…to New Horizons
The Bozeman Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Choir announces our much-anticipated 2024–25 Concert Season: a celebration of Music that Moves Us. The season is teeming with incredible programming that showcases our talented musicians, renowned guest artists, and revered symphonic works that will move you to places only music can reach.
Celebrating four years of unprecedented success, we are thrilled to share that Maestro Huynh has extended his tenure as Music Director through the 2028–29 season! His visionary leadership is the impetus of our continued musical excellence, propelling us forward with dynamic and diverse programming that captivates audiences of all ages.
The Bozeman Symphony is embarking on an exhilarating journey over the next five years. We are committed to expanding classical and popular programming, investing in musicians and staff, increasing education and community engagement programs, and expanding live performances beyond Bozeman.
Join us as we celebrate our new season and move ahead to a bright future of music-making for generations to come.
In response to our growing audience, our expanded seven-concert Classical Series brings stories of music to life, straight from the heart and soul of our accomplished orchestra and choir. Norman shaped our new season with you in mind! Be moved as your Bozeman Symphony performs blockbuster works from the greatest composers of all time – Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, and Copland. With acclaimed guest artists from throughout the world, expect nothing short of transformative experiences with these masterpieces. Norman is excited to highlight a United States composer at each concert together with composers from Europe, Asia, India, and Africa. Move with us on an exhilarating musical journey around the globe!
CLASSICAL SERIES 1
Opening Weekend: Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto
SEPTEMBER 21 & 22, 2024
Norman Huynh, Conductor
Vijay Venkatesh, Piano
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor
John Adams: Short Ride in a Fast Machine
Richard Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks
Celebrate the beginning of our new season with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3 played by a rising star, Vijay Venkatesh. All sections of the orchestra will move you through this emotionally rich piece with sprawling chords and magnificent lines, lush orchestral textures, and moody, bittersweet melodies. After intermission, enjoy an exhilarating thrill ride in a nimble sports car. Adams’ joyfully exuberant piece, Short Ride in a Fast Machine, will showcase the orchestra running the gauntlet through a rhythmic tunnel. The concert concludes with Strauss’ most popular tone poem, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, a musical depiction that chronicles the misadventures and pranks of a German peasant folk hero as the music follows his hijinks throughout the countryside.
Vijay Venkatesh, Piano
CLASSICAL SERIES 2
The Rhythms of Beethoven, Rossini, and Akiho
OCTOBER 12 & 13, 2024
Norman Huynh, Conductor
Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello
Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture
Andy Akiho: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A Major
What do Bugs Bunny and opera have in common? Come find out as you delight in memorable arias and a witty blend of humor and romance while listening to the overture from Rossini’s most popular opera, The Barber of Seville. In 2022, Akiho wowed Bozeman with his Steel Pan Concerto. The Bozeman Symphony is proud to be a co-commissioner for Akiho’s newest work, Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, featuring Jeffrey Zeigler, former cellist of the Kronos Quartet. Be one of the first in the U.S. to witness this piece come to life. Maestro Huynh’s interpretation of Beethoven has moved audiences to have a spiritual experience. Don’t miss the opportunity to hear Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, under our acclaimed maestro.
Jeffrey Zeigler, Cello
CLASSICAL SERIES 3
Korngold’s Violin Concerto
JANUARY 18 & 19, 2025
Norman Huynh, Conductor Will Hagen, Violin
Augusta Holmès: La Nuit et l’Amour (Night and Love)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major
Béla Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Holmès is a relatively unknown French composer from the 19th century. Her piece, La Nuit et l’Amour, is a six-minute aural adventure that will leave you wondering why her music isn’t played more. Will Hagen, a regular soloist with major orchestras around the globe, returns to the Bozeman Symphony to delight us with Korngold’s brilliant Violin Concerto. Korngold, an Oscar-winning Hollywood film composer, borrowed several themes from his film scores for each movement of the Violin Concerto, making it one of the most beloved concertos of all time. The concert concludes with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, a piece that dazzlingly features the orchestra. This performance will mark the first time that the Bozeman Symphony has performed this work.
