Bruckner Symphony No. 4
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Bruckner Symphony No. 4
Music Center At Strathmore Thursday, February 2, 2017— 8 pm
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Friday, February 3, 2017— 8pm Saturday, February 4, 2017— 8 pm
Markus Stenz, conductor Gabriela Montero, piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 Allegro Larghetto Allegretto
GABRIELA MONTERO
INTERMISSION
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major“ Romantic”
( 1878 / 1880 version) I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell II. Andante- Andante quasi allegretto III. Scherzo: Bewegt IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell
The concert will end at approximately 10 pm.
Friday, February 3: Join Gabriela Montero in the Meyerhoff lobby after the concert for a Late Night performance.
Steinway & Sons is the Official Piano of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Seiji Ozawa, Mr. Stenz has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Northern College of Music and the“ Silberne Stimmgabel”( Silver Tuning Fork) of the state of North Rhein / Westphalia.
Recent engagements took Mr. Stenz all over the world, from São Paulo to Shanghai, conducting premières and world premieres, including the German premiere of a Cello Concerto by Pascal Dusapin with cellist Alisa Weilerstein and an orchestra work by Dieter Ammann with the Tonhalle- Orchester Zurich in June 2016.
Internationally, Stenz’ s touring schedule takes him to the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg and the Bern Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and Leeds, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra on a tour throughout Japan performing Beethoven Symphony No. 9.
His extensive discography was recently enlarged by the addition of the Dutch premiere of K. A. Hartmann’ s Simplicius Simplicissimus( Challenge Classics), the complete Mahler Symphonies( Oehms Classics), which was selected among the“ Quarterly Critic’ s Choice” by the German Record Critics’ Award Association, as well as various Schönberg recordings with the Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne, which earned the 2016 Gramophone Classical Music Award for best choral album.
Markus Stenz last appeared with the BSO in March of 2016, conducting an all-Beethoven program.( Leonore Overture No. 2, Piano Concerto No. 1, Overture and Incidental Music to Egmont)
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Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is principal conductor of the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and conductor-in-residence of the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra beginning in January 2017. He has appeared at many of the world’ s major opera houses and international festivals.
Previous positions have included artistic director and chief conductor of the Melbourne Symphony. Until the summer of 2014 he was general music director of the City of Cologne and Gürzenich-Kapellmeister, principal guest conductor of the Hallé, music director of the Montepulciano Festival and principal conductor of the London Sinfonietta.
Trained at the School of Music in Cologne under Volker Wangenheim and at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein and
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Gabriela Montero
Gabriela Montero’ s performance highlights from this and recent seasons include recitals around the world, at such venues as Avery Fisher Hall, Berlin Philharmonie, Munich Herkulessaal, Sydney Opera House, Lisbon Gulbenkian Museum and Tokyo Orchard Hall. She has also appeared at the Edinburgh, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Cheltenham, Bergen, Istanbul and Lugano festivals among others.
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