University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra Repertoire 2007 – 2014

University of Minnesota Symphony Orchestra Repertoire 2007 – 2017

Mark Russell Smith, Artistic Director of Orchestral Activities

All Programs Conducted by Mark Russell Smith, unless otherwise indicated

 

2016 – 2017

October 14, 2016

Strauss:  Don Juan

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

Poulenc:  Concerto for Two Pianos (Kyung and Michael Kim, pianos)

Schumann:  Symphony #3 (Rhenish)

 

October 29, 2016

Collage Concert

Mahler:  Adagietto from Symphony #5

Verdi:  Finale from Falstaff

 

November 11, 2016

University Symphony Orchestra Concerto and Aria Evening

 

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 37

  1. Allegro con brio

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

Giordano:  From Andrea Chénier: Nemico della patria

Doctoral Candidate Brian Dowdy, conductor

Reinecke:  Ballade for Flute and Orchestra, Op. 288

Doctoral Candidate Dennis Hawkins, conductor

Tchaikovsky: Pezzo Capriccioso for Violoncello and Orchestra

Masters Candidate Pamela Mayorga, conductor

Rachmaninov:  Piano Concerto No. 3 in d minor

  1. Allegro ma non tanto

Doctoral Candidate Ernesto Estigarribia, conductor

Stravinsky:  From The Rake’s Progress:  No Word from Tom

Doctoral Candidate Amanda Weber, conductor

Sibelius:  Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in d minor

  1. Allegro moderato

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

 

November 17–20, 2016

University Opera Theatre

Britten:  The Rape of Lucretia

Mark Russell Smith and Doctoral Candidate Brian Dowdy (November 20), conductors 

 

January 28, 2017 

Liszt:  Tasso, Lamento e Trionfo

Doctoral Candidate Brian Dowdy, conductor

Debussy:  Danse sacre et danse profane

Hannah Spivey, Harp (Concerto Competition Winner)

Boutry:  Divertimento for Alto Saxophone and String Orchestra

Hannah Hickman, Alto Saxophone (Concerto Competition Winner)

Ravel:  Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2

 

March 3, 2017

 Gabrieli:  Canzon á 12

Masters Candidate Michelle Eboch, conductor

Mozart:  Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, K. 414

Dr. Paul Shaw (UM Faculty), piano; Masters Candidate Pamela Mayorga, conductor

Stravinsky:  Octet

Masters Candidate Michelle Eboch, conductor

Strauss, arr. Schoenberg:  Kaiserwalzer, Opus 437

Doctoral Candidate Cassandra Bechard, conductor

Bates:  The Rise of Exotic Computing

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

 

March 30 – April 2, 2017

University Opera Theatre

Puccini Double Bill

Gianni Schicchi

Mark Russell Smith and Doctoral Candidate Ernesto Estigarribia (April 2), conductors

Suor Angelica

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

 

April 21, 2017

Copland: Clarinet Concerto

Katrina Clements, clarinet (Concerto Competition Winner)

 

May 1, 2017

Student Composer Reading

Maria Mannone:  Fantasia and Fugue

 

2015-2016

October 16, 2015

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

 

October 24, 2015

Collage Concert

Bartók: Divertimento for Strings

III. Allegro assai

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10

  1. Allegro

 

November 19-22, 2015

Opera: Floyd: Susannah

Doctoral Candidates Chad Hutchinson and Brian Dowdy, conductors

 

December 14-16, 2015

Repertoire Project

Bach: Air from Orchestral Suite No. 3, BWV 1068

Mozart: Divertimento in F Major, K. 138

  1. Andante

Doctoral Candidate Katherine Chan and Masters Candidate Pamela Mayorga, conductors

Beethoven: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Opus 61

  1. Larghetto

YonSoo Park, Violin

Doctoral Candidates Chad Hutchinson and Brian Dowdy, conductors

Mendelssohn: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in e minor

  1. Andante

Mary Alice Hutton, violin

Ernesto Estigarribia, conductor

 

March 4-5, 2016

Bach: St. Matthew Passion

St. Matthew Passion Project – a yearlong study and performance project with master classes, seminars, and multiple performances.  These Minnesota performances were staged by UM faculty member David Walsh, and performed in Minneapolis in collaboration with students and faculty from the Hochschule für Musik-Detmold (Germany), University of Minnesota Choruses, and University of Minnesota faculty and student soloists.

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Florian Cramer, Evangelist

Jeffrey Martin, Jesus

Carine Tinney, soprano

Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano

Nick Chalmers, tenor

Justin Staebell and Phillip Zawisza, baritones

Kathy Romey and Mark Russell Smith, conductors

 

March 18-19, 2016

Bach: St. Matthew Passion

St. Matthew Passion Project:  Performances in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik-Detmold and Bielefeld Neustaedter Marienkirche in collaboration with Hochschule für Musik-Detmold (Germany), University of Minnesota Choruses, student and faculty soloists.

 

Florian Cramer, Evangelist
Jeffrey Martin, Jesus
Carine Tinney, Soprano
Julia Maria Spies, Alto
Maximilian Vogler, Tenor
Mathis Koch and Fabian Kuhnen, Bass

Mark Russell Smith, conductor  (Detmold)

Anne Kohler, conductor (Bielefeld)

 

April 14-17, 2016

Opera: Weill: Lady in the Dark

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

 

April 22, 2016

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

Gabriel Quenneville-Bélair, piano (Concerto Competition Winner)

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor

 

May 6, 2016

Doctoral and Master Conducting Student Recital

Mozart: Die Zauberflöte:  Overture and Dies Bildnis

Nick Chalmers, tenor

Masters Candidate Ernesto Estigarribia, conductor

Debussy: Nocturnes

  1. Nuages
  2. Fêtes

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

Copland: Appalachian Spring (13 Instrument Version)

Doctoral Candidate Brian Dowdy, conductor

Verdi: Overture to La Forza del Destino

Masters Candidate Pamela Mayorga, conductor

 

2014-2015

October 18, 2014

Collage Concert

Mahler: From Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Revelge

Philip Zawisza, baritone

Doctoral Candidate Paul McShee, conductor

Bizet:  From Carmen Suite No. 1: Prelude and Les toreadors

Doctoral Candidate Paul McShee, conductor

Bizet:  From Carmen:  C’est Toi!

Sidney Walker, mezzo and Joe Okell, tenor

Matthew Mehaffey, conductor

 

October 20, 2014

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Doctoral Candidate Paul McShee, conductor

Mahler: Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Philip Zawisza, baritone

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major, “Eroica”

 

October 22, 2014

University Alumni Event at McNamara Alumni Center

Ives: The Unanswered Question

Doctoral Candidate Paul McShee, conductor

 

October 27, 2014

Fall Repertoire Project

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5

  1. Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

  1. Adagio – Allegro non troppo
  2. Adagio lamentoso

Doctoral Candidates Brian Dowdy, Chad Hutchinson and Paul McShee, conductors

 

November 15, 2014

Community Engagement Project

Mendelssohn: St. Paul Oratorio

Matthew Mehaffey, conductor

 

November 20-23, 2014

Opera: Bizet (Constant/Brook): La Tragédie de Carmen

Mark Russell Smith and Doctoral Candidate Brian Dowdy, conductors

 

November 22-23, 2014

Community Engagement Project

Durufle: Messe cum jubilo

Matthew Mehaffey, conductor

 

February 25, 2015

Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16

Pei-Lei Lin, piano (Concerto Competition Winner)

Dvořák: “Song to the Moon” from Rusalka

Christine Killian, soprano (Concerto Competition Winner)

Bruckner: Symphony No. 4

 

April 16-19, 2015

Opera: Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro

Mark Russell Smith and Doctoral Candidates Paul McShee and Chad Hutchinson (April 19),                                                               conductors

 

April 22 – May 6, 2015

Spring Repertoire Project with Mischa Santora

Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

Doctoral Candidate Brian Dowdy, conductor

Ravel:  From Daphnis et Chloe, Suite No.2: Danse générale

Doctoral Candidate Chad Hutchinson, conductor

Brahms: Symphony No. 4

  1.    Allegro energico e passionato

Doctoral Candidate Paul McShee, conductor

Brahms: Schicksalslied

Doctoral Candidate Russell Adrian, conductor

Bach: Cantata 150

Doctoral Candidate Russell Adrian, conductor 

 

2013-2014

October 11, 2013

Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Philip Zawisza, narrator

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes by Weber

Doctoral Candidate Benjamin Klemme, conductor

Beethoven: Symphony No. 8

 

October 19, 2013

Collage Concert

Prokofiev: Death of Tybalt, from Romeo and Juliet

Doctoral Candidate Sergey Bogza, conductor

 

October, 2013

Repertoire Project with Henry Charles Smith, guest clinician

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, First Movement

Schumann: Symphony No. 2, Scherzo

Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol

Doctoral Candidates Benjamin Klemme, Sergey Bogza, and Erik Rohde, conductors

 

