Robert Spano

Robert Spano

Robert Spano RSEASONS 20 Portrait by Jurell Cayetano Portrait by Jurell Symphony Gala Concert SEP 12 | Sat: 7pm BERNSTEIN: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story RACHMANINOV: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini special Robert Spano, conductor | Daniil Trifonov, piano CONCERT EVENTS The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra celebrates the indelible legacy of Music Director Robert Spano at the 2020 ASO Gala. The evening features special guest pianist Daniil Trifonov performing Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. A note of gratitude For full Gala package details please visit aso.org/gala. ne of my life’s greatest privileges has been to be ASO Chorus Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for the last 20 years. The Orchestra’s outstanding Turns 50 success — exemplified by numerous Grammy® OCT 15 | Thu: 8pm Awards and critically acclaimed performances at Lincoln Center, Donald Runnicles & Norman Mackenzie, O Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall — is thanks not only to conductors | ASO Chorus the talents of every ASO musician but also the support of our Celebrate 50 years of the Atlanta audiences. Our mission is to bring people together through Symphony Orchestra Chorus with Principal the transformative power of music, and the passion you have Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles and shared with us is inspiring. Director of Choruses Norman Mackenzie In my final season I am looking forward to every performance. as they lead a program featuring selections Some of the highlights will surely be celebrating the 50th from choral favorites such as Verdi’s Anniversary of the ASO Chorus, with performances of Requiem, Orff’s Carmina burana, Brahms’ Mendelssohn’s Elijah and a new oratorio by Jonathan Leshnoff, A German Requiem and more. Since Opening Weekend with Gil Shaham, an evening of music its founding in 1970 by Music Director by Franz Liszt with our dear friend Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Robert Shaw, the Chorus has grown to and returning to our stage such great artists as Yo-Yo Ma, international acclaim. The ASO Chorus Yefim Bronfman, Pedja Mužijević and Garrick Ohlsson. We remains as beloved and revered today, a also have an evening featuring music of the Atlanta School legend 50 years in the making. of Composers — Jennifer Higdon, Michael Gandolfi, Krists Auznieks and our own Michael Kurth — and the Gala with Daniil Trifonov performing Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. We’ll close the season with Mahler’s Third Symphony. Yo-Yo Ma With its profound expression of love, I can think of no more APR 18 | Sun: 7pm fitting work with which to say thank you for 20 blessed years BORODIN: “Polovtsian Dances” with the ASO. from Prince Igor Even as I reflect on my tenure here, I also look forward BORODIN: Symphony No. 2 with anticipation and excitement to the next chapters SHOSTAKOVICH: Cello Concerto No. 1 in the ASO’s unfolding story. With these brilliant | Robert Spano, conductor Yo-Yo Ma, cello musicians and our devoted listeners, it will surely The inimitable Yo-Yo Ma returns to perform one be amazing. of the most iconic pieces of the 20th century cello repertoire, Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. This Sincerely, masterpiece of emotional clarity and formal balance highlights a cello part that is at once deeply dramatic Robert Spano and technically challenging, uniquely suited to the masterful abilities of Yo-Yo Ma. RSEASONS 20 DELTA Opening Weekend classical SERIES — SEP 24/26 | Thu/Sat: 8pm | PREMIUM Majestic Masterpieces CHRISTOPHER THEOFANIDIS: Rainbow Body Experience the majesty of the ASO with epic masterpieces KORNGOLD: Violin Concerto like Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2, Berlioz’s Symphonie SIBELIUS: Symphony No. 2 6-CONCERT JESSICA Robert Spano, conductor | Gil Shaham, violin SERIES fantastique, Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances, Bartók’s RIVERA Robert Spano opens his 20th and final season as Concerto for Orchestra, Vaughan Williams’ Symphony Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ® No. 6, and Mendelssohn’s mighty Elijah with an all-star cast. with Grammy Award-winning violinist Gil Shaham Symphonic Dances performing Korngold’s cinematic Violin Concerto. MAR 4/6 | Thu/Sat: 8pm We’ll be joined by some of our favorite guests, including The evening opens with the exuberant Rainbow Body PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 by Christopher Theofanidis and finishes with Sibelius’ violinists Gil Shaham, Ray Chen and Augustin Hadelich. RACHMANINOV: Symphonic Dances majestic Symphony No. 2. Eun Sun Kim, conductor | Alexander Gavrylyuk, piano PEDJA Mendelssohn’s Elijah Sergei Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances was his last MUŽIJEVIĆ major composition, revealing a nostalgic embrace of NOV 19/21 | Thu/Sat: 8pm Russian romanticism. Conductor Eun Sun Kim makes MENDELSSOHN: Elijah her ASO debut in this concert with pianist Alexander Robert Spano, conductor | Jessica Rivera, soprano Gavrylyuk in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, one of the Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano | Thomas Cooley, tenor most popular concertos of the 20th century. Nmon Ford, baritone | ASO Chorus Robert Spano leads Felix Mendelssohn’s epic portrait of Remarkable Ray Chen