INTERNATIONAL SERIES
at the Granada Theatre

MIRGA GRAŽINYTĖ‑TYLA

SHEKU KANNEH-MASON

MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022, 7:30PM

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham—and one of the world’s great orchestras. The tradition began with their very first concert back in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. The CBSO became internationally famous when conductor Simon Rattle took the helm in 1980. In 2016, the CBSO welcomed the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a native of Vilnius, Lithuania, as its Music Director and now Principal Guest Conductor, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, watched by nearly two billion people globally. Sheku’s album Elgar on the Decca Classical label made him the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top 10.

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PRE-CONCERT LECTURE:

RICCARDO MUTI / Todd Rosenberg Photography

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2023, 7:30PM

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Riccardo Muti Zell Music Director

 
“The world needs harmony.
Music helps us to understand each other’s point of view.”
— Riccardo Muti

Consistently hailed as one of the leading orchestras in the world, the legacy of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Riccardo Muti marks an extraordinary chapter in the CSO’s 132‑year history. One of the world’s preeminent conductors, Maestro Muti’s tenure with the CSO concludes in 2023, marking the thirteenth and final year of an exceptional musical partnership that has thrilled audiences in Chicago and around the world. The CSO’s talented musicians are the driving force behind the ensemble’s famous sound heard on best‑selling recordings and annually at more than 150 concerts at Symphony Center in Chicago, summers at Ravinia, and tours in the United States and abroad. Listeners around the world can hear the CSO in weekly airings of the CSO Radio Broadcast Series.

PROGRAM:

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Coriolan Overture
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.8 in F Major, Op.93
ANATOLY LYADOV: The Enchanted Lake
MODEST MUSSORGSKY: Pictures from an Exhibition,
(orch. Maurice Ravel)

PRE-CONCERT DINNER & LECTURE:

DENNIS RUSSELL DAVIES

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2023, 7:30PM

Filharmonie Brno
(of the Czech Republic)

For more than a half century, renowned American conductor Dennis Russell Davies has conducted many of the world’s finest orchestras and opera companies and is widely considered one of the most innovative and adventurous conductors in the classical music world. In 2018, Maestro Davies became the Artistic Director & Chief Conductor of the Filharmonie Brno, an orchestra with roots that go back to the 1870s, when then-young composer Leoš Janáček endeavored to establish a Czech symphony orchestra in Brno (the traditional capital of Moravia), now the second largest city in the Czech Republic after Prague. The present orchestra was created in 1956 and has been among the leading Czech orchestras in both size and importance, where the programing of works by Janáček has always been at the core of the orchestra’s repertory. Appropriately, Maestro Davies’s stimulating CAMA concert will feature an outstanding All‑Czech Program of works by three of the greatest Czech composers: Janáček, Dvořák, and Martinů. Maki Namekawa is a leading figure among today’s pianists, bringing to audiences’ attention contemporary music by international composers. In 2019 Philip Glass composed his first Piano Sonata especially for Maki Namekawa, which she premiered that year at Piano‑Festival Ruhr.

PROGRAM:

BOHUSLAV MARTINŮ: Sinfonietta “La Jolla,” H.328
LEOŠ JANÁČEK: Taras Bulba
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK: Symphony No.6

PRE-CONCERT LECTURE:

OSMO VÄNSKÄ

YEFIM BRONFMAN

THURSDAY, MAY 18, 2023, 7:30PM

Curtis Symphony Orchestra
(Curtis Institute of Music/​Philadelphia)

CAMA (in partnership with the Music Academy) is pleased to announce an upcoming Community Access Concert with Philadelphia’s exuberant Curtis Symphony Orchestra at the Granada Theatre on May 18 at 7:30PM. This special concert provides the perfect opportunity for the broader Santa Barbara music audience to come out for an evening with their families to experience and hear a masterful program of world-class symphonic music with Community Access Tickets available for just $10 for adults (and children and teens ages 7–17 can receive free tickets along with any adult ticket purchase).

Founded in 1920, Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music is one of the top music conservatories in the world with illustrious alumni such as Leonard Bernstein, Peter Serkin, Yefim Bronfman, Hilary Hahn, Lang Lang, and Yuja Wang, to name just a very few. Each year the 100+ uniquely gifted aspiring young musicians of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra work closely with internationally renowned conductors, and Curtis’s celebrated faculty, then go out and play concerts in the US and around the globe that the Washington Post has hailed as “exhilarating from beginning to end.” This world-class professional music training has enabled Curtis alumni to assume prominent positions with many of America’s and the world’s leading orchestras playing on the most prestigious concert stages of the world. Under the baton of the esteemed conductor Osmo Vänskä, (Music Director of the Minnesota Orchestra) and joined by legendary piano master Yefim Bronfman, the upcoming Community Access concert will showcase the sparkling virtuosity and masterful artistry of these exceptional young classical music talents of tomorrow in a program that features two of classical music’s most popular and time-honored masterpieces: Rimsky-Korsakov’s dazzling and colorful Scheherazade and the explosively virtuosic Schumann Piano Concerto.

PROGRAM:

DAI WEI: Awakening Lion (A new work commissioned for this tour)
ROBERT SCHUMANN: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op.54
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Scheherazade, Op.35

PRE-CONCERT DINNER & LECTURE:

GUSTAVO DUDAMEL

SUNDAY, MAY 28, 2023, 4:00PM

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Gustavo Dudamel, the charismatic Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic since 2009, whose fiery baton has made him one of classical music’s most recognizable figures, will be departing his post at the LA Phil in September 2026 to become the new Music Director of the New York Philharmonic beginning September 2026. Don’t miss the upcoming opportunity on May 28 to experience Gustavo Dudamel’s dynamic presence on the podium as he leads the LA Phil in the closing concert of CAMA’s 2023/2024 International Series season.

The May 28 concert will feature Gustavo Dudamel conducting Ludwig van Beethoven’s high-spirited Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92, plus two world premieres of works by noted American composers Ellen Reid and Gabriella Smith, with cellist Gabriel Cabezas as soloist in Smith’s Lost Coast, inspired by her reflections on climate change.

PROGRAM:

ELLEN REID: “West Coast Sky Eternal” (for string orchestra) From Soundwalk Los Angeles (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
GABRIELLA SMITH: Lost Coast, concerto for cello and orchestra (world premiere, LA Phil commission)
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.7 in A Major, Op.92

PRE-CONCERT LUNCH & LECTURE: