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Beethoven X Beyoncé
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Friday, September 12, 2025 at 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Saturday, September 13, 2025 at 8 pm
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Steve Hackman, conductor Malia Civetz, vocalist Brooke Simpson, vocalist Brayla, vocalist Dmitry Gorodetsky, bass TaRon Lockett, drums Andrew Lipke, guitar & synthesizer
Various Hackman
Beethoven X Beyoncé
This performance is approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes and will include a 20-minute intermission
SUPPORTING SPONSOR:
Steve Hackman
Steve Hackman
A musical polymath and creative visionary, Steve Hackman is a daring voice intent on redefining art music in the 21st century. Trained classically and equally adept in popular styles, his breadth of musical fluency and technique is uncanny— he is at once a composer, conductor, producer, DJ, arranger, songwriter, singer, and pianist. He uses these wide-ranging abilities to create original music of incisive modernism yet rooted in elevated classicism.
Hackman’ s groundbreaking orchestral fusions, such as Brahms X Radiohead, The Resurrection Mixtape( Mahler X Notorious BIG X Tupac Shakur) and Beethoven X Beyoncé, are introducing the symphony orchestra to its future audience. He has conducted these works to sellout houses across North America, collaborating with the orchestras of Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, Baltimore, Seattle, Pittsburgh, San Diego, Colorado, Phoenix, Nashville, Oregon, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Detroit, Columbus, and the Boston Pops.
Steve has teamed up with some of the biggest pop superstars of today to add a signature virtuosic and classical dimension to their work, including Charlie Puth, Steve Lacy, Doja Cat, and Andrew Bird. His arrangements have been heard on the GRAMMYS, Emmys
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