Shostakovich & Verklärte Nacht
Mary Elizabeth Bowden trumpet
Henry Kramer piano
Dirk Brossé conductor
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, April 21, 2024 at 2:30 pm
The Philadelphia premiere of Clarice Assad’s new trumpet concerto takes its inspirations from surrealist painter Gertrude Abercrombie, resulting in a fantastic display of dreams and jazz. Shostakovich’s concerto for piano and trumpet is a showcase of mesmerizing athleticism, highlighting the composer’s unmistakable style and virtuosity while Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht finds the influential composer at his most romantic.
Virtuoso
7 Concerts in the Perelman Theater featuring your favorites like Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach, created specifically to display their own prodigious talents as virtuosic soloists and conductors.
Through each concert in this season, the impressive physicality of these pieces, made even more vivid by the intimate, personal experience of chamber orchestra performance, will resurrect the spirit of these great artists and deepen your connection to their lives and their music.
More Upcoming Performances
Dinnerstein Plays Mozart
Friday, May 17, 2024 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 19, 2024 2:30 PM
Simone Dinnerstein brings her “strikingly original ideas” (The Washington Post) to Mozart’s tender and poignant Piano Concerto No. 23. Lyric for Strings, American composer George Walker’s idyllic lament and Beethoven’ shocking first symphonic outing create a season-ending program which is meditative and exhilarating in equal parts.
Saturday, June 15, 2024 7:00 pm
Enjoy summer with “Bridgerton” inspired outdoor concerts in beautiful gardens across the City. The concerts begin at 7 PM but audiences are welcome to arrive up to an hour before to enjoy the gardens, picnics, and drinks.
Mozart’s Gran Partita
Thursday, June 27, 2024 7:00 pm
Saturday, June 29, 2024 7:00 pm
Enjoy summer with “Bridgerton” inspired outdoor concerts in beautiful gardens across the City. The concerts begin at 7 PM but audiences are welcome to arrive up to an hour before to enjoy the gardens, picnics, and drinks.
Our Mission
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The inception of the ensemble was motivated, in part, by the desire to provide performance opportunities for young professional musicians emerging from the Curtis Institute of Music and other regional training programs, as well as the intention to contribute meaningfully to the region’s cultural life. Over time, its mission and programming have broadened, inspired by a desire to help secure the future of classical repertoire by placing it in a broader context of contemporary works (including new commissions), other musical genres and traditions, and lesser-known pieces from the traditional repertoire which deserve modern audience attention. Creative collaborations with other major arts institutions, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Clef Club of Jazz, and the Annenberg Center, have been a key focus of those ambitions – all with the intention of enriching the musical experiences of Philadelphia audiences through original programming choices that stretch boundaries and invite fresh perspectives. In total, the organization has commissioned and premiered over seventy new works. It remains committed to showcasing emerging young performers of exceptional talent.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, a concert pianist and conducting graduate from the Curtis Institute, was named Principal Conductor in 1998 and Music Director in 2004. As Conductor Laureate (since 2010), Maestro Solzhenitsyn has gone on to a distinguished international career as concert pianist and conductor but remains closely associated with the Orchestra.
The current Music Director is Maestro Sir Dirk Brossé, a composer and conductor of international acclaim who performs regularly with major orchestras around the world. Maestro Brossé is a prolific and versatile composer, whose broad body of work encompasses concerti, oratorios, lieder, chamber music and symphonic pieces, as well as scores for cinema, television and stage.
Over the course of the ensemble’s rich and diverse history, the Chamber Orchestra has performed with a remarkable roster of world-renowned artists, including Luciano Pavarotti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Mstislav Rostropovich, Isaac Stern, Rudolf Serkin, The Eroica Trio, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Steven Isserlis, Joseph Silverstein, and Catherine Michel, as well as virtuosos of contemporary music genres such as Julie Andrews, Bernadette Peters, Mark O’Connor, Elvis Costello, and Sylvia McNair.