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| Fairfax Symphony Orchestra 2008-2009 Season |
Introducing
the finalists for Music
Director
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| PRESS
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Paul Haas |
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| Saturday, Sep. 20, 2008 |
| Alexander Ghindin, piano |
| PENMAN: Songs the Plants Taught Us |
| RACHMANINOFF: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini |
| TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 4 in F Minor |
PAUL
HAAS, 37, is a graduate of Yale University and The Juilliard
School, where he studied conducting
as a Bruno Walter Fellow with
Otto Werner Mueller. During his term as music director of the
New York Youth Symphony, he and the NYYS were honored with
the ASCAP/American
Symphony Orchestra League Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational
Programming, the first time that prize was given to a youth orchestra.
His numerous TV and radio appearances include a CBS Sunday Morning
feature titled “American Maestro” and the McGraw-Hill
Young Artists Showcase on New York’s WQXR. He has recently
guest conducted the San Antonio Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic,
and the Fort Worth Symphony, among others. Following a concert
with soloist Itzhak Perlman and the National Symphony Orchestra,
the Washington Post noted: “…his ability to marry heartfelt
expression with disciplined playing from the NSO... would have
been impressive in a conductor three times his age. If Thursday’s
concert was an accurate barometer of his talents, Haas is headed
for a significant podium career.” |
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| Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008 |
| Angela Cheng, piano |
| VILLA-LOBOS: The Little Train of the Brazilian Countryman |
| MANUEL DE FALLA: Nights in the Gardens of Spain |
| RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade |
MARCELO
LEHNINGER, 28, was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and serves
as Music Advisor to the Youth
Orchestra of the Americas.
Mr. Lehninger received his Bachelor’s degree from the Brazilian
Conservatory of Music and a Master’s degree from the Conductors
Institute at Bard College in New York, where he studied conducting
under Harold Farberman and composition with Laurence Wallach. He
has guest conducted many of the leading orchestras in South America,
and during the 2008-09 season will lead the Youth Orchestra of
the Americas in a South American tour. He has also been selected
by Kurt Masur for the first Felix Mendelssohn Scholarship and will
be traveling in Europe for one month as Maestro Masur’s
assistant. Locally, he will serve as cover conductor for Leonard
Slatkin and
Vladimir Ashkenazy for National Symphony concerts this spring,
and during the summer will conduct the NSO at Carter Barron Amphitheatre. |
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| Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008 |
| Rachel Lee, violin |
| THEOFANIDIS: Rainbow Body |
| PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor |
| BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7 in A Major |
LAURA JACKSON, 40, studied conducting at the University of Michigan
and was the Seiji Ozawa Conducting Fellow at the Tanglewood Music
Center in 2003. She recently completed an appointment as the Assistant
Conductor and American Conducting Fellow of the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra, where she conducted the Young People's Concerts, Symphony
360º Series, Summer Classical Concerts, and performances around
the state of Georgia. In May 2007 she appeared on the ASO Classical
Subscription Series with music by Prokofiev, Harbison, and Brahms,
and in 2006 she conducted an all-Mozart concert celebrating the
composer's 250th birthday. In recent seasons Ms. Jackson has appeared
with the symphonies of Baltimore, Detroit, Berkeley, Sacramento,
Toronto, Winnipeg, Toledo, San Antonio, Alabama, Wyoming, and Montana
as well as with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra and the New World
Symphony. In 2005 she performed with the Colorado Symphony as winner
of the Taki Concordia Fellowship. |
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| Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009 |
| Jennifer Frautschi, violin |
| BERNSTEIN: Three Dance Episodes from On the Town |
| BRUCH: Violin Concerto |
| BRAHMS: Symphony No. 1 in C Minor |
DANIEL
MEYER, 36, is a native of Cleveland, having graduated from
Denison University and the University
of Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music. As a doctoral student at Boston University, Mr. Meyer
received the Orchestral Conducting Honors Award. He also studied
conducting at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende
Kunst in Vienna as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. He has recently
served
as resident conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra and
music director of the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony, and has just
been appointed music director of the Asheville Symphony in North
Carolina.
Mr. Meyer has conducted the Cleveland Orchestra and the Utah,
Forth Worth, San Antonio, Syracuse, Tallahassee, Mansfield, Northeastern
Pennsylvania, and Wheeling symphonies. He has also led the Missouri
Chamber Orchestra, Vocal Arts Ensemble of Cincinnati, and orchestras
at the Aspen Music Festival. This season he will make his debut
with orchestras in Santa Barbara, Lansing, and Beijing, China. |
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| Saturday, March 14, 2009 |
| Andrew Armstrong, piano |
| LISZT: Les Preludes |
| BARTOK: Piano Concerto No.3 |
| SCHUMANN: Symphony No. 2 in C Major |
GREGORY
VAJDA, 35, was born in Budapest, Hungary, the son of renowned
soprano Veronika Kincses. He studied
clarinet and composition
at the Béla Bartók secondary school and then pursued
conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music under Professor
Ervin Lukács. He was also a conducting pupil of the well-known
twentieth-century composer and conductor, Péter Eötvös.
Prior to his appointment as resident conductor of the Oregon Symphony,
he served as assistant conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra,
permanent guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera (1998-03),
principal conductor of the Dohnányi Symphony Orchestra in
Budapest, and was a member of the Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra.
Mr.Vajda was honored with the Gundel Art Prize in classical music
in 2001, the Zoltán Kodály State Grant for composers
for the year 2000, and the Annie Fischer State Grant for music
performers in 1999. He has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra,
Montreal Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Honolulu Symphony, and
Atlanta Opera, among many others. |
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| Saturday, May 2, 2009 |
| Chee-Yun, violin |
| HAYDN: Symphony no. 39 in
G Minor |
| BODOROVA: Concerto dei Fiori |
| SHOSTAKOVICH: Symphony No.10 |
CHRISTOPHER
ZIMMERMAN, 50, graduated from Yale with a B.A. in Music, and
received his Master’s
from the University of Michigan. He also studied with Seiji
Ozawa and Gunther Schuller at Tanglewood,
and at the Pierre Monteux School in Maine. Zimmerman served as
an apprentice to Andrew Davis and the Toronto Symphony and in
Prague as assistant conductor to Vaclav Neumann and the Czech
Philharmonic
Orchestra. He made his professional debut in 1985 with the Royal
Philharmonic Orchestra, followed by engagements with the London
Symphony and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic. He was assistant
conductor for Carmen at Nimes, and for Salome at Mexico City
Opera, where he was reinvited to conduct Gianni Schicchi. In
1989 he co-founded
and became music director of the City of London Chamber Orchestra.
In 1993 Mr. Zimmerman became music director of the Cincinnati
Concert Orchestra, and in 1994 he was appointed to succeed
Werner Torkanowsky
as music director of the Bangor Symphony Orchestra. The Hartt
Symphony in Connecticut named his as its music director in
1999. |
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