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PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
As Associate Conductor, Hersh
directs the BSO’s educational and family
programming, including the celebrated
Academy for adult amateur musicians, as
well as a variety of classical and popular
programs. Following his successful BSO
subscription debut, Hersh conducts the
BSO in a set of subscription concerts each
season. He has also appeared in concert
with such orchestras as the National
Repertory Orchestra and the New World,
New Jersey, Auburn and Southern Great
Lakes symphonies. Hersh frequently
collaborates with and is guest faculty at the
Peabody Conservatory, and partners with
the BSO’s OrchKids program for Baltimore
City schoolchildren.
Hersh grew up in Evanston, IL and
started his musical training on the cello.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in music
from Stanford University and a master’s
degree in conducting from the Indiana
University Jacobs School of Music, studying
with David Effron and Arthur Fagen. In
2011 and 2012 he was a conducting fellow
with the prestigious American Academy
of Conducting at Aspen, studying with
mentors Larry Rachleff, Robert Spano
and Hugh Wolff, and has participated in
masterclasses with Bernard Haitink and
Michael Tilson Thomas. Hersh is also a
two-time recipient of the Solti Foundation
Career Assistance Award.
Hersh continues to earn acclaim for his
skill as an arranger and orchestrator: he has
had frequent arrangement commissions
from the BSO as well as from the Cleveland
Pops, the National Repertory Orchestra
and the Jackson Symphony. His orchestral
arrangement of Queen’s famous “Bohemian
Rhapsody” saw worldwide success after the
video of its premiere and subsequent studio
recording went viral on the Internet.
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, February 16, 2018, 8 pm
Sunday, February 18, 2018, 3 pm
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday, February 17, 2018, 8pm
Nicholas Hersh, Associate Conductor
Joyce Yang, piano
Florence Price
Dances in the Canebrakes (BSO Premiere)
(orch. Still)
Nimble Feet

Tropical Noon

Silk Hat and Walking Cane
Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, op. 26

Andante - Allegro
Andantino

Allegro ma non troppo

Joyce Yang
INTERMISSION
Modest Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
(orch. Ravel)
Promenade
Gnomus
Promenade

The Old Castle
Promenade
Tuileries
Bydlo
Promenade

Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks

Samuel Goldenberg and Schmüyle

Limoges: The Market

The Catacombs

With the Dead in a Dead Language

Baba-Yaga: The Hut on Hen’s Legs

The Great Gate of Kiev
The concert will end at ap proximately 9:45 pm on Friday and Saturday
and 4:45 pm on Sunday.
Friday, February 16: Join pianist Joyce Yang in the Meyerhoff lobby
after the concert for a post-concert performance.
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
Nicholas Hersh last appeared with the BSO in
Nicholas Hersh
Nicholas Hersh currently
serves as Associate
Conductor of the
Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra and Artistic
Director of the Baltimore Symphony
Youth Orchestras. Since joining the BSO
December 2017, conducting the Cirque de la
as Assistant Conductor in 2014, he
continues to make his mark on the
mid-Atlantic region with exciting,
innovative programming —notably
as conductor and co-curator of the
acclaimed BSO Pulse series, bringing
together indie bands and orchestral
musicians in unique collaborations.
Symphonie Holiday Spectacular.
Joyce Yang
Pianist Joyce Yang
came to international
attention in 2005 when
she won the silver medal
at the 12 th Van Cliburn

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