Concerts

data-filter="[2018 09|2018 09|2018 09|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][September|September|September|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Showstopping! Indisputably one of the greatest classical musicians in the world today, Grammy Award-winner Yefim Bronfman returns for Prokofiev’s scintillating concerto, a virtuosic whirlwind absolutely guaranteed to bring down the house. A program of Russian masterworks also spotlights Shostakovich’s spirited, slapstick Ninth and Prokofiev’s effervescent Classical throwback, a showpiece for the Houston Symphony’s virtuosity. Watch a concert preview: Listen to a concert preview: https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/HSYMP-082218-Bronfman-Radio-30rev.mp3   Pre-Concert Activities: Chamber Music Performance For this program (September 21, 22 & 23), Houston Symphony Musicians including Principal Second Violin MuChen Hsieh, Associate Principal Viola Joan DerHovsepian and Principal Clarinet Mark Nuccio, join together for a chamber music performance of Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op. 34. A few months after his arrival in New York, Prokofiev was commissioned to compose this piece for a Russian sextet called the Zimro Ensemble, whose leader was a clarinetist. The musicians of the ensemble gave Prokofiev a book of Jewish folksongs to use as inspiration, although he does not quote any known song in particular. Prokofiev himself played piano for the premiere. Chamber Music Arrival Instructions The first 50 people to arrive will be given the opportunity to sit onstage for the prelude performance. Those interested should line up outside the Jones Hall main entrance on the Louisiana Patio near the first door on the right before doors open, 1 hour before the concert begins. The chamber music begins 45 minutes prior to the concert and replaces the regularly scheduled Prelude discussion. An extension of the concert experience, these intimate presentations will set the scene for the main program. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Yefim Bronfman|,|bio|:|Internationally recognized as one of today’s most acclaimed and admired pianists, Yefim Bronfman stands among a handful of artists regularly sought by festivals, orchestras, conductors and recital series. His commanding technique, power and exceptional lyrical gifts are consistently acknowledged by the press and audiences alike.\nIn recognition of a relationship of more than 30 years, Mr. Bronfman will join the Israel Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta for concerts during the orchestra\u2019s US tour in the fall including Carnegie Hall, followed by concerts in Munich, London and Vienna with the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and Mariss Jansons, another frequent partnership and collaborator. In addition to returns to the orchestras of New York, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington, Indianapolis and Toronto, he will tour with the Vienna Philharmonic and Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada in a special program celebrating his 60th birthday in the spring. In Europe he can also be heard in Berlin with the Philharmonic as well as in recital; Italy, France, Belgium, Germany and London also in recital; and on tour with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Andris Nelsons. A tour in Asia with the London Symphony Orchestra and Gianandrea Noseda brings the season to a close in June.\nHe has also given numerous solo recitals in the leading halls of North America, Europe and the Far East, including acclaimed debuts at Carnegie Hall in 1989 and Avery Fisher Hall in 1993. In 1991 he gave a series of joint recitals with Isaac Stern in Russia, marking Mr. Bronfman\u2019s first public performances there since his emigration to Israel at age 15. That same year he was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize, one of the highest honors given to American instrumentalists. In 2010 he was honored as the recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane prize in piano performance from Northwestern University.\nBorn in Tashkent in the Soviet Union, Yefim Bronfman immigrated to Israel with his family in 1973.\n|,|title|:|piano, Rochelle and Max Levit Distinguished Artist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|*Peter Dugan|,|bio|:|Pianist Peter Dugan\u2019s 2017 debut solo performances with\u00a0Michael Tilson Thomas\u00a0and the San Francisco Symphony were described by the Los Angeles Times as \u201cstunning\u201d and by the San Francisco Chronicle as \u201cfearlessly athletic.\u201d He has appeared as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician across North America and abroad. Valuing versatility as the key to the future of classical music, Peter is equally at home in classical, jazz and pop idioms.\nA sought-after crossover artist, Peter has performed in duos and trios with artists ranging from\u00a0Itzhak Perlman and\u00a0Joshua Bell\u00a0to Jesse Colin Young and\u00a0Glenn Close. The Wall Street Journal described his collaboration with violinist Charles Yang as a \u201cclassical-meets-rockstar duo.\u201d\nPeter\u2019s recent chamber music recitals include the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Music@Menlo and a Weill Hall debut presented by Carnegie Hall. His debut album with baritone John Brancy, A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song, pays homage to composers who lived through, fought in and died in the Great War.\u00a0Brancy and Peter won first prize at the 2017 Montreal International Music Competition and second prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition.\nPeter holds bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied under Matti Raekallio. He lives in New York with his wife, mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan, and serves on the piano faculty at the Juilliard Evening Division.\nPeter Dugan is a Yamaha Artist.\n|,|title|:|piano |,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Amy Schwartz Moretti|,|bio|:|American violinist Amy Schwartz Moretti\u00a0has a musical career of broad versatility that spans nearly two decades. Former Concertmaster of the Oregon Symphony and Florida Orchestra, Amy has served as guest concertmaster for the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Atlanta, New York Pops, Hawaii Pops, and the festival orchestras of Brevard, Colorado and Grand Teton. Director of the McDuffie Center for Strings since its 2007 inception in the Mercer University\u00a0Townsend School of Music, Ms. Moretti curates the Fabian Concert Series on campus and holds the Caroline Paul King Chair in Strings.\nAmy maintains an active schedule of solo, chamber and concertmaster appearances and is a member of the internationally acclaimed Ehnes Quartet. Her recent projects include performing Beethoven\u2019s complete cycle of string quartets in Korea; recording Schubert and Sibelius quartets in England for an album nominated for a 2017 Gramophone; leading the\u00a0McDuffie Center String Ensemble\u2019s Carnegie Hall debut; and performing the international premiere in Japan, of \u201cThree Shades of Blue,\u201d GRAMMY\u00ae winner Matt Catingub\u2019s concerto written for her.\u00a0 Through the generous efforts of the Stradivari Society of Chicago, she was awarded extended loan of\u00a0the 1744 G. B. Guadagnini violin known as the \u201cCanadian.\u201d\u00a0She lives in Macon, Georgia with her husband and two young sons and enjoys all aspects of motherhood, especially Saturday soccer games.\n|,|title|:|guest concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} IVES  Symphony No. 4, Comedy PROKOFIEV  Piano Concerto No. 2 PROKOFIEV  Symphony No. 1, Classical SHOSTAKOVICH  Symphony No. 9

data-filter="[2018 09|][jones-hall|][September|][[{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:10,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the critically acclaimed album Ingénue, k.d. lang will perform songs from Ingénue – including the GRAMMY® -award winning hit “Constant Craving” – along with hits from her 2004 album Hymns of the 49th Parallel. Guitarist Mak Grgic will be the opening act for this concert. Note: This presentation does not include the Houston Symphony. VIP Packages Available {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|k.d. lang|,|bio|:|k.d. lang is that rare performer who, over 25 years as a major-label artist, has matured before our very ears. The Western Canada native launched her career with a blend of country-rock stylings and playfully punk-like attitude, by turns whimsical and subversive; back then, she practically put the alternative in alt-country. But from the very beginning, her bravura singing belied her kitschy cowgirl outfits and spiky hair; anyone lucky enough to attend very first appearance in the United States, on a triple bill of unsigned artists at New York City’s Bottom Line, could hear that she was marked for greatness.\nAfter independently releasing A Truly Western Experience; on a Canadian label in 1984, which generated serious major-label interest in the States, lang joined Sire\/Warner Bros. at the behest of Seymour Stein for her 1987 U.S. debut, Angel With A Lariat, produced by one-time Rockpile guitarist Dave Edmunds and cut with her then-band the Reclines. 1988 follow-up Shadowland brought lang\u2014rather daringly\u2014right to the heart of Nashville for a countrypolitan-themed collaboration helmed by legendary producer Owen Bradley, mentor to lang’s idol, Patsy Cline, as well as to Brenda Lee. (In fact, Lee, Loretta Lynn, and Kitty Wells make a guest vocal appearance on the album’s “Honky Tonk Angels’ Medley.”) Though the Nashville establishment may have remained skeptical about lang, Shadowland reached #8 on the Billboard Country album chart.\nBut lang wasn’t looking to be pigeonholed. Her 1989 Grammy Award-winning Absolute Torch and Twang (Best Female Country Vocal Performance) combined her love of country with increasingly sophisticated, emotive torch singing typified by “Pullin’ Back the Reins.” With the 1992, platinum-selling Ingenue she had fashioned a sound\u2014if not a genre\u2014all her own: an elegant and impassioned adult contemporary approach. That yielded her biggest hit, “Constant Craving,” as well as another Grammy, this time for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. On subsequent releases, lang continued to both fine-tune and expand the parameters of her songwriting and her repertoire. All You Can Eat (1995) was the most experimental, as challenging as it was fun; the smoking-themed Drag (1997) underscored her gifts as an interpreter, utilizing material by composers ranging from Steve Miller and Air Supply to Jane Siberry and Andre and Dory Previn. Invincible Summer (2000) was perhaps her most sultry, a collection featuring bossa nova inflections and dreamy electronics.\nWith Hymns of the 49th Parallel, her 2005 Nonesuch Records debut, lang presented her most compelling set of material by other songwriters\u2014all of them, in this case, fellow Canadians\u2014as well as a gorgeous version of her own “Simple.” lang’s interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s oft-covered “Hallelujah” is understatedly stunning; with good reason, it has become, along with her breathtaking cover of Roy Orbison’s “Crying,” an in-concert showstopper. Her most recent studio release, the beautiful and self-assured Watershed, was, as the title suggests, a pivotal moment for lang\u2014her first effort acting as producer along with singer and songwriter. The Times of London declared: “It’s a quirk of the music industry that one of the sexiest, most sensual voices in all of pop music comes not from some raven-tressed siren in a glitter-dress but a middle-aged woman with a utility haircut and a penchant for male tailoring.” lang herself called the album “a culmination of everything I’ve done\u2014there’s a little bit of jazz, a little country, a little of the Ingenue sound, a little Brazilian touch.” Along the way lang garnered two more Grammys, eight Juno Awards in Canada, and Canada’s highest civilian award, The Order of Canada.\nlang’s work has been regularly featured in movies\u2014the lang\/Orbison duet version of “Crying” was originally recorded for a teen comedy called Hiding Out\u2014but her most powerful work in the visual medium has been on those songs she has created especially for films. She collaborated with composer Bob Telson (Gospel At Colonus) on “Barefoot,” the haunting theme of German filmmaker Percy Adlon’s cult classic drama, Salmonberries, which also happened to star lang as a mysterious young Alaskan orphan. With Siberry, she wrote and performed the incantatory “Calling All Angels,” from the 1991 soundtrack to Wim Wenders’ Until the End of the World, a song that has had a deservedly long life on its own.\nAlong with Siberry, lang has collaborated, in the studio and on stage, with many other pop and country performers, including Bonnie Raitt and Elton John. But her best-known collaboration has been with veteran crooner Tony Bennett, with whom she recorded the 2002 Wonderful World duets album and continues to tour regularly, often in symphonic settings. Bennett may, in fact, be her biggest fan and he declared to the press what so many fans have come to believe over the last two and a half decades: “She’s the best singer of her generation.”\n|,|title|:||,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Mak Grgic|,|bio|:|\u201cGifted. Imaginative. Expressive.\u201d-The New York Times\nThe expansiveness of Mak\u2019s repertoire winds its way through a dizzying array of approaches, from music of the baroque and renaissance (for which he received praise from Washington Post) to music of a cinematic nature, ethnic music of his native Balkan Peninsula, and extreme avant-garde and microtonal music. His first solo release on Marquis Records entitled\u00a0Cinema Verismo\u00a0explores adept guitar arrangements of music from the movies. His latest recordings, Balkanisms for Naxos Music and MAKrotonal for MicroFest Records, an album produced by the Grammy Award winning producer John Schneider, explore a vast repertoire spanning ethnic music, microtonal newly-composed music and early music on re-fretted instruments.\nGrgic spent two years as a Young Artist in Residence at The Da Camera Society of Los Angeles. Aside from chamber music, solo performances and school outreach as a part of this residency, he co-founded a contemporary octet called DC8. This ensemble performed and commissioned new works from Michael Gordon and Nina Senk as well as stellar established contemporary works by Davidovsky and Sciarrino. The DC8 ensemble was proclaimed as an \u201cinspiring addition to the contemporary music landscape in Los Angeles\u201d by the\u00a0LA Times.\u00a0\nMak continuously collaborates with many esteemed musicians, such as JACK Quartet, Martin Chalifour (Concertmaster, LA Phil), Jay Campbell, Joshua Roman, The Assad Brothers, Ashley Bathgate (Bang on a Can All-Stars), and John Sant\u2019Ambrogio (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra).\u00a0 Grgic is also a founding and active member of Duo Deloro with Adam Del Monte and FretX Duo with Daniel Lippel, the intrepid guitarist of ICE Ensemble. `\nAs a soloist, both with orchestra and in recital,\u00a0he has performed at numerous venues worldwide. Some of these are Allegro Guitar Society, Sarasota Guitar Society, Portland Classic Guitar, Austin Classical Guitar (in recital with Martin Chalifour), University of Las Vegas in Nevada, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., the Newman Center for Performing Arts, Denver, Strathmore Hall in Maryland, Pepperdine University as a guest of Christopher Parkening, Portland Classical Guitar, the Minnesota Guitar Society, Guitar Festival Mikulov, Northwest Guitar Festival, Piran Music Nights and The Sounds of Six Strings, Cankarjev Dom, Slovenia,\u00a0Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Croatia,\u00a0Jeunesse Musicales – Kulturwoche in Vienna, Arts at the Park in NYC, the New York Classical Guitar Society, Microfest in Los Angeles,\u00a0Van Dekker House in California, The Beyond Microtonal Festival in Pittsburgh, Guitar Art Summer Fest, and in Korea at the Music Now Festival.\nOther engagements include performances and residencies at the Grande Auditorium di Espinho, Espinho and Teatro di Fafe, Fafe Municipality in Portugal;\u00a0Teatro Cervantes de Bejar, Salamanca, Castile-Leon in Spain;\u00a0International Music Council of the European Broadcasting Union in an all-instrument \u201cNew Talent\u201d Competition in Bratislava representing the Republic of Slovenia as well as The Dallas Opera with Chamber Orchestra in performan ces of Peter Maxwell Davies\u2019\u00a0The Lighthouse;\u00a0a\u00a0Berio\u00a0Sequenza\u00a0Marathon at Monk@Space, Koreatown, LA;\u00a0Kitchener Waterloo, Canada;\u00a0Slowind Festival;\u00a0Academia Philharmonicorum, Ljubljana, Slovenia;\u00a0Sarajevo Music Academy, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina;\u00a0Zurich University of Arts, Zurich, Switzerland;\u00a0Paris Guitar Foundation, Paris, France;\u00a0Guimar\u00e3es International Guitar Festival, Guimar\u00e3es, Portugal;\u00a0NAMM Show, Anaheim, California;\u00a0Triangle Guitar Society, Raleigh, North Carolina;\u00a0Dumbarton Concerts, Washington D.C.;\u00a0Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma;\u00a0Hong Kong International Guitar Festival;\u00a0Lancaster Music Festival and many more.\nIn the recent past Mak has showcased an innate affection for entrepreneurial work. This has resulted in directorship roles at EuroStrings, the European Guitar Festival Collaborative;\u00a0Zagreb Guitar Festival and Roots & Notes Interactive Music Festival in Croatia;\u00a0Music@RushHour in Los Angeles; and Acoustic Caffeine Concert Series in cooperation with Arts Brookfield. He also serves as director of the Elemental Guitar Program in Santa Monica and as adjunct faculty at Mount St. Mary\u2019s University in Los Angeles.\nBorn in Ljubljana, Slovenia, he studied guitar in Zagreb with the revered Ante Cagalj at the Elly Basic Conservatory of Music and obtained his Bachelor\u2019s Degree with Alvaro Pierri at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria.\u00a0He finished his Doctoral Degree at the USC Thornton School of Music as a student of William Kanengiser and Scott Tennant of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet and Brian Head, artistic director of GFA.\u00a0This year he begins an artist diploma program at USC, where he is the first guitarist in the university\u2019s history to receive such an honor. When he is not involved in music, Grgic helps fundraise for Bosnian children with financial difficulties.\n|,|title|:|Opening Act|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2018 09|2018 09|2018 09|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][September|September|September|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" A stunning creative outpouring that arose from the tragic death of his young children, Dvořák’s Stabat Mater stands as one of the towering monuments of choral music, a soul-stirring meditation on grief and hope. An all-star cast joins the Houston Symphony and Chorus for this sublime and moving masterpiece, full of tender, luminous beauty that shines forth like a light in darkness. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. Watch a concert preview: {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Lucy Crowe|,|bio|:|Born in Staffordshire, Lucy Crowe studied at the Royal Academy of Music. She has established herself as one of the leading lyric sopranos of her generation.\nHer operatic roles include Adele Die Fledermaus and Servilia La Clemenza di Tito for the Metropolitan Opera, New York; Ismene Mitridate, Eurydice Gluck\u2019s Orph\u00e9e et Eurydice, Adina l\u2019Elisir d\u2019Amore, Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro, Gilda Rigoletto and Belinda Dido and Aeneas for the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; the title role in Rodelinda at the Teatro Real Madrid; Donna Elvira Don Giovanni with the Budapest Festival Orchestra in Edinburgh and New York; Sophie Der Rosenkavalier for the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich and Covent Garden; Gilda for the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Pamina Die Zauberfl\u00f6te, Rosina The Barber of Seville, Dona Isabel The Indian Queen and Poppea Agrippina for English National Opera; and Merab Saul, Mica\u00ebla Carmen, The Fairy Queen and the title role in The Cunning Little Vixen for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. She made her US Opera debut as Iole in Handel\u2019s Hercules for the Chicago Lyric Opera and has since sung the role for the Canadian Opera Company.\nIn concert, she has performed with many of the world\u2019s finest conductors and orchestras including the LA Philharmonic under Dudamel; the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Nelsons; the Accademia Santa Cecilia Orchestra under Pappano; the Berliner Philharmoniker under Rattle; the Orchestre National de France under Gatti; the Philharmonia under Salonen; the London Symphony Orchestra under Harding and Elder; the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra under Gardner; the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iv\u00e1n Fischer; the Zurich Chamber Orchestra under Sir Roger Norrington; the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Sir Charles Mackerras; the English Concert under Harry Bicket; and the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra under Sir John Eliot Gardiner.\nLucy has performed at the BBC Proms and the Aldeburgh, Edinburgh, Mostly Mozart and Salzburg Festivals. Recital appearances include London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, New York\u2019s Carnegie Hall and Amsterdam\u2019s Concertgebouw.\nHer recordings include Mendelssohn\u2019s Lobgesang with the London Symphony Orchestra under Gardiner for LSO Live; Handel\u2019s Il Pastor Fido and a Handel & Vivaldi disc with La Nuova Musica under David Bates for Harmonia Mundi; a Lutoslawski disc with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Edward Gardner, Handel\u2019s Alceste with Christian Curnyn and the Early Opera Company, and Eccles\u2019 The Judgement of Paris all for Chandos; and a solo Handel disc – ll Caro Sassone \u2013 with Harry Bicket and the English Concert on Harmonia Mundi.\nEngagements this season and beyond include Haydn\u2019s Die Jahreszeiten with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Handel\u2019s Messiah with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mahler Symphony No.2 with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Andris Nelsons, Pamina The Magic Flute for English National Opera, title role Rodelinda for Frankfurt Opera and Vixen The Cunning Little Vixen with the London Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle and returns to the Royal Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.\nLucy was appointed as a Fellow to the Royal Academy of Music.\n|,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Sasha Cooke|,|bio|:|Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke has been called a \u201cluminous standout\u201d (New York Times) and \u201cequal parts poise, radiance and elegant directness\u201d (Opera News).\u00a0 Ms. Cooke is sought after by the world\u2019s leading orchestras, opera companies, and chamber music ensembles for her versatile repertoire and commitment to new music.\nIn the 2017-18 season, Ms. Cooke will sing the title role in the world premiere of\u00a0Marnie, by Nico Muhly, at English National Opera. She will sing Goffredo in a concert version of Handel\u2019s\u00a0Rinaldo\u00a0alongside The English Concert conducted by Harry Bicket, with performances at Carnegie Hall (New York), the Auditorio Nacional de M\u00fasica (Madrid), and Barbican Centre (London). Other concert engagements will include Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 3 with the San Francisco Symphony and Beethoven\u2019s\u00a0Missa Solemnis\u00a0with the London Symphony Orchestra, both conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas, Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9 with the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg conducted by Matthias Pintscher, Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2\u00a0Resurrection\u00a0with the Reykjavik Arts Festival under the baton of Osmo V\u00e4nsk\u00e4, Mary in Berlioz\u2019s\u00a0L\u2019enfance du Christ\u00a0with both the Melbourne Symphony conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin conducted by Robin Ticciati, Bernstein\u2019s Symphony No. 1\u00a0Jeremiah\u00a0with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic conducted by Edo de Waart, Durufl\u00e9\u2019s\u00a0Requiem\u00a0with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jaap van Zweden, Bernstein\u2019s\u00a0Trouble in Tahiti\u00a0with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and a performance featuring composers Respighi and Jalbert with Orchestre M\u00e9tropolitain de Montreal conducted by Cristian Macelaru. Ms. Cooke will return to a role she created, Hannah after, in Laura Kaminsky\u2019s opera\u00a0As One\u00a0both at Hawaii Opera Theatre and in concert with the Chautauqua Opera Company, and will also offer a concert of Ravel\u2019s\u00a0Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade\u00a0with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. Finally, she will give a series of solo recitals at the Milton Academy in Massachusetts, the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., and Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin, in addition to joint recitals with guitarist Jason Vieaux at the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts in California and the Cleveland Chamber Music Society.\nMs. Cooke bookended her 2016-17 season with opera performances of\u00a0H\u00e4nsel und Gretel\u00a0at the Seattle Opera and a world-premiere by composer Mason Bates and librettist Mark Campbell titled\u00a0The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs\u00a0at The Santa Fe Opera. Her orchestral engagements included the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Muti leading Prokofiev\u2019s\u00a0Ivan the Terrible, Bernstein\u2019s Symphony No. 1\u00a0Jeremiah\u00a0with Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra as well as Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin at Carnegie Hall, Mahler\u2019s\u00a0Des Knaben Wunderhorn\u00a0with the Los Angeles Philharmonic led by Gustavo Dudamel, a set of concerts with the San Francisco Symphony under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas that included a semi-staged production of Mahler\u2019s\u00a0Das Klagende Lied\u00a0paired with the composer\u2019s\u00a0Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen\u00a0and later in the spring\u00a0Rom\u00e9o et Juliette\u00a0of Berlioz, Handel\u2019s\u00a0Messiahwith the New York Philharmonic under Alan Gilbert and Verdi\u2019s Requiem with Houston Grand Opera under Patrick Summers. Her season also featured performances with Atlanta Symphony for Christopher Theofanidis\u2019\u00a0Creation\/Creator\u00a0conducted by Robert Spano, Milwaukee Symphony for Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 3 with Edo de Waart,\u00a0Durufl\u00e9\u2019s Requiem with Cleveland Orchestra conducted Matthew Halls and also with National Symphony Orchestra under Donald Runnicles, Minnesota Orchestra to sing and record Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2\u00a0Resurrection\u00a0conducted by Osmo V\u00e4nsk\u00e4, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra singing a concert of Handel, Mahler, and Mozart, then Mahler\u2019s\u00a0Das Lied von der Erde\u00a0with Krzysztof Urba\u0144ski and the Indianapolis Symphony, Oregon Symphony for Mozart\u2019s Requiem under Jean-Marie Zeitouni,\u00a0La damnation de Faust\u00a0by Berlioz with both Eugene Symphony and Aspen Festival Orchestra.\nMs. Cooke\u2019s past seasons have included performances with such wide-ranging conductors as James Levine, Bernard Haitink, Leonard Slatkin, Sir Mark Elder, Pinchas Zukerman, Gerard Schwarz, Riccardo Frizza, Jeffrey Kahane, Trevor Pinnock, Robert Spano, Tugan Sokhiev, Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada, and Ludovic Morlot. Previous orchestral engagements have brought her to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Hong Kong Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony, The MET Chamber Ensemble, Melbourne Symphony, MDR Orchestra, I Musici de Montreal, Colorado Symphony, Tokyo Symphony, Orchestre National de Lyon, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Ms. Cooke has performed with opera companies around the world in the past including the Metropolitan Opera, Op\u00e9ra National de Bordeaux, San Francisco Opera, Dallas Opera, and The Israeli Oper. Previous festival appearances have included Spoleto Festival USA, Aspen Music Festival, Caramoor International Music Festival, Lucerne Festival, Mostly Mozart Festival, New York Festival of Song, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Seattle Chamber Music Festival, Chamber Music Northwest, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Ms. Cooke has performed at such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall\u2019s Weill Hall, Royal Concertgebouw, Palau de la M\u00fasica de Val\u00e8ncia, Hollywood Bowl, Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Wigmore Hall, Theater an der Wien, Alice Tully Hall, and Brooklyn Academy of Music. A dedicated recitalist, Ms. Cooke was presented by Young Concert Artists in her widely acclaimed New York and Washington debuts at Carnegie\u2019s Zankel Hall and the Kennedy Center. On DVD, Ms. Cooke can be seen in a new production of\u00a0Hansel and Gretel\u00a0at the Metropolitan Opera and the Grammy Award-winning production of\u00a0Doctor Atomic\u00a0under conductor Alan Gilbert. Ms. Cooke\u2019s recordings can be found on the Hyperion, Naxos, Bridge Records, Yarlung, GPR Records, and Sono Luminus labels.\nA graduate of Rice University and The Juilliard School, Sasha Cooke also attended the Music Academy of the West, the Aspen Music Festival, the Ravinia Festival\u2019s Steans Music Institute, the Wolf Trap Foundation, the Marlboro Music Festival, the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, and Seattle Opera and Central City Opera\u2019s Young Artist Training Programs.\n|,|title|:|mezzo|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Toby Spence|,|bio|:|An honours graduate and choral scholar from New College, Oxford, Toby Spence studied at the Opera School of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He was the winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society 2011 Singer of the Year award.\nIn concert Toby has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnanyi, Berliner Philharmoniker and the Wiener Philharmoniker under Simon Rattle; San Francisco Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas; the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano; Rotterdam Philharmonic under Valery Gergiev; London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis; London Philharmonic Orchestra under Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin; Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel; Bayerischer Rundfunk under Edward Gardiner and at the Osterfestspiele Salzburg and Edinburgh International Festival under Roger Norrington and Charles Mackerras. Recent appearances include The Seasons with the Philharmonie de Paris, Bruckner F minor Mass with the Sinfonieorchester Basel; Das L ied von der Erde with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Liszt\u2019s Faust Symphony with the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg; The Creation with the Houston Symphony Orchestra ; Messiah , Beethoven\u2019s Choral Fantasy and Haydn\u2019s Nelson Mass with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in Mumbai; War Requiem at the Slovak Philharmonic Concert Hall and with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Missa Solemnis with the London Symphony Orchestra under Michael Tilson Thomas.\nA prolific recitalist, Toby has given numerous solo recitals for BBC Radio 3 and at London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, and has appeared at LSO St Luke\u2019s, Opera de Lille, at Northern Ireland Opera\u2019s Festival of Voice, Janacek’s Brno International Music Festival and Aldeburgh Festival. He has made numerous recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, BMG, Philips, Collins, Linn Records, Hyperion and EMI.\nRecent opera engagements include Ghandi Satyagraha at English National Opera; Captain Vere Billy Budd for Teatro Real and Opera di Roma; Anatol Vanessa for Frankfurt Opera;\nDon Ottavio at the Liceu Barcelona; Eisenstein Die Fledermaus\nand Antonio The Tempest for the Metropolitan Opera; Don Ottavio and Tito for the Wiener Staatsoper; Essex Gloriana and Tamino Die Zauberfl\u00f6te for the Royal Opera House, where his previous roles have also included Ferdinand The T empest , David Die Meistersinger von N\u00fcrnberg , Count Almaviva Il Barbiere di Siviglia , Ramiro and Tom Rakewell; Tamino, Candide, Paris La Belle H\u00e9l\u00e8ne , Lensky and Faust for English National Opera; Madwoman Curlew River for the Edinburgh Festival; Tito, Tamino and Henry Morosus Die Schweigsame Frau for the Bayerische Staatsoper; and Tom Rakewell and David Die Meistersinger at Op\u00e9ra de Paris.\nEngagements in the 2018-19 season include Dvorak Stabat Mater with Houston Symphony Orchestra; Britten War Requiem\nwith Toronto Symphony Orchestra; Szymanowski\u2019s 3rd Symphony for the Gulbenkian Foundation and performances of Orff\u2019s Carmi na Bur ana in Shanghai and Beijing with Long Yu and Aida Garifullina for Deutsche Grammophon\u2019s 120\u2019s anniversary. Opera engagements include Captain Vere Billy Budd for the Royal Opera House and a staged version of Britten Les Illuminations for Teatro Real Madrid.\n|,|title|:|tenor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Dashon Burton|,|bio|:|\nPraised for his \u201cnobility and rich tone,\u201d (The New York Times) and his \u201cenormous, thrilling voice seemingly capable \u2026 [of] raising the dead;\u201d (Wall Street Journal), bass-baritone\u00a0Dashon Burton\u00a0has established a vibrant career in opera, recital, and with orchestra.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In key elements of his repertoire\u00a0\u00a0\u2014 Bach\u2019s St. John and St. Matthew Passions and the B minor Mass, Mendelssohn\u2019s\u00a0Elijah, Beethoven 9, the Brahms Requiem, Handel\u2019s Messiah, and Mozart\u2019s Requiem \u2013 Dashon is a frequent guest with Philharmonia Baroque, the Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and the symphony orchestras of Cincinnati, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic.\u00a0\u00a0He is a regular guest with the Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-M\u00f6st, appearing there in the Brahms and Mozart Requiems,\u00a0Janacek\u2019s\u00a0Cunning Little Vixen\u00a0and recently on tour in Europe and Japan in Beethoven\u2019s Symphony No. 9.\u00a0\u00a0In June 2018 he opened the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago\u2019s Millenium Park singing Walton\u2019s\u00a0Belshazzar\u2019s Feast.\nDashon\u2019s 2018\/19 season begins with his debut at the Salzburg Festival in\u00a0Salom\u00e9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He sings Beethoven 9 with the National Arts Centre Orchestra and the Cincinnati Symphony, Dvoark\u2019s\u00a0Stabat Mater\u00a0with the Houston Symphony, Mozart\u2019s\u00a0Coronation Mass\u00a0with Philharmonia Baroque, and the\u00a0Requiem\u00a0with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra.\u00a0\u00a0He sings the role of Zebul in Handel\u2019s\u00a0Jeptha,the Verdi Requiem, Moussorgsky\u2019s\u00a0Songs and Dances of Death,\u00a0and returns to the Cleveland Orchestra for a subscription week of Schubert\u2019s Mass in E flat Major. With the contemporary vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, of which Dashon is an original member, he appears in Peter Sellars\u2019\u00a0production of Claude Vivier\u2019s\u00a0Kopernikus, un ritual de mort\u00a0in Paris. He appears in recital in Boston and San Francisco.\nBurton\u2019s opera engagements include singing Sarastro in\u00a0Die Zauberfl\u00f6te\u00a0in Dijon and Paris, and the role of Jupiter in Rameau\u2019s\u00a0Castor and Pollux\u00a0with Les Talens Lyriques.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He has toured Europe in the\u00a0St. John Passion\u00a0with Le Concert Lorraine, and in Italy with Maasaki Suzuki and the Yale Schola Cantorum in the\u00a0St. Matthew Passion.\u00a0Burton\u2019s recording \u201cSongs of Struggle and Redemption: We Shall Overcome\u201d was singled out by the New York Times as \u201cprofoundly moving\u2026a beautiful and lovable disc\u201d in its My 2016 Classical Playlist.\u00a0 Dashon is a graduate of Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and holds a Masters\u2019 degree from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.\n\n|,|title|:|baritone|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Korbinian Altenberger|,|bio|:|Korbinian Altenberger was born in Munich and studied with Charles Andr\u00e9 Linale, Donald Weilerstein and Midori in Cologne, Boston and Los Angeles. In 2009, he received a post-graduate degree from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he was a Dorothy Richard Starling Scholar. Korbinian Altenberger has received a number of awards and top prizes from international competitions such as the Postacchini Competition, the Michael Hill Violin Competition, the Concours Tibor V\u00e1rga, the ARD Music Competition and the Montr\u00e9al International Music Competition.\nAt the age of twelve, he made his debut at the Salzburg Festival, and since then he can be heard regularly as a soloist and chamber musician on every continent. He has played with the Orchestra National, the Auckland Philharmonia, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the G\u00f6ttingen Symphony, as well as the Saarland and South-West German radio orchestras. He has performed in North and South America with such ensembles as the Winnipeg Symphony, the Philadelphia Chamber Orchestra and the Iris Orchestra as well as the National Orchestra of Costa Rica. In the past years he has accepted invitations to such countries as Japan, South Korea, China Cambodia, the United States, New Zealand, Israel along with European countries like Great Britain, Austria, Italy, France, the Czech Republic, Switzerland and Slovakia.\nHe has received special musical impulses from his collaborations with such artists as Shmuel Askenasi, Gerhard Schulz, Leon Fleisher and members of the Guarneri, Juilliard and Cleveland Quartets. His enthusiasm for chamber music has been fostered by frequent invitations to a wide variety of festivals in the United States such as Ravinia, Caramoor and Marlboro as ones in Europe like Prussia Cove in Great Britain, Verbier in Switzerland, the Moritzburg Festival and also to the Israel Chamber Project. \nAfter holding a position as first principal concertmaster in the Symphony Orchestra of the WDR in Cologne under Semyon Bychkov, Korbinian Altenberger has been a concertmaster in the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under Mariss Jansons since 2011.\nKorbinian Altenberger has been a guest concertmaster of the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic, the Deutsches Symphony Orchestra Berlin, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Bamberg Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic and others. \nIn 2011 Korbinian Altenberger was invited by the late Claudio Abbado to join the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. \nSince 2018 Korbinian Altenberger has been a Professor for Violin at the Musikhochschule in W\u00fcrzburg.\n|,|title|:|guest concertmaster|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]} DVOŘÁK  Stabat Mater

data-filter="[2018 10|2018 10|2018 10|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][October|October|October|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:18,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" “See that girl, watch that scene, diggin’ the dancing queen…” From euphoric disco and chart-topping pop perfection to a movie and a hit Broadway musical, ABBA was—and is—a sensation. Dance, jive and have the time of your life as international vocal phenomenon Rajaton and the Houston Symphony bring you infectious hit after infectious hit. You know them, you love them: “Dancing Queen,” “Mamma Mia,” “S.O.S,” and so many more. Listen to a concert preview: https://www.houstonsymphony.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/HS189RS.03A.mp3 {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Rajaton|,|bio|:|The Finnish word\u00a0Rajaton\u00a0translates as “boundless” \u2013 a word that so accurately describes the way this six-voice a cappella ensemble approaches music.\u00a0Regularly performing around a hundred concerts and workshops each year, Rajaton exposes their audiences to the kind of diversity of repertoire, singing style, and stage presentation that has made them a phenomenon on the world stage.\nPerforming at concert halls, churches, jazz and choral festivals, this distinct group of musicians approaches all styles of music with the same level of commitment and integrity, making it difficult to imagine an audience that they could not inspire, or a type of music they could not make their own. In their native Finland, Rajaton is a bona fide pop phenomenon, successfully bridging the gap that often exists between classical and mainstream convention.\nRajaton has released 16 different albums. In 2017, Rajaton celebrates 20 years of music-making with one double platinum, three platinum and eight gold records in Finland under their belt, as their worldwide record sales are drawing over 400.000 copies altogether.\nEver seeking new artistic challenges, the group has grown immeasurably through collaborations with other a cappella artists, including\u00a0The King\u2019s Singers\u00a0and\u00a0The Real Group, as well as productions with film directors and choreographers.\u00a0But it is perhaps their deep passion for choral art, their generosity of spirit and their sheer enjoyment of singing that has won the hearts and acclaim of audiences and critics everywhere. Their energy \u2013 infectious; their ability to entertain and inspire\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Rajaton!\nThe voice is boundless.\n|,|title|:|vocal ensemble|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2018 10|2018 10|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][October|October|][[{|term_id|:1035,|name|:|Family|,|slug|:|family-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1035,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:|Now in his tenth season, our Associate Conductor Robert Franz is ready to help your family create cherished memories. Buckle up! Our Family Series is taking you on a magical, musical quest on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nAlso, enjoy pre- and post-concert activities, including our Instrument Petting Zoo, young musician performances in the lobby as well as crafts and musical activities. \r\n\r\n|,|parent|:0,|count|:8,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Experience one of the most beloved children’s tales of all time in Prokofiev’s enchanting Peter and the Wolf, in which the courageous Peter and his animal friends outwit the fearsome Wolf. Plus, “Be Prepared” with your mightiest lion’s roar as the Houston Symphony plays popular songs from Disney’s The Lion King—“Hakuna Matata,” “The Circle of Life” and more! Children of all ages, including infants, are welcome at Family Series performances. All patrons must have a ticket when entering a concert venue. For lap child tickets, please contact our Patron Services Center at 713-224-7575. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Robert Franz|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/robert-franz\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|St. John Flynn|,|bio|:|Born and raised in the United Kingdom, St. John Flynn came to the United States to attend graduate school. He has worked for top U.S. public TV and radio stations for more than 20 years, including as host of the award-winning book show, Cover to Cover, for the Georgia Public Broadcasting radio network; classical music director for KUHF\/88.7FM; and as Arts & Culture director for Houston Public Media (TV 8, News 88.7 & Classical 91.7), where he hosted the daily arts radio show The Front Row, the Opera Cheat Sheet podcast, the Houston Symphony weekly radio broadcasts and various TV arts programs, including the Houston Symphony season announcements and the Skyline Sessions.\nSt. John was a cast member of Manor of Speaking, TV 8\u2019s Emmy award-winning syndicated Downton Abbey after-show. He is the longtime host of the Houston Grand Opera Guild\u2019s Opera Night Live! series and has appeared on stage as host or narrator with the Houston Symphony, Texas Music Festival Orchestra, Houston Youth Symphony, Houston Heights Orchestra, Symphony North of Houston, Valdosta Symphony Orchestra, Piedmont College Orchestra, WindSync, METdance, Queensbury Theatre and Lone Star Lyric Theater, among others.\n|,|title|:|narrator|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Dawson High School Choir|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Roxan Silva, Director |,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2018 10|][cynthia-woods-mitchell-pavilion|][October|][[{|term_id|:1636,|name|:|Community|,|slug|:|community|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1636,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:22,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Get ready for tricks and treats at The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion’s Hocus Pocus Pops featuring the Houston Symphony. Click to view all our 2018 concerts at the Pavilion. This event will be at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands. Click to Buy Tickets Houston Symphony programming at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion is supported in part through an endowed fund created by George & Cynthia Mitchell. false

data-filter="[2018 10|][jones-hall|][October|][[{|term_id|:1595,|name|:|Holiday|,|slug|:|holiday-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1595,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:4,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:10,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Don your costume and join the Houston Symphony for a fright night filled with spine-tingling chills and musical thrills! From creepy classics like The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Michael Jackson’s Thriller to music from The Incredibles, Edward Scissorhands and The Lord of the Rings, this spooktacular scarefest is guaranteed to get you in the Halloween spirit. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Lucas Waldin|,|bio|:|Lucas Waldin is a dynamic and versatile conductor whose flair for audience engagement and passion for performance have delighted audiences across North America.\nBased in Edmonton, Alberta, Lucas joined the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra as resident conductor in 2009 and was subsequently appointed artist-in-residence and community ambassador, the first position of its kind in North America. He has appeared with the orchestra more than 150 times and has collaborated with artists Angela Cheng, Jens Lindemann, Sergei Babayan and Bill Eddins, and conducted in Carnegie Hall during the ESO’s participation in the 2012 Spring for Music festival. Lucas was awarded the Jean-Marie Beaudet Award in Orchestra Conducting by the Canada Council for the Arts and received a Citation Award from the City of Edmonton for his outstanding achievements in arts and culture.\nWith an ability to slide easily between styles and genres, Lucas has worked with a range of pop and crossover artists, including Carly Rae Jepsen, Ben Folds, Chantal Kreviazuk, the Barenaked Ladies and Buffy Sainte-Marie, in addition to conducting presentations such as Disney in Concert, Blue Planet Live and Cirque de la Symphony. Lucas has been a guest conductor for numerous orchestras in Canada and the United States, including this orchestra, the Grant Park Orchestra, the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Toronto and Vancouver Symphony Orchestras and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra.\nA native of Toronto, Ontario, Lucas received degrees in both flute and conducting from the Cleveland Institute of Music.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Chelsea Cymone|,|bio|:|The ability to command the stage as a vocalist or feature artist is not something every singer possesses. Chelsea Cymone does! A Houston native, Chelsea has been singing since she was 5 years old. With a foundation deeply rooted in the Baptist Church, she has been deeply influenced by her family of singers.\nChelsea\u2019s love for classical music developed as a student at Houston\u2019s High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA). This was a very influential time in her life. It was in the halls of HSPVA that her love for performing was nurtured, and she began to understand music from all aspects as a performer.\nAfter graduating high school, Chelsea received a scholarship to Prairie View A&M University\u2019s department of music and theatre where she concentrated on operatic performance. She quickly became a star. She also began to explore other musical options and sang as a background vocalist in Houston. Honing her gift opened doors. Internationally, she performed in Japan and South Africa as a background vocalist and featured artist. The experience helped her visualize an attainable goal.\nIn addition to performing with the Houston Symphony, Chelsea has performed several times as the featured artist for the Mayor Sylvester Turner\u2019s Christmas and Thanksgiving parades. She has worked with several artists as vocal producer\/arranger, including T\u00e1mar Davis of NBC\u2019s The Voice. As background vocalist, she has sung with Chant\u00e9 Moore, M\u00fda, Michelle Williams of Destiny\u2019s Child, Regina Belle and Kenny Latimore. Chelsea hopes to bring a fresh sense of artistry to the music industry and aspires to be a sought-after entertainer, vocalist, songwriter and vocal producer while simultaneously working on original music. She has the ability to do both while helping other artists pursue their dreams. She loves the stage and appreciates every opportunity to share her most vulnerable self with audiences as she pours her heart into every performance.\nIn December 2017, Chelsea released her first independent project, The Love Ep, with five original songs that cultivate all forms of love while sharing a message for all. Chelsea Cymone sums up her philosophy of life with one quote, Make your passion your paycheck. She works every day to do just that.\n|,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2018 10|2018 10|2018 10|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][October|October|October|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" It doesn’t get any more must-see than this. Legendary violinist Itzhak Perlman is your conductor and soloist in a program of musical delights, including Bach’s crowd-pleasing concerto and Schumann’s rhythmic and rustic Fourth Symphony. To top it off, hear one of the most beloved symphonies ever composed in Mozart’s ingenious Symphony No. 40. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Itzhak Perlman|,|bio|:|Undeniably the reigning virtuoso of the violin, Itzhak Perlman enjoys superstar status rarely afforded a classical musician.\u00a0 Beloved for his charm and humanity as well as his talent, he is treasured by audiences throughout the world who respond not only to his remarkable artistry, but also to his irrepressible joy for making music.\nHaving performed with every major orchestra and at venerable concert halls around the globe, Itzhak Perlman was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation\u2019s highest civilian honor, in November 2015 by President Obama for his meritorious contributions to cultural endeavors of the United States and for being a powerful advocate for people of disabilities. \u00a0In June 2016, he received the 2016 Genesis Prize in recognition for his exceptional contributions as a musician, teacher, advocate for individuals with special needs and dedication to Jewish values.\u00a0 In 2003, he was granted a Kennedy Center Honor by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in celebration of his distinguished achievements and contributions to the cultural and educational life of the United States.\u00a0 President Clinton awarded him the National Medal of Arts in 2000 and President Reagan honored him with a Medal of Liberty in 1986.\nMr. Perlman has performed multiple times at the White House, most recently in 2012 at the invitation of President Barack Obama and Mrs. Obama, for Israeli President and Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree Shimon Peres; and at a State Dinner in 2007, hosted by President George W. Bush and Mrs. Bush, for Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.\u00a0 In 2009, he was honored to take part in the Inauguration of President Obama, premiering a piece written for the occasion by John Williams alongside cellist Yo-Yo Ma, clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Gabriela Montero, for an audience of nearly 40 million television viewers in the United States and millions more throughout the world.\nBorn in Israel in 1945, Mr. Perlman completed his initial training at the Academy of Music in Tel Aviv.\u00a0 An early recipient of an America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship, he came to New York and soon was propelled to national recognition with an appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1958.\u00a0 Following his studies at the Juilliard School with Ivan Galamian and Dorothy DeLay, he won the prestigious Leventritt Competition in 1964, which led to a burgeoning worldwide career.\u00a0 Since then, Itzhak Perlman has established himself as a cultural icon and household name in classical music.\nMr. Perlman has further delighted audiences through his frequent appearances on the conductor\u2019s podium.\u00a0 He has performed as conductor with the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Symphony, National Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Dallas, Houston, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Montreal and Toronto, as well as at the Ravinia and Tanglewood festivals.\u00a0 He was Music Advisor of the St. Louis Symphony from 2002 to 2004 where he made regular conducting appearances, and he was Principal Guest Conductor of the Detroit Symphony from 2001 to 2005. \u00a0Internationally, Mr. Perlman has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, London Philharmonic, English Chamber Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic.\nMr. Perlman\u2019s 2017-18 season features several key collaborations and appearances.\u00a0 He and legendary pianist Martha Argerich embark on their first-ever tour together to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington D.C., Chicago and Carnegie Hall in New York.\u00a0 He additionally reunites with longtime friend and collaborator Pinchas Zukerman in recitals at Boston, Newark, Miami and West Palm Beach.\u00a0 In October 2017, he and Zukerman return to the stage of Carnegie Hall with Zubin Mehta in a gala appearance with the Israel Philharmonic, celebrating the orchestra\u2019s 80th anniversary.\u00a0 Throughout the season, he makes appearances with his regular collaborator, pianist Rohan De Silva, in recitals across North America plus a 10-city recital tour to Asia which takes them to Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Seoul and beyond.\u00a0 On the orchestral front, Mr. Perlman leads the Los Angeles Philharmonic and San Francisco Symphony in play\/conduct programs, and he performs special gala concerts with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, Ft. Worth Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic and Winnipeg Symphony.\nFurther to his engagements as violinist and conductor, Mr. Perlman is increasingly making more appearances as a speaker. Recent speaking engagements include appearances in Texas at Lamar University, South Dakota with the John Vucurevich Foundation and a 2017 engagement in Washington D.C. for the Marriott Foundation.\nItzhak Perlman\u2019s recordings have garnered 16 GRAMMY\u00ae Awards and regularly appear on the best-seller charts. \u00a0In 2008, Mr. Perlman was honored with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for excellence in the recording arts.\nMr. Perlman\u2019s most recent album features him in a special collaboration with Martha Argerich.\u00a0 Released in 2016 by Warner Classics, it marked a historic first studio album for this legendary duo exploring masterpieces by Bach, Schumann and Brahms.\u00a0 It had been 18 years since their first album, a live recital from the Saratoga Performing Arts Center.\u00a0 On that momentous occasion in 1998, in addition to recording the material for their initial disc, the pair recorded Schumann\u2019s Violin Sonata No. 1.\u00a0 The Schumann Sonata at long last was released in 2016 alongside new material, making the album a fascinating \u2018then and now\u2019 portrait of how two living legends have evolved musically.\nMr. Perlman recorded a bonus track for the original cast recording of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of\u00a0Fiddler on the Roof, released on Broadway Records in March 2016. \u00a0The cast recording features Perlman on a track titled \u201cExcerpts from Fiddler on the Roof,\u201d arranged by John Williams.\nThe year of 2015 brought three record releases in celebration of Mr. Perlman\u2019s 70th birthday: A new Deutsche Grammophon album with pianist Emanuel Ax performing Faur\u00e9 and Strauss Sonatas, a 25-disc box set of his complete Deutsche Grammophon and Decca discography, and a 77-disc box set of his complete EMI\/Teldec discography titled Itzhak Perlman: The Complete Warner Recordings.\nIn 2012, Sony released Eternal Echoes: Songs & Dances for the Soul, featuring a collaboration with acclaimed cantor Yitzchak Meir Helfgot in liturgical and traditional Jewish arrangements for chamber orchestra and klezmer musicians, and in 2010, Sony released a recording of Mendelssohn Piano Trios with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax.\u00a0 Highlights of albums over the last two decades have included a Deutsche Grammophon album with Mr. Perlman conducting the Israel Philharmonic, a live recording with Martha Argerich performing Beethoven and Franck Sonatas (EMI); Cinema Serenade featuring popular hits from movies with John Williams conducting (Sony); A la Carte, a recording of short violin pieces with orchestra (EMI) and In the Fiddler\u2019s House, a celebration of klezmer music (EMI) that formed the basis of the PBS television special.\u00a0 In 2004, EMI released The Perlman Edition, a limited-edition 15-CD box set featuring many of his finest EMI recordings as well as newly compiled material, and RCA Red Seal released a CD titled Perlman rediscovered, which includes material recorded in 1965 by a young Itzhak Perlman.\u00a0 Other recordings reveal Mr. Perlman\u2019s devotion to education, including Concertos from my Childhood with the Juilliard Orchestra under Lawrence Foster (EMI) and Marita and her Heart\u2019s Desire, composed and conducted by Bruce Adolphe (Telarc).\nA major presence in the performing arts on television, Itzhak Perlman has been honored with four Emmy Awards, most recently for the PBS documentary Fiddling for the Future, a film about Mr. Perlman\u2019s work as a teacher and conductor for the Perlman Music Program.\u00a0 In 2004, PBS aired a special entitled Perlman in Shanghai that chronicled a historic and unforgettable visit of the Perlman Music Program to China, featuring interaction between American and Chinese students and culminating in a concert at the Shanghai Grand Theater and a performance with one thousand young violinists, led by Mr. Perlman and broadcast throughout China.\u00a0 His third Emmy Award recognized his dedication to klezmer music, as profiled in the 1995 PBS television special In the Fiddler’s House, which was filmed in Poland and featured him performing with four of the world\u2019s finest klezmer bands.\nMr. Perlman has entertained and enlightened millions of TV viewers of all ages on popular shows as diverse as The Late Show with David Letterman, Sesame Street, The Frugal Gourmet, The Tonight Show, and various Grammy Awards telecasts.\u00a0 His PBS appearances have included A Musical Toast and Mozart by the Masters, as well as numerous Live From Lincoln Center broadcasts such as The Juilliard School: Celebrating 100 Years.\u00a0 In 2008, he joined renowned chef Jacques P\u00e9pin on Artist\u2019s Table to discuss the relationship between the culinary and musical arts, and lent his voice as the narrator of Visions of Israel for PBS\u2019s acclaimed Visions series.\u00a0 Mr. Perlman hosted the 1994 U.S. broadcast of the Three Tenors, Encore! live from Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.\u00a0 During the 78th Annual Academy Awards in 2006, he performed a live medley from the five film scores nominated in the category of Best Original Score for a worldwide audience in the hundreds of millions.\u00a0 One of Mr. Perlman\u2019s proudest achievements is his collaboration with film composer John Williams in Steven Spielberg\u2019s Academy Award-winning film Schindler\u2019s List, in which he performed the violin solos.\u00a0 He can also be heard as the violin soloist on the soundtrack of Zhang Yimou\u2019s film Hero (music by Tan Dun) and Rob Marshall\u2019s Memoirs of a Geisha (music by John Williams).\nMr. Perlman has a long association with the Israel Philharmonic and has participated in many groundbreaking tours with this orchestra from his homeland.\u00a0 In 1987, he joined the IPO for history-making concerts in Warsaw and Budapest, representing the first performances by this orchestra and soloist in Eastern bloc countries.\u00a0 He again made history as he joined the orchestra for its first visit to the Soviet Union in 1990, and was cheered by audiences in Moscow and Leningrad who thronged to hear his recital and orchestral performances.\u00a0 This visit was captured on a PBS documentary entitled Perlman in Russia, which won an Emmy.\u00a0 In 1994, Mr. Perlman joined the Israel Philharmonic for their first visits to China and India.\nOver the past two decades, Mr. Perlman has become actively involved in music education, using this opportunity to encourage gifted young string players.\u00a0 Alongside his wife Toby, his close involvement in the Perlman Music Program has been a particularly rewarding experience, and he has taught full-time at the Program each summer since its founding in 1993.\u00a0 Mr. Perlman currently holds the Dorothy Richard Starling Foundation Chair at the Juilliard School.\nNumerous publications and institutions have paid tribute to Itzhak Perlman for the unique place he occupies in the artistic and humanitarian fabric of our times.\u00a0 Harvard, Yale, Brandeis, Roosevelt, Yeshiva and Hebrew universities are among the institutions that have awarded him honorary degrees. He was awarded an honorary doctorate and a centennial medal on the occasion of Juilliard\u2019s 100th commencement ceremony in 2005.\u00a0\u00a0Itzhak Perlman\u2019s presence on stage, on camera, and in personal appearances of all kinds speaks eloquently on behalf of the disabled, and his devotion to their cause is an integral part of his life.\n|,|title|:|conductor and violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} BACH  Violin Concerto in A Minor MOZART  Symphony No. 40 SCHUMANN  Symphony No. 4

data-filter="[2018 10|][jones-hall|][October|][[{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:10,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" After a sold out world tour celebrating 25 years together, HANSON marks their 26th birthday with a musical experience unlike any other. HANSON STRING THEORY – a musical manifesto with new and career spanning works from HANSON, arranged by David Campbell, performed live with the Houston Symphony. Hanson Fan Club Presale: Thursday, July 26 at 10am CST Houston Symphony Subscriber Presale: Friday, July 27 at 10am CST General Ticket On Sale: Saturday, July 28 at 10am CST Watch a concert preview: {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Stuart Chafetz |,|bio|:|Stuart Chafetz is the newly appointed principal pops conductor of the Columbus Symphony. A conductor celebrated for his dynamic and engaging podium presence, Stuart is increasingly in demand with orchestras across the continent, and this seasonhe will be on the podium here and in Detroit, Milwaukee, Naples, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle and Vancouver. He enjoys a special relationship with The Phoenix Symphony where he leads multiple programs annually.\nStuart has had the privilege to work with renowned artists including Chris Botti, 2Cellos, Hanson, Rick Springfield, Michael Bolton, America, Little River Band, Brian McKnight, Roberta Flack, George Benson, Richard Chamberlain, The Chieftains, Jennifer Holliday, John Denver, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hampson, Wynonna Judd, Jim Nabors, Randy Newman, Jon Kimura Parker and Bernadette Peters.\nHe previously held posts as resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. As principal timpanist of the Honolulu Symphony (now Hawaii Symphony) for 20 years, Stuart also conducted the annual Nutcracker performances with Ballet Hawaii and principals from the American Ballet Theatre. It was during that time, Stuart led numerous concerts with the Maui Pops Orchestra. He’s led numerous Spring Ballet productions at the world-renowned Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.\nIn the summers, Stuart spends his time at the Chautauqua Institution, where he conducts the annual Fourth of July and Opera Pops concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, in addition to his role as that orchestra\u2019s timpanist.\nWhen he\u2019s not on the podium, Stuart Chafetz makes his home near San Francisco with his wife, Ann Krinitsky. Stuart holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in music performance from the University of Cincinnati \u2013College-Conservatory of Music and a master\u2019s from the Eastman School of Music.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2018 10|2018 10|2018 10|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][October|October|October|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Its hair-raising technical demands were deemed “unplayable” when first composed—but Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto has gone on to become one of the best known and best loved in the repertoire. You’re in good hands with Karen Gomyo, “an artist of rare musical command” (Chicago Tribune). Plus, enjoy the lush, cinematic sweep of music from Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Fabien Gabel|,|bio|:|Recognized internationally as one of the stars of the new generation, Fabien Gabel is a regular guest of major orchestras in Europe, North America and Asia. He has been music director of the Quebec Symphony Orchestra since September 2013 and was recently appointed music director of the Orchestre fran\u00e7ais des jeunes (French Youth Orchestra).\nFollowing a highly-anticipated debut with the Cleveland Orchestra, last season took Fabien across the United States and Europe, including high -profile performances with this orchestra, the National and Detroit Symphony Orchestras, Frankfurt\u2019s Hessischer Rundfunk Orchester and the Orchestre de Paris. Additional American appearances include performances with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and the San Diego Symphony. After an acclaimed debut with the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester last season, Fabien\u2019s European engagements will again feature concerts throughout Germany and welcome returns to the Orchestre de Paris, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.\nHe has worked with leading performers, including Emanuel Ax, Gidon Kremer, Christian Tetzlaff, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Julian Steckel, Johannes Moser, Ant\u020fnio Meneses, Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin, Beatrice Rana, Gautier Cap u\u00e7on, Simone Lamsma, Jennifer Larmore, Measha Brueggergosman, Danielle de Niese, Natalie Dessay and Marie-Nicole Lemieux.\nFabien had first attracted international attention in 2004 , winning the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition in London, which subsequently led to his appointment as the London Symphony Orchestra\u2019s assistant conductor (2004-2006). The LSO has since regularly engaged him as a guest conductor.\nHe made his professional conducting debut in 2003 with the L\u2019Orchestre National de France. He now regularly conducts that orchestra in subscription concerts and recently recorded a French opera aria CD with mezzo Marie -Nicole Lemieux (Na\u00efve).\nBorn in Paris and a member of a family of accomplished musicians, Fabien Gabel began studying trumpet at age 6, honing his skills at the Conservatoire national sup\u00e9rieur de musique de Paris, which awarded him a First Prize in trumpet in 1996, and later at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Karlsruhe. He played in various Parisian orchestras under the direction of prominent conductors such as Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davis, Riccardo Muti, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle and Bernard Haitink. In 2002, he pursued his interest in conducting at the Aspen Music Festival, where he studied with David Zinman, who invited him to appear as a guest conductor at the Festival in 2009. He has worked with Haitink and Davis as their assistant.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Karen Gomyo|,|bio|:|Praised by the Chicago Tribune as “a first-rate artist of real musical command, vitality, brilliance and intensity, violinist Karen Gomyo captivates audiences worldwide.\nIn May 2018, she performed the world premiere of Samuel Adams\u2019 Chamber Concerto, with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen, to great critical acclaim. The work was written for her and commissioned by the CSO to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its MusicNow series.\nHighlights of the 2018-19 season include debuts with London\u2019s Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Jakub Hr\u016f\u0161a and England\u2019s Royal Northern Sinfonia with Karina Canellakis; as well as returns to this orchestra; the San Francisco, St. Louis and Oregon Symphonies; Minnesota Orchestra; Vancouver and Dallas Symphony Orchestras; and Germany\u2019s WDR Sinfonieorchester K\u00f6ln.\nLast season, she performed in recital at the Sydney Opera House, toured with Edo de Waart and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, followed by performances with West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Perth and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra; she returned to orchestras in St. Louis, Milwaukee, Montreal, Cincinnati, Detroit and Indianapolis, among others. She also performed in her annual chamber music project at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark.\nStrongly committed to contemporary works, Karen performed the North American premiere of Matthias Pintscher\u2019s Concerto No. 2 Mar’eh with the composer conducting the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington D.C., as well as P\u0113teris Vasks’ Vox Amoris with the Lapland Chamber Orchestra conducted by John Storg\u00e5rds. She has collaborated in chamber music compositions with J\u00f6rg Widmann, Olli Mustonen and Sofia Gubaidulina.\nIn recital and chamber music, Karen has performed in festivals throughout the United States and Europe. She recently toured with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and fellow guest artist, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. Her chamber music collaborators have included the late Heinrich Schiff, Christian Polt\u00e9ra, Alisa Weilerstein, Julian Steckel, Leif Ove Andsnes, Kathryn Stott, Christian Ihle Hadland, Antoine Tamestit, Isabelle van Keulen and Lawrence Power. This year, she appeared at the Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival and the AustralianFestival of Chamber Music.\nKaren participated as violinist, host and narrator in a documentary film produced by NHK Japan about Antonio Stradivarius, The Mysteries of the Supreme Violin. She is deeply interested in the Nuevo Tango music of Astor Piazzolla and often performs with his partners. She also performs regularly with the Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen.\nKaren Gomyo plays on the \u201cAurora, exFoulis\u201d Stradivarius violin of 1703, bought for her exclusive use by a private sponsor.\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} HERRMANN  Vertigo Suite TCHAIKOVSKY  Violin Concerto KORNGOLD  Suite from The Sea Hawk TCHAIKOVSKY  The Tempest

