Syracuse Symphony to Perform at SBU
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Sewell will perform in the ninth and last concert of the Friends of Good Music season at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 16, at St. Bonaventure’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.
The program will feature Ilya Yakushev, gold medal winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio, performing Prokofiev’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C-Major, op.26.
“The program that the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will be performing is a particularly interesting one,” said Joseph A. LoSchiavo, executive director of the Quick Center. “In addition to Prokofiev’s piano concerto, the orchestra will play the tone poem Death and Figuration by Richard Strauss and Nocturnes by Claude Debussy, both important works of the late 19th century. The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra’s concerts are firmly established as audience favorites and we are grateful for the symphony’s continued support in touring to communities in Western New York.”
The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra quickly evolved from its beginning in 1961 as a community orchestra into a fully professional resident orchestra serving the central and northern regions of New York state. An ensemble of national acclaim, the symphony boasts 79 musicians and a conducting staff of international caliber, and annually performs 193 full-orchestra and chamber ensemble concerts during its 39-week season, reaching more than 225,000 audience members.
Guest conductor Sewell has been the music director of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Wichita Symphony since 2000. In demand as a guest conductor, he has led major orchestras in North America including the Toronto, Detroit, Milwaukee, Columbus and Syracuse symphony orchestras, as well as abroad with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony of Mexico, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony, and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.
A native of New Zealand, Maestro Sewell received his training on the violin, piano and cornet, and began conducting at age 16.
Yakushev has many awards and honors to his credit and has performed at major venues on three continents. He toured the U.S. in the spring of 2006 as first prize and gold medal winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati and presented a solo recital at New York’s Alice Tully Hall. He made his Alice Tully Hall debut as grand prize winner of the 2004 Mannes College Concert Competition, performing as a soloist in Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with The Mannes Orchestra under the baton of Metropolitan Opera conductor Paul Nadler.
Yakushev attracted international attention through his European tour, presenting solo recitals in Berlin, Duesseldorf and Vienna. He also toured Southeast Asia, performing in Singapore and Malaysia.
This performance is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts. For tickets and information, call the Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.
For each Friends of Good Music performance, the Quick Center opens its galleries one hour before and show and keeps them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Museum admission is free and open to the public year round. For more about the Quick Center go to www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
The program will feature Ilya Yakushev, gold medal winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio, performing Prokofiev’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 3 in C-Major, op.26.
“The program that the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra will be performing is a particularly interesting one,” said Joseph A. LoSchiavo, executive director of the Quick Center. “In addition to Prokofiev’s piano concerto, the orchestra will play the tone poem Death and Figuration by Richard Strauss and Nocturnes by Claude Debussy, both important works of the late 19th century. The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra’s concerts are firmly established as audience favorites and we are grateful for the symphony’s continued support in touring to communities in Western New York.”
The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra quickly evolved from its beginning in 1961 as a community orchestra into a fully professional resident orchestra serving the central and northern regions of New York state. An ensemble of national acclaim, the symphony boasts 79 musicians and a conducting staff of international caliber, and annually performs 193 full-orchestra and chamber ensemble concerts during its 39-week season, reaching more than 225,000 audience members.
Guest conductor Sewell has been the music director of the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Wichita Symphony since 2000. In demand as a guest conductor, he has led major orchestras in North America including the Toronto, Detroit, Milwaukee, Columbus and Syracuse symphony orchestras, as well as abroad with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony of Mexico, Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra, Christchurch Symphony, and the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong.A native of New Zealand, Maestro Sewell received his training on the violin, piano and cornet, and began conducting at age 16.
Yakushev has many awards and honors to his credit and has performed at major venues on three continents. He toured the U.S. in the spring of 2006 as first prize and gold medal winner of the 2005 World Piano Competition in Cincinnati and presented a solo recital at New York’s Alice Tully Hall. He made his Alice Tully Hall debut as grand prize winner of the 2004 Mannes College Concert Competition, performing as a soloist in Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with The Mannes Orchestra under the baton of Metropolitan Opera conductor Paul Nadler.Yakushev attracted international attention through his European tour, presenting solo recitals in Berlin, Duesseldorf and Vienna. He also toured Southeast Asia, performing in Singapore and Malaysia.
This performance is supported in part by the New York State Council on the Arts. For tickets and information, call the Quick Center at (716) 375-2494.
For each Friends of Good Music performance, the Quick Center opens its galleries one hour before and show and keeps them open throughout the intermission. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
Museum admission is free and open to the public year round. For more about the Quick Center go to www.sbu.edu/quickcenter.
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