Conductor

Under the batons of Salonen Fellows Mert Yalniz and Aleksandra Melaniuk, soloists from the Conservatory perform concerto movements with the Colburn Orchestra. The program features clarinet, viola, horn, and violin virtuosos in works by Rossini, Walton, Strauss, and Shostakovich.

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Colburn Orchestra: Concerto Forum

Colburn School

Despite being a friend and contemporary of Shostakovich, Mieczysław Weinberg and his musical genius went unrecognized for much of the 20th century due to Soviet-Era suppression. This concert highlights three of Weinberg’s more than 150 works: a playful flute concerto, a concertino for violin and string orchestra, and a dramatic chamber symphony.

Recovered Voices: The Music of Poland

Colburn Orchestra: Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Ambassador Auditorium

The season opens with an evening of soulful masterworks rife with musical and emotional turmoil. In Nielsen’s single-movement concerto, the virtuosic clarinet wages war with an insistent snare drum while the work shifts between key signatures, textures, and styles. The battle continues in Brahms’s Third Symphony, which exudes the composer’s characteristic angst as it alternates between major and minor, outcries and whispers. The tragic tale of loss and longing told in the prelude to Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde rounds out the program.  

Colburn Orchestra: Brahms Symphony No. 3

Salonen Conducting Fellow Aleksandra Melaniuk conducts students of the Colburn Conservatory in a program of 20th century works inspired by folk music. Featuring Khatchaturian’s Violin Concerto, performed by Alena Hove, and Kodaly’s Dances of Galánta. 

Aleksandra Melaniuk

Conductor

Events

Past events

Mar 22, 2025

Colburn Orchestra: Concerto Forum · Colburn School

Mar 15, 2025

Recovered Voices: The Music of Poland · Colburn School

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Violin Concerto by Tchaikovsky

Colburn School

Conductor in Violin Concerto No. 1 by Shostakovich

Colburn School

Conductor in Horn Concerto No. 2 by Strauss

Colburn School

Conductor in Symphony No. 6 by Shostakovich

Colburn School

Conductor in Concertino for Violin and String Orchestra by Weinberg

Colburn School

Conductor in Viola Concerto by Walton

Colburn School

Conductor in Flute Concerto No. 1 by Weinberg

Colburn School

Conductor in Introduction, Theme, and Variations by Rossini

Colburn School

Conductor in Chamber Symphony No. 1 by Weinberg

Colburn School

Conductor in Painting the Floor by Gibson

Colburn School

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