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### Event Description: BSO: Gil Shaham Returns

**Event Title:** BSO: Gil Shaham Returns

**Date and Time:** Sunday, April 27, 2025, at 3:00 PM

**Location:** The Music Center at Strathmore

**Event Overview:**
Join the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for an enchanting afternoon of musical storytelling featuring the return of the acclaimed violinist Gil Shaham. Under the baton of conductor Eva Ollikainen, this concert promises to be a masterclass in musical narration and emotional depth.

**Program:**
- **SOFIA GUBAIDULINA:** Fairytale Poem
- **KORNGOLD:** Violin Concerto
- **STRAVINSKY:** Petrushka (1911)

**Featured Artists:**
- **Conductor:** Eva Ollikainen
- **Violinist:** Gil Shaham

**Highlights:**
- **Stravinsky’s Petrushka:** A vivid exploration of Russian folk music, bringing to life the rich inner worlds of dancing puppets.
- **Sofia Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem:** A poignant fable about a piece of chalk that finds liberation through creativity.
- **Korngold’s Violin Concerto:** A dramatic and lyrical piece showcasing Gil Shaham’s warm and poetic tone, evoking Old World romanticism.

**Additional Information:**
- This event is presented by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and not by Strathmore.
- Strathmore is Global Biorisk Advisory Council STAR accredited, ensuring a safe and secure environment for all attendees.

**Tickets:**
- Tickets can be purchased on the BSO website.

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- For more information on directions, parking, and other visitor details, please refer to the "Know Before You Go" section on the Strathmore website.

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Experience an afternoon of extraordinary music and storytelling with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Gil Shaham at The Music Center at Strathmore. Don’t miss this captivating performance!

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Gil Shaham Returns

The Music Center at Strathmore

A masterclass in musical storytelling, Stravinsky’s Petrushka mined Russian folk music to imagine the rich inner lives of dancing puppets. Soviet composer Sofia Gubaidulina crafted her own pointed fable about a piece of chalk that dwindles away in mindless busywork until it is liberated by a creative child, while leading opera and film composer Erich Korngold poured all of his dramatic gifts into his soaringly lyrical Violin Concerto. Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham uses his uniquely warm and poetic tone to kindle the Concerto’s “Old World” romantic sensibility. 

Gil Shaham & Petrushka

Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Boston Symphony Chamber Players

New England Conservatory of Music

Shostakovich was on a chamber music roll when he composed the Quartet No 2 – its Romance tipping the wink to Tchaikovsky and Borodin. Tragedy intrudes on the 11th Quartet which mourns the much-loved Vasily Shirinsky, second violinist of the Beethoven Quartet. And standing at the gateway to Shostakovich’s late style, it’s paired with the lyrical No 14, which breathes the vivacious warmth of its dedicatee, cellist Sergei Shirinsky, and sports a heart-on-sleeve duet Shostakovich called his ‘Italian bit’. The Kyans complete the programme with Gubaidulina’s work about the nature of sound itself.

Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 3

Milton Court Concert Hall

‘I have spent my life trying to create a kind of cathedral of sound’. The words of Sofia Gubaidulina, one of the most significant living composers in the world. Her music, deeply spiritual and dramatic, forms the backbone of tonight’s celebration of International Women’s Day.

In this programme, Anja Bihlmaier makes her Manchester debut as the orchestra’s Principal Guest Conductor and explores this kaleidoscopic programme. There’s the UK premiere of Dreydl by the genre-defying Olga Neuwirth, alongside music from American Sarah Gibson – beyond the beyond is a BBC commission, written as Sarah’s joy at becoming a mother was tempered by a progressive and terminal illness. This performance will see the posthumous premiere of the work.

A Celebration of International Women’s Day

The Bridgewater Hall

Mahler meets Prokofiev in the Quartet No 6, which Shostakovich started to sketch on honeymoon following his marriage to second wife Margarita Kainova. The 12th, composed after a spell of bad health signalled a decisive return of confidence, (‘it’s a symphony, a symphony’ he enthused). It’s inscribed to his devoted friend Dmitri Tsyganov, first violinist of the Beethoven Quartet. The Carduccis end with No 3, one of Shostakovich's finest works and the only one he wrote in 1946, when the Soviet state began a campaign of censorship.

