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Internationally known and honored with awards and prizes, Grenadian-Canadian singer, songwriter, and banjo artist Kaia Kater pays homage to the great Zora Neale Hurston, whose novels, short stories, and plays focus on racial struggles in the South in the early 1900s.

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Zora Neale Hurston

Winter Park Events Center

Music Director Eric Jacobsen leads off our Resonate Series with Bach—both the “original” and John Lewis’s take on Johann Sebastian tunes. Then it’s the exuberant first Brandenburg Concerto that grants a star turn to critically acclaimed Patrick Flanaghan (principal English horn of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) playing in the exquisite Adagio. Bach, like other composers of his time, liked to “borrow” from the best. So that meant borrowing from himself, of course! We don’t know what work(s) inspired the BWV 1052 harpsichord concerto, but we do know that it is his best-loved, performed by our Artist-in-Residence. But be warned: the non-stop driving rhythms and virtuosic cadenzas may leave you a little breathless.

Blues on Bach

A classically trained pianist with the creative energy of a jazz performer, Aaron Diehl returns to Orange County in “Paradoxes in Performance,” a program that explores the role of improvisation in both classical and jazz pieces.

Aaron Diehl, piano

Segerstrom Center for the Arts

A classically trained pianist with the creative spirit of a jazz performer, Aaron Diehl fuses together traditional pieces with fresh artistry as he interweaves multiple genres into one exquisite piano recital.  A graduate of Juilliard, Diehl was named the 2011 Cole Porter Fellow by American Pianists Association, in 2014 became the youngest ever Monterey Jazz Festival Commission Artist, and has released two critically acclaimed albums on the Mack Avenue Records label. He has collaborated with living masters across the music spectrum from jazz greats Wynton Marsalis and Benny Golson to 20th century classical titan Philip Glass.

John Lewis

Composer

Events

Feb 3, 2024

Zora Neale Hurston · Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

Feb 1, 2024

Blues on Bach · Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

May 11, 2022

Aaron Diehl, piano · Philharmonic Society of Orange County

May 11, 2022

Aaron Diehl, piano · Segerstrom Center For The Arts

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