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The Symphonia Announces from page 8 York City Ballet, Washington National Opera, the Santa Description:
Fe Opera, and many more. Kuan has also held numerous Join The Symphonia and Principal Conductor Alastair
The program includes: Danielpour’s Souvenirs, Samuel prestigious titles including Associate Conductor of the Willis for New Directions: Neighboring Bach, at The
Zyman’s Concerto for Guitar & String Orchestra and Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Artist-In-Residence at the New Studio at Mizner Park, March 29, 2025. In the spirit of
Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. York City Ballet, and Assistant Conductor for the Baltimore Seeking Haydn and Vienna’s Riches, this installment of New
Conductor: Opera Company. She currently serves as Music Director for Directions takes us back to Köthen, Germany, where the great
British-born conductor James Judd is known for his the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Kuan’s work has been Johann Sebastian Bach lived in 1723.
musical passion and bold programming. James has led recognized with several awards; she was the first woman to
several orchestras and operas across the globe, including The be awarded the Herbert von Karajan Conducting Fellowship Concert V
Cleveland Orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra, by the Herbert von Karajan Centrum and American Austrian
the Florida Grand Opera, the Florida Harmonic, the Slovak Foundation in 2003. Date: Tuesday, April 29
Philharmonic, and more. Judd also served as Music Director Soloist: Time: 7 p.m.
for the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. In this role, he Gabriel Beavers is the Associate Professor of bassoon Location: The Studio at Mizner Park (201 W. Plaza Real,
conducted several recordings for the Naxos label and led the at the University of Miami, a valued member of Miami’s Boca Raton)
orchestra in their first-ever appearance at BBC Proms. Judd Nu-Deco Ensemble, 2nd Bassoon with the Music in the Featuring: Principal Conductor, Alastair Willis
now holds the title of Music Director Emeritus at the New Mountains Festival Orchestra, and faculty member for The program includes: Holst’s St. Paul’s Suite, J.
Zealand Symphony Orchestra. the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Beaver’s previous Montgomery’s Strum, Jacobsen and Aghaei’s Ascending Bird
Soloist: roles include principal bassoon at the Baton Rouge and Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings.
Grammy-Award winner, Jason Vieaux is a world- Symphony, principal bassoon at the Virginia Symphony, Tickets:
renowned classical guitarist with performance highlights Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri- Season subscriptions start at $238 per person, with
across the globe. His recent performances include his Columbia School of Music, and more. Beavers has several flex packages available. Individual concert tickets
debuts at the Domaine-Forget Festival and Carmel Bach experience performing as a soloist with the Frost Wind go on sale on Sept. 1. Additional information is available at
Festival, as well as returns to the Caramoor Festival and Ensemble, Greater Miami Symphonic band, and more. thesymphonia.org, by calling (561) 414-5226, or by emailing
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, among many more. His endeavors as a bassoon soloist have also taken him to tickets@thesymphonia.org.
Vieaux frequently collaborates with other top musicians and international festivals in Brazil and Japan. His solo albums,
performers including the Escher String Quartet, Grammy- Gordon Jacob: Music for Bassoon and A Quirky Dream,
winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, violinist Anne Akiko are available on Mark Records and his recording of the
Meyers, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis, and accordion/ Dinos Constantinides Bassoon Concerto was published
bandoneon virtuoso Julien Labro. by Centaur Records.
Soloist:
Concert III Tim Brumfield has enjoyed a career as a performer,
arranger, composer, and producer. He currently serves as
Date: Sunday, Feb. 9 Director of Music Ministry, Organist, and Choirmaster at St.
Time: 3 p.m. Gregory’s Episcopal in Boca Raton. Brumfield previously
Location: St. Gregory’s Episcopal (100 N.E. Mizner Blvd., served as Cathedral Organist at The Cathedral of St. John
Boca Raton) the Divine in New York City. He has been a member of the
Featuring: Conductor Carolyn Kuan, Bassoon Soloist Grammy Award winning Paul Winter Consort since 1998 and
Gabriel Beavers, and Organ Soloist Tim Brumfield received the award of Honorary Fellow from the National
The program includes: Kodaly’s Dances of Galanta, College of Music in London.
Zwilich’s Bassoon Concerto and Mozart’s Symphony No.
38, Prague. Concert IV: Neighboring Bach
Conductor:
Carolyn Kuan has conducted with some of the best Date: Saturday, March 29
orchestras, opera companies, ballet companies, and festivals Time: 7 p.m.
worldwide. She has performed with the Baltimore Symphony, Location: The Studio at Mizner Park (201 W. Plaza Real,
the San Francisco Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, New Boca Raton)

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