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HANDEL’S MESSIAH
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Saturday, December 9, 2017, 7:30 pm
Sunday, December 10, 2017, 3 pm
Edward Polochick, conductor and harpsichord
Christina Pier, soprano
Hannah Ludwig, alto
Norman Shankle, tenor
Sidney Outlaw, baritone
Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale
George Frideric Handel Messiah (ed. Watkins-Shaw)

Part I

INTERMISSION

Part II
Part III

Edward Polochick

Christina Pier

Hannah Ludwig

Norman Shankle

Sidney Outlaw

Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale

The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Saturday
and 5:30 pm on Sunday.
State of Mexico Symphony Orchestra
in Toluca, Mexico.
Polochick resides in Baltimore,
where he is often asked to share
his knowledge and love of music at
various lecture series, adjudications
and radio broadcasts. He received the
Peggy and Yale Gordon Achievement
Award, and in 2000, he was made an
honorary member of the Baltimore
Music Club. In 2002 he was awarded
the Johns Hopkins University
Distinguished Alumnus Award, one
of only three Peabody alumni to be so
honored. In 2003 –2004 he was named
Baldwin Scholar at the College of Notre
Dame of Maryland, where he held
lectures, demonstrations and panels
on the creative act of music. Polochick
is also a regular panelist on Face the
Music, a review of recordings hosted by
Jonathan Palevsky of WBJC-FM. In
2011 he adjudicated the Rosa Ponselle
International Vocal Competition
in Caiazzo, Italy. Last season,
Polochick led a set of Masterworks
Series concerts on the podium of the
Charleston Symphony.
Edward Polochick last appeared with
PRESENTING SPONSOR:
the BSO in December 2016, conducting
Handel's Messiah.
SUPPORTING SPONSOR:
Christina Pier
About the Artists
Edward
Polochick
Edward Polochick is
Artistic Director of
Concert Artists of
Baltimore, an all-
professional orchestra and all-professional
vocal ensemble of 70 musicians, which is
celebrating its 31 st season.
2017 – 2018 also marks his 20 th
season as Music Director of Lincoln’s
Symphony Orchestra in Nebraska.
From 1979 – 1999 he was on the staff
of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
as Director of the Symphony Chorus,
and since 1979 he has been at the
Peabody Conservatory as Associate
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Conductor of the Orchestra, Director
of Choral Ensembles and Opera
Conductor. An accomplished pianist
and harpsichordist, he has appeared
as piano soloist with the Philadelphia
Orchestra and the Los Angeles
Chamber Orchestra.
Since winning the Leopold Stokowski
Conducting Award and conducting
the Philadelphia Orchestra, Polochick
has attracted attention as an orchestral,
operat