{1.} Tuesday, October 26, 2010
The Granada, 1214 State Street, 8 pm DRESDEN STAATSKAPELLE DANIEL HARDING, Conductor
RUDOLF BUCHBINDER, Piano
Robert Schumann: Manfred, Op. 115: Overture
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
Sponsor: Nancy & Kent Wood
Co-Sponsor: Suzanne Bock
Co-Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board
Celebrating 462 years of music-making in 2010, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden was founded in 1548 by Prince Elector Moritz von Sachsen. This historic orchestra is joined by pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, acclaimed for his “intelligent virtuosity, superb ear for color, and sixth sense for hitting upon the right tempo...” (Classics Today)
RUDOLF BUCHBINDER Basta photo
IGNAT SOLZHENITSYN Alan Kolc photo
{2.} Monday, January 24, 2011
The Granada, 1214 State Street, 8 pm LOS ANGELES
CHAMBER ORCHESTRA IGNAT SOLZHENITSYN,
Conductor and Piano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K. 466
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 103 in E-flat Major, “Drum Roll”
Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board
Co-Sponsor: Judy & George Writer
The 40-member Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has earned a reputation as one of the foremost ensembles of its kind and has been hailed as “America’s finest chamber orchestra” by music critic Jim Svejda of PRI’s The Record Shelf. Ignat Solzhenitsyn, principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra and talented son of the famed Russian novelist, leads the Orchestra in Lutosławski’s immensely powerful tribute to Bartók and conducts the expressive Mozart Concerto from the keyboard. The concert ends with the long roll of the timpani announcing Haydn’s joyous 103rd Symphony.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn “is a musician’s musician and pianist’s pianist. {His} performance was rhythmically incisive… breathtaking…immaculately detailed, with beautiful tone, utterly transparent in voicing. It was some of the most beautiful and intelligent Mozart this listener has heard.”
(The Boston Globe)
{3.} Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The Granada, 1214 State Street, 8 pm JOSHUA BELL, Violin IN RECITAL
SAM HAYWOOD, Piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in A Major, Op. 100
Franz Schubert: Fantasy in C Major, Op. 159, D. 934
Edvard Grieg: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano in G Major, Op. 13
Jean Sibelius: Romance
Henryk Wieniawski: Polonaise brillante
Frédéric Chopin: Nocturne in C-sharp minor
Sponsor: Anne & Michael Towbes
Sponsor: Hollis Norris Fund
Sponsor: Herbert & Elaine Kendall
Sponsor: Michele & André Saltoun
Co-Sponsor: Linda Brown
“Joshua Bell is the greatest American violinist active today.” (Boston Herald) He has captured the public's attention like no other classical violinist of his time. Bellhas recorded more than 35 CDs since his first recording at age 18, receiving awards including a Grammy. He has collaborated with numerous artists and on film scores including the Oscar-winning soundtrack for The Red Violin. "Few prodigies make it into musical maturity, but Bell has evolved from a technical whiz to a true artist and intellectual whose music feeds both your brain and your heart." (Newsweek)
{4.} Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The Granada, 1214 State Street, 8 pm ST. PETERSBURG PHILHARMONIC NIKOLAI ALEXEEV, Conductor
ALISA WEILERSTEIN, Cello
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36
Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major, Op. 107
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
(encore) Sir Edward Elgar: Variation 9 "Nimrod" from Enigma Variations
Sponsor: Judith L. Hopkinson
Sponsor: Sara Miller McCune
Co-Sponsor: Louise & Michael Caccese
Co-Sponsor: Chris Lancashire
Co-Sponsor: Barb& Sam Toumayan
The St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra is Russia's oldest symphonic ensemble,founded in 1882. Joining the orchestra is American cellist Alisa Weilerstein (b. 1982), who has attractedattention for playing that combines a natural virtuosic command with impassioned musicianship. “Shostakovich's first cello concerto has all the demands to challenge any concert cellist, and Weilerstein was able to match them with explosive power...” (BBC Music Magazine)
{5.} Thursday, April 14, 2011
The Granada, 1214 State Street, 8 pm CHINA PHILHARMONIC LONG YU, Conductor
RENAUD CAPUÇON, Violin
Hector Berlioz: Roman Carnival Overture, Op. 9
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op. 48
Max Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Sponsor: The Andrew H. Burnett Foundation
Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board
Co-Sponsor: Dorothy & Freeman Gosden, Jr.