data-filter="[2018 11|2018 11|2018 11|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][November|November|November|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Meet Anna I. Meet Anna II. They’re two sides of the same person—and they’re about to take you on one wild ride. From the storied composer-lyricist team of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, The Seven Deadly Sins follows two personas (one sensible, one sultry) on a seven-city pursuit of the American dream, with a different sin at every stop. The incredible Storm Large has earned rave reviews playing Anna everywhere from Carnegie Hall to the Kennedy Center, and now brings her signature role to Houston. Part parody. Part poetry. All riveting. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Bramwell Tovey|,|bio|:|GRAMMY and Juno award-winning conductor\/composer Bramwell Tovey was appointed Music Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra in 2000. Under his leadership the VSO have toured to China, Korea, across Canada and the United States. Mr. Tovey is also the Artistic Adviser of the VSO School of Music, a state-of-the-art facility and recital hall which opened in downtown Vancouver in 2011, next to the Orpheum, the VSO’s historic home. His tenure has included complete symphony cycles of Beethoven, Mahler, Brahms as well as the establishment of an annual festival dedicated to contemporary music. In 2018, the VSO’s centenary year, he will become the orchestra’s Music Director Emeritus.\nThe 2017\/18 season in Vancouver includes tours in the fall and spring showcasing the orchestra in their home state as well as key east coast Canadian cities. Other engagements will take him to the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Houston, Toronto and Melbourne symphonies as well as returns to summer festivals in Vail, Tanglewood, and the Hollywood Bowl.\nAs guest conductor during the 2016\/17 season he returned to the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston and Chicago Symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra (whose 2016-2017 New Year’s celebrations he also directed), the Melbourne and Sydney symphonies, as well as the Royal Conservatory Orchestra in Toronto.\nAn active composer, Bramwell Tovey won the 2003 Juno Award for Best Classical Composition for his choral and brass work\u00a0Requiem for a Charred Skull. Past commissions include the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Toronto Symphony and Calgary Opera who premiered his first full length opera\u00a0The Inventor\u00a0in 2011, a recording of which by the VSO with UBC Opera and the original cast has been released on the Naxos label. In 2014 his trumpet concerto,\u00a0Songs of the Paradise Saloon,\u00a0was performed by the LA Philharmonic with Alison Balsom as soloist, and was subsequently repeated by the same soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, in December 2014.\nA talented pianist as well as conductor and composer, he has appeared as soloist with many major orchestras including the New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Toronto, and Royal Scottish orchestras. In the summer of 2014 he played and conducted Gershwin’s\u00a0Rhapsody in Blue\u00a0at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Phil and in Saratoga with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He has performed his own\u00a0Pictures in the Smokewith the Melbourne and Helsingborg Symphonies and the Royal Philharmonic.\nMaestro Tovey was Music Director of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra from 1989 to 2001 where he founded the WSO’s now celebrated New Music Festival. From 2002-2006 he was Music Director of Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, leading tours of Europe, the USA, China and Korea. He opened Luxembourg’s Salle Philharmonie with the world premi\u00e8re of Penderecki’s 8th\u00a0Symphony.\nMr. Tovey is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in London, the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and holds honorary degrees from the universities of British Columbia, Manitoba, Kwantlen and Winnipeg. In 2013 he was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of Canada for services to music.\nIn August 2011 he was described by\u00a0Musical America\u00a0as “one of the most versatile and charismatic musicians in the world.”\n \n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Storm Large|,|bio|:|Storm Large: musician, actor, playwright, author, awesome. She shot to national prominence in 2006 as a finalist on the CBS show\u00a0Rock Star: Supernova, where despite having been eliminated in the week before the finale, Storm built a fan base that follows her around the world to this day.\nStorm spent the 90s singing in clubs throughout San Francisco.\u00a0Tired of the club scene, she moved to Portland to pursue a new career as a chef, but a last-minute cancellation in 2002 at the Portland club “Dante’s” turned into a standing Wednesday night engagement for Storm and her new band, The Balls. It wasn’t long before Storm had a cult-like following in Portland, and a renewed singing career that was soon to be launched onto the international stage.\u00a0\nHighlights of the 17-18 season include debuts with the San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Vancouver, Jacksonville, and RT\u00c9 National Symphonies, as well as return engagements with the Houston, Toronto, and Toledo Symphonies. Storm and her band, Le Bonheur, continue to tour concert halls across the country. The 16-17 season included debuts with the Atlanta, Baltimore, and BBC Symphony Orchestras, and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, as well as return engagements with National Symphony Orchestra and Detroit Symphony Orchestra.\nRecent highlights include engagements with the New York Pops, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Memphis Symphony, and the Knights, as well as performances at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago. She joined Michael Feinstein as special guest on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Popular Song series, as well as with Liza Minnelli, Joel Grey, and the Pasadena Pops.\nStorm made her debut as guest vocalist with the band Pink Martini in April 2011, singing four sold-out concerts with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She continues to perform with the band, touring nationally and internationally, and she was featured on their CD,\u00a0Get Happy.\u00a0Storm has also sung with Grammy winner k.d. lang, pianist Kirill Gerstein, punk rocker John Doe, singer\/songwriter Rufus Wainwright, and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer George Clinton.\nShe debuted with the Oregon Symphony in 2010, and has returned for sold out performances each year thereafter.\u00a0Storm made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2013, singing Weill’s\u00a0Seven Deadly Sins\u00a0with the Detroit Symphony as part of the Spring for Music festival. The\u00a0NY Times\u00a0called her “sensational,” and the classical music world instantly had a new star.\u00a0\u00a0\nIn 2007, Storm starred in Portland Center Stage’s production of\u00a0Cabaret\u00a0with Wade McCollum. The show was a smash hit, earning Large glowing reviews.\u00a0Her next endeavor, the autobiographical musical memoir,\u00a0Crazy Enough, played to packed houses in 2009 during its unprecedented 21-week sold out run in Portland. Storm went on to perform a cabaret version of the show to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Adelaide Festival in Australia, and Joe’s Pub in New York.\u00a0Her memoir,\u00a0Crazy Enough, was released by Simon and Schuster in 2012, named Oprah’s Book of the Week, and awarded the 2013 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction.\nStorm is featured in\u00a0Rid of Me, a film by Portlander James Westby, starring Katie O’Grady and Theresa Russell. In 2010, she starred at the Mark Taper Forum with Katey Sagal and Michael McKean in Jerry Zak’s production of\u00a0Harps and Angels, a musical featuring the work of Randy Newman.\nIn the fall of 2014, Storm & Le Bonheur released a record designed to capture their sublime and subversive interpretations of the American Songbook. Entitled simply\u00a0Le Bonheur\u00a0and released on Pink Martini’s Heinz Records, the recording is a collection of tortured and titillating love songs: beautiful, familiar, yet twisted … much like the lady herself.\u00a0\n|,|title|:|vocalist (Anna)|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Hudson Shad|,|bio|:|Though the six-man ensemble Hudson Shad (five singers and a pianist) debuted officially in 1992, their nucleus formed in 1977 when three of them made their Carnegie Hall debuts as soloists in Penderecki\u2019s Magnificat. In 1989, the Arts at St. Ann\u2019s in Brooklyn asked bass Wilbur Pauley to contract a quartet to perform as The Family in Kurt Weill\u2019s Seven Deadly Sins with Marianne Faithfull. The response was favorable.\nOver the last quarter century, the Hudson Shad quartet has most likely racked up more performances as The Family in the Seven Deadly Sins than any other group in history. They have performed in over 50 different locations, from Arezzo to Zagreb, numbering over 100 performances worldwide. They participated in a staging of the work, in a double bill with Weill\u2019s Der Lindbergflug, at the Macerata Festival. They have twice recorded the work, once with Kurt Masur and the NY Philharmonic and once with Ms. Faithfull, Dennis Russell Davies and the RSO-Wien. In 2008, Hudson Shad was honored to participate in the Carnegie Hall premiere of the work, with Ute Lemper and the Toronto Symphony.\nOther orchestra appearances by Hudson Shad have featured more Weill: Kleine Mahagonny with the St.Paul Chamber Orchestra, and Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny at the Salzburg Festival. The Schubert bicentennial in 1997 found Hudson Shad returning to the NY Philharmonic for orchestral works with men\u2019s voices, and they performed Schubert songs using the Reger orchestrations with the Bruckner Orchestera in Linz. Hudson Shad debuted with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as “Wild Things” in Oliver Knussen’s Where the Wild Things Are, conducted by the composer. They have developed their own English translation of Stravinsky’s Renard and have performed it with Charles Dutoit at the Miyazaki Festival and at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. They performed Philip Glass’ Fall of the House of Usher with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (in a double bill with Sins), and they sang as the barbershop quartet in Music Man with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.\nIn 1999 Hudson Shad was featured on Broadway in a musical tribute to the legendary German singing group, The Comedian Harmonists: Band in Berlin.\nRecent performances include Sins with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2017, and in 2018 with the Toledo Symphony and the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. Also in 2018, they’ve sung hymns that Charles Ives used as the basis for his four Violin Sonatas, in tandem with pianist Jeremy Denk and violinist Stefan Jackiw, in Boston and NYC.\nThese performances in Houston mark the fourteenth location for the Shad family unit with Storm Large since their initial encounter at the Ojai Festival in June 2014.\nThe members of Hudson Shad appearing with the Houston Symphony are: Mark Bleeke, tenor; Eric Edlund, baritone; Peter Becker, bass\/baritone; and Wilbur Pauley, bass.\n|,|title|:|vocalists (The Family)|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} R. STRAUSS  “Dance of the Seven Veils” from Salome SCRIABIN  The Poem of Ecstasy WEILL  The Seven Deadly Sins

data-filter="[2018 11|2018 11|2018 11|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][November|November|November|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:18,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" S’Wonderful! Fall in love with the beauty of Paris and the magic of Gershwin’s music as this 1951 classic film and Academy Award Best Picture winner comes to the big screen at Jones Hall, complete with live soundtrack by the Houston Symphony. Starring Gene Kelly as an American ex-GI who falls for Parisian Leslie Caron, the film weaves its romantic story with George and Ira Gershwin’s most unforgettable, enduring songs—“Embraceable You,” “I Got Rhythm” and many more—alongside jump-off-the-screen dance numbers and plenty of joie de vivre. Who could ask for anything more! {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Constantine Kitsopoulos|,|bio|:|Constantine Kitsopoulos is a conductor whose musical experiences comfortably span the worlds of opera, symphony and musical theater.\n \nThe 2016-17 season will mark his 7th as Music Director of the Festival of the Arts BOCA. He was Artistic Director of the OK Mozart Festival from 2013-15 and spent 8 years as Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra. In 16-17, Kitsopoulos includes return engagements with the New Jersey, Baltimore, Vancouver and Detroit symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisiana and Calgary philharmonics and Symphony Silicon Valley. He will make debuts with the Pacific and Fort Worth symphonies. He returns to Indiana Opera Theatre to lead their production of \u201cThe Music Man\u201d and New York University to conduct three different programs with their orchestras.\u00a0 In addition to his work as a conductor, Kitsopoulos will make his debut as a composer at Michigan State University with a workshop of a new music theatre piece entitled \u201cTemple\u201d.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2018 11|2018 11|2018 11|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][November|November|November|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" How glorious it is to behold pure genius at its prime in Mozart’s late, great Piano Concerto No. 22, written during an astoundingly prolific stretch in which the music poured forth as if fully formed. Celebrated pianist Inon Barnatan—“a true poet of the keyboard” (London Evening Standard)—is your soloist. Then, peer through a dazzling kaleidoscope of color with Brahms’ final symphony, whose radiant melodies ebb and flow like a sun-lit river. It’s a program of musical delights, this Thanksgiving with the Houston Symphony. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|David Danzmayr|,|bio|:||,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Inon Barnatan|,|bio|:|“One of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times), Inon Barnatan is celebrated for his poetic sensibility, musical intelligence, and consummate artistry. He was a recipient of Lincoln Center\u2019s Martin E. Segal Award in 2015, recognizing \u201cyoung artists of exceptional accomplishment,\u201d as well as the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009. He recently completed his third and final season as the inaugural Artist-in-Association of the New York Philharmonic, a position created by former Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert, who calls him \u201cthe complete artist: a wonderful pianist, a probing intellect, passionately committed, and a capable contemporary-music pianist as well.\u201d Gilbert and Barnatan have since collaborated numerous times and are in the process of recording the complete cycle of Beethoven piano concertos with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, marking that orchestra\u2019s first complete recorded Beethoven concerto cycle.\nThe summer of 2017 saw Barnatan make his BBC Proms debut, playing Ravel\u2019s Piano Concerto in G with conductor Kazushi Ono and the BBC Symphony in Royal Albert Hall. He also played the world premiere in Aspen of a new concerto by Alan Fletcher, and opens the 2017-18 season performing the same piece with the commissioning Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl under the baton of Ken-David Masur. Later in the season he will play it again with the Atlanta Symphony under Robert Spano. Another season highlight is a New Year’s Eve performance of Tchaikovsky\u2019s First Piano Concerto in Minneapolis with the Minnesota Orchestra led by Osmo V\u00e4nsk\u00e4, followed by a tour of the Midwest with the orchestra culminating at Chicago\u2018s Symphony Hall. He debuts with the London and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestras; returns to the Cincinnati Orchestra to play the notoriously difficult Barber Piano Concerto; and plays solo recitals at London\u2019s Wigmore Hall and South Bank Centre, New York\u2019s 92nd Street Y, and the Vancouver Recital Society, among others. As a chamber musician he will curate and play in a multi-concert Schubert festival for La Jolla Music Society, and tour the U.S. and Europe with his frequent recital partner, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, including concerts at Carnegie Hall and Wigmore Hall.\nA regular performer with many of the world\u2019s most celebrated orchestras and conductors, the pianist\u2019s 2016-17 season included debuts with the Chicago, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Seattle, Nashville, San Diego and Fort Worth Symphony Orchestras; and returns to many other orchestras and venues around the U.S. He made debuts with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and Hong Kong Philharmonic, returned to Tokyo with the Tokyo Metropolitan Orchestra, and performed a complete Beethoven piano concerto cycle in Marseilles. He toured the U.S. twice, once with the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, playing and conducting Mozart and Shostakovich concertos from the keyboard and premiering a newly commissioned concerto by Alasdair Nicolson, and again with Alisa Weilerstein and New York Philharmonic principal clarinetist Anthony McGill, in a program that included the world\u00a0premiere of a new work by the young American composer Joseph Hallman.\nHighlights of recent seasons include his Walt Disney Hall debut with the\u00a0Los Angeles Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel; performances of Copland\u2019s jazz-inflected Piano Concerto with the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas in San Francisco and at Carnegie Hall; a debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic; performances with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon; and solo recital debuts at the Celebrity Series of Boston and the Harris Theater in Chicago. He also collaborated with choreographer Mark Morris and pianist Garrick Ohlsson in a string of performances by the Mark Morris Dance company at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York.\n \nA sought-after chamber musician, Barnatan was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center\u2019s \u201cCMS Two\u201d program from 2006 to 2009, and is still a regular performer on CMS programs at home in New York and on tour. His passion for contemporary music has led him to commission and perform many works by living composers, including premieres of works by Thomas Ad\u00e8s, Sebastian Currier, Avner Dorman, Matthias Pintscher, Alasdair Nicolson, Andrew Norman and others.\nBarnatan\u2019s latest album release is a live recording of Messiaen’s 90-minute masterpiece, Des canyons aux \u00e9toiles (\u201cFrom the Canyons to the Stars\u201d), in which he played the exceptionally challenging solo piano part with an ensemble conducted by Alan Gilbert at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Last October the pianist released Rachmaninov & Chopin: Cello Sonatas on Decca Classics with Alisa Weilerstein, which earned rave reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. His most recent solo album, featuring Schubert’s late piano sonatas, was released by Avie in September 2013. It garnered praise from such publications as Gramophone and BBC Music, and his rendition of the great A major Sonata, D. 959 from the disc was chosen by BBC Radio 3 as one of the all-time best recordings of this piece. His 2012 album, Darknesse Visible, debuted in the Top 25 of the Billboard Traditional Classical chart in its first week of release and received universal critical acclaim, being named BBC Music\u2019s \u201cInstrumentalist CD of the Month\u201d and winning a coveted place on the New York Times\u2019s \u201cBest Classical Music Recordings of 2012\u201d list. His debut solo recording of Schubert piano works, released by Bridge Records in 2006, prompted Gramophone to hail him as \u201ca born Schubertian\u201d and London\u2019s Evening Standard to call him \u201ca true poet of the keyboard: refined, searching, unfailingly communicative.\u201d\nBorn in Tel Aviv in 1979, Inon Barnatan started playing the piano at the age of three after his parents discovered he had perfect pitch, and he made his orchestral debut at eleven. His musical education connects him to some of the 20th century\u2019s most illustrious pianists and teachers: he studied first with Professor Victor Derevianko, who, himself, studied with the Russian master Heinrich Neuhaus; and in 1997 he moved to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music with Maria Curcio \u2013 a student of the legendary Artur Schnabel \u2013 and with Christopher Elton. Leon Fleisher has also been an influential teacher and mentor. Barnatan currently resides in New York City. For more information about Inon Barnatan visit www.inonbarnatan.com.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} SUPPÉ  Overture to The Beautiful Galatea MOZART  Piano Concerto No. 22 BRAHMS  Symphony No. 4

