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Marin Alsop

For Marin Alsop’s bio., please see pg. 12.

Jean-Yves
Thibaudet

Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Friday, September 23, 2016 — 8 p.m.
Sunday, September 25, 2016 — 3 p.m.
Music Center At Strathmore

Saturday, September 24, 2016 — 8 p.m.

Marin Alsop, Conductor
Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Piano
Julia Bullock, Soprano
John Stafford Smith
orch. Igor Stravinsky

Star Spangled Banner

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Bachianas brasileiras No. 5
I. Aria (Cantilena)
II. Dansa (Martelo)
JULIA BULLOCK

George Gershwin

Concerto in F
Allegro
Adagio - Andante con moto
Allegro agitato
JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET

INTERMISSION
Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony No. 5 in C minor, opus 67
Allegro con brio
Andante con moto
Allegro
Allegro

The concert will end at approximately 9:35 p.m. on Friday
and Saturday, and 4:35 p.m. on Sunday.

Selected performances of Beethoven Symphony No. 5
and Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 are accompanied by
real-time digital program notes for smartphones and tablets via the
Octava app. For more information visit bsomusic.org/about/octava

Official Piano of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

During the 2015 –
2016 season, pianist
Jean-Yves Thibaudet
held residencies with the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Seattle
Symphony Orchestra and the Colburn
School in Los Angeles. The latter was
the second of a three-year engagement
where he conducted masterclasses
and performed with students. Mr.
Thibaudet also gave recitals across
the United States, Europe and Asia,
collaborated with the Emerson and
Alma quartets, performed with cellist
Gautier Capuçon in a duo recital at
Vienna’s Musikverein, and took Grieg’s
Piano Concerto on tour with TonhalleOrchester Zürich.  
Mr. Thibaudet’s recording
catalogue of more than 50 albums
has received two Grammy
nominations, the Diapason d’Or,
Gramophone and Echo awards
and the Edison Prize. He has been
featured on the award-winning film
soundtracks for Atonement, Pride
and Prejudice and Extremely Loud
& Incredibly Close, and has worn a
concert wardrobe designed by Dame
Vivienne Westwood.
Mr. Thibaudet was born in Lyon,
France, where he began his piano
studies at age 5 and made his first
public appearance at age 7. At 12, he
entered the Paris Conservatory and
at age 15, won the Premier Prix du
Conservatoire and, three years later,
the Young Concert Artists Auditions
in New York City. Mr. Thibaudet was
inducted into the Hollywood Bowl’s
Hall of Fame in 2010. In France he
has been honored with the Victoire
d’Honneur and was made Officier of

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