Shostakovich Quartets: Intimate Portraits, Part 2

You can simply go to a concert at the Philharmonie, spontaneously, during your lunch break – and with free admission: every Wednesday at 13:00 between September and June. The programme lasts 40 to 50 minutes: chamber music, piano works or a percussion duo – everything from Tchaikovsky to tango. Members of the Berliner Philharmoniker and the Karajan Academy regularly perform, as well as guests from the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the Staatskapelle Berlin and the Berlin music conservatories. As can be expected at a lunch concert, catering is available from 12 noon until shortly before the concert begins.

Lunch concert

Berliner Philharmoniker

Sofia Gubaidulina's ‘Fairytale Poem’ from 1971, with which the Konzerthausorchester and Joana Mallwitz begin their concert, is, according to the composer, about a little piece of chalk with big dreams of marvellous things that it wants to draw. Unfortunately, it is only used as blackboard chalk at school and is eventually thrown away. A boy finds it and begins to draw castles, gardens and sunsets on the street. The chalk is too happy to realize that it is finally disintegrating.

Konzerthausorchester Berlin, Joana Mallwitz

Konzerthaus Berlin

Hatred, jealousy and loss: Sergei Rachmaninoff creates a dark world with powerful colours in his one-act opera Francesca da Rimini. Against this backdrop, the heroine’s brief happiness in love shines all the more brightly. Kirill Petrenko presents the impassioned score with acclaimed soloists in a concert performance. Sofia Gubaidulina’s work The Wrath of God is almost apocalyptically dramatic. And here, too, it is about the hatred that – says the composer – “grows in this world with such force and intensity that it inevitably touches me.” The programme opens with one of the most popular works of American orchestral music: Samuel Barber’s touching and intimate Adagio for strings.

Kirill Petrenko with Rachmaninoff’s “Francesca da Rimini”

Berliner Philharmonie

He began his career as a member of the Vienna Boys' Choir, then studied piano, first in his hometown of Vienna, then in Hanover, where Igor Levit became his mentor. At the 2022 ARD Music Competition, he not only won first prize, but also seven special prizes.

Rising Star: Lukas Sternath

Museum Ludwig

The Philharmonic State Orchestra, from whose ranks the ensembles for six chamber concerts are formed until the summer, spends most of its time in the pit: at the interface between the singing on stage and the music from below. The fact that text and instrumental sound usually go together extraordinarily well is therefore in the orchestra's blood. For an entire season, the interaction of text and music will also be examined in an intimate chamber music setting. How fitting that many members of the State Opera ensemble could be won over for the series. The Hamburg chamber singer Gabriele Rossmanith will be the first to perform.

1st Chamber Concert

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Leo B. Ruiz Memorial Recital

Carnegie Hall

Swan Lake is the quintessential ballet score — a resplendent fable of dreamlike transformation. Tchaikovsky’s ballet suite caps a program of musical storytelling that includes Gubaidulina’s whimsical Fairytale Poem and Adams’ brightly colored Slonimsky’s Earbox. Vilde Frang makes her instrument sing and soar in Stravinsky’s neoclassical Violin Concerto.

Tchaikovsky Swan Lake

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Wheaton College

NY Phil Principal Clarinet Anthony McGill is the soloist in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, a showcase for the instrument’s expressive ability. Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony stirs the soul with​ rich melodies and dramatic intensity. Rafael Payare conducts this concert, which begins with Sofia Gubaidulina’s tone poem inspired by Miloš Macourek’s The Little Piece of Chalk, an allegory of artistic perseverance​​​.

Anthony McGill, Mozart & the Pathétique

David Geffen Hall

### Event Description: Isata Kanneh-Mason, Piano Recital

**Date and Time:** Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 7:30 PM  
**Venue:** Hill Auditorium, 825 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

**Event Overview:**
Join us for an enchanting evening as UMS’s 146th Annual Choral Union Series opens with a recital debut by the internationally acclaimed pianist, Isata Kanneh-Mason. Known for her dynamic performances and emotional depth, Isata will present a wide-ranging and eclectic recital program that spans 168 years of musical history. This performance marks her first solo recital with UMS, following her previous appearances with her younger brother, cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason.

