The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra comes to the Eastern Shore at Chesapeake College, 8PM, January 24. Shore favorite Jonathan Carney steps out from his first violin chair and is the featured soloist in the Brahms Violin concerto backed up by the renowned Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
Also on the program is Stravinsky’s Concerto in E-flat “Dumbarton Oaks.” The concert concludes with Mozart’s Symphony No. 35 “Haffner.”
The orchestra is lead by Nicholas Hersh, recently appointed BSO assistant conductor. The Evanston, Illinois native has served as music director of the Bloomington Indiana Symphony Orchestra and assistant conductor of the National Repertory Orchestra in Colorado. He has appeared in concert with the New World Symphony in Miami and cover conductor with the Los Angeles and Charlotte Symphony Orchestras. Hersh’s music training was with the cello. He earned a bachelor’s degree in music from Stanford University and a master’s degree in conducting from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. Hersh is earning acclaim as an arranger and orchestrator, too. He has received commissions from the Cleveland Pops, the National Repertory Orchestra and the Jackson Symphony.
Jonathan Carney is well known on the shore. He recently appeared with the Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra and on numerous occasions as soloist and conductor with the BSO. Raised in a family of six musicians in Tenafly, New Jersey, Carney studied at Juilliard and the Royal College of Music and held the position of concertmaster of London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Yuri Temirkanov, BSO music director emeritus, recruited Carney to join him in Baltimore. Carney is devoting time to the next generation of music makers. He serves on the board of the Baltimore School of the Arts and is artistic director of the Maryland Classical Youth Orchestra.
The Stravinsky Concerto in E-flat is named for the Robert and Mildred Bliss estate Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, DC. The Blisses commissioned it for their thirtieth wedding anniversary in 1938. The Mozart Symphony No. 35 was commissioned by the Haffners a prominent Salzburg family.
Tickets are $40 and $10 for students and are available at the door or call 410 827-5867 for reservations. Now in its 44th season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra concerts at Chesapeake College are presented by the Mid-Symphony Society and supported in part by the Maryland Arts Council, the Kent County Arts Council and the Talbot County Arts Council.
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