Conductor

The MSU Symphony Orchestra shares the stage with Choral Union, State Singers, and University Chorale to perform a panoramic program depicting different aspects of the sea. Ralph Vaughan Williams used text from poems by Walt Whitman including “The Waves” and “On the Beach at Night, Alone” for his magnificent A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1). The final ripple of the program presents beauty and wonder with Benjamin Britten’s Four Sea Interludes. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors. Generously sponsored by Interim President Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D., and Thomas V. O’Halloran, Ph.D.

Symphony Orchestra And Msu Choirs: Songs Of The Sea

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

The program features a rich selection of works, starting with Jessie Montgomery's "Banner," followed by Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63, with the incredibly talented Lara St. John on the violin. The highlight of the evening will be Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B-flat Major, promising an experience filled with emotional depth and exquisite musicality.

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Beethoven's Fourth

Ithaca College

The annual Honors Concert will feature the winners of the annual competition performing as soloists with the Symphony Orchestra. In addition to the solo works determined after the competition, the program will include Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, a tale of love and fierce rivalries between two teenage street gangs in New York City. Octavio Más-Arocas, conductor.

Symphony Orchestra: Honors Concert And West Side Story

Igor Stravinsky’s collaboration with Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev was among the most powerful and fructuous unions of the 20th century. This concert will include one of the ballet scores Stravinsky wrote for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. The musical prowess of Petrushka, a trickster puppet, reaffirmed Stravinsky as one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors.

Symphony Orchestra: Puppets And Fireflies

More than 300 members from MSU’s Symphony Orchestra and Choirs bring the joy and spirit of the season to life in this holiday music tradition. A concert for the entire family, a variety of holiday favorites are included, from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and Handel’s Messiah, to Anderson’s Sleigh Ride and audience singalong. Jonathan Reed, Sandra Snow, and Octavio Más-Arocas, conductors.

Holiday Cheer With Msu Symphony Orchestra And Choirs

Celebrating the work of guest composer Gabriela Ortiz, this concert will feature her powerful Concierto Voltaje with timpani solo performance by MSU Professor of Percussion Gwendolyn Dease. This rhythmic concert also includes Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonía India) by Carlos Chávez, Sensemayá, for Orchestra by Silvestre Revueltas, and MSU Professor of Composition Ricardo Lorenz’s Todo Terreno, commissioned and premiered in 2022 by the LA Philharmonic. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors. Generously sponsored by Dr. Charles Gliozzo in memory of Marjorie Gliozzo.

Symphony Orchestra: The Power Of Rhythm

Featuring the dazzling Flute Concerto by American composer Kevin Puts, performed by MSU Professor of Flute Richard Sherman. The evening will also include the virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra by Béla Bartók, a true orchestral tour de force that elevates each section of the ensemble. Octavio Más-Arocas and Sally Yu, conductors.

Symphony Orchestra: Virtuosity

Symphony Orchestra shares the stage with Choral Union, State Singers, and University Chorale to perform Symbolum Nicenum from Mass in B Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, Daphnis et Chloé (Suite No. 2), by Maurice Ravel, Missa brevis K. 192 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and selections from A German Requiem by Johannes Brahms. David Rayl and Octavio Más-Arocas, conductors.

Octavio Más-Arocas

Conductor

Events

Past events

Apr 20, 2024

Symphony Orchestra And Msu Choirs: Songs Of The Sea · Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Mar 23, 2024

Beethoven's Fourth · Cayuga Chamber Orchestra

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Symphonic Dances from West Side Story by Bernstein

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Daphnis et Chloé by Ravel

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Concerto for Orchestra by Bartók

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Petrushka by Stravinsky

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Sleigh Ride by Anderson

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Banner by Montgomery

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra

Conductor in Violin Concerto No. 2 by Prokofiev

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra

Conductor in Mass in B minor by Bach

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Symphony No. 2 (Sinfonía India) by Chávez

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Symphony No. 4 by Beethoven

Cayuga Chamber Orchestra

Conductor in Four Sea Interludes by Britten

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in A Sea Symphony by Williams

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Sensemayá by Revueltas

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Messiah by Handel

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in A German Requiem by Brahms

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

Conductor in Missa brevis in F major by Mozart

Wharton Center for Performing Arts

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