Concert Series

The finest and most celebrated classical artists working today.

Concert Series: 2 Events $128/$96/$64

Beatrice Rana

DIRECTOR'S CHOICE

Beatrice Rana, piano

SAT, APR 10 | 7:30 Jackson Hall

A sound painter who created a magic of color and sound and put everything at the service of beauty and delicacy.

—Bachtrack on Beatrice Rana

Italian pianist Beatrice Rana first attracted international attention for her win at the Montréal International Competition in 2011. In the decade since, Rana has built an enviable list of credits including Carnegie Hall recitals and as a soloist with the Royal Concertgebouw, Philadelphia and the London Philharmonic Orchestras. Her debut recital at the Mondavi Center features work that will display her technical and expressive range: Scriabin’s final sonata, a buzzing, trilling piece he referred to as “a sonata of insects,” Ravel’s extremely difficult piano transcription of La Valse, and the emotionally dynamic four Chopin Scherzos.

SRCAIBIN Piano Sonata No. 10, Op. 70

RAVEL La Valse

CHOPIN Scherzo No. 1, Op. 20

CHOPIN Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31

CHOPIN Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39

CHOPIN Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54

Regular: $75/$55/$35

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

Branford Marsalis, saxophone

THU, JAN 14 | 7:30PM Jackson Hall

In 1972, a group of young artists made history by creating an orchestra without a conductor in which musicians led themselves democratically. Since then, the Grammy award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra has recorded over 70 albums on all major classical labels, toured to 46 countries across four continents, and collaborated with hundreds of world-class soloists. Saxophonist Branford Marsalis, equally renowned for his jazz and classical playing, joins Orpheus for this eclectic program of works written for chamber orchestra and saxophone, including pieces by Debussy, Ravel, Satie and a commissioned Jazz Suite on the themes of Carmen.

Branford Marsalis

ROSSINI Overture of The Barber of Seville

RODRIGO Suite from Soleriana

DEBUSSY Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone & Orchestra

RAVEL Piéce en Forme de Habanera for Saxophone & Orchestra

SATIE Gymnopédie No. 1 for Alto Saxophone & Orchestra

TURINA La oración de torero, Op. 34

BRYAN Carmen, Jazz suite on themes by Bizet

Regular: $85/$65/$45