the mid-Nineties, we were down to two chords and a drum loop.\u201d\nIn 2004 Ryan was recruited into the Fabulous Soul Shakers, a vocal group specializing in classic soul and doo-wop. Johnny Gale, the group\u2019s guitarist, is a New York music veteran who\u2019s worked with everyone from Hank Ballard to the Ramones. Deeply im- pressed by Ryan\u2019s talent, Johnny urged his old friend Jimmy Bralower to check him out. As a percussionist and drum programmer, Jimmy was among the city\u2019s most in- demand session players, having worked with superstars like Madonna, Peter Gabriel, and Steve Winwood.\nOne night in 2006, Bralower came down to hear Ryan sing at a small Lower East Side club\n\u2026and was blown away by what he heard. He and Johnny Gale invited Ryan back to Jimmy\u2019s basement studio on Long Island where they quickly cut four of Ryan\u2019s featured numbers with the Soul Shakers including \u201cDo the 45\u201d and \u201cI Found a Love.\u201d\nThe collaboration proved to be heaven-sent. Ryan carefully chose from dozens of suggested songs and shaped his own interpretations as Jimmy and Johnny \u201cpowered up\u201d the original arrangements with muscular bass and drums while adding a guitar riff here or some handclaps there.\nEven as they reinvented such nuggets as Jackie Wilson\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ll Be Satisfied\u201d and Bobby Womack\u2019s \u201cLookin’ For A Love,\u201d the team created new original songs that meshed seamlessly with the old ones. \u201cThe core songwriting values of that period are so strong and so timeless that even many of the non-hit soul records of the Sixties sound like \u2018hits\u2019 today,\u201d says Jimmy. \u201cThose are the values we adhered to in writing and recording songs like \u2018Nobody\u2019 and \u2018We Got Love.\u2019\u201d Their efforts did not go unrewarded. \u201cNobody\u201d was the first single from This Is Ryan Shaw while \u201cWe Got Love\u201d was prominently featured in January 2007 promos for the ABC network television series \u201cBrothers and Sisters.\u201d\nRyan delivers every song with the kind of emotional commitment and vocal panache that have nearly vanished from the mainstream musical landscape.\u00a0 On stage, Ryan brings it all together with a combination of Southern warmth and New York vitality. Using just a small rhythm section and two male backing vocalists, he\u2019s able to effectively reproduce the sound of his album while stretching some tunes into full-on vocal rave-ups. Ryan\u2019s thrilling voice and charismatic presence are all that he needs to get over with an audience. There\u2019s no posturing or mindless booty-shaking, no need for contrived antics: Ryan Shaw is the real deal.\n\u201cThe strength of his own writing shows that Ryan Shaw isn’t just a great singer\u201d Jimmy Bralower declares. \u201cHe\u2019s a real artist, he\u2019s got something to say, and he\u2019s going to be around for a long, long time.\u201d\n|,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2020 02|2020 02|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|February|][[{|term_id|:1035,|name|:|Family Series|,|slug|:|family-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1035,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:|Now in his tenth season, our Associate Conductor Robert Franz is ready to help your family create cherished memories. Buckle up! Our Family Series is taking you on a magical, musical quest on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nAlso, enjoy pre- and post-concert activities, including our Instrument Petting Zoo, young musician performances in the lobby as well as crafts and musical activities. \r\n\r\n|,|parent|:0,|count|:4,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Batter up! Put on your baseball cap and root, root, root for your hometown orchestra – we’re gearing up for Spring Training with this fun program inspired by America’s favorite pastime! A star slugger swings for the fences in a musical narration of the humorous poem Casey at the Bat. And, show your Texas pride as you sing and clap along to “Deep in the Heart of Texas” during a special Seventh Inning Stretch! Children of all ages, including infants, are welcome at Family Series performances. All patrons must have a ticket when entering the concert venue. Lap children are welcome for free. For lap child tickets, please contact our Patron Services Center at 713.224.7575, 12 noon–6 p.m., Monday–Saturday. Family Concert Activities Families can enjoy a craft station and other musical activities, like our Instrument Petting Zoo, in the Jones Hall lobby! Activities take place from 9–9:50 a.m. before the 10 a.m. concert, and from 12:30–1 p.m. after the 11:30 a.m. concert. {|with_image|:[],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Christopher Lees|,|bio|:||,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2020 03|2020 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][March|March|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Imagine Handel’s Messiah, updated for the 21st century. This is the starting point of John Adams’ El Niño, which combines mesmerizing music with biblical verse and the words of Spanish and Latin American poets—trailblazing women writers, both ancient and contemporary, in particular—for a unique and captivating account of the story of Christ’s birth. Featuring a stellar cast of soloists alongside the awe-inspiring forces of Symphony and Chorus, this is music that invites you to reflect: an immensely powerful and moving journey and a concert experience never to be forgotten. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|David Robertson|,|bio|:|David Robertson – conductor, artist, thinker, and American musical visionary – occupies some of the most prominent platforms on the international music scene.\u00a0 A highly sought-after podium figure in the worlds of opera, orchestral music, and new music, Robertson is celebrated worldwide as a champion of contemporary composers, an ingenious and adventurous programmer, and a masterful communicator whose passionate advocacy for the art form is widely recognized.\u00a0 A consummate and deeply collaborative musician, Robertson is hailed for his intensely committed music making.\nFollowing a Fall 2018 tour of European musical capitals with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Robertson kicks off his valedictory season as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director with the Orchestra, February – November 2019, navigating oceans of music from Australian composers to Australian premieres, including Christopher Rouse’s Bassoon Concerto, the presence of American musical compatriots Wynton Marsalis and John Adams, concert performances of Britten’s Peter Grimes, and show-stoppers, including Andre Previn and Tom Stoppard’s Every Good Boy Deserves Favour.\u00a0 As always, musical friends from around the world will join in – Australian oboist Diana Doherty, Lang Lang, Susan Graham, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and a wealth of others.\u00a0 Robertson will continue to conduct the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in future seasons as the city undertakes a major renovation of its beloved Sydney Opera House.\nIn the 2018-19 season, Robertson continues his rich collaboration with the New York Philharmonic, as part of Music Director Jaap van Zweden’s first festival for the Orchestra, The Art of Andriessen.\u00a0 He ventures north to conduct two Canadian Orchestras: the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and in the US, he conducts the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and the Dallas Symphony Orchestras, in addition to the Juilliard Orchestra, where he begins his tenure as Director of Conducting Studies, Distinguished Visiting Professor.\u00a0 Robertson will return to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam, and to the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and will conduct in Munich, Prague, and Spain.\nDavid Robertson recently completed his transformative 13-year tenure as Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, where he solidified the orchestra’s status as one of the nation’s most enduring and innovative.\u00a0 For the SLSO, he established fruitful relationships with a wide spectrum of artists, and garnered a 2014 Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance for the Nonesuch release of John Adams’ City Noir.\nRobertson has served in artistic leadership positions at musical institutions including the Orchestre National de Lyon, and, as a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Pierre Boulez, the Ensemble InterContemporain, which he led on its first North American tour.\u00a0 At the BBC Symphony Orchestra, he served as Principal Guest Conductor.\u00a0 Robertson has served as a Perspectives Artist at Carnegie Hall, where he has conducted, among others, The Met Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 He appears regularly in Europe with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, the Bayerische Rundfunk and the Dresden Staatskapelle, and at the Berlin Festival, the Edinburgh Festival, the BBC Proms, and the Musica Viva Festival in Munich.\nIn Spring 2018, Robertson built upon his longstanding relationship with The Metropolitan Opera, conducting the premiere of Phelim McDermott’s celebrated production of Cos\u00ec fan tutte, set in 1950s Coney Island.\u00a0 Since his Met Opera debut in 1996, with The Makropulos Case, he has conducted a breathtaking range of Met projects, including the Met premiere of John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer (2014); the 2016 revival of Jan\u00e1cek’s Jenufa, then its first Met performances in nearly a decade; the premiere production of Nico Muhly’s Two Boys (2013); and many favorites, from Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro to Britten’s Billy Budd.\u00a0 Robertson has frequent projects at the world’s most prestigious opera houses, including La Scala, Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet, Bayerische Staatsoper (orchestra), the San Francisco Opera, and the Santa Fe Opera.\nRobertson is the recipient of numerous musical and artistic awards, and in 2010 was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Government of France.\u00a0 He is devoted to supporting young musicians and has worked with students at the festivals of Aspen, Tanglewood, Lucerne, at the Paris Conservatoire, the Juilliard School, Music Academy of the West, and the National Orchestra Institute.\u00a0 In 2014, he led the Coast to Coast tour of Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Orchestra of the USA.\nBorn in Santa Monica, California, Robertson was educated at London’s Royal Academy of Music, where he studied horn and composition before turning to orchestral conducting.\u00a0 He is married to pianist Orli Shaham, and lives in New York.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Susanna Phillips|,|bio|:|Alabama-born soprano Susanna Phillips, recipient of The Metropolitan Opera\u2019s 2010 Beverly Sills Artist Award, continues to establish herself as one of today\u2019s most sought-after singing actors and recitalists. The 2016-17 season will see Ms. Phillips return to the Metropolitan Opera for a ninth consecutive season starring as Cl\u00e9mence in the Met premiere of Kaija Saariaho\u2019s L\u2019amour de Loin conducted by Susanna M\u00e4lkki, as well as a return of her acclaimed Musetta in Puccini\u2019s La Boh\u00e8 me. In March 2017, Ms. Phillips will make her Zurich Opera debut as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. She also appears as Cleopatra in Handel\u2019s Giulio Cesare with Boston Baroque and Martin Pearlman.\n2016-2017 orchestra engagements include a return to the San Francisco Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting a program of American songs, Mozart\u2019s \u201cExsultate Jubilate\u201d and his Mass in C Minor with Jane Glover and the Music of the Baroque, the Britten War Requiem with Kent Tritle and the Oratorio Society of New York, as well as Euridice in Gluck\u2019s Orfeo ed Euridice with Robert Spano leading the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Phillips will also perform recitals at the Celebrity Series of Boston, the National Museum for Women in the Arts, and her popular dual recital program with Eric Owens at Carnegie Hall and the Washington Performing Arts.\nLast season saw Ms. Phillips return to the Metropolitan Opera starring as Rosalinde in the Jeremy Sams production of Die Fledermaus conducted for the first time by music director James Levine, as well as a reprise of her house debut role of Musetta in La Boh\u00e8me. Additional engagements included a return to the stage of Lyric Opera of Chicago as Juliette in Gounod\u2019s Romeo and Juliet under the baton of Emmanuel Villaume. Additional engagements included Knoxville: Summer of 1915 with Michael Tilson Thomas leading the San Francisco Symphony, the Filas Requiem with Kent Tritle leading the Oratorio Society of New York, Mahler\u2019s Fourth Symphony with the St. Louis Symphony and David Robertson, Beethoven\u2019s Missa Solemnis with David Robertson leading the Sydney Symphony, as well as a recital at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with Brian Zeger.