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Concert Details Tito Muñoz | Virginia G. Piper Music Director phoenixsymphony.org | 602.495.1999 2015 /16 Season Classics Series CLASSICS ONE CLASSICS TWO Opening Night! Respighi: Pines and Fountains of Rome Tito Muñoz conducts Beethoven’s SYMPHONY HALL October 9, 2015 | 11:00 am* Symphony No. 9 October 9, 2015 | 7:30 pm SYMPHONY HALL October 10, 2015 | 7:30 pm September 18, 2015 | 7:30 pm CONCERT REPERTOIRE September 19, 2015 | 7:30 pm Michael Christie, conductor CONCERT REPERTOIRE Verdi: Overture to La forza del destino Tito Muñoz, conductor David Margulis, tenor Hagen: Symphony No. 5 Andrea Shokery, soprano Aubrey Allicock, baritone Respighi: Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome) Beth Lytwynec, mezzo soprano The Phoenix Symphony Chorus Respighi: Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome) Schoenberg: American Symphony Music Director Laureate Michael Christie returns to conduct Ottorino Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, op. 125 “Choral” Respighi’s symphonic tone poems Fountains of Rome, romancing Rome’s Maestro Tito Muñoz debuts his second season as The Phoenix Symphony’s famous fountains at dierent times of the day, and Pines of Rome, depicting Virginia G. Piper Music Director with a bold and powerful concert. Join pine trees in dierent locations in Rome. The program also features Verdi’s Maestro Muñoz in this grand and famed program as he leads The Phoenix powerful Overture to La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) and the world Symphony, The Phoenix Symphony Chorus and talented soloists in premiere of Symphony No. 5 by Daron Hagen, recipient of the 2014 American Beethoven’s most celebrated and nal masterpiece, Symphony No. 9, Academy of Arts and Letters Award, a work commissioned specically for featuring the famous “Ode to Joy.” This Opening Night program also features performance by The Phoenix Symphony Commissioning Club. American Symphony by Adam Schoenberg, one of the most celebrated young composers of our time whose music is described by The New York Times as full of “mystery and sensuality.” CLASSICS THREE CLASSICS FOUR Brahms’ Symphony No. 2 Masterful Mozart SYMPHONY HALL SYMPHONY HALL November 20, 2015 | 11:00 am* January 8, 2016 | 11:00 am* November 20, 2015 | 7:30 pm January 8, 2016 | 7:30 pm November 21, 2015 | 7:30 pm January 9, 2016 | 7:30 pm CONCERT REPERTOIRE CONCERT REPERTOIRE Tito Muñoz, conductor Tito Muñoz, conductor Jinjoo Cho, violin Shai Wosner, piano Brahms: Academic Festival Overture, op. 80 Mozart: Overture to Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K. 492 Stravinsky: Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra Mozart: Concerto No. 20 in D minor for Piano & Orchestra, K. 466 Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 73 Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (A Little Serenade), K. 525 Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E-at Major, K. 543 Continuing The Phoenix Symphony’s Classics season, Tito Muñoz leads the orchestra performing Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. After waiting many years Maestro Muñoz presents a rare treat of an all-Mozart program with pieces to complete his rst symphony, Brahms produced his second symphony composed during the prolic and nal years of Mozart’s short life. Symphony almost overnight. The lilting Symphony No. 2 is generally regarded as the No. 39 is the subject of much discussion, and its warm yet dramatic tone makes most genial and relaxed of Brahms’ four works in the genre, but its nale it sublimely beautiful. Internationally recognized pianist Shai Wosner, a BBC New is jubilant and electrifying. The program opens with Brahms’ ebullient Generation Artist, will make his Arizona debut performing the enigmatic Piano Academic Festival Overture, and 26-year-old South Korean violinist Jinjoo Concerto No. 20 in a program that also features the delightful and popular Eine Cho, winner of the 2014 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis, kleine Nachtmusik and the whimsical overture to the operatic comedy Le nozze plays Stravinsky’s neoclassical violin concerto. di Figaro ( The Marriage of Figaro). Classics Series CLASSICS FIVE CLASSICS SIX Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 Ravel’s Bolero SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS SYMPHONY HALL January 21, 2016 | 7:30 pm March 4, 2016 | 7:30 pm March 5, 2016 | 7:30 pm SYMPHONY HALL January 22, 2016 | 11:00 am* CONCERT REPERTOIRE January 22, 2016 | 7:30 pm Andrew Grams, conductor January 23, 2016 | 7:30 pm Pascal Roge, piano CONCERT REPERTOIRE Berlioz: Overture to Le Corsaire, op. 21 Tito Muñoz, conductor Saint-Saëns: Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Piano & Orchestra, op. 22 Ah Young Hong, soprano Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye (Mother Goose) The Phoenix Symphony Chorus Ravel: Bolero Andrew Norman: Unstuck One of The Phoenix Symphony’s favorite guest conductors Andrew Grams Poulenc: Gloria returns to lead Maurice Ravel’s most famous work, Bolero. The crowd Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, op. 