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Remnants for Poet and Orchestra

Grammy-nominated pianist Joyce Yang brings her ‘vivid and beautiful playing’ (New York Times) to a program that excites on every level.

Joyce Yang Performs Grieg’s Piano Concerto

Sydney Opera House

Experience the electrifying fusion of Barber & Rachmaninoff with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, under the enchanting baton of guest conductor Kevin John Edusei. This mesmerizing concert is set to take place on Thursday, 13 June 2024, at 7:30pm in the prestigious Symphony Hall, Birmingham.

Prepare for an evening where soaring melodies, jangling cymbals, and the unparalleled cello mastery of Alisa Weilerstein come alive. The program promises a starburst of energy and color, featuring Dvořák’s vibrant "Carnival Overture," Barber’s intensely emotional Cello Concerto, and Rachmaninoff’s majestic Third Symphony—a nostalgic ode with unforgettable tunes and a big-band swing.

Tickets are priced between £26 and £59, with a per-ticket commission of £3.50 for tickets over £15, ensuring your seat at this not-to-be-missed event. The concert also offers various ways to save, including multi-buy discounts and reduced prices for students, 18-30s, under-18s, and benefit recipients.

Spanning approximately 2 hours with a 20-minute interval, this concert is a celebration of classical music’s power to evoke deep emotions and vivid landscapes. Don’t miss this opportunity to witness the magic of Barber & Rachmaninoff, brought to life by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Barber & Rachmaninoff

The International Convention Centre

Superstar pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet performs Gershwin’s jazzy Piano Concerto in F. The season ends with Fate knocking on the door one more time when Kevin John Edusei conducts Beethoven’s immortal Fifth Symphony. 

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Beethoven's Fifth & Thibaudet Plays Gershwin

Hilbert Circle Theatre

As a child prodigy, she was called “one in a million” by conductor Zubin Mehta. As a psychology student, she wrote a master’s thesis on pain. As an activist, she won the Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum at Davos and spoke before the U.N. As a performer, she is indomitable, playing dozens of concerts a year. The one and only Midori returns to Aspen for Bartók’s Second Violin Concerto. Bartók wrote the piece in 1938 as Hungary was forming an alliance with Nazi Germany, and it’s often heard as a musical farewell to his native land. The first movement has a dark, brooding atmosphere, the second a dreamy hypnotic character, and the finale is a virtuosic showcase for the soloist full of folk-inspired melodies and rhythmic twists and turns.

Festival Orchestra: Midori, Pictures at an Exhibition

Michael Klein Music Tent

As an adventurous young lad, the composer Richard Strauss lost his way climbing up one of the Alps. Later, at the height of his compositional powers, he captured that experience in a piece of symphonic music that details eleven hours, dawn to nightfall, of a treacherous climb.  FWSO Principal Guest Conductor Kevin John Edusei will open the concert with Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni, which pivots from high melodrama to a more comic tone, and a rarely heard modernist treat by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky.

Mozart and Strauss

Sundance Square

Jean-Yves Thibaudet Plays Ravel

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

State Theatre New Jersey

Princeton University

Strauss’ tone poem Don Juan is a bold musical retelling of the story of a serial womanizer. After alternating fiery bravura passages with more romantic themes and solos, Juan’s music sighs in death at the hands of his lover’s father. Principal Guest Conductor Kevin John Edusei conducts this program, which also features FWSO Concertmaster Michael Shih and Principal Violist DJ Cheek in Mozart’s bright Sinfonia Concertante and Sibelius’ stirring fifth symphony, about which the composer wrote: “It was as if God the Father was throwing pieces of mosaic from the edge of heaven.”

The FWSO’s Michael Shih and DJ Cheek: Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante

Makato Ozone delivers his "thrilling, unabashedly personal rendition" (New York Times) of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue — a jazzy, kaleidoscopic tribute to the kinetic energy of America's cities in the 1920s. And composed the same year as the Gershwin, Bartók's Miraculous Mandarin channels the turmoil of post–World War I Europe in a scandalous tale of sex, violence, and the supernatural.

Kevin John Edusei

Conductor

Events

18 - 19 May, 2024

Joyce Yang Performs Grieg’s Piano Concerto · Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Jun 13, 2024

Barber & Rachmaninoff · City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

21 - 22 Jun, 2024

Beethoven's Fifth & Thibaudet Plays Gershwin · Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

Aug 4, 2024

Festival Orchestra: Midori, Pictures at an Exhibition · Aspen Music Festival

27 - 29 Sep, 2024

Mozart and Strauss · Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra

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