\nHighlights of Ms. Phillips\u2019 previous opera seasons include numerous additional Metropolitan Opera appearances as Fiordiligi in Cos\u00ec fan tutte in what the New York Times called a \u201cbreakthrough night,\u201d Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Julie Taymor\u2019s production of The Magic Flute, Musetta in La Boh\u00e8me (both in New York and on tour in Japan), Antonia in Les Contes d\u2019Hoffmann, and as a featured artist in the Met\u2019s Summer Recital Series in both Central Park and Brooklyn Bridge Park. She also appeared at Carnegie Hall for a special concert performance as Stella in Previn\u2019s A Streetcar Named Desire opposite Rene\u00e9 Fleming \u2013 a role she went on to perform, to rave reviews, at Lyric Opera of Chicago and as Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes with the St. Louis Symphony. She made her Santa Fe Opera debut as Pamina, and subsequently performed a quartet of other Mozart roles with the company as Fiordiligi in Cos\u00ec fan tutte, Countess Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro, Arminda in La Finta Giardiniera, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni. As a member of the Ryan Opera Center, Phillps sang the female leads in Rom\u00e9o et Juliette and Die Fledermaus. Additional roles include Elmira in Reinhard Keiser\u2019s The Fortunes of King Croesus, and the title roles in Lucia di Lammermoor and Agrippina, as well as appearances with the Oper Frankfurt, Dallas Opera, Minnesota Opera, Fort Worth Opera Festival, Boston Lyric Opera and Opera Birmingham.\nHighly in demand by the world\u2019s most prestigious orchestras, Ms. Phillips has appeared with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Oratorio Society of New York, Santa Fe Symphony, Santa Barbara Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s, and Santa Fe Concert Association.\nA fervent chamber music collaborator, Ms. Phillips recently teamed with bass-baritone Eric Owens for a recital of all Schubert which they have taken on tour in Chicago with members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, at the Gilmore Festival, and Philadelphia Chamber Music Society. Additional recital engagements included chamber music concerts with Paul Neubauer and Anne Marie McDermott, an appearance at the Parlance Chamber Music Series with Warren Jones, the 2014 Chicago Collaborative Works Festival, the Emerson String Quartet in Thomasville, Georgia with Warren Jones and colleagues from the Metropolitan Opera, and at Twickenham Fest, a chamber music festival she co-founded in her native Huntsville, Alabama. The soprano also made her solo recital debut at Carnegie\u2019s Weill Recital Hall with pianist Myra Huang.\nOther recent concert and oratorio engagements include Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony, Mahler\u2019s Fourth Symphony, Mozart\u2019s Coronation Mass, the Faur\u00e9 and Mozart Requiems, Carmina Burana, and Handel\u2019s Messiah. She made her Carnegie Hall debut with Skitch Henderson, Rob Fisher, and the New York Pops. Following her Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut under Marin Alsop, the Baltimore Sun proclaimed: \u201cShe\u2019s the real deal.\u201d\nIn August 2011, Ms. Phillips was featured at the opening night of the Mostly Mozart Festival, which aired live on Live From Lincoln Center on PBS. The same year saw the release of Paysages, her first solo album on Bridge Records, which was hailed as \u201csumptuous and elegantly sung\u201d (San Francisco Chronicle). The following year saw her European debut as Pamina in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te at the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona.\nAs resident artist at the 2010 and 2011 Marlboro Music Festivals, she was part of Marilyn Horne Foundation Gala at Carnegie Hall, made her New York solo recital debut at Lincoln Center\u2019s Alice Tully Hall, and appeared at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC under the auspices of the Vocal Arts Society.\nIn 2005 Ms. Phillips won four of the world\u2019s leading vocal competitions: Operalia (both First Place and the Audience Prize), the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, the MacAllister Awards, and the George London Foundation Awards Competition. She has also claimed the top honor at the Marilyn Horne Foundation Competition, and has won first prizes from the American Opera Society Competition and the Musicians Club of Women in Chicago. Ms. Phillips has received grants from the Santa Fe Opera and the Sullivan Foundation, and is a graduate of Lyric Opera of Chicago\u2019s Ryan Opera Center. She holds both a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School and continues collaboration with her teacher Cynthia Hoffmann. A native of Huntsville, Alabama, over 400 people traveled from her hometown to New York City in December 2008 for Ms. Phillips\u2019 Metropolitan Opera debut in La Boh\u00e8me. She returns frequently to her native state for recitals and orchestral appearances.\n|,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Kelley O\u2019Connor|,|bio|:|Possessing a voice of uncommon allure, musical sophistication far beyond her years, and intuitive and innate dramatic artistry, the Grammy\u00ae Award-winning mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor has emerged as one of the most compelling performers of her generation.\nDuring the 2018-19 season, the artist\u2019s impressive symphonic calendar features Mahler\u2019s Second Symphony with Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada and the Houston Symphony, his Third Symphony with Donald Runnicles and the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, Michael Stern and the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, and with Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Das Lied von der Erde both with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. \u00a0Sought after by many of the most heralded composers of the modern day, Kelley O\u2019Connor gives the world premiere of Joby Talbot\u2019s A Sheen of Dew on Flowers with the Britten Sinfonia at the Victoria & Albert Museum to celebrate the opening of the institution\u2019s new jewellery wing, debuts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in the title role of John Adams\u2019 The Gospel According to the Other Mary under the baton of the composer, presents the west coast premiere of Bryce Dessner\u2019s Voy a Dormir with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra led by Jaime Mart\u00edn, and brings Peter Lieberson\u2019s Neruda Songs to life in performances with St\u00e9phane D\u00e9n\u00e9ve and the St. Louis Symphony and with Brett Mitchell and the Colorado Symphony.\u00a0 Bernstein\u2019s Songfest serves the American mezzo-soprano with her Boston Symphony Orchestra debut under the baton of Bramwell Tovey and she is heard in performances of this work with Thomas Dausgaard leading the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 Kelley O\u2019Connor returns to the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a Stravinsky Festival singing multiple works there under the direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen and she assays the title role of Britten\u2019s The Rape of Lucretia presented by Boston Lyric Opera in a new production by Broadway theater director Sarna Lapine conducted by David Angus.\nJohn Adams wrote the title role of The Gospel According to the Other Mary for Kelley O\u2019Connor and she has performed the work, both in concert and in the Peter Sellars fully staged production, under the batons of Gustavo Dudamel, Grant Gershon, Gianandrea Noseda, Sir Simon Rattle, and David Robertson.\u00a0 She has sung the composer\u2019s El Ni\u00f1o with Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra and continues to be the eminent living interpreter of Peter Lieberson\u2019s Neruda Songs having given this moving set of songs with Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra, with Bernard Haitink and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with Robert Spano and the Minnesota Orchestra, and with David Zinman and the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Tonhalle-Orchester Z\u00fcrich among many others.\nRecent seasons include performances of Wagner\u2019s Wesendonck Lieder with Matthias Pintscher and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Beethoven\u2019s Missa Solemnis with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony, and Mahler\u2019s Eighth Symphony with Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada and the Tonk\u00fcnstler-Orchester Nieder\u00f6sterreich. She has sung Mahler\u2019s Des knaben Wunderhorn with Krzysztof Urba\u0144ski and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Das Lied von der Erde with Louis Langr\u00e9e and the Detroit Symphony and with Donald Runnicles and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.\u00a0 Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony has been performed with Iv\u00e1n Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ravel\u2019s Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia Orchestra, Berio\u2019s Folk Songs with Daniel Harding and the London Symphony Orchestra, and the role of Erda in Wagner\u2019s Das Rheingold with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Alan Gilbert.\u00a0 Recital appearances include performances in Boston with Thomas Ad\u00e8s in a program of Brahms, Purcell, and Stravinsky, in Chicago offering works of Debussy, Massenet, and Chausson, in Cincinnati with pianist Louis Langr\u00e9e in programs of Brahms and Ravel, and in Jackson Hole with the music of Brahms and Bernstein in a collaboration with Donald Runnicles.\nMiss O\u2019Connor has appeared numerous times with Gustavo Dudamel, including in performances of Bernstein\u2019s \u201cJeremiah\u201d Symphony on an international tour with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and of Mahler\u2019s \u201cResurrection\u201d Symphony with the Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar Orchestra.\u00a0 She enjoys a rich musical collaboration with Franz Welser-M\u00f6st and the Cleveland Orchestra with whom she has sung Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony and Mass in C, Bernstein\u2019s \u201cJeremiah\u201d Symphony, staged performances of Falstaff both in Cleveland and at the Lucerne Festival, and Stravinsky\u2019s Requiem Canticles.\nOperatic highlights include Carmen with Los Angeles Opera conducted by James Conlon, Donizetti\u2019s Anna Bolena at the Lyric Opera of Chicago conducted by Patrick Summers and directed by Kevin Newbury, Madama Butterfly in a new production by Lillian Groag at the Boston Lyric Opera and at the Cincinnati Opera under the baton of Ram\u00f3n Tebar, Berlioz\u2019s B\u00e9atrice et B\u00e9n\u00e9dict at Opera Boston, Falstaff with the Santa Fe Opera, and A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream at the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Canadian Opera Company.\nKelley O\u2019Connor has received unanimous international, critical acclaim for her numerous performances as Federico Garc\u00eda Lorca in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar.\u00a0 Miss O’Connor created the role for the world premiere at Tanglewood, under the baton of Robert Spano, and subsequently joined Miguel Harth-Bedoya for performances of Golijov\u2019s piece with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.\u00a0 She reprised her \u201cmusically seductive, palpably charismatic\u201d (Washington Post) portrayal of Lorca in the world-premiere of the revised edition of Ainadamar at the Santa Fe Opera in a new staging by Peter Sellars during the 2005 season, which was also presented at New York City\u2019s Lincoln Center and Madrid\u2019s Teatro Real.\nFor her debut with the Atlanta Symphony in Ainadamar, she joined Robert Spano for performances and a Grammy\u00ae Award-winning Deutsche Grammophon recording.\u00a0 Her discography also includes Mahler\u2019s Third Symphony with Jaap van Zweden and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Lieberson\u2019s Neruda Songs with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony, Adams\u2019 The Gospel According to the Other Mary with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Beethoven\u2019s Ninth Symphony with Franz Welser-M\u00f6st and the Cleveland Orchestra.\n|,|title|:|mezzo-soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Dav\u00f3ne Tines|,|bio|:|\u201cIn a just world, one in which\u00a0fame was proportionate to talent,\u00a0Dav\u00f3ne Tines\u00a0would be as big a name as Kanye West\u201d proclaimed KQED following concerts given with the San Francisco Symphony.