IRSC Public Media Community Calendar

Jonathan Cohen, conductor

Celebrate the holidays with a traditional Messiah from the longest running series in America! Since their opening concert on Christmas Day, 1815, Handel’s Messiah has been synonymous with the Handel and Haydn Society. For the first time ever at the Kravis Center, experience Handel + Haydn’s magical and complete Messiah.

Program to include:
Handel, Messiah HWV 56

Itzhak Perlman, violin
Rohan De Silva, piano

In Part II of the violin virtuoso’s An Afternoon with Itzhak Perlman, enjoy a unique multimedia experience with tales from his life and career, along with performances alongside his longtime pianist, Rohan De Silva. They’ll offer an intimate window into Perlman’s life and work through live performance, rarely seen home movies and personal anecdotes from more than a half-century of music-making.

Program to include:
Musical Selections To Be Announced From Stage

Carlos Miguel Prieto, Music Director
Pacho Flores, trumpet

On their debut US tour, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería caused a stir in sold-out halls across the country and the Kravis Center was no exception. The elite Mexican orchestra returns with their charismatic music director, Carlos Miguel Prieto and the trumpet sensation, Pacho Flores. Along with another exciting program of composers like Ginastera and Revueltas, Pacho Flores will perform two trumpet concerti with the orchestra – Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto and Paquito d’Rivera’s Concerto Venezolano.

Program to include:
Silvestre Revueltas, Sensemayá
Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major, Hob. VIIe:1
Paquito d´Rivera, Concerto Venezolano
INTERMISSION
Alberto Ginastera, Panambí, Suite after the Ballet, Op. 1b
Ginastera, Ollantay: Tres movimientos sinfónicos, Op. 17
Ginastera, Four Dances from Estancia, Op. 8a

Vasily Petrenko, Music Director
Ray Chen, violin

Following his thrilling debut performance, virtuoso violinist Ray Chen returns with the UK’s legendary Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Their program will feature Mendelssohn’s ravishing Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s tragic and dramatic Tenth Symphony.

Program to include:
Brahms, Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14
INTERMISSION
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93

Franz Welser-Möst, Music Director

Considered among the greatest orchestras in the world, The Cleveland Orchestra returns under the direction of famed Music Director, Franz Welser-Möst. Their program will include Mozart’s last and longest symphony – No. 41 the “Jupiter” – and Shostakovich’s 11th Symphony for the anniversary of the Russian Revolution of 1905.

Program to include:
Mozart, Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter”
INTERMISSION
Shostakovich, Symphony No. 11 in G Minor, Op. 103

Courtney Lewis, Music Director
Limmie Pulliam, tenor

The Kravis Center revives the lost art of the Vocal Recital with tenor LIMMIE PULLIAM and the JACKSONVILLE SYMPHONY! Considered one of the most thrilling opera singers of his generation, Limmie recently became the first African American in the history of the Metropolitan Opera to perform the role of Radamès in Verdi’s Aida. He will be joined by the Jacksonville Symphony–one of Florida’s oldest cultural institutions and professional orchestras–in a program featuring works by Puccini, Verdi, Strauss and more.

Program to include:

To Be Announced

Marc-André Hamelin, piano

New York’s Grammy Award®-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra returns, joining forces with pianist Marc-André Hamelin, who has been called “a performer of near-superhuman technical prowess.” Together they will perform arrangements for Piano and Orchestra including Liszt’s Wanderer Fantasy (after Schubert’s D. 760) and Schubert’s Chamber Symphony in B-flat Major (after D. 960).

Program to include:
Michi Wiancko, Chopiniana Suite
Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 12 in A Major, K. 414
INTERMISSION
Schubert/Breuer, Chamber Symphony in B-Flat Major, after D. 960

Andris Nelsons, conductor

Following their sold-out debut performances, the Vienna Philharmonic will take the stage in our Matinee Series. Led by Grammy Award®-winning conductor, Andris Nelsons (Music Director of Boston Symphony Orchestra), their Matinee Series program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 36 – written in 4 days while in Linz – and Dvořák’s Sixth Symphony.

Program to include:
Mozart, Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425 “Linzer”
INTERMISSION
Dvořák, Symphony No. 6 in D Major, Op. 60, B. 112

Andris Nelsons, conductor
Lang Lang, piano

In their Evening Series performance, the Vienna Philharmonic and Maestro Andris Nelsons will be joined by “one of the most gifted classical artists on the planet”, Lang Lang! Their program features Bartók’s stunning Third Piano Concerto – completed as a gift for his wife during the final stages of leukemia – and Mahler’s dramatic First Symphony, the “Titan”.

Program to include:
Bartók, Piano Concerto No. 3 in E Major, Sz. 119, BB 127
INTERMISSION
Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D Major

Stéphane Denève, Artistic Director
Augustin Hadelich, violin

Founded as America’s Orchestral Academy by Michael Tilson-Thomas, the New World Symphony comes from Miami for their first performance at the Kravis Center with their celebrated new Artistic Director, and MTT’s first successor, Stéphane Denève. German-American violinist, Augustin Hadelich, is considered one of the great violinists of our time, known for his phenomenal technique, insightful and persuasive interpretations, and ravishing tone, who tours extensively around the world. In a program entitled Denève and Hadelich: The Hollywood Sound, they will perform Korngold’s glamorous, glittering Violin Concerto—an extraordinary fusion of Viennese romance and Old Hollywood, Korngold’s movie overtures, and Strauss’ well-known and romantic tone poem, Also sprach Zarathustra.

Program to include:
Max Steiner, Main Theme from King Kong
Korngold, Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream (after F. Mendelssohn)
Korngold, Overture to The Sea-Hawk
Korngold, Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35
INTERMISSION
Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30