data-filter="[2018 11|2018 12|2018 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][November|December|December|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Beethoven’s soulful and sparkling Piano Concerto No. 3 gets the superstar treatment from legendary pianist Garrick Ohlsson, whose virtuosic artistry yields “a sound so lush it almost glistens” (Seattle Times). Then, immerse yourself in the soaring musical world of Sir Edward Elgar as renowned conductor Edo de Waart—a master of grand-scale symphonies—leads the composer’s lavish, heartfelt First. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Edo de Waart|,|bio|:|Music Director of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Edo de Waart also holds the positions of Conductor Laureate of the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, having concluded his tenure at the latter as Music Director at the end of the 2016\/17 season.\nIn addition to his existing posts, he was previously Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and Chief Conductor of De Nederlandse Opera.\nThe 2017\/18 season sees his annual appearance with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra where he conducts a programme of Bernstein and Brahms, as well as his return to the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra who he joins for a German tour in May 2018. He opens the season for the San Diego Symphony with Jean-Yves Thibaudet and returns to the Orchestra for two more periods later in the season, and also conducts the Atlanta Symphony. Other regular guest conducting appearances include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al. A renowned orchestral trainer, he has a number of projects with talented young players at the Juilliard and Colburn Schools, which follows on from his summer visit to the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara.\nAs an opera conductor, de Waart has enjoyed success in a large and varied repertoire in many of the world\u2019s greatest opera houses. He has conducted at Bayreuth, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre de Gen\u00e8ve, Op\u00e9ra Bastille, Santa Fe Opera, and The Metropolitan Opera. As Music Director in Milwaukee, Antwerp and Hong Kong \u00a0in an attempt bring the operatic canon to broader audiences where stage limitations mean staged performances are not possible, he has often conducted semi-staged and concert opera performances. He still continues this mission with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam matinee series.\nde Waart\u2019s extensive catalogue encompasses releases for Philips, Virgin, EMI, Telarc and RCA.\u00a0 Recent recordings include Henderickx Symphony No.1 and Oboe Concerto, Mahler\u2019s Symphony No.1 and Elgar\u2019s Dream of Gerontius, both with the Royal Flemish Philharmonic.\nBeginning his career as an Assistant Conductor to Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic, de Waart then returned to Holland where he was appointed Assistant Conductor to Bernard Haitink at the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. In 1973 he was appointed Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.\nEdo de Waart has received a number of awards for his musical achievements, including becoming a Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion and an Honorary Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Garrick Ohlsson|,|bio|:|Since his triumph as winner of the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, pianist Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Chopin, Mr. Ohlsson commands an enormous repertoire, which ranges over the entire piano literature. A student of the late Claudio Arrau, Mr. Ohlsson has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, as well as the Romantic repertoire. To date he has at his command more than 80 concertos, ranging from Haydn and Mozart to works of the 21st century, many commissioned for him. This season that vast repertoire can be sampled in concerti ranging from Chopin, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Barber and Busoni in cities including St. Louis, Washington D.C., Cincinnati, San Francisco, Portland, OR, Prague, Stockholm, Wroclaw and Strasbourg. In recital he can be heard in New York’s Tully Hall, Seattle, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles and Puerto Rico. At the invitation of Music Director Krzysztof Urbanski he will appear twice during the season with the Indianapolis Symphony – first playing two Prokofiev concerti in a weekend in which all five will be programmed, and returning later in the season with Tchaikovsky’s beloved Concerto No.1.\nA frequent guest with the orchestras in Australia, Mr. Ohlsson has recently visited Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Hobart as well as the New Zealand Symphony in Wellington and Auckland. An avid chamber musician, Mr. Ohlsson has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, and Tokyo string quartets, and this fall will tour with the Takacs Quartet. Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio. Passionate about singing and singers, Mr. Ohlsson has appeared in recital with such legendary artists as Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman, and Ewa Podles.\nMr. Ohlsson can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, H\u00e4nssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion and Virgin Classics labels. His ten-disc set of the complete Beethoven Sonatas, for Bridge Records, has garnered critical acclaim, including a GRAMMY\u00ae for Vol. 3. His recording of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 3, with the Atlanta Symphony and Robert Spano, was released in 2011. In the fall of 2008 the English label Hyperion re-released his 16-disc set of the Complete Works of Chopin followed in 2010 by all the Brahms piano variations, “Goyescas” by Enrique Granados, and music of Charles Tomlinson Griffes. Most recently on that label are Scriabin’s Complete Po\u00e8mes, Smetana Czech Dances, and \u00e8tudes by Debussy, Bartok and Prokofiev. The latest CDs in his ongoing association with Bridge Records are the Complete Scriabin Sonatas, “Close Connections,” a recital of 20th-Century pieces, and two CDs of works by Liszt. In recognition of the Chopin bicentenary in 2010, Mr. Ohlsson was featured in a documentary “The Art of Chopin” co-produced by Polish, French, British and Chinese television stations. Most recently, both Brahms concerti and Tchaikovsky’s second piano concerto were released on live performance recordings with the Melbourne and Sydney Symphonies on their own recording labels, and Mr. Ohlsson was featured on Dvorak’s piano concerto in the Czech Philharmonic’s recordings of the composer’s complete symphonies & concertos, released July of 2014 on the Decca label.\nA native of White Plains, N.Y., Garrick Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8, at the Westchester Conservatory of Music; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School, in New York City. His musical development has been influenced in completely different ways by a succession of distinguished teachers, most notably Claudio Arrau, Olga Barabini, Tom Lishman, Sascha Gorodnitzki, Rosina Lh\u00e9vinne and Irma Wolpe. Although he won First Prizes at the 1966 Busoni Competition in Italy and the 1968 Montr\u00e9al Piano Competition, it was his 1970 triumph at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, where he won the Gold Medal (and remains the single American to have done so), that brought him worldwide recognition as one of the finest pianists of his generation. Since then he has made nearly a dozen tours of Poland, where he retains immense personal popularity. Mr. Ohlsson was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize in 1994 and received the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI. He is also the 2014 recipient of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Northwestern University Bienen School of Music. He makes his home in San Francisco.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} BEETHOVEN  Piano Concerto No. 3 ELGAR  Symphony No. 1

data-filter="[2018 12|2018 12|2018 12|2018 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][December|December|December|December|][[{|term_id|:1595,|name|:|Holiday|,|slug|:|holiday-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1595,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:4,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:18,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Sleigh bells ring and jingle bells chime as the Houston Symphony’s beloved holiday spectacular returns! Gather with family and friends in a cozy winter wonderland for a sparkling celebration filled to the brim with traditional carols, festive favorites and heartwarming cheer. The fabulous Ali Ewoldt, who currently stars as Christine in Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera, joins in the fun, performing unforgettable renditions of your favorite holiday classics. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Ali Ewoldt|,|bio|:||,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2018 12|2018 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][December|December|][[{|term_id|:1035,|name|:|Family|,|slug|:|family-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1035,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:|Now in his tenth season, our Associate Conductor Robert Franz is ready to help your family create cherished memories. Buckle up! Our Family Series is taking you on a magical, musical quest on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nAlso, enjoy pre- and post-concert activities, including our Instrument Petting Zoo, young musician performances in the lobby as well as crafts and musical activities. \r\n\r\n|,|parent|:0,|count|:8,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" All aboard! Find your compartment and get ready for a magical journey to the North Pole on The Polar Express. Featuring the original storybook images projected on the big screen, this timeless tale of a boy who believes will have your young ones waiting for the sound of Santa’s sleigh! Plus, enjoy festive favorites like “Frosty the Snowman” and “Let it Snow” and lift your voices in a holiday sing-along. Children of all ages, including infants, are welcome at Family Series performances. All patrons must have a ticket when entering a concert venue. For lap child tickets, please contact our Patron Services Center at 713-224-7575. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Robert Franz|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/robert-franz\/|}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Kinder HSPVA Chorale|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Shannon Carter and Julia Hall, directors|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Davis High School Choir|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Daryle Freeman director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2018 12|][jones-hall|][December|][[{|term_id|:1595,|name|:|Holiday|,|slug|:|holiday-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1595,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:4,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:10,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" A true holiday favorite, this beloved comedy classic features renowned composer John Williams’ charming and delightful score performed live to picture by the Houston Symphony. Macaulay Culkin stars as Kevin McCallister, an 8-year-old boy who’s accidentally left behind when his family leaves for Christmas vacation, and who must defend his home against two bungling thieves. Hilarious and heart-warming, Home Alone is holiday fun for the entire family! © 1990 Twentieth Century Fox {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Constantine Kitsopoulos|,|bio|:|Constantine Kitsopoulos is a conductor whose musical experiences comfortably span the worlds of opera, symphony and musical theater.\nThe 2016-17 season will mark his 7th as Music Director of the Festival of the Arts BOCA. He was Artistic Director of the OK Mozart Festival from 2013-15 and spent 8 years as Music Director of the Queens Symphony Orchestra. In 16-17, Kitsopoulos includes return engagements with the New Jersey, Baltimore, Vancouver and Detroit symphonies, the Philadelphia Orchestra, Louisiana and Calgary philharmonics and Symphony Silicon Valley. He will make debuts with the Pacific and Fort Worth symphonies. He returns to Indiana Opera Theatre to lead their production of \u201cThe Music Man\u201d and New York University to conduct three different programs with their orchestras.\u00a0 In addition to his work as a conductor, Kitsopoulos will make his debut as a composer at Michigan State University with a workshop of a new music theatre piece entitled \u201cTemple\u201d.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|High School for the Performing and Visual Arts Chorale|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Patricia Bonner, Shannon Carter and Julia Hall (directors)|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2018 12|2018 12|2018 12|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][December|December|December|][[{|term_id|:1595,|name|:|Holiday|,|slug|:|holiday-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1595,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:4,|filter|:|raw|},{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:10,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" This Christmas, be moved by Handel’s ever-glorious setting of the greatest story ever told. The Houston Symphony, chorus and guest soloists join forces to fill Jones Hall with joyous refrains and exultant arias, including the powerful “Hallelujah” Chorus. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Jane Glover|,|bio|:|British conductor Jane Glover has been Music of the Baroque\u2019s music director since 2002. She made her professional debut at the Wexford Festival in 1975, conducting her own edition of Cavalli\u2019s L\u02bcEritrea. She joined Glyndebourne in 1979 and was music director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1981 until 1985. She was artistic director of the London Mozart Players from 1984 to 1991, and has also held principal conductorships of both the Huddersfield and the London Choral Societies. From 2009 until 2016 she was Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music where she is now the Felix Mendelssohn Visiting Professor.\nJane Glover has conducted all the major symphony and chamber orchestras in Britain, as well as orchestras in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. In recent seasons, she has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the San Francisco, Houston, St. Louis, Sydney, Cincinnati, and Toronto symphony orchestras, the Orchestra of St. Luke\u2019s, the Belgrade Philharmonic, and Orchestre Nationale de Bordeaux et Aquitaine. She also works with the period-instrument orchestras Philharmonia Baroque, and the Handel and Haydn Society.\nIn demand on the international opera stage, Jane Glover has appeared with numerous companies including the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera, Covent Garden, English National Opera, Royal Danish Opera, Glyndebourne, the Berlin Staatsoper, Glimmerglass Opera, New York City Opera, Opera National de Bordeaux, Opera Australia, Chicago Opera Theater, Opera National du Rhin, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Luminato, Teatro Real, Madrid, and Teatro La Fenice. Known as a Mozart specialist, she has conducted all the Mozart operas all over the world regularly since she first performed them at Glyndebourne in the 1980s. Her core operatic repertoire also includes Monteverdi, Handel, and Britten. Highlights of recent seasons include The Magic Flute with the Metropolitan Opera, L’Elisir d’amore for Houston Grand Opera, The Turn of the Screw, Jephtha and Lucio Silla in Bordeaux, The Rape of Lucretia, A Midsummer Night\u02bcs Dream, and Cos\u00ed fan tutte at the Aspen Music Festival, Gluck\u2019s Armide and Iphigenie en Aulide with Met Young Artists and Juilliard, Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, and Eugene Onegin, The Rake\u2019s Progress, The Marriage of Figaro, L\u2019incoronazione di Poppea, and the world premiere of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies\u2019 Kommilitonen! at the Royal Academy of Music.\nCurrent and future engagements include La Clemenza di Tito at Aspen; Alcina with the Washington Opera; the US premiere of Alma Deutscher\u2019s Cinderella with Opera San Jose; Medea with Opera Omaha; her continuing seasons with Music of the Baroque in Chicago; and concert appearances with the Cleveland Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Houston Symphony. and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.\nJane Glover\u2019s discography includes a series of Mozart and Haydn symphonies with the London Mozart Players and recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Britten, and Walton with the London Philharmonic, the Royal Philharmonic, and the BBC Singers. Recent releases include Handel\u2019s Messiah (Signum) and Haydn Masses (Naxos). Her critically acclaimed book Mozart\u02bcs Women was published in 2005. She has just finished a book on Handel.\nJane Glover studied at St. Hugh\u2019s College, Oxford, where after graduation she did her D.Phil on seventeenth-century Venetian opera. She holds a personal professorship at the University of London, is a Fellow of the Royal College of Music, an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, and the holder of several honorary degrees. In 2015-16 she has been Visiting Professor of Opera at the University of Oxford. She was created a Commander of the British Empire in the 2003 New Year\u2019s Honours.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Ying Fang|,|bio|:|Soprano Ying Fang has been hailed by the New York Times for her \u201cpure and moving soprano, phrasing with scrupulous respect for the line and traveling with assurance through the mercurial moods,\u201d as well as \u201csinging with a fresh, appealing soprano and acting with coquettish flair.\u201d\nThe 2017-2018 season launches with a house debut at Opernhaus Z\u00fcrich as Pamina in Mozart\u2019s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te. Additional opera highlights of the season include a return to the Metropolitan Opera to sing No\u00e9mie in Massenet\u2019s Cendrillon in a new production directed by Laurent Pelly, performances as Morgana in Handel\u2019s Alcina with Washington National Opera, and a house debut at Vancouver Opera as Adina in Donizetti\u2019s L\u2019Elisir d\u2019Amore. Concert appearances will include Schumann\u2019s Das Paradies und die Peri with the Los Angeles Philharmonic directed by Peter Sellars under the baton of Gustavo Dudamel, a recital with pianist Ken Noda at Carnegie Hall featuring Schubert lieder, and Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 4 with the Montclair Symphony conducted by David Chan. Ms. Fang will return to the Verbier Festival for a solo recital, Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 4 conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, and\u00a0 a performance of the Faur\u00e9 Requiem under Mark Minkowski. She will also appear with the Verbier Chamber Ensemble at Schloss Elmau.\nMs. Fang\u2019s 2016-2017 season included Metropolitan Opera appearances as Ilia in Mozart\u2019s Idomeneo, Elvira in Rossini\u2019s L\u2019Italiana in Algeri, and Jano in Jan\u00e1\u010dek\u2019s Jen\u016ffa. She also portrayed Susanna in Mozart\u2019s Le Nozze di Figaro in a Stephen Lawless production for Opera Philadelphia and sang Bellezza in Handel\u2019s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with conductor Emmanuelle Ha\u00efm with Op\u00e9ra de Lille. Ms. Fang appeared with the New York Philharmonic in a concert of Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 4 conducted by Alan Gilbert and an all-Mozart program under Bernard Labadie. She also performed Handel\u2019s Messiah with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Nathalie Stutzmann, sang Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2 with the Pittsburgh Symphony under conductor Manfred Honeck, ventured to Chicago for Telemann\u2019s Der Tag des Gerichts with Music of the Baroque Orchestra conducted by Jane Glover, and joined St. Luke\u2019s Chamber Ensemble for a Schubertiade in New York.\nPrevious appearances for Ms. Fang include Barbarina in the season-opening new production of Le Nozze di Figaro conducted by James Levine at the Metropolitan Opera, where she also sang Giannetta in\u00a0 L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore, the Shepherd in Wagner\u2019s Tannh\u00e4user, and the Dew Fairy in H\u00e4nsel und Gretel conducted by Sir Andrew Davis; as well as Susanna in Mozart\u2019s Le Nozze di Figaro directed by Stephen Wadsworth at The Juilliard School, where she also performed the title role in Gluck\u2019s Iphig\u00e9nie en Aulide conducted by Jane Glover. In addition, she made her Verbier Festival and role debut singing Nannetta in Verdi\u2019s Falstaff alongside Bryn Terfel and led by Jes\u00fas L\u00f3pez Cobos, and returned to the Festival d\u2019Aix-en-Provence for its production of Handel\u2019s Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. She also debuted at the Ravinia Festival in Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2 under the baton of James Levine, joined the Mediterranean Youth Symphony for a European tour of Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 4 conducted by Carlo Rizzi, and was featured in the Metropolitan Opera and the Juilliard School\u2019s joint concert of comic operas conducted by James Levine, in which she sang Konstanze, Teresa, and Adina. She has also appeared in recital at Carnegie Hall as part of the Neighborhood Concert Series and at the Kennedy Center under the auspices of Vocal Arts DC, both with pianist Ken Noda. Other notable recent appearances include\u00a0Cleopatra in Giulio Cesare and Contessa di Folleville in Rossini\u2019s Il Viaggio A Reims, both\u00a0with the Wolf Trap Opera Company, the title role\u00a0in Mozart\u2019s Za\u00efde\u00a0with the New World Symphony, and Bellezza in Handel\u2019s oratorio Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno with Juilliard 415 under the baton of William Christie at Alice Tully Hall. She also appeared at Aspen Opera Theater Center where she was heard as Maria in Bernstein\u2019s West Side Story and in the role of Pamina in Mozart\u2019s Die Zauberfl\u00f6te with the Aspen Opera Theater Center, of which the Aspen Times wrote: \u201cSoprano Ying Fang sang Pamina with a creamy tone and marvelous specificity in each moment.\u201d\nMs. Fang\u00a0made her Metropolitan Opera debut in the 2013-14 season singing the role of Madame Podtochina\u2019s Daughter in Shostakovich\u2019s opera The Nose.\u00a0At the Juilliard School, she has been seen as Zerlina in\u00a0Mozart\u2019s Don Giovanni,\u00a0Fanny in Rossini\u2019s La Cambiale di Matrimonio, and the Spirit of the Boy in Britten\u2019s Curlew River.\u00a0 She made her Alice Tully Hall debut performing Handel\u2019s motet Silete Venti with conductor Steven Fox leading the Juilliard 415, and appeared as the soprano soloist in Carl Orff\u2019s Carmina Burana with the National Symphony Orchestra at Wolf Trap.\nA native of Ningbo, China, Ms. Fang is the recipient of the Martin E. Segal Award, the Hildegard Behrens Foundation Award, the\u00a0Rose Bampton Award of\u00a0The Sullivan Foundation, The Opera Index Award, and the 1st Prize Award of the Gerda Lissner International Vocal Competition. In 2009, she become one of the youngest singers to win one of China\u2019s most prestigious awards \u2013 the China Golden Bell Award for Music. She has been hailed as \u201cthe most gifted Chinese soprano of her generation\u201d by Ningbo Daily.\n \nMs. Fang holds a Master\u2019s degree and an Artist Diploma in Opera Study from The Juilliard School and a Bachelor\u2019s degree from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.\n|,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Elizabeth Deshong|,|bio|:||,|title|:|mezzo-soprano|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Thomas Cooley|,|bio|:||,|title|:|tenor|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Christ\u00f2pheren Nomura|,|bio|:||,|title|:|baritone|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]} HANDEL Messiah