\u00a0 Breakout performances were given on both sides of the Atlantic in 2015-16 when Dav\u00f3ne Tines made a Dutch National Opera debut in the premiere of Kaija Saariaho\u2019s Only the Sound Remains directed by Peter Sellars.\u00a0 The bass-baritone was exalted by The Los Angeles Times as \u201cthe find of the season,\u201d for performances of works by Caroline Shaw and Kaija Saariaho with the Calder Quartet and with members of ICE at the Ojai Music Festival.\nPerformances of 2018-19 include the world premiere of The Black Clown by composer Michael Schachter with a libretto adapted from the Langston Hughes poem by Dav\u00f3ne Tines and Michael Schachter; presented by the American Repertory Theater, The Black Clown \u2013 in a production directed by Zack Winokur – is a music theater experience that animates a black man\u2019s resilience against America\u2019s legacy of oppression by fusing vaudeville, opera, jazz, and spirituals to bring Hughes\u2019 verse to life onstage.\u00a0 Kaija Saariaho\u2019s Only the Sound Remains returns to Dav\u00f3ne Tines\u2019 calendar in performances at the Teatro Real and Lincoln Center and John Adams\u2019 El Ni\u00f1o serves his debut with Vladimir Jurowski conducting the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.\u00a0 The artist reprises his acclaimed portrayal of Ned Peters in the European premiere of John Adams and Peter Sellars\u2019 Girls of the Golden West at Dutch National Opera and he assays the title role of Henze\u2019s El Cimarr\u00f3n in a new production by Zack Winokur at the Metropolitan Museum of Arts in collaboration with the American Modern Opera Company.\u00a0 Dav\u00f3ne Tines makes a debut at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in the world premiere of Fire Shut Up In My Bones by the creative team of Terence Blanchard and Kasi Lemmons and symphonic appearances of the season include concerts with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony, and Aram Demirjian leading the Kansas City Symphony.\nDav\u00f3ne Tines made a San Francisco Opera debut in 2017-18 in the world premiere of John Adams and Peter Sellars\u2019\u00a0Girls of the Golden West, a debut at the Op\u00e9ra national de Paris in Kaija Saariaho\u2019s\u00a0Only the Sound Remains\u00a0directed by Peter Sellars, and a debut at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in the role he originated in a production of Matthew Aucoin\u2019s\u00a0Crossing directed by multi Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus.\u00a0 He bowed in performances of Handel\u2019s rarely staged serenata, Aci, Galatea, e Polifemo at National Sawdust in a new production by Christopher Alden that examined parallels between an 18thcentury telling of Ovid\u2019s mythological tale and our own contemporary aesthetic driven by power, class, race, and the cruelty of thwarted desire. \u00a0Other appearances of the season included a debut at the Baltic Sea Festival in Stravinsky\u2019s\u00a0Oedipus Rex conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen and Coming Together\u00a0by Frederic Rzewski and Schumann\u2019s\u00a0Das Paradies und die Peri, both under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a fully-staged production by Peter Sellars.\nHighlights of past seasons include John Adams\u2019 El Ni\u00f1o under the composer\u2019s baton with the London Symphony Orchestra in London and in Paris as well as with Grant Gershon conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Bruckner\u2019s Te Deum with Christopher Warren-Green and the Charlotte Symphony, Kaija Saariaho\u2019s True Fire with the Orchestre national de France, and a program exposing the Music of Resistance by George Crumb, Julius Eastman, Dmitri Shostakovich, and Caroline Shaw with conductor Christian Reif and members of the San Francisco Symphony at SoundBox.\u00a0 On the opera stage, Dav\u00f3ne Tines has debuted at Lisbon\u2019s Teatro Nacional de S\u00e3o Carlos in a new production of Oedipus Rex led by Leo Hussain and at the Finnish National Opera in Only the Sound Remains directed by Peter Sellars.\nDav\u00f3ne Tines is a founding core member of the American Modern Opera Company (AMOC) and the recipient of the 2018 Emerging Artists Award given by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.\u00a0 He was graduated from Harvard University and received a Master of Music degree from The Juilliard School.\n|,|title|:|bass|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Daniel Bubeck|,|bio|:|Daniel Bubeck has earned an international reputation on both the opera and concert stages in repertoire ranging from Bach and Handel to John Adams. He has performed with the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Musical de Paris-Ch\u00e2telet, English National Opera, Spoleto and Adelaide Festivals, London Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, the Radio Orchestras of Berlin and The Netherlands, Royal Flemish Philharmonic, Estonian National Philharmonic, Concerto K\u00f6ln, Vancouver Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Boston Symphony, working with Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Vladimir Jurowski, Kent Nagano, David Robertson, Robert Spano, Christopher Hogwood and Nicholas McGegan.\nCareer highlights include the premieres and subsequent performances of John Adams: El Ni\u00f1o and The Gospel According to the Other Mary.\u00a0 Bubeck is a noted Handelian sing the roles of Cesare, Rinaldo, Solomon, Medoro (Orlando), Arsamene (Serse), David (Saul), Guido (Flavio) Armindo (Partenope), Tauride (Arianna in Creta), Didymus (Theodora) Israel in Egypt and Messiah. He can be heard on recordings of Adams’ The Gospel According to the Other Mary (Deutsche Gramophone), El Ni\u00f1o (Nonesuch CD \/Art Haus Musik DVD), Vivaldi cantatas with Musica Sequenza (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Sony Music) and on the soundtrack of the Warner Brothers thriller, I Am Legend. Recent performances include Britten\u2019s A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream with Hawaii Opera Theater, Stradella\u2019s San Giovanni Battista in Chicago, and Bach\u2019s Johannes Passion with the American Classical Orchestra. He can be heard in upcoming performances of Adams\u2019 El Ni\u00f1o and Gospel in Russia, France, Germany and the US including Carnegie Hall. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, Dr. Bubeck holds degrees in voice from Indiana University, Peabody Conservatory and the University of Delaware.\n|,|title|:|countertenor|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Brian Cummings|,|bio|:|Brian Cummings sang the premiere of John Adams\u2019 The Gospel According to the Other Mary in 2012 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel. He made his professional debut in the premiere of John Adams\u2019 El Ni\u00f1o in Paris and has appeared in performances of this piece throughout the world including Carnegie Hall, English National Opera, the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Estonian National Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, the Adelaide Festival, the Tokyo Symphony and most recently at the Spoleto Festival USA.\nHe has worked under such conductors as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Robert Spano, David Robertson, John Adams, T\u00f5nu Kaljuste and Kent Nagano. He recently appeared in the title role of Handel’s Giulio Cesare with Opera Fuoco under David Stern. Cummings collaborates regularly with director Timothy Nelson including singing the role of David in Charpentier’s David et Jonathas, Hamor in Handel’s Jephtha, and Iarbo\/Corebo in Cavalli’s Didone.\u00a0 He has also appeared as a soloist at the Washington and Bloomington Early Music Festivals.\u00a0 He has sung with Paul Hillier in Theatre of Voices and the Pro Arte Singers and can be heard on their recordings for harmonia mundi as well as the recording and DVD of El Ni\u00f1o. In France, he sings with ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Opera Fuoco, Ensemble Entheos, and Les Muses Galantes. Cummings currently resides in Paris where he studies with Guillemette Laurens.\u00a0 He studied Early Music at Indiana University working with Paul Elliott, Paul Hillier, and Nigel North. Forthcoming engagements include John Adams\u2019 Gospel According to the Other Mary with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra in Strasbourg and Cologne.\n|,|title|:|countertenor|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Nathan Medley|,|bio|:|Nathan Medley has emerged in recent years as one of the leading younger-generation countertenors, with notable success internationally in concert and opera. He has sung at some of the major stages of the world including the English National Opera and Barbican Centre in London, La Salle Pleyel in Paris;\u00a0 Palais de Musique, Strasbourg, Amsterdam\u2019s Concertgebouw,\u00a0 The Lucerne Festival; Avery Fisher Hall in New York, and Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.\nRecent performances have brought him to the Boston Early Music Festival (as Ottone in Monteverdi\u2019s\u00a0 ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea), the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Chicago\u2019s Ravinia Festival, Opera Omaha, Pacific MusicWorks, Mercury Baroque, Seraphic Fire, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, , Cincinnati Collegium, Miami Bach Society, and Dayton Bach Society. He is a member of Echoing Air, an ensemble focused on music of the baroque and modern eras composed for countertenor. He made his professional debut in 2012 in John Adams\u2019 The Gospel According to the other Mary with the Los Angeles Philharmonoic conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, which was recorded on the Duetsche Grammophon label. He returned to Los Angeles in 2013 for Peter Sellers\u2019 staged performances of The Gospel, which toured to Switzerland and New York City, and again in 2015 under the baton of John Adams performing Olga Neuwirth\u2019s theatrical song\/play, Hommage \u00e1 Klaus Nomi. His opera credits include Ottone in Handel\u2019s Agrippina (Opera Omaha). Speranza in Monteverdi\u2019s Orfeo (Boston Early Music Festival), Athamus in Semele (Pacific Muisic Works, Seattle), Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dema in Cavalli’s L’Egisto, Le Peinture in Charpentier’s Les Arts Florissants, Acteon in Charpentier’s Acteon, and Ottone in Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione di Poppea, where critics in Cleveland praised him for an interpretation “sung with baroque perfection.\u201d\nIn May 2016 he will premier a new piece by John Harbison for countertenor and viola da gamba consort in Chicago with Second City Musick.\n|,|title|:|countertenor|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Grand Opera Children's Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Karen Reeves, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]} JOHN ADAMS El Niño

data-filter="[2020 03|2020 03|2020 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][March|March|March|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS Series|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:9,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Goodness gracious great hits of fire! Put on your Blue Suede Shoes and get ready to rock as multi-instrument phenomenon Dave Bennett and his amazing band tear it up with hits of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Glenn Miller and more. This high-energy concert will have you in the mood to Sing, Sing, Sing. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Dave Bennett|,|bio|:|Dave Bennett doesn\u2019t fit the mold.\nFor starters, you don\u2019t find many jazz clarinet players who name Alice Cooper, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Chris Isaak among their influences. You also won\u2019t find many musicians who are equally conversant with the music of Benny Goodman (the \u201cKing of Swing\u201d) and Roy Orbison (\u201cThe Soul of Rock and Roll\u201d).\nBennett is a clarinet virtuoso who plays electric guitar, piano, drums, AND vocalizes.\u00a0 Saluting Swing to Rock: covering music from the Swing Era to early Rockabilly and Country, to Elvis Presley and more. \u00a0Leading His Tribute to Benny Goodman, Dave has been a featured soloist at Carnegie Hall with The New York Pops (2013) and has played the show with 35 other US and Canadian orchestras including Nashville, Detroit, Rochester, Omaha, Toronto, Vancouver, Orlando, San Antonio, Jacksonville, Portland, OR and Portland, ME, and Houston. Fifty performing arts centers across the USA have had success with his presentations.\nAn annual fixture at several American music festivals, Dave\u2019s \u201cRockin the \u201850s\u201d show always brings down the house!