Award-winning
South Korea-born pianist David Jae-Weon Huh will be featured in the second
program of the Monterey Symphony's six-concert series on Nov. 18 and 19, at the
Sunset Center in Carmel.
Monterey,
CA, October 24, 2017 - Award-winning South Korea-born pianist David
Jae-Weon Huh will be featured in the second program of the Monterey Symphony's
six-concert series on Nov. 18 and 19, at the Sunset Center in Carmel.
This concert
will also feature a side-by-side performance with members of the Honors
Orchestra of Youth Music Monterey County (YMMC).
The season,
titled "Concert Grand," under the direction of Maestro Max
Bragado-Darman, opened Oct. 14-15, and runs through May 19-20.
Huh, silver
medalist at the 2015 Santander Piano Competition, will lend his talents to
Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 26, in this powerful program,
which also will include the Symphony's interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven's
Symphony No. 6, Op. 68 ("Pastoral.)
Recognized
for his sense of poetry and technical brilliance, Huh has performed extensively
throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, and has appeared in numerous
festivals, including recitals at Animato den Paris, San Francisco Music
Festival, and Leipzig Euro Music Festival, among many others.
This will be
Huh’s first appearance with the Monterey Symphony.
Guest
pianists in Season 72 will also include Josu de Solaun, Juan Perez Floristan,
Phillipe Bianconi, and Michael Davidman, who was selected by guest conductor
Conner Gray Covington, who will preside over the March 17-18 program.
The symphony
will perform pieces by Dvorak, Beethoven, Schumann, Mozart, Mendelssohn,
Prokofiev, de Falla and Tchaikovsky.
All programs
will be performed at the Sunset Center (Ninth Avenue, between San Carlos and
Mission streets) in Carmel at 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays.
Special youth concerts, also at the Sunset Center, have been scheduled March 19
and April 23, with performances at 9:30 and 11 a.m. on each date.
The Monterey Symphony's chamber players
will present a holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 7 at All Saints Church
(Ninth Avenue, between San Carlos and Monte Verde streets in Carmel).
For ticket
information, call 831-646-8511, visit the website at www.montereysymphony.org, or send an email
to info@montereysymphony.org.
Here's an
in-depth look at the rest of the upcoming season:
Program 3: Feb. 17-18
Josu de
Solaun, first-prize winner at the 2014 Enescu Piano Competition, will join the
Symphony to perform Camille Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 103 in a
concert that also will include Symphony renditions of Johannes Brahms' Academic
Festival Overture, Op. 80, and Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 2, Op. 61.
De Solaun's
teachers, mentors, and musical influences have Nina Svetlanova, Horacio
Gutierrez, Ricardo Roca, Ana Guijarro, Maria Teresa Naranjo, Albert and Miyoko
Lotto, Joaquin Achucarro, Matti Raekallio, Edna Golandsky, and Jerome
Lowenthal.
Symphony
audiences will remember de Solaun for his previous solo recital, featuring
Mussogorky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
Program 4: March 17-18 (with youth concert
on March 19)
Celebrate
St. Patrick's Day weekend with the Monterey Symphony and wall-to-wall Mozart, a
program that will include the overture from his beloved opera, Don Giovanni.
This concert
will be performed under the baton of guest conductor Connor Gray Covington
(recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the Utah Symphony) and will include
Mozart's Symphony No. 1, KV 16, and Symphony No. 41, KV 551
("Jupiter").
Covington is
currently completing his tenure as the Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow at the
Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he is being mentored by
Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin. He recently made
his debut with the Curtis Symphony at Carnegie Hall, sharing the podium with
Ludovic Morlot.
Special
guest pianist Michael Davidman, selected by Covington, will also be part of
this spectacular program.
New York
City-born Davidman started piano lessons at age 5, studying with Efrem Briskin
at Manhattan School of Music, studied conducting with Jonathan Strasser and
David Gilbert and is currently studying piano with Robert McDonald at Curtis
Institute of Music since fall 2015.