data-filter="[2019 01|2019 01|2019 01|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][January|January|January|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Saucy as the city streets, majestic as a city skyline, Rhapsody in Blue’s iconic opening and unforgettable melodies make it one of the most enduringly popular works in all of classical music. Hear the original jazz band version, alongside Ravel’s bluesy, dreamy Concerto in G as the phenomenal Jeffrey Kahane plays and conducts this program of symphonic gems with a French twist and a Jazz Age flair. There’s no better way to ring in the New Year! Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Jeffrey Kahane|,|bio|:|Equally at home at the keyboard or on the podium, Jeffrey Kahane has established an international reputation as a truly versatile artist, recognized by audiences around the world for his mastery of a diverse repertoire ranging from Bach, Mozart and Beethoven to Gershwin, Golijov and John Adams.\nMr. Kahane appears as soloist with major orchestras such as the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra and the Chicago and San Francisco symphonies among many others and is also a popular artist at all of the major US summer festivals, including Aspen, Blossom, Caramoor, Mostly Mozart and Ravinia. In April 2016, he was appointed Artistic Director of the Sarasota Music Festival, which offers master classes and chamber music coaching by a distinguished international faculty and features chamber music performances and orchestral concerts performed by highly advanced student and young professionals as well as faculty members.\nSince making his Carnegie Hall debut in 1983, he has given recitals in many of the nation\u2019s major music centers including New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Atlanta. Equally at home as a chamber musician, Mr. Kahane collaborates with many of today\u2019s most important chamber ensembles and was the Artistic Director of the Green Music Center Chamberfest during the summers of 2015 and 2016.\nJeffrey Kahane made his conducting debut at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1988. Since then, he has guest conducted many of the major US orchestras including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Baltimore, Indianapolis and New World symphonies among others. He served as the Music Director of the Colorado Symphony from the 2005\/06 season through the 2009\/10 season and for ten seasons was Music Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony, where he is now Conductor Laureate. He has received much recognition for his innovative programming and commitment to education and community involvement with all three orchestras and received ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming for his work in both Los Angeles and Denver.\nRecent and upcoming engagements include a play\/conduct for the fourth time with the New York Philharmonic as well as with the Houston, Indianapolis, Vancouver, Detroit, Milwaukee, Colorado, San Diego and Phoenix symphonies; concerto appearances with the Toronto, Cincinnati, New World, Oregon and Utah symphonies; and appearances at the Aspen, Britt, Oregon Bach and Tippet Rise festivals as well as with the Chicago Symphony at Ravinia and with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra.\nIn May 2017, Mr. Kahane completed his 20th and final season as Music Director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. During his highly successful tenure with the orchestra, he spearheaded the creation of many new initiatives, including Westside Connections, a chamber music series that brings together LACO musicians and guest artists with speakers from a wide range of disciplines; Baroque Conversations, which presents chamber and orchestral music of the 17th and 18th centuries with spoken program notes and audience Q and A; \u201cDiscover\u201d concerts, evenings devoted to the exploration of a single work involving an hour long lecture with the orchestra on stage, followed by a complete performance; and Sound Investment, a commissioning club whereby for a modest investment, LACO patrons can participate in the commissioning of a major new work and interact with the composer from the very first stages of its conception to the performance. Between this program and the regular commissioning of new pieces, over 50 works have been given their premieres by LACO during Mr. Kahane\u2019s tenure.\nTo celebrate his final season, Mr. Kahane programmed and oversaw a three week city-wide festival in January 2017. The festival incorporated a major educational and outreach project honoring the legacies of composer Kurt Weill and civil rights activist Rabbi Joachim Prinz and culminated in Kahane conducting LACO and a distinguished cast of vocalists in a rare production of Kurt Weill\u2019s final Broadway opera, \u201cLost in the Stars.\u201d\nJeffrey Kahane has recorded for the SONY, EMI, Telarc, RCA, Nonesuch, Deutsche Grammophon, Virgin Records, Decca\/Argo and Haenssler labels in collaboration with the New World, Cincinnati, Bournemouth and Oregon Bach Festival symphonies. He has also recorded works by Gershwin and Bernstein with Yo-Yo- Ma, the complete works for violin and piano by Schubert with Joseph Swensen, and Bach concertos with LACO and Hilary Hahn.\nA native of Los Angeles and a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Mr. Kahane’s early piano studies were with Howard Weisel and Jakob Gimpel. First Prize winner at the 1983 Rubinstein Competition and a finalist at the 1981 Van Cliburn Competition, he was also the recipient of a 1983 Avery Fisher Career Grant. An avid linguist who reads widely in a number of ancient and modern languages, Mr. Kahane received a Master\u2019s Degree in Classics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2011. He is currently a Professor of Keyboard Studies at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music.\nJeffrey Kahane resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Martha, a clinical psychologist in private practice. They have two children – Gabriel, a composer, pianist and singer\/songwriter and Annie, a dancer and poet.\n|,|title|:|conductor and piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} RAVEL  Piano Concerto in G TIMO ANDRES  Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno MILHAUD  La création du monde GERSHWIN  Rhapsody in Blue

data-filter="[2019 01|2019 01|2019 01|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][January|January|January|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:18,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Break out those Members Only jackets, stirrup pants and shoulder pads and hold on to your hairspray—we’re going Totally ‘80s! Nicole Parker (Mad TV, Broadway’s Wicked) and Aaron Finley (Broadway’s Kinky Boots, Rock of Ages), bring you the greatest hits from the raddest decade around, including chart-toppers by Sting, Elton John, Cyndi Lauper, Phil Collins and Don Henley. Plus, relive the treasured film music from E.T., Back to the Future and Raiders of the Lost Ark. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Stuart Chafetz|,|bio|:|Stuart Chafetz is the newly appointed Principal Pops Conductor of the Columbus Symphony. Chafetz, a conductor celebrated for his dynamic and engaging podium presence, is increasingly in demand with orchestras across the continent and this season Chafetz will be on the podium in Seattle, Detroit, Naples, Phoenix, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Vancouver and many more.\nHe\u2019s had the privilege to work with renowned artists such as Chris Botti, 2 Cellos, Michael Bolton, America, Roberta Flack, George Benson, Richard Chamberlain, The Chieftains, Jennifer Holliday, John Denver, Marvin Hamlisch, Thomas Hampson, Wynonna Judd, Jim Nabors, Randy Newman, Jon Kimura Parker and Bernadette Peters.\nHe previously held posts as resident conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra. As principal timpanist of the Honolulu Symphony for twenty years, Chafetz would also conduct the annual Nutcracker performances with Ballet Hawaii and principals from the American Ballet Theatre. It was during that time that Chafetz led numerous concerts with the Maui Symphony and Pops. He annually leads the Spring Ballet at the world-renowned Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.\nIn the summers, Chafetz spends his time at the Chautauqua Institution, where he conducts the annual Fourth of July and Opera Pops concerts with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra in addition to his role as that orchestra\u2019s timpanist.\nWhen not on the podium, Chafetz makes his home near San Francisco, CA, with his wife Ann Krinitsky. Chafetz holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in music performance from the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati and a master\u2019s from the Eastman School of Music.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Nicole Parker|,|bio|:|Nicole Parker is best known for her portrayal of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked. Since playing the green witch in the Broadway company, she has reprised the role for the First National Tour of Wicked. Nicole\u2019s other Broadway credits include Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and The People in the Picture with Donna Murphy. Regionally, Nicole played Juliet in The Second City’s Romeo and Juliet Musical at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, for which she received a Jeff Award nomination. She also appeared as Rosemary in How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying at Reprise Theater, and Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Falcon Theater.\nFor six years, Nicole was also a cast member and contributing writer on Fox’s MADtv. For two years, Nicole was a performer and write for Boom Chicago, an all American sketch and improvisation theater in Amsterdam. Nicole\u2019s film credits include Funny People, directed by Judd Apatow as well as the short films Weathered and Sitting Babies. This year she was featured as a guest star on the mock game show Bunk on IFC, as well as on ABC in Trust Us With Your Life, an improvisation show from the creators of Whose Line Is It Anyway? She is also a founding member or Waterwell, a non-profit theater company in New York.\nA frequent soloist with orchestras around the country, recent and upcoming performances include Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, Houston Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, Utah Symphony and Opera, Colorado Symphony, Greensboro Symphony (where she will return in 2014), Kalamazoo Symphony, Santa Rosa Symphony, Pueblo Symphony, Charleston Symphony, Sarasota Symphony, Orlando Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, Dayton Philharmonic, Idaho Civic Symphony, Hamilton Philharmonic, and Fresno Philharmonic.\n|,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Aaron Finley|,|bio|:||,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2019 01|2019 01|2019 01|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][January|January|January|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Filled with radiant warmth and dazzling flights into the stratosphere, Korngold’s Violin Concerto is one of the most treasured in the repertoire. In the hands of Latvian star Baiba Skride, “a passionate, heart-on-sleeve player” (The Guardian), it promises to be nothing short of extraordinary. A program tinged in the tumult of the 20th century ends with Ravel’s fiery showstopper, a hair-raising whirlwind that evokes old-world elegance waltzing on the brink of oblivion. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Baiba Skride|,|bio|:|Baiba Skride\u2019s natural approach to her music-making has endeared her to some of today\u2019s most important conductors and orchestras worldwide. She is consistently invited for her refreshing interpretations, her sensitivity and delight in the music. The list of prestigious orchestras with whom she has worked include the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orkest. Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and NHK Symphony. Notable conductors she collaborates with include Christoph Eschenbach, Thierry Fischer, Paavo and Neeme J\u00e4rvi, Andris Nelsons, Santtu Matias Rouvali, Vasily Petrenko, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, John Storg\u00e5rds and Kazuki Yamada.\nEuropean highlights for the 2016\/17 season include debuts with Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and Orquestra Simf\u00f2nica de Barcelona. She will return to the Vienna Symphony with Gustavo Gimeno, the Stockholm, Bergen and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko. She opens the season for Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Alain Altinoglu before embarking on a tour to Northern Europe. Further afield, she performs with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra\/Cornelius Meister, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra\/ Thierry Fischer and returns to the Sydney, Tasmanian, and Western Australian Symphony Orchestras.\nIn February 2016, Baiba Skride made her debut with the New York Philharmonic with Christoph Eschenbach. The concerts were a huge success with Vivien Schweitzer in the New York Times writing, \u201cMs. Skride brought a wide tonal palette to her insightful and passionate interpretation, her tone meaty and bold to open, then sweet, gossamer and brash.\u2019\u2019 This season Baiba Skride will appear with Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Symphony, as well as Boston Symphony for the American premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina\u2019s Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and bayan.\nBaiba Skride is a sought after chamber musician, regularly performing at festivals and venues, such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Bad Kissingen and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommen. In the 2016\/17 season she appears in a new piano quartet with Lauma Skride, Harriet Krijgh and Lise Berthaud performing at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Malm\u00f6 Chamber Festival and BASF Ludwigshafen. Other artists she collaborates with include Bertrand Chamayou, Brett Dean, Sol Gabetta, Alban Gerhardt, Xavier de Maistre and Daniel Mueller-Schott.\nSkride was born into a musical Latvian family in Riga where she began her studies, transferring in 1995 to the Conservatory of Music and Theatre in Rostock. In 2001 she won the 1st prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. Baiba Skride plays the Yfrah Neaman Stradivarius kindly loaned to her by the Neaman family through the Beares InternBaiba Skride\u2019s natural approach to her music-making has endeared her to some of today\u2019s most important conductors and orchestras worldwide. She is consistently invited for her refreshing interpretations, her sensitivity and delight in the music. The list of prestigious orchestras with whom she has worked include the Berlin Philharmonic, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orkest. Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Orchestre de Paris, London Philharmonic, Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and NHK Symphony. Notable conductors she collaborates with include Christoph Eschenbach, Thierry Fischer, Paavo and Neeme J\u00e4rvi, Andris Nelsons, Santtu Matias Rouvali, Vasily Petrenko, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, John Storg\u00e5rds and Kazuki Yamada.\nEuropean highlights for the 2016\/17 season include debuts with Philharmonia Orchestra London, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai and Orquestra Simf\u00f2nica de Barcelona. She will return to the Vienna Symphony with Gustavo Gimeno, the Stockholm, Bergen and Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestras, and Royal Liverpool Philharmonic with Vasily Petrenko. She opens the season for Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra with Alain Altinoglu before embarking on a tour to Northern Europe. Further afield, she performs with Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra\/Cornelius Meister, Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra\/ Thierry Fischer and returns to the Sydney, Tasmanian, and Western Australian Symphony Orchestras.\nIn February 2016, Baiba Skride made her debut with the New York Philharmonic with Christoph Eschenbach. The concerts were a huge success with Vivien Schweitzer in the New York Times writing, \u201cMs. Skride brought a wide tonal palette to her insightful and passionate interpretation, her tone meaty and bold to open, then sweet, gossamer and brash.\u2019\u2019 This season Baiba Skride will appear with Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Symphony, as well as Boston Symphony for the American premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina\u2019s Triple Concerto for violin, cello, and bayan.\nBaiba Skride is a sought after chamber musician, regularly performing at festivals and venues, such as Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Wigmore Hall London, Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels, Bad Kissingen and Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommen. In the 2016\/17 season she appears in a new piano quartet with Lauma Skride, Harriet Krijgh and Lise Berthaud performing at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Malm\u00f6 Chamber Festival and BASF Ludwigshafen. Other artists she collaborates with include Bertrand Chamayou, Brett Dean, Sol Gabetta, Alban Gerhardt, Xavier de Maistre and Daniel Mueller-Schott.\nSkride was born into a musical Latvian family in Riga where she began her studies, transferring in 1995 to the Conservatory of Music and Theatre in Rostock. In 2001 she won the 1st prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition. Baiba Skride plays the Yfrah Neaman Stradivarius kindly loaned to her by the Neaman family through the Beares International Violin Society.ational Violin Society.\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} IVES  Symphony No. 4, Fugue KORNGOLD  Violin Concerto STRAVINSKY  Symphony in Three Movements RAVEL  La valse

data-filter="[2019 02|2019 02|2019 02|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|February|February|][[{|term_id|:1598,|name|:|Specials|,|slug|:|symphony-specials|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1598,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:10,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Grab your broom and get ready for the tasks ahead! The Triwizard Tournament comes to Hogwarts™ in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™ in Concert. Relive the magic of Harry Potter™ soaring across the big screen in high-definition and experience the Houston Symphony performing Patrick Doyle’s unforgettable score. HARRY POTTER characters, names and related indicia are © & ™ Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. J.K. ROWLING`S WIZARDING WORLD™ J.K. Rowling and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Publishing Rights © JKR. (s18) Watch a concert preview: false

data-filter="[2019 02|2019 02|2019 02|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|February|February|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:18,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" The Queen of Jazz. The First Lady of Swing. Lady Ella. No matter what you call her, Ella Fitzgerald’s sweet, silvery voice and scintillating scat improvisations are unmistakable and unforgettable. Celebrate Valentine’s Day with vintage Ella standards that never go out of style—romantic songs like “Our Love is Here to Stay” and “Come Rain or Come Shine”—sung with pitch-perfect verve by Broadway’s Capathia Jenkins, Montego Glover and N’Kenge. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Montego Glover|,|bio|:|Tony Award Nominee for her starring role as Felicia Farrell in Memphis. Ms. Glover also received a Drama League Nomination, and won both the Outer Critic\u2019s Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for her performance.\nMs. Glover has appeared on Broadway in Les Miserable as Fantine, It Shoulda Been You as Annie Shepard, made her Broadway debut in The Color Purple in the roles of Celie and Nettie, and most recently appeared at Lincoln Center Theater as Nina in The Royale, earning her a second Drama Desk Award.\nMs. Glover has been a Guest Artist with The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle\u2019s 5Th Avenue Theatre, Huntington Theatre, and the Elgin Theater among others, earning a Craig Noel Nomination, a Helen Hayes Nomination and an IRNE Award for her work.\n \nMs. Glover has appeared in concert with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Caramoor Music Festival, Delacorte Theatre and the Smith Center.\nTelevision and film include: The Following, Black Box, Hostages, Smash, Golden Boy, The Good Wife, White Collar, Made In Jersey, and Law & Order. \u00a0She can be seen and heard in numerous commercials, voiceovers, and animated series.\nMs. Glover has served as a member of the Artists\u2019 Committees for the Kennedy Center Honors, as well as Lincoln Center Theater and is a New York PopsEd Ambassador.\nMs. Glover is set to join the Chicago cast of the smash hit Hamilton, in the role of Angelica Schuyler.\n@MontegoGlover www.MontegoGlover.com\n|,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Capathia Jenkins|,|bio|:|The Brooklyn-born and raised actress,\u00a0Capathia Jenkins, most recently starred as \u2018Medda\u2019 in the hit Disney production of\u00a0Newsies\u00a0 on Broadway. She made her Broadway debut in\u00a0The Civil War,\u00a0where she created the role of Harriet Jackson. She then starred in the Off-Broadway 2000 revival of\u00a0Godspell,\u00a0where she wowed audiences with her stirring rendition of \u2018Turn Back, O Man\u2019 \u00a0which can still be heard on the original cast recording. She returned to Broadway in\u00a0The Look of Love\u00a0 and was critically acclaimed for her performances of the Bacharach\/David hits. Ms. Jenkins then created the roles of \u2018The Washing Machine\u2019 in\u00a0Caroline, Or Change\u00a0and \u2018Frieda May\u2019 in\u00a0Martin Short-Fame Becomes Me\u00a0 where she sang \u2018Stop the Show\u2019 and brought the house down every night.\nIn 2007 she went back to Off-Broadway and starred in\u00a0(mis) Understanding Mammy-The Hattie McDaniel Story\u00a0 for which she was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. Most recently she was seen in Nora Ephron\u2019s\u00a0Love, Loss, and What I Wore.\nAn active concert artist, Ms. Jenkins has appeared with numerous orchestras around the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony (with Marvin Hamlisch), National Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Utah Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra, Memphis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus, Toledo Symphony, Colorado Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Edmonton Symphony, Calgary Philharmonic, San Diego Symphony and the Hong Kong Philharmonic among many others.\u00a0 She will return this summer as a soloist with the Festival Cesky Krumlov in the Czech Republic for the third time.\u00a0 Capathia had\u00a0the great honor of performing in the \u2018Broadway Ambassadors to Cuba\u2019 concert as part of the\u00a0Festival De Teatro De La Habana.\u00a0Ms. Jenkins was the guest soloist with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops and has several return engagements with the Cincinnati Pops.\u00a0 She has appeared several times at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops and recently sang in a Tribute to Marvin Hamlisch at the Library of Congress.\nHer Television credits include\u00a030 Rock, the Practice, Law & Order SVU, the Sopranos, Law & Order.\u00a0She can be seen in the 2012 film \u2018Musical Chairs\u2019\u00a0directed by Susan Seidelman. Ms. Jenkins was recently seen in\u00a0The Wiz\u00a0in a live performance on NBC.\u00a0 She can be heard on the following film soundtracks:\u00a0Nine, Chicago, Legally Blonde 2.\n \n|,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|N\u2019Kenge|,|bio|:|\u201cN\u2019Kenge\u2019s an artist who\u2019s destined to make a serious impact on several musical fronts. From operatic to spiritual, from pop to musical theater, from jazz to blues. Tender or intense, N\u2019Kenge\u2019s performances are consistent in her technical excellence. Her musical repertoire covers 11 languages, and her power and control are uncanny.\u201d \u2013 Joe Berger, LBTV Music\nBerry Gordy calls her \u201cthe most versatile artist I know.\u201d Burt Bacharach says, \u201cN\u2019Kenge is an amazing talent that needs to be heard.\u201d The New York Post called her \u201celectrifying\u201d as Mary Wells, a role she originated in Broadway’s smash hit Motown: The Musical. N’Kenge made her Broadway debut in Sondheim on Sondheim singing alongside Vanessa Williams, Barbara Cook, Tom Wopat and Norm Lewis.\nRecently, N’Kenge was seen on TV presenting an award at the 58th Annual New York Emmy Awards and singing the National Anthem at Madison Square Garden. She performed for President Bill Clinton at the White House and for President Barack Obama at the Commander-in-Chief\u2019s Ball. She starred in London\u2019s West End at the Theatre Royal in a tribute to the late great Ray Charles and has performed as soloist at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center. A performance at the Library of Congress was broadcast by NPR.\nThis energetic, well-rounded singer was recently nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of the leading roles in both the Elton John\/Tim Rice musical Aida and in Marion Caffey\u2019s 3 Mo\u2019 Divas by the Helen Hayes Awards and the ariZoni Theater Awards of Excellence. N’Kenge starred in the Michael Jackson Tribute Show world tour and is consistently seen as a soloist in pops programs with the Indianapolis and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, Cleveland Orchestra and The New York Pops, among others.\nN’Kenge is currently working on a new album. To learn more about her tours and recordings, visit www.nkengemusic.com.\n|,|title|:|vocalist|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2019 02|2019 02|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|February|][[{|term_id|:1035,|name|:|Family|,|slug|:|family-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1035,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:|Now in his tenth season, our Associate Conductor Robert Franz is ready to help your family create cherished memories. Buckle up! Our Family Series is taking you on a magical, musical quest on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nAlso, enjoy pre- and post-concert activities, including our Instrument Petting Zoo, young musician performances in the lobby as well as crafts and musical activities. \r\n\r\n|,|parent|:0,|count|:8,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Grab your spurs and trusty steed, lil’ pardners—we’re gallopin’ back to the days of covered wagons and Wild West adventure! Do a do-si-do through Copland’s “Hoedown” and hold tight to the reins for Rossini’s William Tell Overture. Plus, hear fun favorites from Toy Story 2, Oklahoma! and more, and encounter a few special surprises on the western frontier. Yee Haw! Children of all ages, including infants, are welcome at Family Series performances. All patrons must have a ticket when entering a concert venue. For lap child tickets, please contact our Patron Services Center at 713-224-7575. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Robert Franz|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/robert-franz\/|}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|TUTS Humphreys School of Musical Theatre and The River|,|bio|:||,|title|:||,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2019 02|2019 03|2019 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][February|March|March|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Renowned for fiery, fearless performances that exude “the flair of a rock star” (Cleveland Plain Dealer), violin virtuoso Leila Josefowicz shines in Esa-Pekka Salonen’s acclaimed Violin Concerto. Written specially for Josefowicz, the concerto “covers as wide a range of expression as I could imagine,” says its composer. These concerts also afford the chance to welcome back a dear Houston Symphony friend in former Music Director Christoph Eschenbach. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Christoph Eschenbach|,|bio|:||,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Leila Josefowicz|,|bio|:|Leila Josefowicz\u2019s passionate advocacy of contemporary music for the violin is reflected in her diverse programmes and enthusiasm to perform new works. She frequently collaborates with leading composers and works with orchestras and conductors at the highest level around the world. In 2008 she was awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, joining prominent scientists, writers and musicians who have made unique contributions to contemporary life.\nHighlights of Josefowicz\u2019s 2017\/18 season include concerts with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Concertgebouw Orchestra and Iceland, Boston, Lahti and Finnish Radio symphony orchestras, as well as Washington\u2019s National Symphony Orchestra. Alongside pianist John Novacek, with whom Josefowicz has enjoyed a close collaboration since 1985, she performs recitals in Reykjavik, Leeds, Chicago, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and Halifax (Nova Scotia) and has appeared recently at world-renowned venues such as New York\u2019s Zankel Hall and London\u2019s Wigmore Hall, where she returns in autumn 2017.\nViolin concertos have been written especially for Leila Josefowicz by composers including John Adams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Colin Matthews and Steven Mackey. Scheherazade.2 (Dramatic Symphony for Violin and Orchestra) by Adams was given its world premiere by Josefowicz in 2015 with the New York Philharmonic. Luca Francesconi\u2019s concerto Duende \u2013 The Dark Notes, also written for Josefowicz, was given its world premiere by her in 2014 with Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Susanna M\u00e4lkki before being performed by Josefowicz, M\u00e4lkki and the BBC Symphony Orchestra at the BBC Proms in 2015.\nRecent highlights include engagements with the Berliner Philharmoniker, Tonhalle-Orchester Z\u00fcrich, Helsinki Philharmonic and Tokyo Metropolitan, St. Louis, San Francisco and Minnesota symphony orchestras. In summer 2017, Josefowicz appeared at Birmingham\u2019s Symphony Hall and London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall at the BBC Proms with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. She returned to the London Symphony Orchestra in December 2016, performing John Adams\u2019 Scheherazade.2 in London, Paris and Dijon.\nJosefowicz has released several recordings, notably for Deutsche Grammophon, Philips\/Universal and Warner Classics and was featured on Touch Press\u2019 acclaimed iPad app, The Orchestra. Her latest recording, featuring Scheherazade.2 with the St Louis Symphony conducted by David Robertson, was released in 2016 and nominated for a Grammy Award. Josefowicz\u2019s recording of Esa-Pekka Salonen\u2019s Violin Concerto with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer, was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2014.\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} ESA-PEKKA SALONEN  Violin Concerto BRUCKNER Symphony No. 4, Romantic