\u00a0 Dave pays tribute to Jerry Lee Lewis (piano and vocals), and Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley (electric guitar and vocals). Dave\u2019s original compositions are influenced by the style of Roy Orbison, the \u201cSoul of Rock and Roll\u201d. Some of his annual \u201croots music\u201d presenters include The Elkhart Jazz Festival, The Suncoast Classic Jazz Festival, The Arizona Classic Jazz Festival, The Southeast Clambake Music Festival, and The Redwood Coast Music Festival.\nDave has been featured on NPR Radio\u2019s \u201cJazz at Riverwalk.\u201d He made his European debut in 2008 at the The Bern Jazz Festival (Switzerland) in a combo with jazz legends and Benny Goodman band alumni guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli and vibraphonist, the late Peter Appleyard.\nDave is a Mack Avenue Records artist. His 2013 CD \u201cDon\u2019t Be That Way\u201d met with critical acclaim.\nHis second release, Blood Moon, which features five originals and six pop\/jazz covers, hit the No 24 on the Billboard Jazz chart in 2018.\n|,|title|:|vocalist, pianist, clarinetist, guitarist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2020 03|2020 03|2020 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][March|March|March|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Mozart’s genius burns with brooding intensity in the darkly passionate Piano Concerto No. 20, a masterpiece long celebrated as one of his greatest musical achievements. Fearless French star Cédric Tiberghien brings boundless imagination and a poetic touch in his Houston debut. Then, indulge in evocative sound-paintings by music’s Impressionist master, sensuous, softly glowing dreamscapes that drift through lively Spanish street fairs, brilliant spring days and sweet-scented nights. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Matthias Pintscher|,|bio|:|Matthias Pintscher is the Music Director of the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the world’s leading contemporary music ensemble founded by Pierre Boulez. In addition to a robust concert season in Paris, he tours extensively with them throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, this season leading concerts in Berlin, Hamburg, and Zurich. Known equally as one of today’s foremost composers, Mr. Pintscher will have two works premiered in the 2018\/19 season: Nur, a new concerto for piano and ensemble will be performed by Daniel Barenboim and the Boulez Ensemble conducted by the composer in January; and a new work for baritone, chorus, and orchestra will performed by Dietrich Henschel and the Tonhalle-Orchester Z\u00fcrich conducted by maestro Kent Nagano in June.\nMr. Pintscher is the 2018\/19 Season Creative Chair for the Tonhalle-Orchester Z\u00fcrich, the Artist-in-Residence at the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and finishes a nine-year term as the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s Artist-in-Association. This season, Pintscher makes his debuts with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, where he conducts the world premiere of Violetter Schnee, a new opera by Beat Furrer. Return guest engagements include the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, the New York Philharmonic, as well as the New World Symphony in Miami. In Europe, having begun the season conducting the Scottish Chamber Orchestra at the Edinburgh International Festival, Pintscher also returns to the Orchestre de Paris, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, and Helsinki Philharmonic.\nIn the 2017\/18 season, Mr. Pintscher made several significant debuts with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Radio Symphony, Finnish Radio Symphony, and the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. Pintscher and the Ensemble Intercontemporain brought an ambitious presentation of Pierre Boulez’s R\u00e9pons to the Park Avenue Armory in New York and performed a number of concerts on tour in London (Royal Festival Hall), Vienna (Konzerthaus), and Cologne (Philharmonie). In addition, they were joined by alumni of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra in a special multi-media Messiaen project performed in four cities. Other guest engagements in the 17\/18 season included the Los Angeles Philharmonic in both a subscription week and at the Hollywood Bowl, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (where he premiered Salvatore Sciarrino’s new piano concerto with Jonathan Biss), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra conducting Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. An enthusiastic supporter of and mentor to students and young musicians, Pintscher served as Principal Conductor of the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra from 2016-2018 and worked with the Karajan Academy of the Berlin Philharmonic in their 2017\/18 season, culminating in a concert at the Philharmonie.\nMatthias Pintscher began his musical training in conducting, studying with Peter E\u00f6tv\u00f6s in his early twenties, during which time composing soon took a more prominent role in his life. He rapidly gained critical acclaim in both areas of activity, and continues to compose in addition to his conducting career. As a composer, Pintscher’s music is championed by some of today’s finest performing artists, orchestras, and conductors. His works have been performed by such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre de Paris, among others. B\u00e4renreiter is his exclusive publisher, and recordings of his compositions can be found on Kairos, EMI, Teldec, Wergo, and Winter & Winter. Pintscher has been on the composition faculty of the Juilliard School since 2014.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|C\u00e9dric Tiberghien|,|bio|:|C\u00e9dric Tiberghien is a French pianist who has established a truly international career. Performances this season include his debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, San Francisco Symphony, DSO Berlin and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. His solo recitals include London, Chicago and Tokyo, and with violinist Alina Ibragimova at the Vienna Konzerthaus and on tour to Japan and Korea. He will also perform at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn with viola player Tabea Zimmermann. In Spring 2019 the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris) will present the premiere of Zauberland (Magic Land). This music theatre project, staged by Katie Mitchell, will see Schumann\u2019s Dichterliebe performed alongside a new work by Bernard Foccroulle, setting a text by Martin Crimp. This work will be performed by C\u00e9dric and soprano Julia Bullock.\nDuring the 2017\/18 season C\u00e9dric returned to the London Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras. He also undertook an extensive tour to Asia including solo and duo recitals, the latter with Alina Ibragimova. Their numerous performances that season included the Pierre Boulez Saal (Berlin) and Wigmore Hall (London). C\u00e9dric has a particularly strong relationship with the latter, where he a performed a total of five times during the season, in both solo and duo recital.\nC\u00e9dric recently presented a major focus on the music of Bartok, culminating in a three-volume exploration of his solo piano works for the Hyperion label which has received huge critical acclaim. He has been awarded four Diapason d\u2019Or, for his solo recordings on Hyperion. His solo discography also includes concerto and recital discs on Harmonia Mundi.\nHe is a dedicated chamber musician, with regular partners including violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Antoine Tamestit and baritone St\u00e9phane Degout. C\u00e9dric\u2019s passion for chamber music is reflected in numerous recordings: his discography with Alina includes complete cycles of music by Schubert, Szymanowski and Mozart (Hyperion) and a Beethoven Sonata cycle (Wigmore Live).\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} WEBERN Im Sommerwind MOZART Piano Concerto No. 20 DEBUSSY Images

data-filter="[2020 03|][duncan-recital-hall-at-shepherd-school-of-music|][March|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Our four-concert Chamber Music Series concludes at Duncan Recital Hall at Rice University with Cédric Tiberghien (piano) and a small ensemble of Houston Symphony musicians. Participating Houston Symphony Musicians KARIM AL-ZAND Studies in Nature: Matthew Roitstein, flute; Sheldon Person, viola; Stephanie Gustafson, harp. JOLIVET Chant de Linos: Judy Dines, flute; Sophia Silivos, violin; Jarita Ng, viola; Christopher French, cello; Paula Page, harp. CHAUSSON Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet (with Cédric Tiberghien): Yoonshin Song, violin; MuChen Hsieh, violin; Anastasia Sukhopara, violin; Wayne Brooks, viola; Louis-Marie Fardet, cello. LOCATION: Duncan Recital Hall, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, 6100 Main St, Houston, TX 77005 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|C\u00e9dric Tiberghien|,|bio|:|C\u00e9dric Tiberghien is a French pianist who has established a truly international career. Performances this season include his debuts with the Berliner Philharmoniker, San Francisco Symphony, DSO Berlin and NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra. His solo recitals include London, Chicago and Tokyo, and with violinist Alina Ibragimova at the Vienna Konzerthaus and on tour to Japan and Korea. He will also perform at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn with viola player Tabea Zimmermann. In Spring 2019 the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Bouffes du Nord (Paris) will present the premiere of Zauberland (Magic Land). This music theatre project, staged by Katie Mitchell, will see Schumann\u2019s Dichterliebe performed alongside a new work by Bernard Foccroulle, setting a text by Martin Crimp. This work will be performed by C\u00e9dric and soprano Julia Bullock.\nDuring the 2017\/18 season C\u00e9dric returned to the London Symphony Orchestra and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras. He also undertook an extensive tour to Asia including solo and duo recitals, the latter with Alina Ibragimova. Their numerous performances that season included the Pierre Boulez Saal (Berlin) and Wigmore Hall (London). C\u00e9dric has a particularly strong relationship with the latter, where he a performed a total of five times during the season, in both solo and duo recital.\nC\u00e9dric recently presented a major focus on the music of Bartok, culminating in a three-volume exploration of his solo piano works for the Hyperion label which has received huge critical acclaim. He has been awarded four Diapason d\u2019Or, for his solo recordings on Hyperion. His solo discography also includes concerto and recital discs on Harmonia Mundi.\nHe is a dedicated chamber musician, with regular partners including violinist Alina Ibragimova, violist Antoine Tamestit and baritone St\u00e9phane Degout. C\u00e9dric\u2019s passion for chamber music is reflected in numerous recordings: his discography with Alina includes complete cycles of music by Schubert, Szymanowski and Mozart (Hyperion) and a Beethoven Sonata cycle (Wigmore Live).\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Yoonshin Song|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/yoonshin-song\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Sophia Silivos|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/sophia-silivos\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|MuChen Hsieh|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal Second Violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/muchen-hsieh\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Anastasia Sukhopara|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/anastasia-sukhopara\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Wayne Brooks|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal |,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/wayne-brooks-2\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Sheldon Person|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/sheldon-person\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Jarita Ng|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/jarita-ng\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Christopher French|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/christopher-french\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Louis-Marie Fardet|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/louis-marie-fardet\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Matthew Roitstein|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/matthew-roitstein\/|},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Judy Dines|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/judith-dines\/|}],|without|:[]} KARIM AL-ZAND Studies in Nature JOLIVET Chant de Linos CHAUSSON Concerto for Violin, Piano, and String Quartet