92 pleasing Bolero delights through the longest-sustained single crescendo of any orchestral work and inspires a visceral and sensual response. Pascal Tito Muñoz brings a second oering of Beethoven to The Phoenix Roge, whose name is synonymous with the best piano performance of the Symphony’s Classics season with Symphony No. 7, which Beethoven felt was French repertoire in the world today, also joins The Phoenix Symphony one of his best works. Primarily known for the hypnotic and beautiful second playing Saint-Sa¨ens’ Concerto No. 2. movement, which has been featured in many lm scores including the Academy Award-Winning The King’s Speech, the symphony is both stirring and inspirational. Continuing to introduce patrons of The Phoenix Symphony to new young composers, Maestro Muñoz opens the program with Andrew Norman’s new kinetic work, Unstuck, which musically documents his ability to overcome writers block. Norman, a nalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music and composer for famed artists like Emanuel Ax, is recognized as one of the most compelling musical voices of his generation. The program also highlights Poulenc’s lighthearted but spiritual Gloria. CLASSICS SEVEN CLASSICS EIGHT Haydn’s “Nelsonmesse” Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 SYMPHONY HALL SYMPHONY HALL March 18, 2016 | 11:00 am* April 15, 2016 | 11:00 am* March 18, 2016 | 7:30 pm April 15, 2016 | 7:30 pm March 19, 2016 | 7:30 pm April 16, 2016 | 7:30 pm CONCERT REPERTOIRE CONCERT REPERTOIRE Tito Muñoz, conductor Tito Muñoz, conductor The Phoenix Symphony Chorus Jennifer Koh, violin Shephard: Magiya Missy Mazzoli: River Rouge Transguration Ginastera: Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 Bernstein: Serenade (After Plato’s “Symposium”) Haydn: Mass No. 11 in D minor, “Nelsonmesse” (Lord Nelson Mass)+ Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, op. 43 Tito Muñoz continues his creative leadership with this diverse program. Arguably Continuing to weave new American artistic works into the season, Tito Muñoz Haydn’s greatest single composition, “Nelsonmesse” or Missa in Agustiis is one of opens the evening with a composition by Missy Mazzoli, the recipient of six masses Haydn wrote late in his career. Transporting listeners from the greatest four ASCAP Young Composer Awards and a Fulbright Grant, who has been depths of despair to great joy, this choral masterpiece is not to be missed. heralded as “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” by The New York Times. Mazzoli, who is inuenced Featuring another young American composer, the program begins with Magiya by minimalism, 19th-century Romanticism, techno and indie rock, has by Sean Shephard, “an exciting composer of the new American generation,” composed a gritty and complex work. The concert then features another New according to The New York Times. Magiya, or Magic, co-commissioned York and American favorite, Leonard Bernstein’s classic and elegantly fashioned by Carnegie Hall and the BBC, is a complex fanfare full of urgency and drive. orchestral work, Serenade, featuring the Arizona debut of violinist and The program also includes the exciting Variaciones concertantes by Ginastera International Tchaikovsky Competition winner, Jennifer Koh, known for her featuring multiple virtuosic solos. dazzling virtuosity. The program crests with the “Symphony of Independence,” * Coee Classics performances feature one hour of music selected from the weekend’s Classics program. Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. +“Nelsonmesse” is not included on the March 18, 11:00 am performance. Classics Series CLASSICS NINE CLASSICS TEN Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Scheherazade SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS April 28, 2016 | 7:30 pm May 12, 2016 | 7:30 pm SYMPHONY HALL SYMPHONY HALL April 29, 2016 | 7:30 pm May 13, 2016 | 7:30 pm April 30, 2016 | 7:30 pm May 14, 2016 | 7:30 pm CONCERT REPERTOIRE ONCERT REPERTOIRE Tito Muñoz, conductor Teddy Abrams, conductor Martina Filjak, piano Amit Peled, cello Thomas Ades: Dances from Powder Her Face Stravinsky: Scherzo a la Russe Rachmanino: Concerto No. 2 in C minor for Piano & Orchestra, op. 18 Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E at Major, op. 107 Dvořák: Symphony No. 8 in G Major, op. 88 Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, op. 35 This creative program opens with Thomas Ades’ Dances from Powder Join Maestro Teddy Abrams in his debut with The Phoenix Symphony as Her Face, music from his opera which musically retells the downfall of he conducts Rimsky-Korsakov’s famed Scheherazade, a seductive musical Britain’s “Dirty Duchess,” Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. Martina Filjak, winner journey based on tales from the Arabian Nights. The program begins with of the rst prize in the Cleveland International Piano Competition and Igor Stravinsky’s masterful Scherzo a la Russe with its lively and dancing called “a pianist to watch” by The New York Times, makes her Arizona spirit and features the return of Amit Peled for Shostakovich’s popular and debut with this powerhouse program.