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We are in the final stages of our Music Director search. This appointment will affect the 2014-15 programming which we will announce in April. This summer we will present another 4th with the Phil concert and event on Independence Day (including fireworks!) and details of this event will also be announced in April. Stay tuned!
Tchaikovsky & Sibelius this Saturday, March 8
Two masterworks that have not been performed by the Las Vegas Philharmonic in 10 years, feature on the orchestra’s “Rising Star” concert program on Saturday, March 8th at 7:30 p.m. at The Smith Center conducted by David Lockington.
Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat Minor, Op. 23 is one of the most beloved and performed piano works in the classical repertoire. The Las Vegas Philharmonic last performed this concerto in 2004. Award-winning German pianist Alexander Schimpf will perform as the concert’s “Rising Star.” Each season the orchestra showcases an up-and-coming star of the international classical music scene. Mr. Schimpf (33) has won a series of prestigious international piano competitions. In 2008 he won the German Music Competition, the first pianist to win in 14 years, and in 2009 he won First Prize at the International Beethoven Competition in Vienna. In 2011 he became the first German pianist to ever win First Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. His final round performance at Severance Hall with the Cleveland Orchestra was given a standing ovation and also garnered the Audience Favorite Prize.
The Masterworks Series concert will open with Mussorgsky’s Prelude to Khovanchchina, “Dawn on the Moscow River,” a series of tone color variations on a folk theme written for an opera the composer never completed. The concert concludes with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 43. It will be the first Las Vegas Philharmonic performance of the Mussorgsky work and the orchestra’s first performance of the Sibelius symphony in 10 years.
Guest conductor David Lockington led the Las Vegas Philharmonic’s season finale concert, “Celestial Bodies,” in May 2013. Of this performance, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said: “His conducting technique is restrained but clearly crafted to communicate the full force of his own emotional being to the orchestra and, through its players, to his audience. He will give a pre-concert talk ahead of the “Rising Star” concert at 6:45 p.m. that is free and open to all ticket-holders to attend.
Concert Program Notes
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