data-filter="[2020 04|2020 04|2020 04|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][April|April|April|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Instantly arresting. Brazenly theatrical. Larger than life. To experience a Mahler symphony live is to know why it’s an experience unlike anything in all of art. In his Seventh Symphony, Mahler paints with every color in the orchestral palette—from clanging cowbell to strumming mandolin—to summon nocturnal worlds both nightmarish and serene, menacingly dark and lustrously moonlit. Night erupts into dazzling day in a riotous finale replete with blazing brass and pealing bells. Andrés Orozco-Estrada, conductor Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|}],|without|:[]} MAHLER Symphony No. 7

data-filter="[2020 04|2020 04|2020 04|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][April|April|April|][[{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Symphony Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:6,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Relive the magic of year six in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™ in Concert. With this film, based on the sixth installment of J.K. Rowling’s classic saga, fans of all ages can now experience the thrilling tale of Harry’s obsession with a mysterious potions book accompanied by the music of a live symphony orchestra as Harry soars across the big screen in HD! HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Harry Potter Publishing Rights © JKR. (s19) https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/HSYMP-091319-HP6-Radio-30.mp3 false

data-filter="[2020 04|2020 04|2020 04|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][April|April|April|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS Series|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:9,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" The late, great Aretha Franklin will forever have our hearts and our Respect thanks to her incredible voice and soulful refrains about love, pain and triumph. Vocalist Capathia Jenkins channels all the power and charisma of the Queen of Soul in an unforgettable tribute to one of music’s most iconic artists. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Lucas Waldin|,|bio|:|Lucas Waldin is a dynamic and versatile conductor whose flair for audience engagement and passion for performance have delighted audiences across North America.\nBased in Edmonton, Alberta, Lucas joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as resident conductor in 2009 and was subsequently appointed artist-in-residence and community ambassador, the first position of its kind in North America. He has appeared with the orchestra more than 150 times and has collaborated with artists Angela Cheng, Jens Lindemann, Sergei Babayan and Bill Eddins, and conducted in Carnegie Hall during the ESO’s participation in the 2012 Spring for Music festival. Lucas was awarded the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestra Conducting by the Canada Council for the Arts and received a Citation Award from the City of Edmonton for his outstanding achievements in arts and culture.\nWith an ability to slide easily between styles and genres, Lucas has worked with a range of pop and crossover artists, including Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Folds, Chantal Kreviazuk, the Barenaked Ladies and Buffy Sainte-Marie, in addition to conducting presentations such as Disney in Concert, Blue Planet Live and Cirque de la Symphony. Lucas has been a guest conductor for numerous orchestras in Canada and the United States, including this orchestra, the Grant Park Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toronto and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.\nA native of Toronto, Ontario, Lucas received degrees in both flute and conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Capathia Jenkins|,|bio|:|Capathia Jenkins can definitely act but all those who know her also know that this diva can blow and blow and blow you right off this planet. This woman who grappling with two dueling passions each with a strong grip: acting and music, yet she refuses to pick one because they both represent her soul. Capathia approaches a song the same way she approaches a script, like an artist. She looks for the nuances, the secret hidden within the notes or text. She seeks the melody, harmony and rhythm. She asks herself: what am I trying to say? What do I want my audience to experience with me? She wants to take her audience on a journey.\nThis Brooklyn-born and raised actress most recently starred as \u2018Medda\u2019 in the hit Disney production of Newsies\u2019 on Broadway. She made her Broadway debut in The Civil War, where she created the role of Harriet Jackson. She then starred in the Off-Broadway 2000 revival of Godspell, where she wowed audiences with her stirring rendition of \u2018Turn Back, O Man\u2019 which can still be heard on the original cast recording. She returned to Broadway in The Look of Love and was critically acclaimed for her performances of the Bacharach\/David hits. Ms. Jenkins then created the roles of \u2018The Washing Machine\u2019 in Caroline, Or Change and \u2018Frieda May\u2019 in Martin Short-Fame becomes me where she sang \u2018Stop the Show\u2019 and brought the house down every night.\nIn 2007 she went back to Off-Broadway and starred in (mis) Understanding Mammy-The Hattie McDaniel Story for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. She was also seen in Nora Ephron\u2019s Love, Loss, and What I Wore.\nAn active concert artist, Ms. Jenkins has appeared with orchestras around the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony (with Marvin Hamlisch), National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Memphis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Toledo Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, Kansas City Symphony, San Diego Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic. She was a soloist with the Festival Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic. In 2011 Capathia had the great honor of performing in the \u2018Broadway Ambassadors to Cuba\u2019 concert as part of the Festival De Teatro De La Habana. Ms. Jenkins was a guest soloist with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and with the Cincinnati Pops.\nHer Television credits include 30 Rock, the Practice, Law & Order SVU, the Sopranos, Law & Order. She can be seen in the 2012 film \u2018Musical Chairs\u2019 directed by Susan Seidelman. She can be heard on the following film soundtracks: Nine, Chicago, Legally Blonde 2.\n|,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2020 04|2020 04|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][April|April|][[{|term_id|:1035,|name|:|Family Series|,|slug|:|family-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1035,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:|Now in his tenth season, our Associate Conductor Robert Franz is ready to help your family create cherished memories. Buckle up! Our Family Series is taking you on a magical, musical quest on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nAlso, enjoy pre- and post-concert activities, including our Instrument Petting Zoo, young musician performances in the lobby as well as crafts and musical activities. \r\n\r\n|,|parent|:0,|count|:4,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" Heroes perform daring feats in the movies and on tv, but they also walk among us every day. Set out on an epic adventure as the Houston Symphony and a local high school gospel choir perform music from Disney’s Hercules. Then, celebrate the lives of Harriet Tubman, Jesse Owens, Matthew Henson and Katherine Johnson—real-world heroes who overcame adversity to achieve greatness. Children of all ages, including infants, are welcome at Family Series performances. All patrons must have a ticket when entering the concert venue. Lap children are welcome for free. For lap child tickets, please contact our Patron Services Center at 713.224.7575, 12 noon–6 p.m., Monday–Saturday. Family Concert Activities Families can enjoy a craft station and other musical activities, like our Instrument Petting Zoo, in the Jones Hall lobby! Activities take place from 9–9:50 a.m. before the 10 a.m. concert, and from 12:30–1 p.m. after the 11:30 a.m. concert. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Robert Franz|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/robert-franz\/|}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2020 05|2020 05|2020 05|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][May|May|May|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" It shocked Parisian audiences in 1830, and almost 200 years later, Berlioz’ boundary-pushing, mind-stretching masterpiece remains classical music’s wildest ride. Enter a world where witches shriek, severed heads roll and imagination knows no limit when Karina Canellakis conducts Symphonie fantastique, and feel the lyrical beauty and lively rhythms of Bruch’s treasured masterpiece, featuring the “stunning” (Chicago Tribune) Simone Lamsma. Pre-Concert Activities: Chamber Music Prelude Your ticket includes a special chamber music performance by Houston Symphony musicians on the Jones Hall stage starting 45 minutes before the concert. Hear Offenbach’s Cours methodique de duo, Opus 54, Suite No. 2, I. Allegro performed by Louis-Marie Fardet, cello, and Maki Kubota, cello. The first people to arrive will be given the opportunity to sit onstage for the prelude performance. Those interested should line up outside the Jones Hall main entrance on the Louisiana Patio near the first door on the right before doors open, 1 hour before the concert begins. All others may watch the chamber music performance from the front orchestra seating of Jones Hall. The chamber music replaces the regularly scheduled Prelude discussion. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Karina Canellakis|,|bio|:|Karina Canellakis is the newly appointed Chief Conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, beginning in the 2019\/20 season. Internationally acclaimed for her emotionally charged performances, technical command and interpretive depth, Karina\u2019s reputation has risen quickly since winning the Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award in 2016.\nKarina makes several notable debuts in the 2018\/19 season, including with the Orchestre Symphonique de Montr\u00e9al, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-orchester Berlin, Dresdner Philharmoniker, Oslo Philharmonic, and Stavanger Symphony. She also makes her Australian debut in a four-city tour conducting the symphony orchestras of Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, and Tasmania. In addition, Canellakis leads the prestigious 2018 Nobel Prize Concert with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, with whom she appears twice in this season. Over the summer, she made her Wiener Symphoniker debut at the Bregenz Festival and returned to the Proms with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.\nRe-invitations this season feature the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl as well as the symphony orchestras of Cincinnati, Dallas, Detroit, Milwaukee, and North Carolina. She also conducts Don Giovanni with the Curtis Opera Theater at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. In Europe, she returns to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, G\u00fcrzenich Orchestra Cologne, Swedish Radio Orchestra, Orchestre National de Lyon, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra, among others.\nRecent seasons have featured debuts with the Orchestre de Paris, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Bamberger Symphoniker, National Orchestra of Spain, the Hall\u00e9 Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Toronto, Vancouver, and Houston symphonies. On the operatic stage, she has conducted Die Zauberfl\u00f6te with the Zurich Opera, Le nozze di Figaro with Curtis Opera Theatre, and gave the world premiere of David Lang\u2019s opera The Loser at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She has also led Peter Maxwell Davies\u2019 new opera The Hogboon with the Luxembourg Philharmonic, and a fully staged production of Verdi\u2019s Requiem at the Zurich Opera.\nAlready known to many in the classical music world for her virtuoso violin playing, Karina was initially encouraged to pursue conducting by Sir Simon Rattle while she was playing regularly in the Berlin Philharmonic for two years as a member of their Orchester-Akademie. In addition to appearing frequently as a soloist with various North American orchestras, she subsequently played regularly in the Chicago Symphony for over three years and appeared on several occasions as guest concertmaster of the Bergen Philharmonic in Norway. She also spent many summers performing at the Marlboro Music Festival. She plays a 1782 Mantegazza violin on generous loan from a private patron.\nKarina previously served as Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. She is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School. Born and raised in New York City, she speaks French, German and Italian.