Awadagin Pratt Returns Acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt performs a new piano concerto by Jessie Montgomery, whose music has been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” by The Washington Post. German conductor Christian Reif guides the orchestra in one of Mozart’s final symphonies and two phenomenal operatic works, pairing the unchecked ferocity of Henze’s “Mänadentanz” with the frivolity of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite. Artists Christian Reif, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Repertoire HENZE “Mänadentanz” from The Bassarids MOZART Symphony…

Awadagin Pratt Returns Acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt performs a new piano concerto by Jessie Montgomery, whose music has been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” by The Washington Post. German conductor Christian Reif guides the orchestra in one of Mozart’s final symphonies and two phenomenal operatic works, pairing the unchecked ferocity of Henze’s “Mänadentanz” with the frivolity of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite. Artists Christian Reif, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Repertoire HENZE “Mänadentanz” from The Bassarids MOZART Symphony…

Awadagin Pratt Returns Acclaimed pianist Awadagin Pratt performs a new piano concerto by Jessie Montgomery, whose music has been described as “turbulent, wildly colorful, and exploding with life” by The Washington Post. German conductor Christian Reif guides the orchestra in one of Mozart’s final symphonies and two phenomenal operatic works, pairing the unchecked ferocity of Henze’s “Mänadentanz” with the frivolity of Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite. Artists Christian Reif, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Repertoire HENZE “Mänadentanz” from The Bassarids MOZART Symphony…

Your Colorado Symphony welcomes acclaimed conductor Asher Fisch to the podium, leading Mahler’s riveting Fifth Symphony. Known for his use of colossal orchestras, Mahler offers a musical landscape that is transfixing and varied — proceeding from tragedy to triumph over five daunting movements in a work Marin Alsop once dubbed the “orchestral equivalent of climbing Mount Everest". The first half features a pair of female composers with Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and Jessie Montgomery’s Piano Concerto. The…

Your Colorado Symphony welcomes acclaimed conductor Asher Fisch to the podium, leading Mahler’s riveting Fifth Symphony. Known for his use of colossal orchestras, Mahler offers a musical landscape that is transfixing and varied — proceeding from tragedy to triumph over five daunting movements in a work Marin Alsop once dubbed the “orchestral equivalent of climbing Mount Everest". The first half features a pair of female composers with Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and Jessie Montgomery’s Piano Concerto. The…

Your Colorado Symphony welcomes acclaimed conductor Asher Fisch to the podium, leading Mahler’s riveting Fifth Symphony. Known for his use of colossal orchestras, Mahler offers a musical landscape that is transfixing and varied — proceeding from tragedy to triumph over five daunting movements in a work Marin Alsop once dubbed the “orchestral equivalent of climbing Mount Everest". The first half features a pair of female composers with Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman and Jessie Montgomery’s Piano Concerto. The…

Acclaimed African-American composer Jessie Montgomery brings us a piano concerto co-commissioned by the ISO along with several orchestras throughout the United States, and the popular “New World Symphony” by Dvořák helped to validate American music and lore as a source of musical inspiration in the late 1890s when it debuted. Artistic Leadership Jaime Martín Artists Ivy Ringel - ISO Principal Bassoon Awadagin Pratt -Piano Program to Include Work for Piano and Orchestra (ISO Co-Commission) Jessie Montgomery Symphony No. 9 in…

The musical roots of North America are explored in this concert, as the ISO performs music by Jerod Tate, a classical composer and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation in Oklahoma. Based on Native American Indian lore, Tate’s Ghost of the White Deer describes the quest of a lovesick man searching for a white deer, which is sacred to the Chickasaw people. Acclaimed African-American composer Jessie Montgomery brings us a piano concerto co-commissioned by the ISO along with several orchestras throughout…