An avid
opera enthusiast, exceptional sight reader, chamber player, and accompanist, he
has won numerous first-place awards in various competitions and recently
completed the four-year scholarship program with The Chopin Foundation of the
United States.
Davidman has
performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln
Center, Kimmel Center, Sandler Center, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, DiMenna Center,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steinway Hall, Bechstein Hall, as well as recitals
in Italy, Spain, and Russia.
Program 5: April 21-22 (with youth concert
on April 23)
Guest
pianist Juan Perez Floristan, winner at the 2015 Santander Piano Competition,
will showcase his talents with a performance of Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto
No. 1, Op. 83, in a program that also will include the Symphony's rendition of
Felix Mendelssohn's
Symphony No.
4, Op. 90 ("Italian") -- a piece Mendelssohn, himself, declared to be
the "jolliest" he ever composed. Regarded as a beacon among new
generations of Spanish and European musicians, Perez has performed with the
Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Malmo Symphony, Radio Television Espanola,
Seville Royal Symphony, Gran Canaria Philharmonic, Malaga and Cordoba
Symphonies, and the Andres Segovia and
Spanish National Youth Orchestras.
Program 6: May 19-20
The
incomparable Phillipe Bianconi will be at the piano for the Monterey Symphony's
final program of the season, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Liszt perfected the art of thematic transformation and took it to an extreme
level with this impassioned concerto.
French
pianist Bianconi has been described as an artist whose playing is “always close
to the soul of the music, filling the space with poetry and life” (Washington
Post), “an extraordinary exhibition of musicianship, technical control and good
taste which lent the music a freshness, immediacy and conviction one all too
seldom encounters” (The London Times). After winning the Silver Medal in the
Seventh Van Cliburn International Competition, Bianconi made an acclaimed
recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987 and, since then, has enthralled
audiences and critics throughout the world.
Also
featured will be Manuel de Falla's lovely Noches en los Jardines de Espana, his
most impressionist-style work, which details three gardens in a setting for
piano and orchestra.
Chamber Program: Dec. 7 (7:30 p.m. at All
Saints Church)
The Monterey
Symphony is pleased to offer a special holiday chamber music treat, featuring
concertmaster Christina Mok, with selections that include Piazzolla, Beethoven,
Mozart, and the Hampton String Quartet's "What if Mozart wrote 'Have
Yourself a Merry Little Christmas!" Come have fun and enjoy holiday music
in a classical style with the Monterey Symphony chamber players.
Media Comp
Tickets and Media Interviews Available Contact Marci Bracco Cain at Marci@ChatterboxPublicRelations.com
About the Monterey Symphony
The mission
of the Monterey Symphony is to engage, educate and excite our community through
the performance and continual discovery of symphonic music.
The Monterey
Symphony, under the artistic leadership of Music Director & Conductor Max
Bragado-Darman, is the only fully professional, full-season orchestra serving
the communities of the Monterey Bay, Salinas, Salinas Valley, Big Sur, and San
Benito County. It provides double performances of a six-concert subscription
series at Carmel’s Sunset Theater, as well as youth education programs that
include in-class visits and culminate in full-orchestra concerts for school
children.
The Monterey
Symphony is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation, supported in part through
the fundraising efforts of the Friends of the Monterey Symphony, and through
grants from The Arts Council of Monterey County, The Berkshire Foundation, The
Buffet Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, The Community
Foundation for Monterey County, Frisone Family Foundation, The Harden
Foundation, The Todd Lueders Fund for the Arts of the Community Foundation for
Monterey County, The Monterey County Weekly Community Fund of the Community
Foundation for Monterey County, Music Performance Trust Fund, The David and
Lucile Packard Foundation, The Pebble Beach Company Foundation, Samson
Foundation, Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation, Alexander F. Victor Foundation, and any other generous foundations and
individual donors.
For
additional information, please call 831-646-8511 or visit the website: www.montereysymphony.org.
Contact:
Marci Bracco
Cain
Chatterbox
PR
Salinas, CA
93901
(831)
747-7455
No comments:
Post a Comment