Scheherazade Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
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Scheherazade Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Thursday, March 30, 2017— 8pm
Music Center At Strathmore
Sunday, April 2, 2017— 3 pm
Presenting Sponsor:
Marin Alsop, conductor Jennifer Koh, violin
Samuel Barber Steven Mackey
INTERMISSION
Adagio for Strings
Beautiful Passing JENNIFER KOH
nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade, opus 35 Largo e maestoso – Allegro non troppo Lento – Allegro molto Andantino quasi allegretto Allegro molto
The concert will end at approximately 9:40 pm on Thursday and 4:40 pm on Sunday.
Support for the appearance of violinist Jennifer Koh is generously provided by the Ruth Blaustein-Rosenberg Guest Artist Fund.
Francisco, among other cities. She also performed Anna Clyne’ s violin concerto, a work composed for Ms. Koh, with the Princeton Symphony.
A particular highlight of her career was performing for the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, and the First Lady of South Korea, Kim Yoon-ok, in 2011.
Ms. Koh’ s 11 th recording for Cedille Records, Tchaikovsky: Complete Works for Violin and Orchestra, was released in September 2016. Previous recordings include Bach & Beyond, Two x Four and Signs, Games + Messages. Her Grammynominated String Poetic, features the world premiere of Jennifer Higdon’ s eponymous work, performed with pianist Reiko Uchida.
Ms. Koh is the artistic director of arco collaborative, a nonprofit that fosters understanding through a musical dialogue. A committed educator, she has performed in classrooms around the country under her innovative“ Music Messenger” outreach program, and she serves on the board of the National Foundation for the Advancement for the Arts, a scholarship program for high school students.
Born in Chicago of Korean parents, Ms. Koh made her debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age 11. Ms. Koh is Musical America’ s 2016 Instrumentalist of the Year, a winner of the Concert Artists Guild Competition and a recipient of an Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English literature from Oberlin College and studied at the Curtis Institute.
Juergen Frank
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’ s bio., please see pg. 7.
Jennifer Koh
Jennifer Koh has been heard with leading orchestras worldwide and appears frequently at major music centers and festivals as a prolific recitalist.
This season, Ms. Koh performs with the St. Louis Symphony, the Cincinnati
Symphony and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. She will perform world premieres of violin concertos by Christopher Rountree as part of Los Angeles Philharmonic’ s“ From Noon To Midnight” music marathon and by
Vijay Iyer at the 2017 Ojai Festival. She also performs at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra.
In 2015 – 2016, Ms. Koh partnered with pianist Shai Wosner for Bridge to Beethoven, presented this season at the Aspen and Ravinia festivals, as well as in New York, Boston and San
Jennifer Koh last appeared with the BSO in July 2008, performing Tchaikovsky ' s Violin Concerto, Christian Knapp, conductor.
About the concert:
Adagio for Strings
Samuel Barber
Born in West Chester, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1910; died in New York City, January 23, 1981
Like many American music lovers in the 1930s, Samuel Barber was mesmerized by
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