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…

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…

This heavily German program brings together Schumann’s restless and innovative Fourth Symphony; Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, a deeply personal work of inner transformation; and an orchestral arrangement of Mendelssohn’s tale of mistaken identity. Distinguished pianist Awadagin Pratt is the first to perform a new piano concerto by rising star composer Jessie Montgomery; this premiere music has been co-commissioned by the Art of Piano Foundation, the MSO, and a coalition* of North American orchestras. The MSO Steinway piano was made possible through…

This heavily German program brings together Schumann’s restless and innovative Fourth Symphony; Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, a deeply personal work of inner transformation; and an orchestral arrangement of Mendelssohn’s tale of mistaken identity. Distinguished pianist Awadagin Pratt is the first to perform a new piano concerto by rising star composer Jessie Montgomery; this premiere music has been co-commissioned by the Art of Piano Foundation, the MSO, and a coalition* of North American orchestras. The MSO Steinway piano was made possible through…

Masterworks and Ovation Series Classical Series Season Finale! ODE TO JOY: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH Friday and Saturday, June 24-25, 2022 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 2 p.m. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Zadok the Priest,” Coronation Anthem No. 1 JESSIE MONTGOMERY Piano Concerto (Kansas City Symphony co-commission) LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Michael Stern, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Kansas City Symphony Chorus, Charles Bruffy, chorus director Caitlin Lynch, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Derrek Stark, tenor Peixin Chen,…

Masterworks and Ovation Series Classical Series Season Finale! ODE TO JOY: BEETHOVEN’S NINTH Friday and Saturday, June 24-25, 2022 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, June 26, 2022 at 2 p.m. GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Zadok the Priest,” Coronation Anthem No. 1 JESSIE MONTGOMERY Piano Concerto (Kansas City Symphony co-commission) LUDVIG VAN BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9, “Choral” Michael Stern, conductor Awadagin Pratt, piano Kansas City Symphony Chorus, Charles Bruffy, chorus director Caitlin Lynch, soprano Kelley O’Connor, mezzo-soprano Derrek Stark, tenor Peixin Chen,…