Tickets on sale for BSO’s first concert of the season
Published 11:05 am Monday, November 9, 2015
Bainbridge Symphony Orchestra launches its new season Saturday, Nov. 14 with “Luminosity,” a new work by young composer Christopher Rogerson. Pulsating with energy and orchestral color, this piece lends the perfect opening to the orchestra’s new season, said BSO conductor Wesley Schulz.
Pianist Rick Rowley will be showcased in Beethoven’s “Fourth Piano Concerto,” of which the opening measures are said to be some of the most beautiful music Beethoven ever wrote.
Rowley has given concerts with many of the world’s finest instrumentalists and singers, and his solo, concerto and collaborative performances have taken him throughout the United States, to Europe and Latin America.
He has taught and performed in the summer festivals for the French-American Vocal Academy in Salzburg and France as well as numerous festivals in the United States. He has recorded highly praised solo discs of Chopin, Liszt, Mompou, Granados and American composers Richard Cumming, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber and David Guion and has also recorded several discs of chamber music and songs for voice and piano.
On the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin in the Butler School of Music for the past eleven years, Rowley’s performance of Schumann’s “C major Fantasy, Op. 17,” not only won the Austin Critics’ Table award for Instrumentalist of the Year, but was also named one of the 10 Best Performances of Music and Dance by the Austin Chronicle.
The concert concludes with Carl Nielsen’s “Symphony No. 3,” for which soprano Victoria Robertson and baritone Charles Robert Stephens join the orchestra for the wordless vocal solos in the second movement.
Robertson makes her BSO debut with this concert.
Having previously performed with the San Diego Symphony, Opera Santa Barbara and the San Diego Opera, Robertson is currently touring as a concert singer throughout the country and Europe. Stephens’ career spans a wide variety of roles and styles in opera and concert music. He has been hailed by the New York Times as a “baritone of smooth distinction,” and makes his second appearance with the BSO with this concert.
Schulz, a passionate advocate of Denmark’s most-famous composer, said he is delighted to once again bring Nielsen’s music to Bainbridge Performing Arts.
The opening concerts of the season are 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 and 3 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15.
A pre-concert chat will be offered on Sunday at 2:15 p.m.
Tickets, $19 for adults, and $16 for seniors, students, military and teachers, may be purchased online at www.bainbridgeperformingarts.org, by phone at 206-842-8569 or in person at BPA.