Co-Sponsor: Joanne Holderman
Established in 2000, the China Philharmonic celebrates the increasingly active role of China in the performance of Western classical music.Named "Instrumentalist of the Year" for 2005 by the French Victoires de la Musique, violinist Renaud Capuçon "is stunning – as much of an actor as a musician, so carefully does he characterize each note... he moves from youthful dash to naïve sentimentality and pouting sensuousness with ease..." (BBC Music Magazine)
RENAUD CAPUÇON Renaud Hennekeuser photo
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL Sylvia Lleli photo
{6.} Saturday, May 7, 2011
The Granada, 1214 State Street, 8 pm LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC GUSTAVO DUDAMEL, Conductor
LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, Violin
Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Henri Dutilleux:L'arbre des songes (Concerto for Violin and Orchestra)
Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
Principal Sponsor: The Samuel B. & Margaret C. Mosher Foundation
Sponsor: Santa Barbara Bank & Trust
Co-Sponsor: Bitsy Becton Bacon/Becton Family Foundation
Co-Sponsor: Robert & Christine Emmons
Gustavo Dudamel’s May 7, 2011 concertwith the LA Phil marks his first appearance in Santa Barbara. Dudamel “wins over orchestras and audiences through the expression of an irresistible life force... {He} is a deep and serious interpreter...” (Los Angeles Times) Acclaimed worldwide as one of the most exciting and compelling conductors of our time, Dudamel began his tenure as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Fall 2009. "...Dudamel radiates joy... He has stamina and grip as well as charisma... his ability to draw detail, energy, colour and refinement from an orchestra is riveting, a product of the fact that...he has been conducting since the age of 15..." (The Daily Telegraph, London)
{1.} Tuesday, October 19, 2010, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido
St JOHN WILLIAMS Guitar In a Solo Recital
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Five Preludes
Leo Brouwer: El Decameron Negro
Francis Bebey: O Bia
John Williams: From a Bird (Nos. 1, 2 and 3)
Hello Francis
Agustín Barrios Mangoré: La Catedral
Julia Florida
Vals No. 3 and No. 4
Sueño en la Floresta
Sponsor: The CAMA Women's Board
John Williams “is recognized as one of, if not the greatest, classical guitarists of his time...” (The Sentinal, U.K.) He was taught by his father, afterwards attending summer courses with Andrés Segovia, and studying music at the Royal College of Music in London. He has since toured the world playingsolo and with orchestra and regularly on radio and TV. Williams has collaborated with musicians including Julian Bream, Itzhak Perlman, André Previn, Cleo Laine, John Dankworth and Daniel Barenboim.
{2.} Thursday, November 11, 2010, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido
St CHRISTOPHER O'RILEY Piano In Recital
All-Schumann Program 200th Anniversary Year of Schumann's Birth
Robert Schumann:
Arabesque, Op. 18
Kreisleriana, Op. 16
Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17
Sponsor: Jeanne Thayer
Pianist and host of NPR’s “From the Top” for the last 10 years, Christopher O’Riley has dazzled the worldon stage, on the radio and in his recordings. His repertoire spans classical styles, from Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Chopin, Ravel and Busoni to contemporary artists such as Radiohead, Nirvana, Pink Floyd and Elliott Smith. “O’Riley’s playing is laced with an otherworldly elegance that can’t be duplicated.” (Spendid.com)
Wendy Lynch photo
Kathy Chapman photo
{3.} Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido
St PETER SERKIN Piano In Recital
Arnold Schoenberg: Three Pieces, Op. 11
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110
Beethoven: Diabelli Variations, Op. 120
Sponsor: Bitsy Becton Bacon/Becton Family Foundation
“Peter Serkin is one of the most interesting pianists... today.” (Seattle Times) His rich musical heritage extends back several generations: his grandfather was violinist and composer Adolf Busch and his father pianist Rudolf Serkin. An avid proponent ofmusic ofthe 20th and 21st century, Serkin hasconveyed the essence of five centuries of repertoire to audiences around the world: “...just as Mr. Serkin enjoys performing new music with a sense of its history, he thrives on playing old music with a sense of its radicalism.” (New York Times)
{4.} Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 8 pm
Lobero Theatre, 33 E Canon Perdido
St TETZLAFF QUARTET repeating their Carnegie Hall program in Santa Barbara
CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, Violin ELISABETH KUFFERATH, Violin HANNA WEINMEISTER, Viola TANJA TETZLAFF, Cello
Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet in G minor, Op. 20, No. 3
Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet in A minor, Op. 13
Arnold Schoenberg: Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 7 (1905)
Principal Sponsor: Dolores M. Hsu
Violinist Christian Tetzlaff, named "Instrumentalist of the Year" by Musical America in 2005, is the featured performer in this season's Perspectives series at Carnegie Hall where he performs with the Boston Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, and with his Tetzlaff Quartet. Following their Carnegie appearance the string quartet's next stop is Santa Barbara's Lobero Theatre where they will repeat their program of Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schoenberg's immense and fervently expressive Quartet No. 1 in D minor.
The Tetzlaff Quartet’s “supremely lyrical, exactingly detailed playing combined with impeccable balance and unanimity, {resulted} in an overwhelming performance...” (New York Times)
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This project is funded in part by the Organizational Development Grant Program using funds provided by the City of Santa Barbara in partnership with the Santa Barbara County Arts Commission.
