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Orchestrated by David Canfield, the world’s authority on all manifestations of this great work, as a tribute to Sinfonia da Camera in its 40th season

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Sinfonia Da Camera: From Ukraine To The Great Gate Of Kiev

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Acclaimed violinist and Champaign-Urbana native Lucia Lin returns to perform Korngold's violin concerto, which incorporates themes from his beloved film scores.

Sinfonia Da Camera With Lucia Lin, Violin

Sinfonia da Camera presents an evening of intimate—and adventurous—20th-century chamber music featuring their illustrious principal musicians. The evening begins with the most popular of Milhaud’s more than 400 compositions, Scaramouche for two pianos. Orchestra percussion stars William Moersch and Ricardo Flores join to present a performance of Bela Bartok’s Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. The three-movement work experiments with the many varied sounds the piano and the percussion can produce together. Featuring principal oboist John Dee, William Grant Still’s Incantation and Dance for Oboe and Piano follows intermission with a melancholy evocation of a distant land that transitions to a joyful pentatonic dance. The evening concludes with Poulenc’s charming and exuberant Sextet for Piano and Woodwind Quintet. 

Sinfonia Da Camera: 20th-century Chamber Gems

The Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic will be using several of the Violins of Hope instruments during this performance. Violins of Hope Greater Pittsburgh, is a landmark community project centered on the valuable lessons of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Over the course of two months, through educational and cultural programs, this unique project will use lessons of the Holocaust to demonstrate humanity’s amazing ability to rebound from even the darkest depravity. The centerpiece of this project will be an exhibit of stringed instruments that were played by Jewish prisoners in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. This exhibit will be free to the public and housed at the Posner Center on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. There, trained docents will facilitate an understanding of the role that music played in the life of prisoners, whether as a mechanism for survival, mental escape, or even resistance. The mere existence of each instrument merits a story of hope and survival. Together, we are tuning out prejudice and building bridges that last. For more information on the exhibit that runs through November 21, visit violinsofhopepittsburgh.com

Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic: Featuring Violins of Hope

Carnegie Mellon University

Sinfonia da Camera and Lyric Theatre @ Illinois come together to bring one of the world’s most beloved operettas to the Krannert Center stage. Deception, confusion, and mistaken identities abound, and a masked ball becomes the setting for hilarious folly among Viennese high society. Lightly staged, sung in English.

Sinfonia Da Camera And Lyric Theatre @ Illinois Present: Die Fledermaus

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Sinfonia Da Camera: Vive La France!

In their 39th season finale, Sinfonia da Camera presents an eclectic collection of works by Fauré, Mendelssohn, and Mahler. The program opens with Fauré’s Pelléas et Mélisande Suite, assembled from incidental music he composed in 1898 for a performance in London of Maeterlinck’s Symbolist play about forbidden love, Pelléas et Mélisande. Sinfonia da Camera then welcomes violinist, Andrés Cárdenes, in a performance of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto in E minor. One of the most performed and beloved violin concertos, Mendelssohn’s work displays deep romantic feeling, melodic polish, and refinement and would influence the development and evolution of the concerto for the next century. The 39th season concludes with Mahler’s heavenly Symphony No. 4. Composed in 1899-1900 while he was consumed with the Herculean task of running Vienna’s Imperial Opera, Mahler managed to sketch the whole work in just 10 days! Maestro Hobson invites you celebrate Sinfonia da Camera’s 39th season finale with one of Mahler’s most hopeful and uplifting symphonies.

Sinfonia Da Camera Season Finale: Mahler’s Fourth Symphony

Sinfonia da Camera presents an evening of evocative musical imagery inspired by English painters, poets, and playwrights! A depiction of Thomas Rowlandson's painting of the same name, Walton's Portsmouth Point Overture portrays the seaside bustle of the busy port town in southern England as ships prepare for departure. The title of Frank Bridge's There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook is drawn from Shakespeare's Hamlet in which Queen Gertrude describes the tragic circumstances in which the drowned Ophelia was discovered. The first half concludes with arguably Coates' most well-known work, London Everyday Suite, depicting London's Convent Garden, Westminster, and Knightsbridge areas. Following intermission, as part of a continuing collaboration with Lyric Theatre @ Illinois, the evening continues with a lightly-staged production of Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury. A comic opera depicting a "breach of marriage" trial, this farcical production ultimately concludes in an unexpected new marriage and "joy unbounded!"

Sinfonia Da Camera: English Painters, Poets, And Playwrights

This performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral”, continues Sinfonia's multi-year Beethoven cycle. Although the problem of representing nature’s beauties in music held challenges and difficulties for Beethoven, this symphony has become a touchstone. On a violin part used at the first performance, a handwritten note, presumably quoting the composer, reads, “Recollection of life in the country—more an expression of feeling than a depiction.” Following intermission, Sinfonia da Camera is joined by cellist Ko Iwasaki in a performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104, widely considered the greatest cello concerto ever written. Composed in the United States, but without the American folk melodies that Dvorák included in his other American works, it presumably betrays the composer’s longing for his homeland and foretells his decision to return home.

Sinfonia Da Camera: Ko Iwasaki Performs Dvořák

This program is bookended by Romantic masterpieces from Rimsky-Korsakov and Dvořák and, between the two, celebrates the great American composer, George Walker. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Capriccio Espagnol, with virtuoso cadenzas for solo instruments and sparklingly brilliant Spanish themes, was described by Tchaikovsky as “a colossal masterpiece of instrumentation.” In honor of George Walker’s centennial celebration, Sinfonia da Camera will then be joined by pianist Rochelle Sennet for a performance of Walker’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra. Having recorded 6 Volumes of his music, including this work with Ms. Sennet and Sinfonia Varsovia, Maestro Hobson wishes to share with you his great personal and musical connection to George Walker. The evening concludes with Dvorák’s acclaimed Symphony No. 7. Although the New World Symphony (Symphony No. 9) has greater popularity, many critics and historians contend that Symphony No. 7 is his best. Join Sinfonia da Camera for an evening of Romantic—and American—masterpieces!

Ian Hobson

Conductor

Events

Mar 24, 2024

Sinfonia Da Camera: From Ukraine To The Great Gate Of Kiev · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Feb 17, 2024

Sinfonia Da Camera With Lucia Lin, Violin · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Nov 28, 2023

Sinfonia Da Camera: 20th-century Chamber Gems · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Nov 5, 2023

Carnegie Mellon Philharmonic: Featuring Violins of Hope · Carnegie Mellon University School of Music

Oct 28, 2023

Sinfonia Da Camera And Lyric Theatre @ Illinois Present: Die Fledermaus · Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Mahler

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Conductor in Cello Concerto by Dvořák

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Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff

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Conductor in Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky

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Conductor in Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakov

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Conductor in España by Chabrier

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Conductor in Piano Concerto No. 2 by Saint-Saëns

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Conductor in The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Dukas

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Conductor in Portsmouth Point Overture by Walton

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Piano in Piano Concerto No. 1 by Mendelssohn

Carnegie Mellon University School of Music

Piano in Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion by Bartók

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Conductor in Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun by Debussy

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Conductor in Flute Concertino by Chaminade

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Conductor in Pelléas et Mélisande suite by Fauré

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Conductor in Violin Concerto in E Minor by Mendelssohn

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Conductor in Symphony No. 1 by Prokofiev

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Conductor in Symphony No. 7 by Dvořák

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Conductor in Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by Walker

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Conductor in Symphony No.6 by Beethoven

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Conductor in There is a Willow Grows Aslant a Brook by Bridge

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