Will Hagen, Violin
CLASSICAL SERIES 4
Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with Carrie Krause
MARCH 22 & 23, 2025
Norman Huynh, Conductor Carrie Krause, Violin
Ludwig van Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D Major
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 in A Major
This concert spotlights our beloved Concertmaster, Carrie Krause, performing Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, which is considered to be his most lyrical work. Following will be Walker’s Lyric for Strings, an impactfully poignant piece that Walker dedicated in memory of his maternal grandmother, who escaped from slavery. Then be transported to Italy with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, The Italian, which evokes the sights and sounds from his 10-month trip to the country.
CLASSICAL SERIES 5
Pictures at an Exhibition
APRIL 26 & 27, 2025
Norman Huynh, Conductor Dana Dominguez, Marimba
Nina Shekhar: Lumina
Kevin Puts: Marimba Concerto
Modest Mussorgsky/Maurice Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
This concert unfolds slowly with Shekhar’s Lumina, a delicately beautiful piece that imagines a journey from darkness into light. Principal Percussionist Dana Dominguez, a Bozeman favorite, is featured with a marimba playing Grammy Award-winning composer Puts’ Marimba Concerto. This piece is a favorite of our music director and features the marimba in both melodic and ornamental roles alongside the orchestra. Finally, experience Ravel’s epic orchestration of Modest Mussorgsky’s piano suite Pictures at an Exhibition, a musical tour of artworks by Russian architect and painter Viktor Hartmann that one of Ravel’s chroniclers once described as a “dazzling array of instrumental colour.”
Carrie Krause, Violin
Dana Dominguez, Marimba
A Spiritual Awakening: Verdi, Simon, Ives
MAY 17 & 18, 2025
Norman Huynh, Conductor
Bozeman Symphonic Choir
Carlos Simon: Four Black American Dances
Giuseppe Verdi: Te Deum
Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2
This concert is an inspirational program highlighting the music of the United States and how we celebrate our spirituality and ourselves.
Simon’s Four Black American Dances focuses on the centrality of dance as an expression of social connection, ritual, celebration, and worship in a Black Pentecostal church. Part of Verdi’s Te Deum, an ancient Latin hymn of praise to God, is sung regularly at Roman Catholic masses and special celebratory occasions. The concert peaks with Ives’ Symphony No. 2, which honors symphonic traditions while showcasing United States hymns in an unorthodox and witty musical language, blurring the boundaries of European classical structures.
Norman Huynh, Conductor
CLASSICAL SERIES 7
Season Finale: Pablo Returns and Copland’s Third Symphony
JUNE 7 & 8, 2025
Norman Huynh, Conductor
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, Guitar
Joaquín Rodrigo: Fantasia para un Gentilhombre
Aaron Copland: Symphony No. 3
Celebrate the music of the Unites States and Spain with works by United States composer Copland and Spanish composer Rodrigo. Come explore the vibrant landscape of Spain as world-renowned guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas shares his unbridled passion for his homeland in Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un Gentilhombre. The journey concludes with Copland’s Third Symphony, offering an emotional journey from the uneasy tranquility of the opening movement to the heroic optimism of the finale.
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, Guitar
BOZEMAN SYMPHONY PRESENTS
Experience the Bozeman Symphony Presents Series, where the orchestra and symphonic choir often come together to offer unforgettable musical experiences for our expanding audience. With diverse programs, including a variety of popular musical genres alongside classical favorites, our Bozeman Symphony Presents Series offers something for everyone to enjoy. Join us for this season’s two must-see concerts that promise to bring joy, fun, and vibrant energy to all who attend. Don’t miss the opportunity to cheer local favorites Paige Rasmussen and Kishi Bashi alongside the Bozeman Symphony.
BOZEMAN SYMPHONY PRESENTS
Holiday Spectacular
DECEMBER 13, 2024, 7:30 PM
DECEMBER 14, 2024, 2:30 PM & 7:30 PM
DECEMBER 15, 2024, 2:30 PM
Norman Huynh, Conductor Bozeman Symphonic Choir Paige Rasmussen, Vocals
Our most popular concert of the year! Featuring local singer and songwriter Paige Rasmussen, who has shared the stage with Bozeman’s own Paige and the People’s Band as well as renowned artists like Brandi Carlile, The Doobie Brothers, and many more!
