Cellist

Experience the grandeur of classical music under the stars at the Grant Park Music Festival's season opener, featuring the world-renowned cellist Alban Gerhardt. This unforgettable evening is set to take place on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, from 6:30 to 8:00 PM at the iconic Jay Pritzker Pavilion. 

The program promises an emotional journey through the strings of Antonín Dvořák's deeply moving Cello Concerto, with Alban Gerhardt's virtuoso performance bringing this masterpiece to life. The evening will also showcase the talents of conductor Carlos Kalmar as he leads the Grant Park Orchestra through Benjamin Britten's enchanting concert suite, The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, and Anna Clyne's vibrant Masquerade.

In this season opener, cello virtuoso Alban Gerhardt returns to the Grant Park Music Festival to play Antonín Dvořák's deeply moving Cello Concerto. Also, Carlos Kalmar conducts Benjamin Britten's irresistible concert suite The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra.

Dvořák Cello Concerto

Millennium Park

The iconic blast of the horns at the beginning of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony is the first of many power-packed moments in this program of dramatic contrasts.

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony

Sydney Opera House

Acclaimed Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz, known for her vibrant instrumental colors and skill with dramatic narrative, wrote her ballet score Revolución diamantina with Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza. The piece explores the powerful Mexican feminist “Glitter Revolution” campaign to highlight an epidemic of violence against women. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky wonderfully depicts love’s passion and an infernal whirlwind in his tone poem Francesca da Rimini, inspired by a historic injustice recounted in Dante’s Inferno. Murdered by her husband, Francesca suffers in the second level of hell for her lustfulness, buffeted by an eternal storm. As a contrast, Alban Gerhardt is soloist in the composer’s charming Variations on a Rococo Theme.

High School Open Rehearsal: Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Ortiz & Tchaikovsky with Alban Gerhardt, cello

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Ortiz & Tchaikovsky with Alban Gerhardt, cello

If you’d like to learn more about the music in our concert programs, Concert Talks are just what you need! Before every Masterworks Concert, the Wichita Symphony Orchestra will present pre-concert talks which help prepare you and deepen your understanding of the music to be performed in the program. Sometimes our guest soloists even join Maestro Hege for a discussion of their concerto collaboration! Free to all ticket holders, Concert Talks take place in the Concert Hall one hour prior to each Masterworks performance.

Alban Gerhardt

Cellist

Events

Jun 12, 2024

Dvořák Cello Concerto · Grant Park Music Festival

2 - 3 Aug, 2024

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony · Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Feb 27, 2025

High School Open Rehearsal: Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Ortiz & Tchaikovsky with Alban Gerhardt, cello · Boston Symphony Orchestra

Feb 27 - Mar 1, 2025

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Ortiz & Tchaikovsky with Alban Gerhardt, cello · Boston Symphony Orchestra

Mar 16, 2025

Dvořák Cello Concerto · Wichita Symphony Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Cello in Cello Concerto by Dvořák

Wichita Symphony Orchestra

Cello in Cello Concerto in A major by Dvořák

Grant Park Music Festival

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