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Simone Lamsma|,|bio|:|Hailed for her \u201cbrilliant\u2026 polished, expressive and intense\u201d (Cleveland Plain Dealer) and \u201cabsolutely stunning\u201d (Chicago Tribune) playing, Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma is respected by critics, peers and audiences as one of classical music\u2019s most striking and captivating musical personalities.\nWith an extensive repertoire of over 60 Violin Concertos, Simone\u2019s recent seasons have seen her perform with many of the world\u2019s leading orchestras.\nNotable recent highlights include performances with the Chicago Symphony, described by the Chicago Tribune as \u201cpiercingly beautiful\u201d,\u00a0 as well as the Cleveland Orchestra, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Dallas Symphony, National Symphony Washington, Royal Concergebouw Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Netherlands Philharmonic, Finnish Radio Symphony, Les Si\u00e8cles, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, BBC Philharmonic, Antwerp Symphony, Brussels Philharmonic, Seoul Philharmonic, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, Hessischer Rundfunk, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, RTVE Symphony, S\u00e3o Paulo Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony, and Hong Kong Philharmonic.\nHighlights for the 17\/18 and 18\/19 season include debuts with the New York Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, MDR Leipzig, Basque National Orchestra, Sydney Symphony, and returns to the Warsaw Philharmonic, Copenhagen Philharmonic, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic and Netherlands Philharmonic at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Bournemouth Symphony, RTE National Symphony, Hall\u00e9 Orchestra, Quebec Symphony, Oregon Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony. In addition she will be returning to the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo.\nPast seasons also marked several premi\u00e8res of new works by Simone, among which the world premi\u00e8re of a violin concerto by Matijs de Roo during the ZaterdagMatinee series at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and a successful performance of the French premi\u00e8re of Michel van der Aa\u2019s Violin Concerto with the Orchestre National de Lyon.\nStand-out recent festival appearances include her return to the Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Festival in 2015, debuts during the Enescu Festival with Les Si\u00e8cles under Fran\u00e7ois\u2013Xavier Roth, Bravo! Vail Festival with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Jaap van Zweden, and the Mainly Mozart Festival in San Diego, about which the San Diego Reader wrote: \u201cShe (Simone Lamsma) appeared to be engaged with Beethoven on a level we seldom encounter\u2026.. Beethoven\u2019s music was coming through her in a pure state.\u201d\nBesides her close collaboration with Jaap van Zweden, Simone has worked many other eminent conductors including Vladimir Jurowski, Sir Neville Marriner, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, James Gaffigan, Sir Andrew Davis, Mark Wigglesworth, Andr\u00e8s Orozco-Estrada, Ji\u0159\u00ed B\u011blohl\u00e1vek, Carlos Kalmar, Marc Albrecht, St\u00e9phane Den\u00e8ve, Edo de Waart, Hannu Lintu, Juanjo Mena, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Lawrence Foster, Robert Trevino, Fabien Gabel, Fran\u00e7ois-Xavier Roth and Omer Meir Wellber.\nA dedicated chamber musician, recent recital appearances include Simone\u2019s highly anticipated debuts in London\u2019s Wigmore Hall and New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall in March 2017 with pianist Robert Kulek.\n \nIn 2017 Simone\u2019s most recent recording featuring Shostakovich\u2019s first violin concerto and Gubaidulina\u2019s \u2018In Tempus praesens\u2019 with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic under James Gaffigan and Reinbert de Leeuw was released on Challenge Classics and received high accolades from the press, as did her previous Mendelssohn, Jan\u00e1\u010dek and Schumann\u00a0 CD with pianist Robert Kulek.\nIn addition to her many (inter)national prizes and distinctions, Simone was awarded the national Dutch VSCD Classical Music Prize in the category \u2018New Generation Musicians\u2019 in 2010, awarded by the Association of Dutch Theatres and Concert Halls to artists that have made remarkable and valuable contributions to the Dutch classical music scene.\nIn May 2018 Simone was invited by His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and Her Majesty Queen M\u00e1xima of The Netherlands to perform during their official state visit to Luxembourg. In 2011 Simone performed during the Queen\u2019s Day Concert, in the presence of HRH Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands \u2013 a concert that was broadcast nationally on Dutch television.\nSimone began studying the violin at the age of 5 and moved to the UK aged 11 to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School with Professor Hu Kun. At the age of 14 Simone made her professional solo debut with the North Netherlands Orchestra performing Paganini\u2019s 1st Violin Concerto, her debut highly praised by the press. She continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Professor Hu Kun and Professor Maurice Hasson, where she graduated aged 19 with first class honours and several prestigious awards. In 2011, she was made an Associate of the RAM, an honour given to those students who have made significant and distinguished contributions to their field. Simone currently lives in The Netherlands.\nSimone plays the \u201cMlynarski\u201d Stradivarius (1718), on generous loan to her by an anonymous benefactor.\nFor more information please visit: www.simonelamsma.com\nFollow Simone on Facebook at: www.facebook.com\/simonelamsma\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} DUTILLEUX Métaboles BRUCH Violin Concerto No. 1 BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique

data-filter="[2020 05|2020 05|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][May|May|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical Series|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:25,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" “Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” —Ludwig van Beethoven Where words fail, music speaks. Come together in Jones Hall for a concert that celebrates the courage, resilience and enduring strength of the human spirit. Featuring text by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz, Jimmy López’ unforgettable Dreamers shines a spotlight on the immigrant experience. An all-star cast including actor Damon Gupton and opera star Ana María Martínez joins the Houston Symphony. Shades of “Ode to Joy” echo throughout Beethoven’s resounding Choral Fantasy, which inspires and uplifts with its timeless message of unity, peace and hope. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Fabien Gabel|,|bio|:|Hailed as \u201cboldly evocative,\u201d Fabien Gabel is internationally recognized as one of the stars of a new generation of conductors, having established a broad repertoire ranging from core symphonic works to contemporary music and lesser-known works by French composers. He has been the music director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Qu\u00e9bec (OSQ) since 2012 and music director of the innovative Orchestre Fran\u00e7ais des Jeunes since 2017.\nFabien\u2019s 2019-20 season features debuts with the San Francisco Symphony, Utah Symphony, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, and Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. In his eighth season with the OSQ, he leads the orchestra in works by Chausson, Ravel, Duparc, Dutilleux, Aubert, Schmitt, Dubugnon, Rebel, Tomasi, and Poulenc; and collaborates with world-class soloists, including Augustin Hadelich, Juho Pohjonen, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Michael Barenboim, Ana Mari\u0301a Marti\u0301nez, Philippe Jaroussky, and others. He returns to conduct the Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse.\nHis conducting has taken him across the globe to lead top orchestras and work with the world\u2019s most formidable soloists. Fabien first attracted international attention in 2004 winning the Donatella Flick LSO Conducting Competition, which subsequently led to his appointment as the London Symphony Orchestra\u2019s assistant conductor for two seasons. The LSO has since regularly engaged him as a guest conductor. \nBorn in Paris into a family of accomplished musicians, Fabien began studying trumpet at age 6, honing his skills at the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur de Musique de Paris, which awarded him a First Prize in trumpet in 1996, and later at the Musik Hochschule of Karlsruhe. He went on to play in several Parisian orchestras under the direction of prominent conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, and Bernard Haitink. In 2002, Fabien pursued his interest in conducting at the Aspen Music Festival and School, where he studied with David Zinman, who invited him to appear as a guest conductor at the Festival in 2009. He has worked as an assistant to Haitink and Davis.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez|,|bio|:|Grammy Award winner Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez is considered to be one of the foremost sopranos of her time, with an international career that spans the world\u2019s most important opera houses and concert halls. With a repertoire that encompasses opera\u2019s most intriguing and diverse leading ladies, she engages her audiences season after season with signature roles, spellbinding debuts, and a myriad of captivating recordings. Opera News\u2019 recent cover story on Ms. Mart\u00ednez declared that her \u201csoprano harks back to the golden age. Her range is even, from a dusky chest-voice through a claret-colored middle and up to radiant top, and is impressive in its quiet moments as it is at full power.\u201d\nThe soprano begins the 2017 \u2013 2018 season in the title role of Carmen with Los Angeles Opera, followed by performances as Rusalka with Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She joins Lyric Opera of Chicago for two productions, first as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte and then as Marguerite in Faust. With Royal Opera House Covent Garden she returns as Alice Ford in Falstaff, with Florida Grand Opera she sings the title role in Florencia en el Amazonas, and portrays Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Santa Fe Opera in the summer of 2018. On the concert stage, Ms. Mart\u00ednez appears in multiple concerts with P\u00e1cido Domingo, a solo evening with the San Antonio Symphony, and performs recitals with pianist Craig Terry with the Art Song Festival at the Cleveland Institute of Music and La Sierra University.\nLeading roles for Ms. Martinez during the 2016-2017 season included Marguerite in Faust with Houston Grand Opera, where Opera News proclaimed \u201cMartinez\u2019s voice alone \u2013 with its chocolate-rich vibrancy in the low and middle range and its thrilling brilliance at the top \u2013 is worth the price of admission, but she also has the expressive range, as a singing actress, to portray Marguerite\u2019s complex transformation from youthful innocent in the throes of first love to outcast sinner consumed by tragedy and madness, who then achieves the miracle of redemption.\u201d She had a role debut as Tatyana in Eugene Onegin with Lyric Opera of Chicago, and performed as Cio Cio San in Madame Butterfly with Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni with San Francisco Opera. She joined star tenor Andrea Bocelli on a multi-city US tour, performed in concert with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo on stage at the Arena di Verona, among other stages, and voiced the role of opera singer Alessandra in season three of Amazon\u2019s Mozart in the Jungle.\nDuring the 2015\u20132016 season Ms. Mart\u00ednez made her triumphant return in a leading role with The Metropolitan Opera, portraying Cio-Cio San in a revival of Anthony Minghella\u2019s breathtaking production of Madama Butterfly. The New York Times raved of her performance \u201cIt was a bit of theatrical magic in a beautiful performance: modest and delicate, yet rising to glimpses of the epic in her final aria of self- sacrifice.