Experience the true spirit of the holidays and make life-long memories with very merry music at its absolute best, including our ever-popular Christmas Carol Sing-along. Bring the entire family to our fourth annual Holiday Spectacular, a must-attend concert that will bring you peace and uplift your spirit.
Paige Rasmussen, Vocals
Scott Stebbins, Bass
Bashi, Vocals, Violin
BOZEMAN SYMPHONY PRESENTS
Kishi Bashi and the Bozeman Symphony
FEBRUARY 14, 2025, 7:30 PM
FEBRUARY 15, 2025, 7:30 PM
FEBRUARY 16, 2025, 2:30 PM
Norman Huynh, Conductor
Kishi Bashi, Vocals, Violin
Internationally celebrated singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Kishi Bashi returns to Bozeman for a two-week residency as the Bozeman Symphony’s inaugural Artist-inResidence. Norman and Kishi Bashi have created a unique concert experience that blends classical music’s most popular love themes like Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet and Debussy’s Claire de Lune, with full orchestra versions of Kishi Bashi’s greatest hits from Omoiyari, 151a, and Sonderlust. This concert is perfect for families, couples, or singles looking to fall in love with sweeping melodies and enchanting music.
Delve into the Bozeman Symphonic Choir Series, where choral repertoire from all eras is brought to life by our talented 90-member choir. Under the direction of Maestro Norman Huynh and Symphonic Choir Conductor Maren Haynes Marchesini, the choir captivates audiences with its impeccable performances, appealing to even the most discerning music lovers. Join us for two powerful programs featuring a rich array of timeless and diverse music that is sure to move you emotionally and spiritually.
Kishi
BOZEMAN SYMPHONIC CHOIR SERIES
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Mozart’s Requiem
NOVEMBER 14, 2024, 7:30 PM
NOVEMBER 15, 2024, 7:30 PM
NOVEMBER 16, 2024, 2:00 PM
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Norman Huynh, Conductor
Janai Brugger, Soprano
Siena Licht Miller, Mezzo Soprano
Brian Skoog, Tenor
Sidney Outlaw, Baritone
Bozeman Symphonic Choir
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The Stones Sang: Celebrating the Land
APRIL 4, 2025, 7:30 PM
APRIL 5, 2025, 2:30 PM
Hope Lutheran Church
Maren Haynes Marchesini, Symphonic Choir Conductor
Ola Gjeilo: Sunrise Mass
Katerina Gimon: Fire
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Dies Sanctificatus
Andrew Balfour & Cory Campbell: Ambe
Giselle Wyers: The Waking
Join the Bozeman Symphonic Choir in a celebration of the earth with a program of diverse choral music featuring Ola Gjeillo’s lush, emotive Sunrise Mass, illustrated with paintings by local artist Bryan Schaeffer. Be moved spiritually while enjoying our surroundings through sound at this concert that ties choral music to the beauty of Montana’s landscape and people.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Süssmayr): Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Witness Mozart’s final and greatest masterpiece featuring the majesty of our 90-voice choir, orchestra, and guest soloists. Requiem is a work of comfort that speaks to the resilience of the human spirit.
The Requiem’s genesis is shrouded in myth – one that makes the piece even more fascinating and emotionally stirring. Supposedly composed while on the edge of consciousness, Mozart willed his last creation into life with his final breaths, bestowing upon the world a choral tour de force that remains remarkably poignant today.
Sidney Outlaw, Baritone
Siena Licht Miller, Soprano
Brian Skoog, Tenor Janai Brugger, Soprano
Bozeman Symphonic Choir
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Mozart’s Requiem NOVEMBER 14, 15, & 16, 2024
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
The Stones Sang: Celebrating the Land
APRIL 4 & 5, 2025
Hope Lutheran Church
All Classical Series and Bozeman Symphony Presents performances at Willson Auditorium, 404 West Main Street