Posts Tagged ‘Andrea Overturf’
Camarada’s Jewel Box of 18th-Century Gems
Camarada’s sparkling performance on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, in the Baker-Baum Concert Hall at The Conrad in La Jolla did more than “Evoke the Baroque,” the program’s clever title.
Read MoreCamarada Brings Live Performance with Audience (!) Back to Bread and Salt
Titling Camarada’s 2020-2021 season as well as this Sunday concert Unstoppable, their program at Bread and Salt featured engaging but lesser known composers of the 20th and 21st Century—with the exception of a spirited closing number by the adored Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla.
Read MoreKorean Conductor Eun Sun Kim Makes Impressive Debut with San Diego Symphony
Korean guest conductor Eun Sun Kim’s assured, even commanding appearance this weekend, February 28n & 29, with the San Diego Symphony easily demonstrated why the San Francisco Opera recently hired her as their Music Director.
Read MoreStefan Jackiw Illuminates Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Rafael Payare Unleashes a Heady Shostakovich Symphony No. 11
Having heard the amazing young American violinist Stefan Jackiw play in last season’s La Jolla SummerFest, I was excited to encounter him again Sunday as soloist with the San Diego Symphony under Music Director Rafael Payare in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. He did not disappoint!
Read MoreRafael Payare Leads the San Diego Symphony in Superb Concert of Mozart and Mahler
Friday’s San Diego Symphony Concert revealed that the romance between the Symphony and its new Music Director Rafael Payare continues to flourish. And San Diego audiences are responding with a spirited zeal that has taken residence in Copley Symphony Hall only since Payare’s advent.
Read MoreNew San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare Thrills with Mahler’s Fifth Symphony
New Music Director Rafael Payere thrilled the sold-out audience at Copley Symphony Hall Saturday leading the San Diego Symphony in an electric, emotionally riveting account of Gustav Mahler’s monumental Fifth Symphony.
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