**Program:**
- **Joseph Haydn:** Piano Sonata No. 60 in C Major, Hob. XVI:50
- **Clara Schumann:** Nocturne in F Major, Op. 6, No. 2
- **Carl Nielsen:** Chaconne, Op. 32
- **Sofia Gubaidulina:** Chaconne
- **Frédéric Chopin:** Piano Sonata No. 3 in b minor, Op. 58

**About the Artist:**
Isata Kanneh-Mason is a Decca Classics recording artist and has garnered international acclaim for her solo and chamber music performances. Her debut album, "Romance: The Piano Music of Clara Schumann," topped the UK classical charts and received high praise from Gramophone magazine. Isata's repertoire is diverse, ranging from classical composers like Haydn and Mozart to 20th-century American works. She has performed in prestigious venues across Europe and has received numerous awards, including the Leonard Bernstein Award and an Opus Klassik award for best young artist.

**Tickets:**
- **Season Ticket Packages:** Available now
- **Individual Event Tickets:** On sale starting August 1
- **Discounts:** Student, Senior, and Group discounts may be available

**Sponsors:**
- **Supporting Sponsor:** Gil Omenn and Martha Darling
- **Additional Sponsors:** Anthony Reffells, Matthew VanBesien, and Rosie Jowitt

**Contact Information:**
- **Box Office:** 734-764-2538
- **Website:** [UMS University Musical Society](https://www.ums.org)

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the extraordinary talent of Isata Kanneh-Mason in a program that promises to be both emotionally stirring and musically diverse. Secure your tickets early and be part of a memorable evening at Hill Auditorium.

Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

University of Michigan

Isata Kanneh-Mason opens the season with a powerful solo debut following two sold-out chamber music performances at Shriver Hall Concert Series. “A profound and greatly gifted artist who radiates warmth, joy, and much-needed musical sunshine” (Gramophone), the chart-topping British pianist performs an inventive program featuring a bravura Haydn work and Chopin’s masterful final sonata, a thrilling journey of virtuosity and emotional depth.

Johns Hopkins University

Signature Performance: EMF Classical Guitar Summit

Temple Emanuel

Sheku Kanneh-Mason makes his Orchestral Series debut with Dmitri Shostakovich’s subtly sinister Cello Concerto No. 1. Shostakovich once told Sofia Gubaidulina that his wish for her was always to continue along her “mistaken path”, turning a critical remark from her Soviet censors into a virtue. Her poignant Fairytale Poem portrays a small piece of chalk in the hand of a child who draws “castles, gardens with pavilions and the sea with the sun on the pavement.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen & Sheku Kanneh-Mason

Davies Symphony Hall

 Ojai Dawns

Besant Hill School

Morning Concert

Libbey Park

Music Director Jaap van Zweden conducts Mozart’s timeless Requiem, a work of great poignance and emotional depth. Also on the program is Sofia Gubaidulina’s eerie Viola Concerto featuring soloist Antoine Tamestit. The composer famously said, “The peculiar mysteriousness and veiled quality of the viola’s timbre has always been something of an acoustic enigma to me, and an object of rapture.”

The Mozart Requiem and Sofia Gubaidulina’s Viola Concerto

Lincoln Center

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony maps a journey from darkness to light, reflecting the crisis of his collapsed marriage. It’s an emotional white-knuckle ride, from the blazing opening brass fanfare – through pain, anguish, daydreams and nostalgia – ending in hard-won triumph.

Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody

Barbican Centre

Rafael Payare leads this brilliant Romantic-meets-Modern program that opens with Sofia Gubaidulina’s dynamic Fairytale Poem. Jean-Yves Thibaudet brings his dazzling style and theatricality to 20th-century composer Maurice Ravel’s Piano Concerto. The second half features Beethoven’s towering Symphony No. 3—an ode to heroism, revolution and freedom. The “Eroica” is considered by many to be the greatest of not just Beethoven’s symphonies, but the greatest symphony of all time.

Beethoven's Eroica

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Music Center

Von Liebe und Erleuchtung kündet dieses Forum N des hr-Sinfonieorchesters Frankfurt rund um die große »Mystikerin« der musikalischen Avantgarde Sofia Gubaidulina, aber auch von Düsternis und Hass. Der Glaube ist das zentrale Thema im Leben und in der Musik Gubaidulinas, die sich 1970 russisch-orthodox taufen ließ. Ihre Verbundenheit mit dem göttlichen Kosmos prägt ihr gesamtes Schaffen und offenbart sich in zahlreichen religiös inspirierten Werktiteln. So auch in »Der Zorn Gottes«, ihrem 2020 uraufgeführten »grandios apokalyptischen Orchesterwerk« (Süddeutsche Zeitung), in dem sich Gubaidulina mit dem Thema des Jüngsten Gerichts auf ein immer wieder auftauchendes Motiv der Bibel bezieht und dieses klanggewaltig in Szene setzt. Zuvor widmet sich die lettische Violinistin Baiba Skride Gubaidulinas 3. Violinkonzert »Dialog: Ich und Du«, das vom gleichnamigen Buch Martin Bubers aus dem Jahr 1923 inspiriert wurde. Unter der Leitung des Franzosen Maxime Pascal treten die beiden Kompositionen Gubaidulinas dabei in Beziehung zu Olivier Messiaens leuchtendem Orchesterwerk »L’Ascension« über die Himmelfahrt Christi und zur kompositorischen Strenge der Sinfonie in drei Sätzen von Igor Strawinsky.

