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TCHAIKOVSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO
Seattle and Dallas symphony orchestras,
and his live recording of the work for
Onyx Classics with Seattle Symphony and
Ludovic Morlot won two 2019 Grammy
Awards. Ehnes was awarded the 2017
Royal Philharmonic Society Award in
the Instrumentalist category.
Ehnes performs recitals regularly at
Wigmore Hall, Carnegie Hall, Symphony
Center Chicago, Amsterdam’s Royal
Concertgebouw, Ravinia, Montreux,
Chaise-Dieu, the White Nights Festival in
St. Petersburg, Festival de Pâques in Aix
and the Salzburg Festival. As a chamber
musician, he has collaborated with leading
artists such as Leif Ove Andsnes, Louis
Lortie, Yo-Yo Ma, Renaud Capuçon and
Yuja Wang, and in 2010, he formally
established the Ehnes Quartet. Ehnes is
also the Artistic Director of the Seattle
Chamber Music Society.
Ehnes began violin studies at the age
of four, became a protégé of the noted
Canadian violinist Francis Chaplin at
age nine, made his orchestral debut with
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
at age 13 and graduated from The
Juilliard School in 1997, winning the
Peter Mennin Prize for Outstanding
Achievement and Leadership in Music.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Canada and, in 2010, was appointed a
Member of the Order of Canada.
MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE
Thursday, May 9, 2019, 8 pm
JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL
Friday, May 10, 2019, 8 pm
Saturday, May 11, 2019, 8 pm
Marin Alsop, conductor
James Ehnes, violin
Richard Strauss

Ein Heldenleben, op. 40
The Hero
The Hero’s Adversaries
The Hero’s Companion
The Hero’s Deeds of War
The Hero’s Works of Peace
The Hero’s Retirement
INTERMISSION

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Violin Concerto in D Major, op. 35
Allegro moderato
Canzonetta: Andante
Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
James Ehnes
The intermission will last 20 minutes. The concert will end at
approximately 10 pm.
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About the Artists
Marin Alsop
For Marin Alsop’s bio, please see pg. 7.
James Ehnes
James Ehnes has
established himself as
one of the most sought-
after violinists on the
international stage. He
regularly performs with leading orchestras
such as the Chicago, Pittsburgh, London,
Vienna and NHK symphony orchestras;
the Los Angeles, New York, Munich,
London and Czech philharmonics; the
Cleveland and Philadelphia orchestras;
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin;
and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra.
James Ehnes last appeared with the BSO
Recent highlights include performances
with the MET Orchestra at Carnegie
Hall with Gianandrea Noseda; London
Symphony with Marin Alsop; Leipzig
Gewandhaus Orchestra with Alexander
Shelley; Vienna Symphony with Mark
Elder; New York Philharmonic with
Juanjo Mena; Deutsches Symphonie-
Orchester Berlin with Leonard Slatkin;
Chicago Symphony with James Gaffigan;
Orchestre National de France with
Edward Gardner; Cleveland, Philadelphia
and Boston symphony orchestras with
Stéphane Denève; Frankfurt Radio
Symphony with Andrés Orozco-
Estrada; and Pittsburgh Symphony
with Manfred Honeck.
In 2017, Ehnes premiered the Aaron-Jay
Kernis Violin Concerto with the Toronto,

in September 2014, performing Korngold’s
Violin Concerto, Marin Alsop, conductor.
About the Concert
EIN HELDENLEBEN
Richard Strauss
Born in Munich, Germany, June 11, 1864;
died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany,
September 8, 1949
Did Richard Strauss really intend
to portray himself as the hero in his
eighth tone poem, Ein Heldenleben (“A
Hero’s Life”), written in 1897–98? If so,
critics of his day were right to call this
work an outrageous display of musical
megalomania. That it is one of the most
stunning, viscerally exciting display pieces
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