Returns NMON the prophet Elijah. Standing at the cusp of the classical- FORD APR 8/10 | Thu/Sat: 8pm romantic historical divide, Mendelssohn revives the HANNAH KENDALL: weaves flowers and leaves baroque oratorio form of Bach and Handel for this stirring SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No. 3 choral masterpiece. BARTÓK: Concerto for Orchestra Shiyeon Sung, conductor | Ray Chen, violin SHIYEON Symphonie fantastique SUNG Violinist Ray Chen performs Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto JAN 21/23 | Thu/Sat: 8pm GIL No. 3, a showcase for violin that alternates fiery virtuosity SHAHAM CHOPIN: Piano Concerto No. 2 with pastoral lyricism. The program includes Béla BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique Bartók’s subversive Concerto for Orchestra, and the U.S. Robert Spano, conductor | Pedja Mužijević, piano premiere of Hannah Kendall’s weaves flowers and leaves. Debuted in 1830, Symphonie fantastique is considered Conductor Shiyeon Sung makes her ASO debut. one of the most inventive, revolutionary orchestral works of the romantic period, depicting passion and unrequited love. This evening of fiery romanticism opens with Augustin Hadelich Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, featuring pianist MAY 6/8 | Thu/Sat: 8pm Pedja Mužijević. ANNA CLYNE: New Work BRITTEN: Violin Concerto VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Symphony No. 6 AUGUSTIN Andrew Manze, conductor | Augustin Hadelich, violin HADELICH This program features music from two British composers writing in the shadow of war. Grammy® Award-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich returns to perform Benjamin RAY CHEN Britten’s Violin Concerto, a tribute to British soldiers who died fighting fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War. Vaughan Williams’ intense Sixth Symphony is widely seen as a response to the horrors of World War II. ASO.ORG DELTA classicalSERIES Mahler Symphony No. 5 6-CONCERT MAR 11/13 | Thu/Sat: 8pm SERIES MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21 MAHLER: Symphony No. 5 Heroic Women — Celebrate heroes Edward Gardner, conductor | Cédric Tiberghien, piano both legendary and modern as we dance with Debussy’s La mer Mahler described his Fifth Symphony as “this foaming, NATHALIE roaring, raging sea of sound.” We welcome back guest Carmen, dream with Sleeping Beauty, savor music STUTZMANN OCT 8/10 | Thu/Sat: 8pm conductor Edward Gardner to navigate us through the from composers Galina Ustvolskaya, Victoria MOZART: Idomeneo Overture turbulent waters of this colossal masterpiece. Cédric MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 16 Tiberghien makes his ASO debut with Mozart’s famous Borisova-Ollas and Gabriela Lena Frank, and be TAKEMITSU: Ceremonial: An Autumn Ode Piano Concerto No. 21. thrilled by guests Baiba Skride, Nathalie Stutzmann, DEBUSSY: La mer Kazuki Yamada, conductor | Louis Lortie, piano Chichester Psalms Naomi Sato, and the inimitable Hilary Hahn. Naomi Sato, shō NAOMI APR 22/24 | Thu/Sat: 8pm SATO Kazuki Yamada makes his Atlanta debut conducting And be moved by Mahler’s poignant love song to BERNSTEIN: Chichester Psalms Debussy’s beloved La mer, three symphonic sketches JONATHAN LESHNOFF: The Sacrifice of Isaac his wife Alma, the exquisite Adagietto from his of the sea. The ASO welcomes pianist Louis Lortie in Robert Spano, conductor | James Laing, countertenor Symphony No. 5. Mozart’s intricate Piano Concerto No. 16, and Naomi Sato John Tessier, tenor | Russell Braun, baritone | ASO Chorus in Tōru Takemitsu’s Ceremonial: An Autumn Ode. Sato Robert Spano leads the incomparable ASO Chorus plays the shō, a traditional Japanese wind instrument. in Leonard Bernstein’s choral masterpiece Chichester Psalms, a bold and eloquent celebration of universal Sleeping Beauty brotherhood. The concert also features the world BAIBA SKRIDE DEC 3/5 | Thu/Sat: 8pm premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s The Sacrifice of Isaac, USTVOLSKAYA: Symphonic Poem No. 2 an ASO commission. VICTORIA BORISOVA-OLLAS: A Portrait of a Lady by Swan Lake Hilary Hahn TCHAIKOVSKY: Selections from Sleeping Beauty DAVID MAY 20/22 | Thu/Sat: 8pm | PREMIUM COUCHERON Andrey Boreyko, conductor | Baiba Skride, violin GABRIELA LENA FRANK: Walkabout Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty highlights an evening GINASTERA: Violin Concerto of Russian music in a newly designed sequence by SARASATE: Carmen Fantasy guest conductor Andrey Boreyko. The U.S. premiere of Miguel Harth-Bedoya, conductor | Hilary Hahn, violin Borisova-Ollas’ A Portrait of a Lady by Swan Lake echoes Three-time Grammy® Award-winning violinist Hilary the classic Tchaikovsky ballet. In this stirring portrait, the Hahn joins conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya for a main character is depicted through the solo violin playing program featuring Alberto Ginastera’s experimental of Latvian violinist Baiba Skride. Violin Concerto. Pablo de Sarasate’s electrifying Carmen Fantasy includes some of the most challenging violin Coucheron Performs Mozart passages in the repertoire. FEB 4+/6 | Thu/Sat: 8pm DVOŘÁK: Slavonic Dances Nos. 1, 2 and 8 MOZART: Violin Concerto No. 3 BRAHMS: Symphony No. 2 Nathalie Stutzmann, conductor | David Coucheron, violin LOUIS ASO Concertmaster David Coucheron shines in Mozart’s LORTIE dancelike Violin Concerto No.

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