Each year, CCM hosts a festival of music celebrating the works of a single master composer. The inaugural Brahms Festival in 2007, made possible in part due to the generous support of Susan and Bill Friedlander and the Bartlett Foundation, was a sweeping success, featuring a series of four full-scale orchestral concerts, intimate chamber music events in both the CCM Atrium and Werner Recital Hall, and a special conducting workshop with renowned maestro Gustav Meier. Taken together, these events provided students the opportunity to become specialized in the language of Brahms, and to discover relationships between his chamber music, songs and orchestral repertoire. To read the front-page news story from the inagural Brahms Festival, click here.
CCM Tchaikovsky Festival, Fall 2008
Symphony Concerts:
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
CCM Philharmonia, Mark Gibson – Music Director and Conductor
^Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (1880)
1812 Overture
Thursday, October 16, 2008
CCM Concert Orchestra, Annunziata Tomaro – Music Director and Conductor
^Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
CCM Philharmonia, Mark Gibson
^Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 (1876)
Final Duet from Eugene Onegin, Op. 24
^Kimberly Buczek – Tatyana
^Jonathan Lasch – Onegin
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique”
“Tchaikovsky Chats”
Preconcert talks and discussion with Breighan Brown
7:30pm in Corbett Auditorium, Oct. 14, 16 and Nov. 5
CCM Tchaikovsky Concerto Competition:
Sunday, October 5, 2008, Corbett Auditorium
CCM’s finest violinists, cellists and pianists compete for solo performances with CCM’s orchestras in Tchaikovsky Festival concerts.
^ = Winners, Concerto Competition
Chamber Music Concerts:
Faculty Artist Series, Werner Recital Hall:
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Elizabeth Pridonoff and friends perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Trio
“Tchaikovsky at Twelve,” 12:00 Noon, CCM Atrium:
Tuesday, Oct. 14 Songs of Tchaikovsky
Tuesday, Oct. 21 Piano Music
Tuesday, Oct. 28 Souvenir de Florence
Tuesday, Nov. 4 Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano
Conducting Tchaikovsky – Overture, Concerto, Symphony:
Masterclass for Conductors, October 24 and 25, 2008
Faculty: Maestro Gustav Meier, Peabody Conservatory of Music, Johns Hopkins University
Maestro Mark Gibson, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati
Repertoire: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture (1880)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23
Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 (selections)
Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 74, “Pathétique” (selections)