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SIBELIUS VIOLIN CONCERTO
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Sunday, January 20, 2019, 3 pm
Markus Stenz, conductor
Baiba Skride, violin
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto in D Minor, op. 47
Allegro moderato
Adagio di molto
Allegro ma non tanto

Baiba Skride
INTERMISSION
Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 104 in D Major, “London”
Adagio - Allegro
Andante
Menuet and Trio: Allegro
Finale: Spiritoso
The concert will end at approximately 10 pm on Saturday
and 5 pm on Sunday.
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About the Artists
Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is
Chief Conductor
of the Netherlands
Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra, Principal
Guest Conductor of the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra and Conductor-
in-Residence of the Seoul Philharmonic
Orchestra. His previous appointments
have included General Music Director
of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne,
Principal Guest Conductor of the
Hallé Orchestra, Music Director of
the Montepulciano Festival, Principal
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Conductor of the London Sinfonietta and
Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of
the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra.
During the 2018 –19 season, Stenz
leads the much-anticipated world
premiere of Fin de Partie by György
Kurtág at La Scala, broadcast live
on RAI-Radio 3. A highlight of
Stenz’s spring season is a concert
performance with the Netherlands
Radio Philharmonic Orchestra of
Schreker’s Die Gezeichneten at the
Concertgebouw. Stenz returns to the
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra to
lead the Australian premiere of Chinese
composer Qigang Chen’s Violin Concerto,
performed by Maxim Vengerov.
Markus Stenz last appeared with the
BSO in April 2018, conducting works
of Mozart and Mahler.
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Saturday, January 19, 2019, 8 pm
Markus Stenz’s international guest
engagements in 2018 –19 include the
Orchestra della Toscana, Stavanger
Symfoniorkester, Dortmund Philharmonic
and China National Centre for the
Performing Arts. In North America, he
guest conducts the Pittsburgh, Oregon and
Nashville symphonies.
He has conducted orchestras
around the world including the Royal
Concertgebouw Orchestra; Munich
Philharmonic; Gewandhausorchester
Leipzig; Berlin Phiharmonic; Tonhalle
Orchestra Zürich; Vienna Symphony;
NHK Symphony Orchestra; and the
symphony orchestras of the Bayerische
Rundfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk,
WDR and NDR. In the U.S., Stenz has
led the symphony orchestras of Chicago,
Houston, Seattle, St. Louis, Boston
and Dallas as well as the Los Angeles
Philharmonic.
Stenz’s extensive discography includes
many award-winning recordings, among
them the complete symphonies of Mahler
with the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne
on the Oehms Classics label; the CD of
the Fifth Symphony was selected for the
Quarterly Critics’ Choice by the German
Record Critics’ Award Association. Stenz
has made more than 60 recordings with
the Gürzenich Orchestra.
Markus Stenz has been accorded
an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal
Northern College of Music and the
Silberne Stimmgabel (“Silver Tuning
Fork”) by the German state of North
Rhine-Westphalia. He resides in Cologne,
Germany with his wife and two children.
Baiba Skride
Baiba Skride’s natural
approach to her music-
making has endeared
her to some of today’s
most important
conductors and orchestras worldwide.
She is consistently invited for her
refreshing interpretations, sensitivity
and delight. She has worked with the