Love and Hate

Bertramstraße 8

“They are four classical musicians performing with the energy of young rock stars jamming on their guitars, a Beethoven-goes-indie foray into making classical music accessible but also celebrating why it was good in the first place.” —Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Brooklyn Rider

Owen Arts Center

The exciting Venezuelan conductor Domingo Hindoyan leads the LA Phil in Prokofiev’s majestic Fifth Symphony, conceived by the composer as “glorifying the grandeur of the human spirit” set against the backdrop of World War II drawing to a close. Khatia Buniatishvili is “an extraordinary pianist with a magnificent technique, an inherent musicality and … a genuine musical personality” (Los Angeles Times), and the Georgian pianist returns for Rachmaninoff’s heart-on-its-sleeve Second Piano Concerto.

Prokofiev and Rachmaninoff

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Tonight's NEC Philharmonia concert, led by guest conductor Shiyeon Sung, features Gubaidulina's Fairytale Poem, Hindemith's Violin Concerto performed by one of the winners of the Concerto Competition, and Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 6 in D Major.

NEC Philharmonia + Shiyeon Sung: Gubaidulina, Hindemith, Dvořák

New England Conservatory

Join us for an extraordinary evening of contemporary music with the "musica viva: Duncan Ward & Lawrence Power" concert, presented by the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. This captivating event will take place on Friday, 23rd February 2024, at 8:00 pm in the majestic Herkulessaal of the Munich Residence. An introduction to the evening's program will be offered at 6:45 pm, providing deeper insights into the performances.

The concert will feature an exceptional program, including Charles Ives' "Central Park in the Dark" and Sofia Gubaidulina's "Concerto for Viola and Orchestra," framing the world premiere of Minas Bourbodakis' "sparks, waves and horizons for orchestra." This piece, commissioned by Bavarian Radio’s musica viva series with the support of the Freunde des BRSO e. V., promises to be a highlight of the evening. Additional works by Milica Djordjević, including "Mali svitac for orchestra" and "Čvor for winds, brass, piano, and percussion," will also be featured.

Under the baton of internationally acclaimed guest conductor Duncan Ward, with Lawrence Power on viola, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks will bring these innovative compositions to life. The concert is a part of the Bavarian Radio's musica viva series, renowned for being a premier forum for future-oriented and contemporary music.

Don't miss this opportunity to experience the cutting edge of orchestral music. Tickets are available online via the BRticket-Webshop. For more information, contact the ticket hotline or visit the official website. Join us for an evening that promises to be a memorable exploration of modern musical landscapes.

musica viva: Duncan Ward & Lawrence Power

Munich Residence

Young British conductor Adam Hickox returns to the BBC Symphony Orchestra. He conducts Stravinsky’s colourful ballet Petrushka as well as Sofia Gubaidulina’s Fairytale Poem, based on The Little Piece of Chalk, a fairy-tale by the Czech writer, Miloš Macourek. And the concert begins with music from Dame Ethel Smyth’s 1906 opera The Wreckers.

Adam Hickox conducts Stravinsky’s Petrushka

BBC Maida Vale Studios

Community Chamber Concert

Hibernian Hall

Everett Haitian Community Center

Death and Transfiguration

Artis–Naples

Drawing on Native American and African American musical themes and Bohemian folk tunes, Dvorák’s masterpiece weaves a unique musical tapestry that remains one of the most popular works of classical music. Chopin's romantic Piano Concerto No. 2 features French pianist David Fray.

