Our Concertmaster Sarah Kwak takes center stage in opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti’s sensuous and expressive Violin Concerto. Dmitri Shostakovich’s cinematic Eleventh Symphony depicts the struggle and drama of the Russian Revolution of 1905 in vivid detail. Classical Series Concert
Robert Trevino, conductor
• Sarah Kwak, violin
Walker: Icarus in Orbit
• Menotti: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11, “The Year 1905”
*Subject to availability
Tickets start at $24
Thomas Søndergård leads the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the second movement of Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony
Luca Santaniello performs the Allegro moderato from Menotti’s Violin Concerto with the Symphony Orchestra of Milan Giuseppe Verdi
Portland’s own media artist Rose Bond crafts eye-popping animation to illuminate Berio’s epic music.
Ravel’s magnificent showpiece builds up to such astonishing intensity that it brings audiences to their feet every time.
