Page 6 - Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens - September '23

Page 6, Lifestyles in Palm Beach Gardens

Palm Beach Symphony from page 5 Warsaw Symphony, Copenhagen Philharmonic, National winning the International Tchaikovsky Competition in 1990
Symphony of Spain and Orchestra of National Opera of she has enjoyed a flourishing career, performing chamber
Chicago Symphony followed by return visits to the New Greece; and in Asia by New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, music worldwide and engaging at the highest-level with
York Philharmonic, Pittsburgh, Houston, Philadelphia, Sidney Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, orchestras and conductors worldwide. In the 2022/23 season,
New World, Pacific, Madison, New Jersey, Toronto Seoul Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and Suwanai tours with the Rotterdam Philharmonic/Shani and
and Montreal symphonies. In Europe he will tour with China National Symphony. performs with the BBC Symphony Orchestra/Bringuier,
Rotterdam Philharmonic and can also be heard with Berlin • Wednesday, Dec. 13 at 7:30 p.m.; Akiko Suwanai, Sinfonieorchester Basel/Bolton, Duisberg Philharmoniker/
Philharmonic, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), Bamberg, violin, and conducted by Gerard Schwarz’s Masterworks Bellincampi, Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra/van Zweden
Dresden Staatskapelle, Maggio Fiorentino and Zurich Opera Series at Dreyfoos Concert Hall, Kravis Center for the and National Symphony Orchestra/Märkl, to name a few.
orchestras. Reviewing a performance, The Washington Post Performing Arts, 701 Okeechobee Blvd., West Palm Beach, Also a regular recitalist, performances in the current season
reported, “His energy emanates from his fingers and swirls FL 33401. Tickets are $25 to $95. include dates with Ilya Rashkovsky in Taiwan, Tomoki
out of the piano with such perfection that every note grabs Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto Sakata in Japan and Evgeny Bozhanov in Duisburg. The
the ear with an expressive, singing quality. When his hands World premiere of a composition by Gerard Schwarz Washington Post reported, “Her big, focused, almost piercing
swept the full length of the keyboard in arpeggios and scales, Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” tone took over, carving sonic space, a race car driver weaving
Bronfman made it all look effortless.” Palm Beach Symphony presents a concert that will in and out of (and even cutting off) traffic.”
Proclaimed by the MacArthur Foundation as “an transport audiences with works from great composers A gifted composer and arranger, Gerard Schwarz has
innovative composer who merges diverse musical customs inspired by their travels and journey into the repertoire’s expanded his compositional activities in recent years. He
in works that transcend conventional aesthetic boundaries,” future with a world premiere. Acclaimed violinist Akiko completed five new arrangements of holiday music that was
Bright Sheng is respected as one of the foremost composers Suwanai performs Tchaikovsky’s only Violin Concerto, a recorded by the Palm Beach Symphony for CBS12 in 2022,
of our time. Sheng’s music has been widely commissioned bravura and lyrical work inspired by that composer’s visit and his latest version of In Memoriam for Euphonium and
and performed by many of the world’s most prestigious to Switzerland. The Palm Beach Symphony accompanies Orchestra was premiered at the Eastern Music Festival in
institutions including, among others: in North America by Dvořák on his travel to the United States with Symphony 2022 with Demondrae Thurman as soloist. His Trio for Violin,
the San Francisco Opera, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, New No. 9 “From the New World,” a work filled with diversity Horn and Piano, released on Good Child Recordings, was
York City Opera, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, that matches the nation itself and one of the greatest ever called a work of “sophistication and intelligence” (Seattle
the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Chicago composed here. Maestro Schwarz will lead the symphony in Post-Intelligencer). Earlier works include In Memoriam
Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia a world premiere of his own composition commissioned for and Rudolf and Jeanette (dedicated to the memory of
Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony and the Los Angeles the Palm Beach Symphony by Don and Mary Thompson in his grandparents who perished in the Holocaust) – both
Philharmonic; in Europe by the Orchestra de Paris, Royal honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Palm Beach Symphony. recorded by Naxos; Human Spirit, a composition for choir
Concertgebouw Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Japanese violinist Akiko Suwanai has established herself
Hamburg Radio Symphony, National Symphony of Russia, as one of the most sought-after artists of her generation. Since Palm Beach Symphony on page 7

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