Saint-Saëns wrote his Second Piano Concerto in three weeks, leaving very little time to prepare for its premiere. With its dazzling stylistic changes, it has grown to become the most popular of the composer’s piano concertos.

Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin started life as a suite for solo piano but was later orchestrated by the composer and it is this arrangement that the Hallé will present. It is a delicately intimate work with each of its six movements dedicated to friends of the composer who had died in the First World War.

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The Hallé - Saint-Saëns' Second Piano Concerto

The Bridgewater Hall

A Memo from the Maestro: We're off to Paris, and the Romantic Age, for our debut concert of the season at the Viterbo Fine Arts Center.  Following the LSO's knockout performance of the Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, we celebrate his next great work from the 1830s, his passionate rendering of Shakespeare's timeless tale.  Back from her cancelled engagement due to COVID, American pianist Lucille Chung finally makes her debut with our Symphony in the famously intense concerto from the man most famous for The Carnival of the Animals.  The evening concludes with another knockout, the legendary Overture to Richard Wagner's early opera RIENZI, which took Paris by storm in 1869.

Romeo and Juliet

Viterbo University Fine Arts Center

The young artists’ who appear in this concert are admired by many for their maturity of spirit and facility of technique. One can hardly believe the talent and dedication exhibited by these young people. Young Artists’ Competition performances are surrounded by two well-loved and thrillingly colorful works by Italian composers Respighi and Rossini, as well as a newly reimagined premiere of a vibrant work by our own principal trombonist Randy Stokes. With the Respighi, especially, Dakota Valley Symphony will bring the largest orchestra in recent memory and experiment with surround-sound in the Ames Center.

Young Artists' Concert

Ames Center

Student Chamber Music Recital

Timashev Recital Hall

Study concert with piano students under Jens Elvekjær

Study concert with piano students

DKDM

Symphonic Frights

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

With a celebrated career encompassing five decades, Pinchas Zukerman reigns as one of today's most sought after and versatile musicians.  A prodigious talent recognized worldwide for his artistry, Zukerman has been an inspiration to young musicians throughout his adult life. In a continuing effort to motivate future generations through education and outreach, the renowned violin and viola soloist, conductor, and chamber musician teamed up in 2002 with four protégés to form a string quintet called the Zukerman Chamber Players. The quintet amassed an impressive international touring schedule with close to two hundred concerts and four discs on the CBC, Altara and Sony labels

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Nov 7, 2024

The Hallé - Saint-Saëns' Second Piano Concerto · The Bridgewater Hall

Oct 19, 2024

Romeo and Juliet · La Crosse Symphony Orchestra

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