Seong-Jin Cho

Zubin Mehta

CAMA

Los Angeles Philharmonic

The Dallas Symphony Orchestra, led by Music Director Fabio Luisi, concludes CAMA’s International Series with a program of Romantic masterpieces. The concert features the renowned pianist (and local favorite) Hélène Grimaud performing Schumann’s Piano Concerto, a work of passionate lyricism and dramatic intensity.

The program concludes with Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, a work that journeys from earthly concerns to celestial visions. Soprano Sofia Fomina joins the orchestra for the final movement, a setting of a poem from Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youth’s Magic Horn). This performance promises a powerful and uplifting conclusion to CAMA’s 107th concert season!

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Granada Theatre

One of the world’s leading conductors, Zubin Mehta, has been an influential and beloved artistic leader for the Los Angeles Philharmonic over the past seven decades. He was honored with the title of Conductor Emeritus during its 2018/19 Centennial season. He first conducted the orchestra in Los Angeles in January 1961 at the age of 25 before serving as their Music Director from 1962 to 1978—a 16-year period during which he actually conducted the LA Phil for CAMA in Santa Barbara an astounding total of 50 concerts. His tremendous sense of social responsibility has taken his music around the world, and he is a vivid symbol of today’s cross-cultural world, living proof of the power of music to bridge different cultures and to break social and political barriers.

Joining the Maestro for this historic concert will be young piano virtuoso Seong-Jin Cho performing the Schumann Piano Concerto. A native of Seoul, South Korea, he garnered world attention in October 2015 when he won First Prize at the renowned Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Our CAMA audience may remember his stunning performance of the Chopin Piano Concerto No.1 with the Warsaw Philharmonic back in November 2016.