Concerts at the Sedona Performing Arts Center
CHAMBER MUSIC SEDONA
CHAMBER MUSIC SEDONA
CHAMBER MUSIC SEDONA
Chamber Music Sedona is to enrich the culture of Sedona, the Verde Valley and Northern Arizona by presenting outstanding classical music performed by the world’s finest musicians and promote a love of the performing arts through music education programs.
SEDONA SYMPHONY
CHAMBER MUSIC SEDONA
CHAMBER MUSIC SEDONA
The Sedona Symphony enriches the quality of life of our Northern Arizona through the power of live orchestral music that educates, entertains, and inspires.” Led by Artistic Director William White, the Sedona Symphony offers a diverse range of concerts throughout the season, featuring both well-known classical masterpieces and pops performances.
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The Classics
October 19 • 3:00 • At Sedona Sedona Performing Arts Center
October 21 in Prescott, A
Jon Nakamatsu, piano
William White, conductor
HANDEL Acis and Galatea Overture (arr. Mozart)
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 1
HAYDN Symphony No. 99
Our season kicks off Jon Nakamatsu, truly a “pianists’ pianist,” performing Beethoven’s first concerto, a work that the composer created for himself to make a splash when he left his sleepy hometown of Bonn and took up residence in big city Vienna. Beethoven’s favorite composer was Handel, so we’ll open the season with one of the Baroque master’s indelible overtures (brought up-to-date by none other than Mozart), but it’s Papa Haydn — Beethoven’s teacher — who gets the final say with his mighty 99th symphony.
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Imani Winds and Michelle Cann
November 16 • 3:00 • At Sedona Performing Arts Center
Brandon Patrick George, flute | Toyin Spellman-Diaz, clarinet | Kevin Newton, horns | Mark Dover, clarinet | Monica Ellis, bassoon | Michelle Cann, piano
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Mozart & Marimba
November 23• 3:00 • At Sedona Sedona Performing Arts Center
Abby Fisher, marimba
William White, conductor
GALBRAITH Midnight Stirring
PUTS Marimba Concerto
PORPORA Carlo il Calvo Overture
MOZART Symphony No. 36 (“Linz”)
The marimba is a beautiful, fascinating instrument that doesn’t always get the spotlight, but in this concerto by the contemporary American composer Kevin Puts, we get to hear it in all its glory. The concert opens with Nancy Galbraith’s Midnight Stirring, another work that shows just how refreshing contemporary composition can be when a composer embraces a straightforward American sound. The second half of this concert takes us back to the classics, with music by the little known Italian composer Nicola Porpora (Haydn’s teacher) and the great Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart writing at the height of his powers.
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Winter Salon: Michelle Cann in Recital
January 9th • Held in a Private Home
Michelle Cann, piano
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Violin of Legend: Benjamin Beilman and Gloria Chien
January 11 • 3:00 • At Sedona Performing Arts Center
Benjamin Beilman, violin | Gloria Chien, piano
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The Romantics
February 1 • 3:00 • At Sedona Sedona Performing Arts Center
Sarah Schreffler, violin
Gabriel Martins, cello
William White, conductor
SCHUMANN, Clara Three Romances (arr. White)
SCHUMANN, Robert Cello Concerto
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No. 3 (“Scottish”)
The first half of this program presents works by the husband-and-wife team of Robert and Clara Schumann presented side-by-side. Clara’s “Three Romances” for violin have been re-arranged for orchestral accompaniment by yours truly, and will be performed by the Sedona Symphony’s own concertmaster, Sarah Schreffler. For Robert Schumann’s cello concerto, we’ve got the great young cellist Gabriel Martins joining us — who, as luck would have it, has a strong Sedona connection!
Felix Mendelssohn was great friend of the Schumanns, and quite the Romantic himself. His journey to the far reaches of Scotland inspired this great travelogue symphony, infused with the sound of the highlands.
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The Junction Trio
February 15 • 3:00 • At Sedona Performing Arts Center
Mark Steinberg, violin | Serena Canin, violin | Misha Amory, viola | Nina Lee, cello
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Discovery
March 15 • 3:00 • At Sedona Sedona Performing Arts Center
Jacqueline Rodenbeck, violin
William White, conductor
GLUCK Dance of the Furies
MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
CPE BACH Symphony in D Major, Wq. 183/1
JS BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3
Our soloist for this concert is Jacqueline Rodenbeck, a Tucson native and winner of the most recent Sphinx Concerto Competition. Jackie will perform one of the all-time favorite solo works in the repertoire, Felix Mendelssohn’s violin concerto. This concerto gets off to a fiery start, so appropriately enough, we’ll lead into it with Gluck’s “Dance of the Furies” from his opera Orpheus and Eurydice.
We have Felix Mendelssohn to thank not only for his great compositions, but also for his work championing the music of J. S. Bach, whose work was all but forgotten by the beginning of the 19th century. Certain musicians kept the flame alive though, including Bach’s most ingenious son, Carl Philip Emmanuel.
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The Brentano Quartet
March 22 • 3:00 • At Sedona Hilton
Stefan Jackiw, violin | Jay Campbell, cello | Conrad Tao, piano
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An Afternoon of Music, Movies and Comedy
April 12 • 3:00 • At Sedona Sedona Performing Arts Center
Stefan Jackiw, violin | Jay Campbell, cello | Conrad Tao, piano
