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Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
Brahms’ Symphony No. 2
Friday, October 31, 2014 — 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 1, 2014 — 8 p.m.
Hannu Lintu, Conductor
Conrad Tao, Piano
Andrew Balio, Trumpet
Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3, opus 72b
Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, opus 35
Allegro moderato
Lento
Moderato
Allegro brio
CONRAD TAO
ANDREW BALIO
INTERMISSION
Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 2 in D Major, opus 73
Allegro non troppo
Adagio non troppo
Allegretto grazioso (Quasi andantino)
Allegro con spirito
The concert will end at approximately 9:45 p.m on Friday and
Saturday, and 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
Conrad Tao appears by arrangement with IMG Artists, 152 W 57th St., 5th Floor, New York, NY 10019. Mr. Tao records
exclusively for Warner Classics. Conrad Tao is a Steinway Artist. More information can be found at www.conradtao.com
H ei kki Tu u li
Hannu Lintu
Highlights of Hannu
Lintu’s 2014–2015
season include appearances with the BBC
Scottish Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and Lahti Symphony orchestras,
and the Hallé Orchestra; WDR
Sinfonieorchester Köln, Orquestra Simfonica de Barcelona, Tokyo Metropolitan
Symphony Orchestra and the Malaysian
Philharmonic Orchestra. In the U.S.,
he returns to the Baltimore Symphony
and Saint Louis Symphony orchestras
and will make his debut with the Detroit
Symphony and Minnesota orchestras.
Last season marked Hannu Lintu’s first
season as chief conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Until
summer 2013, he held the positions of
artistic director and chief conductor of
the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra and
principal guest conductor with the RTÉ
National Symphony Orchestra in Dublin.
He has previously held artistic director
positions with the Helsingborg Symphony
and Turku Philharmonic orchestras.
Hannu Lintu has made several recordings for Ondine, Naxos and Hyperion, and
has received several prizes for his recordings,
including a Grammy nomination in the
Best Opera CD category in 2011.
Hannu Lintu last appeared with the BSO
in February 2013, conducting Tchaikovsky’s Francesca da Rimini, Sibelius’
Symphony No. 2 and Liszt’s Piano
Concerto No. 2 with Stephen Hough.
Conrad Tao
Dubbed a musician
of “probing intellect
and open-hearted
vision” by The New
York Times, Conrad Tao has appeared
worldwide as a pianist and composer. In
June 2011, the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars and the
Department of Education named
Conrad a Presidential Scholar in the
Arts, and the National Foundation for
Advancement in the Arts awarded him
a YoungArts gold medal in music. Later
that year, Tao was named a Gilmore
Young Artist, an honor awarded every
two years to the most promising American pianists. In May of 2012, he was
awarded the Avery Fisher Career Grant.
During the 2014–2015 season, Tao
performs with the Dallas Symphony
Orchestra, San Diego Symphony and the
Toronto Symphony, among others. In Europe, he will be returning to perfo