data-filter="[2019 03|2019 03|2019 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][March|March|March|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" As sensuous and bewitching as the sea by which it’s inspired, Debussy’s La mer stands as one of the most stunning achievements in symphonic music. Acclaimed French conductor Ludovic Morlot returns to interpret this immortal masterpiece, music of majesty, mystery and primordial power. A luminous all-French program spotlights world-renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham in Berlioz’ poignant reveries of love and loss, Les nuits d’été. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Ludovic Morlot|,|bio|:|The French conductor Ludovic Morlot has been Music Director of the Seattle Symphony since 2011. Amongst the many highlights of his tenure, the orchestra have won two Grammy Awards and gave an exhilarating performance at Carnegie Hall in 2014, as reported in the New York Times: \u201cThe performance Mr. Morlot coaxed from his players was rich with shimmering colours and tremulous energy.\u201d\nDuring the 2017\/18 season Ludovic and the Seattle Symphony will continue on their incredible musical journey, focusing particularly on the music of Berlioz, Stravinsky and Bernstein. In addition, they will be presenting some exciting new works by John Luther Adams, David Lang and Andrew Norman and welcoming Alexandra Gardner for a residency programme. The orchestra will also be performing on tour in California, including a two-day residency at the University of California, Berkeley. The orchestra have many successful recordings, available on their own label, Seattle Symphony Media.\u00a0 A box set of music by Dutilleux was recently released to mark the 100th anniversary of the composer\u2019s birth.\nThis season, Ludovic will be conducting at Seattle Opera for the first time (Berlioz B\u00e9atrice et B\u00e9n\u00e9dict), make his debut with the Orchestra of St Luke\u2019s and will return to the Atlanta and Houston Symphony Orchestras. He has regular relationships with the Chicago Symphony and New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras. Ludovic also has a particularly strong connection with the Boston Symphony Orchestra having been Seiji Ozawa Fellowship Conductor in 2001 at Tanglewood and subsequently appointed assistant conductor for the orchestra and their Music Director James Levine (2004-07).\u00a0 Since then he has conducted the orchestra in subscription concerts in Boston, at Tanglewood and on a tour to the west coast of America.\nOutside North America, recent and future debuts include the Berliner Philharmoniker, Vienna Symphony (closing concert of the prestigious Wien Modern Festival), Yomiuri Nippon Symphony, MDR Leipzig and Bergen Philharmonic Orchestras. Ludovic has conducted the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London and on tour in Germany.\u00a0 Other recent notable performances have included the Royal Concertgebouw, Czech Philharmonic, Dresden Staatskapelle, Tonhalle, Budapest Festival, Orchestre National de France, Helsinki Philharmonic, City of Birmingham Symphony, Danish National Symphony Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras.\u00a0\u00a0 Ludovic served as conductor in residence with the Orchestre National de Lyon under David Robertson (2002-04).\nLudovic was Chief Conductor of La Monnaie for three years (2012-2014). During this time he conducted several new productions including La Clemenza di Tito, Jenufa and Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande. Concert performances, both in Brussels and Aix-en-Provence, included repertoire by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Britten, Webern and Bruneau.\nTrained as a violinist, Ludovic studied conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London and then at the Royal College of Music as recipient of the Norman del Mar Conducting Fellowship.\u00a0 Ludovic was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music in 2014 in recognition of his significant contribution to music. He is Chair of Orchestral Conducting Studies at the University of Washington School of Music in Seattle.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Susan Graham|,|bio|:|Susan Graham \u2013 hailed as \u201can artist to treasure\u201d by the New York Times \u2013 rose to the highest echelon of international performers within just a few years of her professional debut, mastering an astonishing range of repertoire and genres along the way. Her operatic roles span four centuries, from Monteverdi\u2019s Poppea to Sister Helen Prejean in Jake Heggie\u2019s Dead Man Walking, which was written especially for her. A familiar face at New York\u2019s Metropolitan Opera, she also maintains a strong international presence at such key venues as Paris\u2019 Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet, the Sydney Opera House, Santa Fe Opera and the Hollywood Bowl. She won a Grammy Award for her collection of Ives songs, and her recital repertoire is so broad that 14 composers from Purcell to Sondheim are represented on her most recent Onyx album, Virgins, Vixens & Viragos. This distinctly American artist has also been recognized throughout her career as one of the foremost exponents of French vocal music. Although a native of Texas, she was awarded the French government\u2019s prestigious \u201cChevalier de la L\u00e9gion d\u2019Honneur,\u201d both for her popularity as a performer in France and in honor of her commitment to French music.\n \nTo launch the 2017-18 season, Graham sings Berlioz\u2019s La damnation de Faust with the Boston Symphony under Charles Dutoit. After reprising her star turn in the title role of Susan Stroman\u2019s take on Leh\u00e1r\u2019s The Merry Widow at the Met, she joins Nathan Gunn for Bernstein\u2019s Trouble in Tahiti at Lyric Opera of Chicago, in a special production to mark the composer\u2019s 100th birthday. To conclude the operatic season, she makes her title role debut opposite James Morris in Marc Blitzstein\u2019s 1948 opera Regina at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Back at the Boston Symphony, she joins Andris Nelsons for Mahler\u2019s Third Symphony, which is also the vehicle for her summer collaborations with the orchestra at Tanglewood and in Europe. Besides reuniting with Dutoit for Ravel\u2019s Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade at the San Francisco Symphony, she graces a gala concert to celebrate Tulsa Opera\u2019s 70th anniversary, and gives solo recitals at Atlanta\u2019s Emory University and the Washington University in St. Louis.\nLast season, Graham partnered Ren\u00e9e Fleming for the San Francisco Symphony\u2019s opening-night gala, and joined Anna Netrebko, Pl\u00e1cido Domingo, and a host of other luminaries to celebrate the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s five decades at its Lincoln Center home. Having created the role of Sister Helen Prejean in the world premiere production of Dead Man Walking, she starred in Washington National Opera\u2019s revival of the opera, making her triumphant role debut as the convict\u2019s mother. She returned to Santa Fe Opera as Prince Orlofsky in a new production of Johann Strauss II\u2019s Die Fledermaus, and reprised her signature portrayal of Dido in Berlioz\u2019s Les Troyens at Chicago\u2019s Lyric Opera. Her concert highlights included selections from Mahler\u2019s Des Knaben Wunderhorn at Carnegie Hall and from Canteloube\u2019s Chants d\u2019Auvergne with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as a star-studded Der Rosenkavalier at the Boston Symphony. She gave U.S. recitals of \u201cFrauenliebe und -leben Variations,\u201d her program inspired by the Schumann song cycle, and expanded her discography with Nonesuch Records\u2019 DVD\/Blu-ray release of William Kentridge\u2019s new treatment of Berg\u2019s Lulu, which captures her celebrated role debut as Countess Geschwitz at the Met.\nGraham\u2019s earliest operatic successes were in such trouser roles as Cherubino in Mozart\u2019s Le nozze di Figaro. Her technical expertise soon brought mastery of Mozart\u2019s more virtuosic roles, like Sesto in La clemenza di Tito, Idamante in Idomeneo and Cecilio in Lucio Silla, as well as the title roles of Handel\u2019s Ariodante and Xerxes. She went on to triumph in two iconic Richard Strauss mezzo roles, Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier and the Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos. These brought her to prominence on all the world\u2019s major opera stages, including the Met, Lyric Opera of Chicago, San Francisco Opera, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, La Scala, Bavarian State Opera, Vienna State Opera and the Salzburg Festival, among many others. In addition to creating the role of Sister Helen Prejean at San Francisco Opera, she sang the leading ladies in the Met\u2019s world premieres of John Harbison\u2019s The Great Gatsby and Tobias Picker\u2019s An American Tragedy, and made her Dallas Opera debut as Tina in a new production of The Aspern Papers by Dominick Argento. As Houston Grand Opera\u2019s Lynn Wyatt Great Artist, she starred as Prince Orlofsky in the company\u2019s first staging of Die Fledermaus in 30 years, before heading an all-star cast as Sycorax in the Met\u2019s Baroque pastiche The Enchanted Island and making her rapturously received musical theater debut in a new production of Rodgers & Hammerstein\u2019s The King and I at the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre du Ch\u00e2telet in Paris.\nIt was in an early Lyon production of Berlioz\u2019s B\u00e9atrice et B\u00e9n\u00e9dict that Graham scored particular raves from the international press, and a triumph in the title role of Massenet\u2019s Ch\u00e9rubin at Covent Garden sealed her operatic stardom. Further invitations to collaborate on French music were forthcoming from many of its preeminent conductors, including Sir Colin Davis, Charles Dutoit, James Levine and Seiji Ozawa. New productions of Gluck\u2019s Iphig\u00e9nie en Tauride, Berlioz\u2019s La damnation de Faust and Massenet\u2019s Werther were mounted for the mezzo in New York, London, Paris, Chicago, San Francisco and beyond. She recently made title role debuts in Offenbach\u2019s comic masterpieces La belle H\u00e9l\u00e8ne and The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein at Santa Fe Opera, as well as proving herself the standout star of the Met\u2019s star-studded revival of Les Troyens, which was broadcast live to cinema audiences worldwide in the company\u2019s celebrated \u201cLive in HD\u201d series. Graham\u2019s affinity for French repertoire has not been limited to the opera stage, also serving as the foundation for her extensive concert and recital career. Such great cantatas and symphonic song cycles as Berlioz\u2019s La mort de Cl\u00e9op\u00e2tre and Les nuits d\u2019\u00e9t\u00e9, Ravel\u2019s Sh\u00e9h\u00e9razade and Chausson\u2019s Po\u00e8me de l\u2019amour et de la mer provide opportunities for collaborations with the world\u2019s leading orchestras, and she makes regular appearances with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Orchestre de Paris and London Symphony Orchestra.\n \nGraham\u2019s distinguished discography features all the works described above, as well as a series of lauded solo albums, including Un frisson fran\u00e7ais, a program of French song recorded with pianist Malcolm Martineau for Onyx; C\u2019est \u00e7a la vie, c\u2019est \u00e7a l\u2019amour!, an album of 20th-century operetta rarities on Erato; and La Belle \u00c9poque, an award-winning collection of songs by Reynaldo Hahn with pianist Roger Vignoles, from Sony Classical. Among the mezzo\u2019s numerous honors are Musical America\u2019s Vocalist of the Year and an Opera News Award, while Gramophone magazine has dubbed her \u201cAmerica\u2019s favorite mezzo.\u201d\n|,|title|:|mezzo-soprano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} BERLIOZ  Overture to Béatrice et Bénédict BERLIOZ  Les nuits d’été ROUSSEL  Suite from The Spider’s Feast DEBUSSY  La mer

data-filter="[2019 03|2019 03|2019 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][March|March|March|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Nine symphonies. Five piano concertos. One perfect violin concerto. A violin lovers’ dream season continues as the incomparable Joshua Bell, hailed as “the greatest American violinist active today” (The Boston Herald), plays and conducts Beethoven’s sublime, supremely beautiful masterpiece. A blockbuster all-Beethoven program ends with the joyous and jovial Fourth Symphony. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Joshua Bell|,|bio|:|With a career spanning more than 30 years as a soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and conductor, Joshua Bell is one of the most celebrated violinists of his era. An exclusive Sony Classical artist, Bell has recorded more than 40 albums garnering Grammy, Mercury, Gramophone, and Echo Klassik awards, and is a recipient of the Avery Fisher Prize. Named the Music Director of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields in 2011, he is the only person to hold this post since Sir Neville Marriner formed the orchestra in 1958.\nIn 2018,\u00a0Bell tours with Academy to the United Kingdom, Germany, the United States, and Asia.\u00a0With pianist Sam Haywood, Bell performs 10 recitals in Europe and America, and on February 7, 2018, reunites with collaborator pianist Jeremy Denk for a recital broadcast live from Carnegie Hall. Further season highlights include dates with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Danish National Symphony, and an all-Beethoven play\/direct program with the Orchestre National de Lyon.\nRecently Sony Classical released\u00a0Joshua Bell \u2013 The Classical Collection, a 14-CD set of albums of classical repertoire that displays Bell\u2019s unique breadth, versatility and breathtaking virtuosity. Slated for April, 2018 is Bell\u2019s recording with the Academy of the Bruch\u2019s Scottish Fantasy and g minor Concerto.\nBell recently engaged in two tech projects: With Embertone, the leading virtual instrument sampling company, the Joshua Bell Virtual\u00a0Violin was created for producers, artists, engineers and composers. Bell also\u00a0 teamed up with Sony for the Joshua Bell VR Experience featuring Bell performing Brahms\u2019 Hungarian Dance No. 1 in full 360-degree VR.\u00a0 This experience\u00a0\u00a0 is available for free download for SONY PlayStation 4 VR.\nConvinced of the value of music as a diplomatic and educational tool, Bell participated in President Obama\u2019s Committee on the Arts and Humanities\u2019 first cultural mission to Cuba.\u00a0 He is also involved in Turnaround Arts, administered by the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which provides arts education to low-performing elementary and middle schools. Bell has devoted himself to several charitable causes, most notably Education Through Music, which puts instruments in the hands of thousands of children in America\u2019s inner cities.\nBell performs on the 1713 Huberman Stradivarius violin.\n|,|title|:|conductor and violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} BEETHOVEN  Violin Concerto BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 4

data-filter="[2019 03|2019 03|2019 03|2019 03|2019 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][March|March|March|March|March|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:18,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… For the first time ever in Houston, experience Star Wars like never before! Jump in the Millennium Falcon and journey to Tatooine, Alderaan and beyond with a complete showing of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope on the big screen at Jones Hall, with John Williams’ epic, unforgettable score played live by the Houston Symphony. Luke Skywalker leaves his home planet, battles the evil empire and learns the ways of the Force in the iconic film that started it all. Presentation licensed by Disney Concerts in association with 20th Century Fox, Lucasfilm Ltd.,and Warner /Chappell Music. ©2018 & TM LUCASFILM LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED © DISNEY {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Steven Reineke|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal POPS Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/steven-reineke\/|}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2019 03|2019 03|2019 03|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][March|March|March|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Bold and bawdy, fiery and visceral, Carmina Burana is one of the most instantly-recognizable pieces in all of music. Escape into this intoxicating ode to life, lust and all things earthy, an unforgettable concert experience that thrills with haunting medieval chants, dynamic spectacle and sheer sonic force. Plus, Principal Cellist Brinton Averil Smith takes center stage for d’Albert’s lyrical concerto. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Yaniv Dinur|,|bio|:|Currently Associate Conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony and newly appointed Music Director of the New Bedford Symphony in Massachusetts, Yaniv Dinur is a rapidly rising young conductor. His debut at the Round Top Festival in June, according to Program Director Alain Declert, \u201cwill remain as one of the most successful ever.\u201d He has also guest conducted prominent American orchestras, including the Houston Symphony, Louisiana Philharmonic, New World Symphony, and the San Antonio Symphony.\nMr. Dinur’s conducting career began at the age of 19 with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland. Following his European debut, he was invited to perform with the Israel Camerata, the youngest conductor ever to conduct a professional orchestra in Israel. Since then, he has conducted orchestras around the world, including the Israel Philharmonic, Portugal Symphony, Sofia Festival Orchestra, State Orchestra of St. Petersburg, Torino Philharmonic, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, among others. Broadcast live on Israeli radio, he has conducted for the Jerusalem Symphony\u2019s Young Artists Competition since 2003.\nAmong his numerous honors are the 2015, 2016, and 2017 Solti Foundation U.S. Career Assistance Awards. In 2011, he was chosen by the League of American Orchestras to be a featured conductor at the Bruno Walter National Conducting Preview in New Orleans. Other awards include Second Prize at the International Eduardo Mata 2009 Conducting Competition in Mexico City; the Yuri Ahronovitch First Prize at the 2005 Aviv Conducting Competition in Israel; as well as grants from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation and the Zubin Mehta Scholarship Endowment.\nBorn in Jerusalem, Yaniv Dinur is a graduate of the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and holds a Doctorate in Orchestral Conducting from the University of Michigan. Also a passionate music educator, he recently completed a highly successful tenure as Director of Orchestral Activities at American University in Washington D.C.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Brinton Averil Smith|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Principal|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/musicians\/brinton-averil-smith\/|}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Laura Claycomb|,|bio|:||,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Reginald Smith, Jr.|,|bio|:||,|title|:|baritone|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Fort Bend Boys Choir|,|bio|:||,|title|:|William R. Adams, founder and artistic director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]} D’ALBERT  Cello Concerto ORFF  Carmina Burana