\u201d Ms. Mart\u00ednez joined the Los Angeles Opera for two productions, first, opening their season as Nedda in Franco Zeffirelli\u2019s production of Pagliacci, under the baton of Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, and then later in the season as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with James Conlon conducting. She returned to Opera de Puerto Rico as Cio-Cio San, Houston Grand Opera as the title role in Rusalka, The Metropolitan Opera as Musetta in La boh\u00e8me, and to San Francisco Opera in a role debut as Elisabetta in Don Carlo. She had several concert engagements with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo during the season, including an engagement with the Salzburg Festival honoring his 40th Anniversary with them, the Starlight Festival in Marbella Spain, with Vi\u00f1edos San Gabriel in Ensenada, Baja, in Manaus, Brazil, inaugurating the Dubai Opera House in the United Arab Emirates, and in a special concert event with the Lyric Opera of Chicago Orchestra under the direction of Sir Andrew Davis. During the summer she joined the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York for their opening night concert in a selection of Mozart operas for her debut with the Festival, and followed that with performances of Cio Cio San at the Mariinsky Theater Primorsky Stage in Vladivostok, Russia.\nThe soprano began the 2014 \u2013 2015 calendar opening Lyric Opera of Chicago\u2019s season as Donna Elvira in a new Robert Falls production of Don Giovanni. She returned to Opera National de Paris as Mimi in La boh\u00e8me, and portrayed Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with both Houston Grand Opera and the Royal Opera House Covent Garden. She returned to Dallas Opera as Mimi and concluded the season as the leading role of Paolina in the United Kingdom\u2019s first professionally staged performances of Donizetti\u2019s Poliuto in her triumphant return to The Glyndebourne Festival. The Daily Mail proclaimed \u201cPuerto Rican soprano Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez brings Callas-Like intensity to Paolina,\u201d and Opera Today wrote that \u201cMart\u00ednez executed Paolina\u2019s aria with such beauty that her voice seemed to shimmer.\u201d Highlights of her concert calendar included performances with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, and featured selections from Rusalka at the closing Gala concert for the Year of Czech Music in Prague. In November, Decca released a recording of Manon Lescaut with Ms. Mart\u00ednez in the title role, recorded opposite Andrea Bocelli with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo conducting the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana.\nMs. Mart\u00ednez opened the 2013-14 season in a role debut as Desdemona in Verdi\u2019s Otello with Lyric Opera of Chicago, where she also performed during the season as the title role of Rusalka in a new production of David McVicar. Opera News wrote of her extraordinary performance:\n\u201cThe production was grounded by the exquisite performance of the title role by Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez, who sang the opera for Glyndebourne in 2009. The soprano was in ravishing vocal estate, offering reams of floated lyricism in Act I\u2019s famous song to the moon, as well as prodigious dynamic control in \u201c\u00d3 marno to je\u201d and power in reserve for the climaxes of \u201cNeciteln\u00e1 vodn\u00ed moci.\u201d She emerged from her lake a pale, wraithlike being that undulated in graceful waves, like the water of which she was formed, only to become all angular awkwardness as she struggled with alien surroundings in Act II. Here she resembled a frightened puppy, a creature of pure love who was completely bewildered by her inability to comprehend expectations. An image of the desperate girl being pelted with blossoms during the ballet, while visibly reaching to grasp whether she was being lauded or cruelly mocked, was one of the most heartbreaking things I have ever seen on a stage. Mart\u00ednez\u2019s achievement was easily one of the great soprano performances of the present era at Lyric.\u201d\nIn addition to her performances with Lyric Opera of Chicago, she added a new leading lady to her repertoire with the title role of Carmen in a new Robert Ashford production with Houston Grand Opera. Opera News proclaimed:\n\u201cAna Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez\u2019s amazing performance as Carmen established a benchmark for the role in the Houston Grand Opera performance of Bizet\u2019s opera. There was, first, Mart\u00ednez\u2019s rich, lustrous, and voluptuous soprano, which she modulated toward gutsy power in her low range and arresting brilliance at the top. Beyond her singing, alone worth the price of admission, Mart\u00ednez reveled in Carmen\u2019s flamboyance and seductive charisma, so that her every gesture radiated the persona of this dangerous but irresistible gypsy. And, for Carmen\u2019s dancing in Act II at Lillas Pastia\u2019s Inn, Mart\u00ednez led an ensemble of dancers with flair.\u201d\nShe reprised the role of Carmen with Santa Fe Opera in a new production by Stephen Lawless later in the season. She returned to the Vienna Staatsoper as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly in performances conducted by Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, and to the Bayerishe Staatsoper as both Cio-Cio San and as Mimi in La Boh\u00e8me. On the concert stage, she joined Pl\u00e1cido Domingo at the Teatro Real in Madrid and at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro as part of the World Cup celebration, and performed alongside baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky in a gala concert with the Turkish Opera and Ballet Theatre. In addition, she created a unique recital program, accompanied by Craig Terry on piano, that she brought to Vocal Arts DC and to the Broad Stage in Santa Monica.\nDuring the 2012 \u2013 13 season Ms. Mart\u00ednez joined Opera National de Paris in a role debut as Antonia in Offenbach\u2019s Les Contes d\u2019Hoffman, Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich for three engagements: as the title role in Rusalka, as Mimi in La Boh\u00e8me and as Antonia in Les Contes d\u2019Hoffman, and returned to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Mimi, prompting Opera News to rave that \u201cAna Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez contributed a radiantly vulnerable Mimi, consistently employing her darkly-textured lyric soprano with great sensitivity to dynamics and text. \u201cDonde lieta usc\u00ec\u201d emerged as the centerpiece of her interpretation, particularly with a delicate fining away of tone in the final phrases.\u201d In addition, she joined Pl\u00e1cido Domingo for several performances, including for her debut with The Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl, conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, and for gala performances with the New Orleans Opera, Abu Dhabi Festival in the United Arab Emirates, and Arena di Verona in Italy, among others. Concert engagements included performances with the Puerto Rico Symphony at the Casals Festival, San Antonio Symphony, Mercury Baroque in Houston, the Seoul Philharmonic, and with the English National Opera Orchestra in London. In addition, she offered a solo recital with Festival Miami. This season Best Buy and HP honored her as a Latina Trailblazer.\nCareer milestones for the soprano include her headline-making recent role and house debut as Rusalka with the Glyndebourne Festival, a performance that was recording live and released on the Glyndebourne label. Rave reviews for her portrayal include: \u201cWhen Mart\u00ednez sings that \u201cto suffer is to feel alive\u201d in her lustrous, vibrant voice (an intoxicating composite of Slavic darkness and Latin brilliance), you believe her,\u201d (The\n Independent) Additional notable engagements include her performances with The Los Angeles Opera of Amelia in Simon Boccanegra opposite Pl\u00e1cido Domingo in the title role, her debut with The Metropolitan Opera as Mica\u00ebla in Carmen, and her acclaimed role debut as Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Houston Grand Opera in a new production by Tony Award winning director Michael Grandage. Concert engagements were highlighted by her debut at Teatro alla Scala with the Filharmonica della Scala, under the direction of Gustavo Dudamel, the New York Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall in a concert conducted by Alan Gilbert in selections from West Side Story, as well as several engagements in her birth place of Puerto Rico with the Puerto Rico Symphony.\nHighlights of her leading operatic roles in the United States include her performances with Lyric Opera of Chicago as Nedda in Pagliacci, Mimi in La Boh\u00e8me, and Marguerite in Faust, performances with the Los Angeles Opera as Mimi and as Violetta in La Traviata, conducted by Maestro Domingo, and her portrayals of Cio-Cio San in Madama Butterfly with Washington National Opera. She sang Amelia in Simon Boccanegra, Mica\u00ebla in Carmen, and Pamina in Die Zauberfl\u00f6te all with San Francisco Opera, Mimi in La Boh\u00e8mewith Opera de Puerto Rico, and Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus at Dallas Opera. She made her debut with Santa Fe Opera as Fiordiligi in Cos\u00ec fan Tutte, and returned there as Rosina in a new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, and Mimi in La Boh\u00e8me where Opera proclaimed \u201cthe great performance of the festival was the poignant, sterling Mim\u00ec of Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez: every phrase glowing and beautifully sculpted with admirable stylistic mastery.\u201d\nAn alumnae of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Ms. Mart\u00ednez maintains a strong relationship with the house, portraying some of her most beloved characters there, and returning season after season. In addition to her Cio-Cio San debut, additional leading roles in the house include Rosina in a new production of Il barbiere di Siviglia, Nedda in Pagliacci, Mimi in La Boh\u00e8me, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, la Contessa in Le Nozze di Figaro, Li\u00f9 in Turandot, and Lucero in the world premiere of Daniel Cat\u00e1n\u2019s Salsipuedes. To her great honor, she was the inaugural recipient of the Lynn Wyatt Great Artist Award, which is granted by the Houston Grand Opera and Lynn and Oscar Wyatt.\nIn recent seasons, Ms. Mart\u00ednez has portrayed leading roles on Europe\u2019s most important stages including her recent role debut as Alice Ford in Falstaff for a return engagement with the Royal Opera House Covent Garden for which Opera News declared \u201cher radiant soprano moving as accurately and elegantly around the notes as she did in negotiating the physical intricacies of [the] staging,\u201d and The Guardian wrote \u201cAna Maria Mart\u00ednez is a bright-voiced and sexy Alice, a natural leader of women\u2026\u201d Additional performances at Covent Garden include Violetta in La Traviata and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni.\u00a0 She sang Liu in Turandot and Nedda in Pagliacci both with De Nederlandse Opera, the title role in Luisa Miller and the Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro both with the Bayerische Staatsoper. She made her debut with the Hamburg Opera as Blanche in Poulenc\u2019s Dialogues des Carmelites, her debut with the Vienna Staatsoper as Adina in L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore, and her debut with the Deutsche Oper Berlin as the title character in G\u00f6tz Friedrich\u2019s production of Luisa Miller. She joined the Vienna Staatsoper as Pamina in the Die Zauberfl\u00f6te, the Dresden Semper Opera as Mim\u00ec in La Boh\u00e8me, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin as Mim\u00ec, Violetta in La Traviata, and as Donna Elvira in their production of Don Giovanni at at the Festival Castell de Paralada, Spain. She made her debut with the Opera National de Paris as Amelia in a new production of Simon Boccanegra, and returned as the title role in their new production of Luisa Miller. In addition, she portrayed Mimi in La Boh\u00e8 mewith the Abu Dhabi Festival in the United Arab Emirates, for the city\u2019s first ever fully staged opera production.\nFor many seasons Ms. Mart\u00ednez has enjoyed collaborating on multi-city concert tours with tenor Pl\u00e1cido Domingo which has taken them to all corners of the globe.\u00a0 Highlights of their collaboration include concerts at the Ravinia Festival, the Salzburg Festival in an all-Zarzuela concert recored live entitled Amor, Vida de Mi Vida, to a Gala performance at the Teatro Real in Madrid in celebration of the tenor\u2019s birthday, and for a performance at The White House.\u00a0\u00a0 She has also performed on numerous international concert tours with tenor Andrea Bocelli. Highlights of their collaboration include her appearance on the Emmy nominated PBS TV special and DVD American Dream: Andrea Bocelli\u2019s Statue of Liberty Concert with the New Jersey Symphony, as well as her participation in his star-studded performance in New York\u2019s Central Park which was recorded live, broadcast on PBS stations nationwide, and released on DVD and CD in an album entitled Concerto: One Night in Central Park.