Conductor

Other Minds is pleased to welcome back Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies for a benefit recital of solo and piano four-hands music to celebrate Davies’ 80th birthday at the McCarthy Art Studio in San Francisco’s Mission District on Friday, March 22, 2024. The address will be provided with your ticket confirmation. The 8:00pm performance will be preceded by a dessert reception at 7:00pm in honor of Davies’ milestone birthday. This benefit for Other Minds will have only 80 tickets available at a sliding scale, with a limited number available at each level, so get yours soon!

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Dennis Russell Davies 80th Birthday Keyboard Benefit Concert

SMAart Gallery & Studio

Widely considered to be one of the most innovative and adventurous conductors/programmers in the classical music world, Chief Conductor and Artistic Director Dennis Russell Davies leads the Czech Republic’s own Filharmonie Brno  in a program that includes The Soraya’s first-ever performance of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, better known as the New World  Symphony. Composed as Dvořák toured the US in the 1890s, the piece with its majestic fanfares, rich harmonies, and brilliant melodies, is widely considered to be the composer’s love letter to America. The pastoral landscape and folklore of Eastern Europe and America are further brought to life through the music of Czech composers Janáček, and Martinů.

Filharmonie Brno

Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts

Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Filharmonie Brno

McCallum Theatre

For more than a half century, renowned American conductor Dennis Russell Davies has conducted many of the world’s finest orchestras and opera companies and is widely considered one of the most innovative and adventurous conductors in the classical music world. In 2018, Maestro Davies became the Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of the Filharmonie Brno, an orchestra with roots that go back to the 1870s, when then-young composer Leoš Janáček endeavored to establish a Czech symphony orchestra in Brno (the traditional capital of Moravia), now the second largest city in the Czech Republic after Prague. The present orchestra was created in 1956 and has been among the leading Czech orchestras in both size and importance, where the programing of works by Janáček has always been at the core of the orchestra’s repertory. Appropriately, Maestro Davies’s stimulating CAMA concert will feature an outstanding All‑Czech Program of works by three of the greatest Czech composers: Janáček, Dvořák, and Martinů. Maki Namekawa is a leading figure among today’s pianists, bringing to audiences’ attention contemporary music by international composers. In 2019 Philip Glass composed his first Piano Sonata especially for Maki Namekawa, which she premiered that year at Piano‑Festival Ruhr.

Granada Theatre

In 2020, conductor Dennis Russell Davies became chief conductor of the Brno Philharmonic, which was founded in 1956 and serves as a living tribute to Leoš Janáček’s music. Janáček was educated in Brno and spent most of his life there, and his extensive experience working with and composing for choirs was evident in his compositions.

Dennis Russell Davies

Conductor

Events

Past events

Mar 22, 2024

Dennis Russell Davies 80th Birthday Keyboard Benefit Concert · New Music USA

Feb 15, 2023

Filharmonie Brno · The Soraya

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Taras Bulba by Janáček

CAMA

Conductor in Symphony No. 6 by Dvořák

CAMA

Conductor in Sinfonietta “La Jolla" by Martinů

CAMA

Conductor in Sinfonietta by Janáček

University Musical Society

Conductor in Glagolitic Mass by Janáček

University Musical Society

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