data-filter="[2019 04|2019 04|2019 04|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][April|April|April|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Opulent and unabashedly beautiful, Rachmaninoff’s piano music speaks straight to the heart. Pianist extraordinaire Simon Trpčeski shines in the composer’s shimmering final concerto. Composed during a carefree summer in the Russian countryside, Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 3 features some of his sunniest and most delightful music. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Kazushi Ono|,|bio|:|Kazushi Ono cherishes music\u2019s power to bring people together. His manner in rehearsal, quiet and calm, exudes qualities of openness and receptivity. The conductor conveys complex messages in performance with effortless expressive gestures and a wisdom informed by his inexhaustible passion for making and exploring music with others. It is in his nature to unwind after conducting by playing through passages from the evening\u2019s programme at the piano. Music, in short, has supplied the essential spirit of life since childhood.\nKazushi Ono is Music Director of Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra and Orquestra Simf\u00f2nica de Barcelona i Nacional de Catalunya. In 2016 he became Artistic Advisor to the New National Theatre Tokyo, a position that he will hold until September 2018, after which he will become the Theatre\u2019s Artistic Director. From 2008 to 2017, Kazushi Ono maintained his position as Principal Conductor of Op\u00e9ra National de Lyon, during which he attracted international critical acclaim with landmark performances of works such as Prokofiev\u2019s The Gamblers, Berg\u2019s Lulu and Wagner\u2019s Parsifal, thus reinforcing the company\u2019s reputation for creating a series of new productions, including the compelling double bill of Dallapiccola\u2019s Il prigioniero and Schoenberg\u2019s Erwartung (2013); Beethoven\u2019s Fidelio, in Lyon and at the Edinburgh International Festival (2013); Britten\u2019s Peter Grimes and The Turn of the Screw (2014); Debussy\u2019s Pell\u00e9as et M\u00e9lisande , Berlioz\u2019s La Damnation de Faust (2015), and Shostakovich\u2019s Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (2016).\nFollowing his tenure as Principal Conductor in Lyon, he was awarded \u00a0\u2018Officier de l\u2019ordre des Arts et des Lettres\u2019 by French cultural minister Fran\u00e7oise Nyssen, a further distinguished title adding to the prestigious Asahi Prize, given in January 2015, for his contribution to Japanese society. This award distinguishes individuals who have greatly contributed to the development and progress of Japanese culture and society at large.\n|,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Simon Trp\u010deski|,|bio|:|Macedonian pianist Simon Trp\u0109eski (pronounced terp-CHESS-kee) has established himself as one of the most remarkable musicians to have emerged in recent years, praised not only for his powerful virtuosity and deeply expressive approach, but also for his warm personality and commitment to strengthening Macedonia\u2019s cultural image.\nMr. Trp\u0109eski\u2019s 2017-18 season includes performances with the San Francisco Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, North Carolina Symphony, Orchestre National de France, Philharmonia Orchestra, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. He also continues a multi-year residency for Wigmore Hall and appears in recital at the Meany Center for the Performing Arts in Seattle. In the summer of 2017, Mr. Trp\u0109eski was featured in a pair of performances with the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival performing concertos by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.\nSimon Trp\u0109eski works regularly with a prominent list of conductors including Marin Alsop, Jakub Hrusa, Vladimir Jurowski, Susanna Malkki, Gianandrea Noseda, Antonio Pappano, Vasily Petrenko, Robert Spano, and Edo deWaart. He is a frequent soloist with the major North American orchestras, including the Cleveland and Philadelphia Orchestras, New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, and the Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, St. Louis, and Baltimore Symphonies. Engagements with major European ensembles include the London Symphony, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, and St. Petersburg Philharmonic. Additionally, he has performed with the New Japan, Seoul and Hong Kong Philharmonics, Sydney, Adelaide and Melbourne symphonies, and has toured with the New Zealand Symphony.\nA sought-after recitalist, Mr. Trp\u0109eski has given solo performances at major halls in New York, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, Amsterdam, Milan, Munich, Prague, Hamburg, Bilbao, Istanbul, Dublin, and Tokyo. Mr. Trp\u0109eski has recorded prolifically to widespread acclaim on EMI Classics, Avie Records, Onyx Classics, and Wigmore Hall Live. His first recording, released in 2002, featured works by Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Stravinsky, and Prokofiev, and received both the \u201cEditor\u2019s Choice\u201d and \u201cDebut Album\u201d awards at the Gramophone Awards. His 2005 Rachmaninoff, 2007 Chopin, and 2008 Debussy recordings received extensive praise from critics, and in 2010 and 2011, his interpretations of Rachmaninoff\u2019s four piano concertos and the\u00a0Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini\u00a0with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic were recognized with Classic FM, Gramophone \u201cEditor\u2019s Choice,\u201d and Diapason d\u2019Or distinctions. Mr. Trp\u0109eski\u2019s March 2012 recital at the Wigmore Hall was released on the \u201cWigmore Hall Live\u201d label, and was immediately hailed by The Telegraph as \u201cClassical CD of the Week.\u201d\nA recording featuring Tchaikovsky\u2019s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra was released in the autumn of 2014 on the Onyx Classics label, and another Wigmore Hall Live album featuring works by Brahms, Ravel, and Poulenc was released in early 2016. His most recent recording \u2013 released by Onyx Classics in June 2017 \u2013 revives his much-heralded collaboration with Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and features Prokofiev\u2019s Piano Concertos No. 1 and 3 together with the\u00a0Overture on Hebrew Themes.\nMr. Trp\u0109eski also performs chamber music as often as he can, at festivals such as Aspen, Verbier, Risor, Bergen, and the Baltic Sea Festival. He recently launched a new project called\u00a0Makedonissimo\u00a0featuring arrangements of Macedonian folk music by Pande Shaov for piano, clarinet, violin, cello, and percussion. The project debuted at the Ludwigsburg and Ljubljana Festivals, with additional performances being planned for future seasons. He has a regular duo partnership with cellist Daniel M\u00fcller-Schott and recent collaborations have included a North American tour; appearances at the Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, and in Bilbao; and trio performances with Julia Fischer and Daniel M\u00fcller-Schott at the Wigmore Hall and Dresden Philharmonie.\nWith the special support of KulturOp \u2014 Macedonia\u2019s leading cultural and arts organization \u2014 and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, Mr. Trp\u0109eski works regularly with young musicians in Macedonia in order to cultivate the talent of the country\u2019s next generation of artists.\nBorn in the Republic of Macedonia in 1979, Simon Trp\u0109eski is a graduate of the School of Music at the University of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in Skopje, where he studied with Boris Romanov. He was previously named a BBC New Generation Artist, and in May 2003, he was honored with the Royal Philharmonic Society Young Artist Award. In December 2009, the President of Macedonia, H.E. Gjorge Ivanov, honored him with the Presidential Order of Merit for Macedonia, a decoration given to foreign and domestic dignitaries responsible for the affirmation of Macedonia abroad. Most recently, in September 2011, Mr. Trp\u0109eski became the first ever recipient of the title \u201cNational Artist of the Republic of Macedonia.\u201d He makes his home in Skopje with his family.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} SHOSTAKOVICH  Ballet Suite No. 1 RACHMANINOFF  Piano Concerto No. 4 TCHAIKOVSKY  Symphony No. 3, Polish

data-filter="[2019 04|2019 04|2019 04|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][April|April|April|][[{|term_id|:8,|name|:|POPS|,|slug|:|pops-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:8,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:18,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" The breathtaking, gravity-defying artists of Cirque de la Symphonie drop into Jones Hall for an evening of high-flying excitement and incredible music! Be dazzled by world-class acrobats, aerial flyers, contortionists, strongmen, jugglers and tumblers as Jones Hall transforms into a Cirque wonderland. Michael Krajewski and the Houston Symphony take care of the sonic thrills in this must-see concert event that’s perfect for the whole family. Note: Sunday subscribers attend Sunday matinee performance. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Michael Krajewski|,|bio|:||,|title|:|conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]}

data-filter="[2019 04|2019 04|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][April|April|][[{|term_id|:1035,|name|:|Family|,|slug|:|family-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1035,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:|Now in his tenth season, our Associate Conductor Robert Franz is ready to help your family create cherished memories. Buckle up! Our Family Series is taking you on a magical, musical quest on Saturday mornings.\r\n\r\nAlso, enjoy pre- and post-concert activities, including our Instrument Petting Zoo, young musician performances in the lobby as well as crafts and musical activities. \r\n\r\n|,|parent|:0,|count|:8,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Wave your magic wand and enter an enchanted land of glass slippers, mysterious witches and fairy godmothers as your favorite fairy tales come to life through music and dance! Ballet dancers will dazzle the senses as the Houston Symphony performs the treasured music from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty, Prokofiev’s Cinderella, Stravinsky’s Firebird and more. Whether you get there by car, carriage or magic pumpkin, you won’t want to miss it! Children of all ages, including infants, are welcome at Family Series performances. All patrons must have a ticket when entering a concert venue. For lap child tickets, please contact our Patron Services Center at 713-224-7575. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Robert Franz|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Associate Conductor|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/robert-franz\/|}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Dancers \u2013 Kinder HSPVA dance department|,|bio|:||,|title|:| Janie Caruthers and Courtney Jones, directors|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]}

data-filter="[2019 05|2019 05|2019 05|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][May|May|May|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Heroic. Ferocious. Groundbreaking. Hear the symphony that changed it all as Andrés conducts Beethoven’s Eroica, a staggering musical vision too powerful to be contained. A monumental weekend also features the grand unveiling of Composer-in-Residence Jimmy López’ Violin Concerto, a stunning feast for the senses that combines light displays with musical luminescence to immerse you in the breathtaking beauty of the Northern Lights. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Leticia Moreno|,|bio|:|Recognized as a truly exciting and versatile violinist, Leticia Moreno \u201ccaptivates audiences and critics alike with her natural charisma, virtuosism and deep interpretative force\u201d. In 2012 she was appointed to Europe\u00b4s prestigious award Echo Rising Star leading her to play recitals in the main concert halls across Europe.\nShe has appeared with the most renowned conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Christoph Eschenbach, Yuri Temirkanov, Krzysztof Penderecki, Andr\u00e9s Orozco Estrada, Josep Pons, Juanjo Mena and Andrey Boreyko among others and with leading orchestras such us Wiener Symphoniker, St. Petersburg Philharmonic, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Washington National, Mariinsky Orchestra, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestre Philharmonique de Montecarlo, Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg, Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Orquesta Sim\u00f3n Bol\u00edvar and is a regular guest with most of the major Spanish orchestras.\nSeason 2016\/2017 started with Leticia\u2019s debut with Hall\u00e9 Orchestra \/ Sir Mark Elder in Santander Festival, followed by her debut with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra. Next concerts in the season includes Staatskapelle Weimar with Penderecki, Hall\u00e9 Orchestra with Pablo Gonz\u00e1lez, Gulbenkian Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic with Andrey Boreyko, RTE National Orchestra with Josep Pons, ending the season with two tours: St. Petersburg Philharmonic and Temirkanov and Youth National Orchestra of Colombia with Orozco Estrada.\nUpcoming highlights includes Yomiuri Orchestra with Temirkanov, Houston Symphony Orchestra with Orozco Estrada, WDR Orchestra with Alondra de la Parra, a tour in Germany with Orquesta de Cadaqu\u00e9s and Mozarteum Orchestra with Penderecki.\nAs a keen recitalist and chamber musician, Leticia has collaborated alongside Sol Gabetta, Bertrand Chamayou, Kirill Gerstein, Alexander Ghindin, Lauma Skride, Mario Brunello, Leonard Elschenbroich and Maxim Rysanov.\nLeticia has recently recorded two CDs for Universal\/Deutsche Grammophon: Spanish Landscapes – a study of Spanish Music (Sarasate, Lorca, Granados, Falla etc) and Shostakovich Violin Concerto No 1 with St Petersburg Philharmonic conducted by Yuri Temirkanov.\nLeticia studied with Zakar Bron at Escuela Superior de M\u00fasica Reina Sof\u00eda in Madrid and Musikhochschule Koeln, being the youngest member of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.\u00a0 Leticia Moreno has won international violin competitions such as Szeryng, Concertino Praga, Novosibirsk, Sarasate and Kreisler.\nLeticia plays a 1762 Nicola Gagliano\nwww.leticiamoreno.com\n|,|title|:|violin|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} JIMMY LÓPEZ  Aurora, for Solo Violin and Orchestra (Houston Symphony commission, world premiere) BEETHOVEN  Symphony No. 3, Eroica

data-filter="[2019 05|2019 05|2019 05|][jones-hall|jones-hall|jones-hall|][May|May|May|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" Jingling sleigh bells, reverent wedding bells, thunderous alarm bells and mournful iron bells—these are the sonic atmospheres traversed in Rachmaninoff’s spectacular choral symphony, which draws as its text the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe. Spanish sensation Javier Perianes dazzles in Saint-Saëns’ sensuous and exotic “Egyptian” concerto. To start, step inside the haunting, visionary world of America’s greatest musical pioneer and prophet, Charles Ives. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Javier Perianes|,|bio|:|Described as \u201ca pianist of impeccable and refined tastes, blessed with a warmth of touch\u201d (The Telegraph), Javier Perianes\u2019 flourishing international career spans five continents taking him to some of the world\u2019s most prestigious venues. These include Carnegie Hall in New York, the Barbican, Royal Festival and Wigmore Halls in London, Philharmonie and Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Champs-\u00c9lys\u00e9es in Paris and Philharmonie in Berlin, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, St Petersburg\u2019s Philharmonic Hall, the Great Hall at the Moscow Conservatory, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and Teatro Col\u00f3n in Buenos Aires. He has appeared in Festivals such as Lucerne, BBC Proms, Vail, Blossom, Ravinia, La Roque d’Anth\u00e9ron, Bregenz, Grafenegg, San Sebasti\u00e1n and Granada.\nPerianes has performed with many of the world\u2019s leading conductors, including Daniel Barenboim, Charles Dutoit, Gustavo Dudamel, Zubin Mehta, Lorin Maazel, Rafael Fr\u00fchbeck de Burgos, Daniel Harding, Yuri Temirkanov, Jes\u00fas L\u00f3pez Cobos, Sakari Oramo, Juanjo Mena, David Afkham, Pablo Heras-Casado, Josep Pons, Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada, Robin Ticciati, Thomas Dausgaard, Vladimir Jurowski, Yu Long and Vasily Petrenko.\nThe 2017\/18 season includes high-profile concert dates including returns to Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Wiener Symphoniker, Finnish Radio, Danish National, City of Birmingham and Hamburger Symphoniker, as well as debuts with Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Basel, RT\u00c9 National, Lille and Moscow State Symphony orchestras. Perianes embarks upon a mini-residency in Oslo, returning to the Norwegian Radio Orchestra and making his debut with Oslo Philharmonic playing Brahms\u2019 Concertos for Piano No.1 & 2, respectively. He also tours with the M\u00fcnchner Philharmoniker and Spanish National Orchestra.\nRecent highlights include concerts with the Wiener Philharmoniker, Philharmonia Orchestra, M\u00fcnchner Philharmoniker, Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago, Boston and Atlanta symphony orchestras, Los Angeles, New York and London philharmonic orchestras, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Orchestre symphonique de Montr\u00e9al, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin and the Finnish and Swedish Radio symphony orchestras. He has also toured recently with ensembles in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.\nRecent and upcoming recitals include performances in London, Istanbul, Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Mexico City, Auckland and Hong Kong, as well as a month-long tour of North and South America, performing recitals in Washington, New York, Vancouver, San Francisco, Santiago de Chile, Lima, Bogot\u00e1 and Buenos Aires. This season, Perianes collaborates with regular chamber music partners such as Tabea Zimmermann in Madrid\u2019s Auditorio Nacional and Bonn\u2019s Beethoven Haus, and Cuarteto Quiroga in a tour of Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands.\nPerianes records exclusively for harmonia mundi. His diverse discography ranging from Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Chopin, and Mendelssohn to Turina, Granados, Mompou, Falla and Blasco de Nebra has earned acclaim from press and public alike. His Grieg\u2019s Piano Concerto and a selection of Lyric Pieces was described as \u201ca new benchmark\u201d by Classica, which awarded it a \u2018Choc\u2019; it was also Editor\u2019s Choice in Gramophone and Maestro in Pianiste magazine. Perianes\u2019 recording of Falla\u2019s Nights in the Gardens of Spain\u00a0and selected solo works received a Latin Grammy Nomination. Demonstrating \u201ca true lyrical gift\u201d (Gramophone), his most recent album with the label was Schubert\u2019s Sonata in B flat major, D.960 and Sonata in A major D.664, and his next release will be in Spring 2018 with his recording of Bart\u00f3k\u2019s Piano Concerto No.3 with M\u00fcnchner Philharmoniker and Pablo Heras-Casado.\n|,|title|:|piano|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|*Peter Dugan|,|bio|:|Pianist Peter Dugan\u2019s 2017 debut solo performances with\u00a0Michael Tilson Thomas\u00a0and the San Francisco Symphony were described by the Los Angeles Times as \u201cstunning\u201d and by the San Francisco Chronicle as \u201cfearlessly athletic.\u201d He has appeared as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician across North America and abroad. Valuing versatility as the key to the future of classical music, Peter is equally at home in classical, jazz and pop idioms.\nA sought-after crossover artist, Peter has performed in duos and trios with artists ranging from\u00a0Itzhak Perlman and\u00a0Joshua Bell\u00a0to Jesse Colin Young and\u00a0Glenn Close. The Wall Street Journal described his collaboration with violinist Charles Yang as a \u201cclassical-meets-rockstar duo.\u201d\nPeter\u2019s recent chamber music recitals include the Chamber Music Society of Palm Beach, Music@Menlo and a Weill Hall debut presented by Carnegie Hall. His debut album with baritone John Brancy, A Silent Night: A WWI Memorial in Song, pays homage to composers who lived through, fought in and died in the Great War.\u00a0Brancy and Peter won first prize at the 2017 Montreal International Music Competition and second prize at the Wigmore Hall International Song Competition.\nPeter holds bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees from The Juilliard School, where he studied under Matti Raekallio. He lives in New York with his wife, mezzo-soprano Kara Dugan, and serves on the piano faculty at the Juilliard Evening Division.\nPeter Dugan is a Yamaha Artist.\n|,|title|:|piano |,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Houston Symphony Chamber Chorus|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Betsy Cook Weber, director|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Mane Galoyan|,|bio|:||,|title|:|soprano|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Garrett Sorenson|,|bio|:||,|title|:|tenor|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Andrei Bondarenko|,|bio|:||,|title|:|baritone|,|small_image|:false,|bio_image|:false,|full_image|:false}]} IVES  Symphony No. 4, Finale SAINT-SAËNS  Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian RACHMANINOFF  The Bells

data-filter="[2019 05|2019 05|][jones-hall|jones-hall|][May|May|][[{|term_id|:7,|name|:|Classical|,|slug|:|classical-series|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:7,|taxonomy|:|series|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:45,|filter|:|raw|}]][{|term_id|:1544,|name|:|2018-19|,|slug|:|2018-19|,|term_group|:0,|term_taxonomy_id|:1544,|taxonomy|:|season|,|description|:||,|parent|:0,|count|:69,|filter|:|raw|}]" A sinister castle, shrouded in darkness. Inside, seven doors hold seven shocking secrets. In time, all will be revealed… Prepare for an extraordinary concert experience as the 2018–19 Classical season closes with a complete semi-staged performance of Bartók’s riveting psychological thriller, in which a young bride slowly discovers the gruesome depths of her husband’s dark secrets. A dream cast featuring two of the world’s most sought-after opera stars joins Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Houston Symphony for the must-see event of the season. Note: Thursday and Sunday subscribers attend Thursday performance. Saturday subscribers attend Friday performance. Pre-Concert Activities: Attend the Prelude pre-concert discussion, held 45 minutes prior to each Classical concert. Prelude is led by our Musical Ambassador Carlos Andrés Botero, and sometimes features guest artists or orchestra members. {|with_image|:[{|type|:|existing|,|name|:|Andr\u00e9s Orozco-Estrada|,|bio|:||,|title|:|Music Director|,|small_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|url|:|https:\/\/www.houstonsymphony.org\/about-us\/conductor\/andres-orozco-estrada\/|},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Michelle DeYoung|,|bio|:||,|title|:|mezzo-soprano (Judith)|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |},{|type|:|custom|,|name|:|Matthias Goerne|,|bio|:||,|title|:|baritone (Bluebeard)|,|small_image|:| \n |,|bio_image|:| \n |,|full_image|:| \n |}],|without|:[]} BARTÓK  Bluebeard’s Castle

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