New World Symphony

Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall

Drawing on Native American and African American musical themes as well as Bohemian folk tunes, Dvořák’s masterpiece weaves a unique musical tapestry that remains one of the most popular works of classical music

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

Juxtaposing beloved and familiar works with the new and unknown, Brooklyn Rider explores a boundless sandbox of musical creativity, dialogue, and play: the medium of the string quartet itself. They begin with one of the prototypical jewels of the classical era, Haydn’s C Major score, which is chock-full of pioneering inventiveness and radiates an enduring love for the genre. The program segues from the veritable father of the string quartet to a highly anticipated new chapter of the Brooklyn Rider Almanac. In part inspired by Der Blaue Reiter (the quartet’s namesake), this celebration of the project’s tenth anniversary adds to a diverse and novel body of works penned by luminous musical creators. Next, Sofia Gubaidulina paints an otherworldly sound gate to the baroque, paving the way for Schumann’s earthy string quartet in A Minor. Utterly individual in its conception, this masterful work came forth after a period studying the counterpoint of perhaps the greatest musical inventor of them all: J.S. Bach.

American Philosophical Society

Study concert with accordion students under Geir Draugsvoll

Study concert with accordion students

DKDM

Among the world’s leading violinists over the past 5 decades, Gidon Kremer has established and sustained a worldwide reputation as one of the most original and compelling artists of his generation. He has appeared on almost every major concert stage as recitalist and with the most celebrated orchestras of Europe and North America, and has worked with many of the greatest conductors of the past half century.  After winning a series of prestigious awards, including the Queen Elisabeth Competition and first prize in both the 1969 Paganini and 1970 Tchaikovsky International Competitions, his career erupted.

Gidon Kremer

Shalin Liu Performance Center

Seong-Jin Cho, making his Symphony Center Presents debut, brings “world-class technique, polished to a high sheen of expression” (Los Angeles Times) to a wide-ranging program pairing Handel’s E Major Suite with Brahms’ Handel Variations. The afternoon culminates in Schumann’s mercurial Symphonic Etudes.

Seong-Jin Cho at Chicago Symphony Center

Symphony Center

Mingyu Shao (M.M. '23) presents a piano recital.

Student Recital: Mingyu Shao, Piano

Boston Conservatory at Berklee

Different natural worlds, including perspectives from bottom of the sea and the intricacies of a garden, form a musical lens of works for flute, viola and harp by Miguel del Águila, Arnold Bax, and Sofia Gubaidulina.

6th Hallam Family Concert – “Looking Up”

Sammons Center for the Arts

As The Wall Street Journal writes, “Cho is a master. He displayed an impressive variety of tonal colors and remarkable technique, dispatched with jaw-dropping panache. He had something to say and communicated it well.” Experiencing this range of material from a master like Cho in the intimacy of a solo recital is truly special and unforgettable.

Seong-Jin Cho

After making his acclaimed Seattle Symphony debut as part of Celebrate Asia in 2019, rising star Seong-Jin Cho returns to Benaroya Hall in a solo recital that showcases the Romantic sound worlds of Johannes Brahms and Robert Schumann.

Benaroya Hall

Festival Program II

Severance Music Center

Festival Program I

Young British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason’s recording debut of the works of Clara Schumann had an auspicious launch at No. 1 on the U.K. Classical Charts in 2019. Gramophone proclaimed it “one of the most charming and engaging debuts.” She has seven musical siblings—including cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason—who are fast becoming Britain’s first family of classical music.

Isata Kanneh - piano

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

Christoph Sietzen is an award-winning multi-percussionist and a celebrated soloist in dialogue with large orchestras. But he also loves chamber music. In Cologne he will perform with Tabea Zimmermann, queen of the viola, and with harpsichord artist Mahan Esfahani.

Christoph Sietzen & Friends

Femmes Fortes

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud

Off into the musical ring! Pablo Heras-Casado conquers Wagner, Artist in Residence Antoine Tamestit puts Gubaidulina's viola concerto in a new light - on May 30 and 31 with the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra.

International Music Festival: Pablo Heras-Casado & Antoine Tamestit

Instantly recognizable thanks to its use throughout pop culture, Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet soars with tender poetry and heart-on-sleeve passion. Blazing with originality and raw intensity, Sofia Gubaidulina’s In Tempus Praesens (“For the Present Time”) is one of those works that must be witnessed live, and a spectacular experience awaits you with rising-star violinist Alexi Kenney. And, get swept away on a sea of glorious sound in Scriabin’s earth-shattering Poem of Ecstasy.

Sofia Gubaidulina

Composer

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Apr 29, 2025

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Apr 27, 2025

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