\nMs. Mart\u00ednez\u2019s dynamic concert career includes solo engagements with some of the world\u2019s most celebrated orchestras and conductors. She has performed with the Tchaikovsky Symphony in Moscow, the Orquestra Sinfonica Brasiliera in Rio de Janeiro, the BBC Symphony at Barbican Hall, and the National Symphony of the Dominican Republic. She joined the Boston Symphony, conducted by Bernard Haitink, Lyric Opera of Chicago for a concert at Millenium Park, and Washington National Opera for a concert with Bryn Terfel conducted by Pl\u00e1cido Domingo. She made her debut with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg for Verdi\u2019s Requiem, and joined the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Gustavo Dudamel. She performed with tenor Joseph Calleja in an open-air televised gala concert with the Esterhazy Festival in Austria, sang at the Ravinia Festival in concert performances as Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte conducted by James Conlon, joined the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, Italy, and has appeared on several occasions with the Casals Festival in Puerto Rico.\nMs. Mart\u00ednez\u2019s recording collection is highlighted by her solo disc, entitled Ana Mar\u00eda Mart\u00ednez \u2013 Soprano Songs and Arias, recorded with the Prague Philharmonia conducted by Steven Mercurio on Naxos, which was selected by Gramophone Magazine as an \u201cEditor\u2019s Choice.\u201d She stars on the Decca DVD Cosi Fan Tutte filmed at the Salzburg Festival and performs the role of Nedda opposite Andrea Bocelli in the Universal CD recording of Pagliacciwhich debuted at #1. DVDs on the Euro Arts label include Spanish Night with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, and Amor, Vida de Mi Vida where she joins Pl\u00e1cido Domingo for Zarzuelas recorded live with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg. In addition, her discography includes a performance on Steven Mercurio\u2019s Sony Classical CD, Many Voices, and the Latin Grammy award-winning recording of Albeniz\u2019s Merlin with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo (Decca), which coincided with the Grammy nominated recording of Bacalov\u2019s Misa Tango with Pl\u00e1cido Domingo (Deutsche Gramophone). Additional recordings include Glass\u2019 La Belle et la B\u00eate and Symphony No. 5(Nonesuch), Albeniz\u2019s Henry Clifford (Decca), Joaquin Rodrigo\u2019s: Obra Vocal I, II, IV & V (EMI), and Daniel Cat\u00e1n\u2019s Florencia en el Amazonas (Albany). Recorded on Naxos for the Milken Archives and with the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, she can be heard on Castelnuovo Tedesco\u2019s Naomi & Ruth Opus 27(Naxos) as well as Yizkor\u2019s Requiem (Naxos) and with the Barcelona Symphony, Marvin Levy\u2019s Canto de los Marranos (Naxos), Julius Chajes\u2019 Old Jerusalem (Naxos) and Hugo Weisgall\u2019s Psalm of the Distant Dove (Naxos). Her rendition of \u201cAve Maria\u201d is heard in the Denzel Washington film \u201cJohn Q,\u201d and her \u201cJe veux vivre\u201d from Romeo et Juliette can be heard in the movie \u201cFactory Girl.\u201d\nA graduate of the Juilliard School with Bachelor and Master of Music degrees and alumna of the Houston Grand Opera Studio, Mart\u00ednez won the Pepita Embil Award at the 1995 Operalia II, first prize in the 1994 Eleanor McCollum Auditions and Awards from Houston Grand Opera, and in the 1993 Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions she was a first place district and first place regional winner and national finalist. Mart\u00ednez has offered candid encouragement to young singers as a contributing editor to Classical Singer Magazine. She is the recipient of the National Association of Latina Leaders\u2019 Groundbreaking Latina in Music award. Her recollections and reflections are profiled in Latino Wisdom: Celebrity Stories of Hope, Inspiration, and Success to Recharge our Mind, Body, and Soul by Cathy Areu, published by Barricade Books.\n|,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Alexandra Dariescu|,|bio|:|Romanian born British pianist and creator of \u201cThe Nutcracker and I\u201d, Alexandra Dariescu dazzles audiences and critics worldwide with her effortless musicality and captivating stage presence. Alexandra\u2019s vision and innovative approach to programming make her stand out as a creative entrepreneur who likes to think differently.\nDariescu\u2019s 2018\/19 season marks a special focus on works by female composers in important milestones including her debut with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and James Gaffigan, performing Nadia Boulanger\u2019s Fantaisie vari\u00e9e at London\u2019s Barbican and a return visit to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Jessica Cottis, performing Germaine Tailleferre\u2019s Ballade for piano and orchestra. Alexandra returns to the Hall\u00e9 Orchestra and Jonathan Heyward (Tchaikovsky 1) and Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle with Daniel Huppert (Rachmaninov 2) while at the Wigmore Hall, Dariescu presents an all-French recital with works by Debussy, Messiaen, Faure, Tailleferre and Lili Boulanger.\nAfter the highly acclaimed premiere of Dariescu\u2019s own production The Nutcracker and I \u2013 a ground-breaking multimedia performance for piano solo with dance and digital animation \u2013 at Barbican\u2019s Milton Court in December 2017 \u2013 Alexandra will take the Nutcracker on a world tour, performing across Europe at Konzerthaus Wien, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Bozar Brussels, Philharmonie Luxembourg, Konserthuset G\u00f6teborg, King\u2019s Place London amongst others as well as touring China, Australia and the Emirates. In addition, Alexandra has just released an audio book of the same name on the Signum label, with the story written by Jessica Duchen and narrated by celebrated TV children presenter Lindsey Russell.\nThis season Alexandra completes her Trilogy of Preludes with Boulanger\/Messiaen\/Faure which compliments the previously released CDs of Chopin\/Dutilleux and Shostakovich\/Szymanowski complete preludes (Champs Hill Records). 2016 saw the release of two concerto discs: Tchaikovsky\u2019s piano concerto No. 1 with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Darrell Ang (Signum Records) and Emily Howard\u2019s Mesmerism (NMC Records), a concerto written especially for Alexandra, which won the British Composer of the Year at the BASCA awards.\nRecently, Alexandra toured with the European Union Youth Orchestra under the baton of Vasily Petrenko after celebrating a range of acclaimed debuts in North America with the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec (Fabien Gabel), Utah Symphony Orchestra (Kazuki Yamada), Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony (Marzena Diakun) and her Chinese debut with the Sichuan Symphony Orchestra (Darrell Ang), as well as two different sold out performances at the Vienna Staatsoper with Angela Gheorghiu and concertos at the Musikverein.\nAlexandra has been mentored by Sir Andr\u00e1s Schiff and Imogen Cooper. After graduating from the Royal Northern College of Music with the Gold Medal, where she studied with Nelson Goerner, Alexander Melnikov, Mark Ray and Dina Parakhina, Alexandra pursued her Masters at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama with Ronan O\u2019Hora. A former artist of the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT), Alexandra was a Laureate at the Verbier Festival Academy and received the UK\u2019s Women of the Future Award in the Arts and Culture category. In 2017 Alexandra was appointed patron of Music in Lyddington, Cultural Ambassador of Romania and Honorary Associate Artist of the Royal Northern College of Music. In spring 2018, Alexandra received the \u201cOfficer of the Romanian Crown\u201d from the Royal Family and was selected as a Young European Leader by Friends of Europe.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Damon Gupton|,|bio|:|A native of Detroit, Michigan, Damon Gupton held the post of assistant conductor of the Kansas City Symphony from 2006 to 2008.\u00a0 Gupton received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Michigan.\u00a0 He studied conducting with David Zinman and Murry Sidlin at the Aspen Music Festival and with Leonard Slatkin at the National Conducting Institute in Washington, D.C. He served as American conducting fellow of the Houston Symphony for the 2004\/2005 season, and has made conducting appearances with the Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s, Detroit Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, The Cincinnati Pops, National Symphony Orchestra, Toledo Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Florida Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Princeton Symphony, Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, NHK Orchestra of Tokyo, Orquesta Filarmonica de UNAM, Brass Band of Battle Creek, New York University Steinhardt Orchestra, Kinhaven Music School Orchestra, Vermont Music Festival Orchestra, Michigan Youth Arts Festival Honors Orchestra and Sphinx Symphony as part of the 12th annual Sphinx Competition.\u00a0 He led the Sphinx Chamber Orchestra on a national tour with performances at Carnegie Hall and a well-reviewed recording available at White Pine Music.\u00a0 He also conducted the finals of the Seventh Cliburn International Amateur Piano Competition. He is a winner of the Third International Eduardo Mata Conducting Competition, held in Mexico City. Musical collaborations include work with Marcus Miller, Kenn Hicks, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Byron Stripling, Tony DeSare, The Midtown Men, Kathleen Battle and Jamie Cullum.\nMr. Gupton has been featured as narrator in many venues including The Cleveland Orchestra, The Grand Teton Music Festival, The Grant Park Music Festival, The Houston Symphony, The Memphis Symphony, and on the The Videmus recording Fare Ye Well. He also narrated a concert version of Beethoven\u2019s Fidelio with David Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.\nAwards include the Robert J. Harth Conducting Prize and The Aspen Conducting Prize.\u00a0 Mr.Gupton is the inaugural recipient of the Emerging Artist Award from the University of Michigan School of Music and Alumni Society.\nAn accomplished actor, Gupton graduated from The Drama Division of the Juilliard School in New York. He has had roles in television, film, and on stage, including the Broadway production of Bruce Norris\u2019 Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Clybourne Park, the Ovation and LA Drama Critic\u2019s Circle award winning Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Mark Taper Forum), Superior Donuts (The Geffen), Christina Anderson\u2019s Inked Baby (Playwrights Horizons), Meg\u2019s New Friend (The Production Company), Wendy Wasserstein\u2019s An American Daughter (Arena Stage), True History and Real Adventures (The Vineyard Theatre), and Treason (Perry Street Theatre), The Story (Public Theater).\u00a0 He also performed the title role of Academy Award-winner Eric Simonson\u2019s Carter\u2019s Way at Kansas City Repertory Theater. Mr. Gupton was featured in title role in the critically acclaimed Heart of America Shakespeare Festival production of Othello. He received an AUDELCO nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Clybourne Park.\nGupton’s television credits include series regular roles on Black Lightning, Criminal Minds, The Player, The Divide, Prime Suspect, and Deadline as well as guest appearances on Goliath, A&E\u2019s Bates Motel, Aaron Sorkin’s The Newsroom, Suits, Empire, Rake starring Greg Kinnear, Law & Order, Law & Order Criminal Intent, Conviction, The Unusuals, Third Watch, Hack, and Drift.\u00a0 He appeared in Damien Chazelle’s Academy Award-winning films Whiplash and LaLa Land, as well as This is Forty, The Last Airbender, Helen at Risk, Before The Devil Knows You\u2019re Dead, Unfaithful, and The Loretta Claiborne Story.\n|,|title|:|narrator|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]} BEETHOVEN Incidental Music from Egmont JIMMY LÓPEZ Dreamers Oratorio BEETHOVEN Choral Fantasy

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data-filter="[2020 05|2020 05|2020 05|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][May|May|May|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS Series|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:9,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1851,|name|:|2019-20|,|slug|:|19-20|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1851,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:52,|filter|:|raw|}]" From action-packed flicks to laugh-out-loud comedies to the most touching dramas, the music of John Williams delights audiences of all generations. Join the Houston Symphony and Chorus for themes from all your blockbuster favorites—Superman, Star Wars, Harry Potter and more—in this musical celebration of the master of film scores. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}