November, 2013

Opera: Smetana: The Bartered Bride

Doctoral Candidates Benjamin Klemme, Sergey Bogza, and Erik Rohde, conductors

 

December 3, 2013

Educational Concerts

Smetana: Dance of the Comedians, from The Bartered Bride

Prokofiev: Death of Tybalt, from Romeo and Juliet

Hindemith: March, from Symphonic Metamorphoses on themes by Weber

Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Mark Russell Smith, narrator

Doctoral Candidates Benjamin Klemme, Sergey Bogza and Erik Rohde, conductors

 

January 27, 2014

Side-by-Side with Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

 

March 12, 2014

Michel Merlet: Moirures: Poëme Symphonique [US Premiere]

Doctoral Candidate Erik Rohde, conductor

Elgar: Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra

Rosalind Leavell, violoncello (Concerto Competition Winner)

Brahms: Symphony No. 2

 

April, 2014

Opera: Janáček: The Cunning Little Vixen

 

April, 2014

Strauss/Bogza: Don Quixote (chamber orchestration by Sergey Bogza)

Doctoral Candidate Sergey Bogza, conductor

 

May 3, 2014

Northrop Auditorium Grand Reopening

Mahler: Symphony No. 2

In collaboration with the University Singers, Women’s and Men’s Chorus, members of the Minnesota Chorale, members of the Minnesota Orchestra

Linh Kaufmann, soprano

Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano

 

2012-2013

October 20, 2012

Collage Concert

Argento: Valentino Dances

 

October 22, 2012 “World Cities Tour”

Wagner: Overture to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Ellington: Harlem

In collaboration with Jazz Ensemble I

Dean Sorenson, guest conductor

Mozart: Symphony No. 38 ‘Prague’

I Solisti di West Bank

Respighi: Pines of Rome

 

November 2012

Opera: Verdi: Falstaff

I Solisti di West Bank

 

December 10, 2012

Wagner: Prelude to Tristan und Isolde

Debussy: Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune”

Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Carrie Hall, soprano

 

February 26, 2013

Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony

I Solisti di West Bank

Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps

Performance with the Joffrey Ballet commemorating 100th anniversary of the premiere performance with original choreography (Orpheum Theatre)

 

March 4, 2013

Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony

I Solisti di West Bank

Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major

Jing Chang, piano (Concerto Competition Winner)

Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps

(Broadcast on MPR to celebrate centenary of the work’s premiere)

 

April, 2013

Opera: Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Doctoral candidates Benjamin Klemme, Sergey Bogza, and Erik Rohde, conductors

 

May 8, 2013 “Wagner Birthday Bash”

Wagner:  Tannhäuser:  Overture and Venusburg music (Paris version) and Entrance of the Guests

Wagner:  Die Walküre:  Excerpts from Act I

Caroline Thomas, soprano

Dennis Petersen, tenor

 

2011-2012

October 26, 2011

Verdi:  Overture to La Forza del Destino

Claude Baker:  Lamentations (pour la fin du monde)

Eugene Rousseau, saxophone

Strauss:  Tod und Verklärung

Beethoven:  Choral Fantasy

Alexander Braginsky, piano; Jean del Santo, soprano; Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano;

John DeHaan, tenor; Philip Zawisza, baritone; University of Minnesota Choruses

 

November 2011

Opera: Mozart: Così fan tutte

 

December 12, 2011

Osvaldo Golijov:  Last Rounds

Britten:  Lachrymae

Jessica Jasper, Viola Competition Winner

John Adams:  The Wound Dresser

Philip Zawisza, baritone

Brahms:  Symphony No. 1

 

February 13, 2012

Strauss:  Suite and Final Scene from Der Rosenkavalier – MASTERCLASS WITH ANDREW LITTON

 

February 18-19, 2012

Britten:  War Requiem

Performed on tour in Detmold, Germany as part of the Britten Peace Project, an interdisciplinary project between the U of M School of Music, the Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany), and the Nobel Peace Prize Forum.

In Collaboration with Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany); University of Minnesota Choruses; Macalester College Chorus; Caroline Thomas, soprano; William Ferguson, tenor; Philip Zawisza, baritone

 

February 21, 2012

Britten:  War Requiem

Outreach project as part of the Britten Peace Project to the Blake School (Minneapolis).  Included chamber orchestra performance and lecture.

 

March 1, 2012

Britten:  War Requiem

Performed in Collaboration with Hochschule für Musik Detmold (Germany); University of Minnesota Choruses; Macalester College Chorus; Kantorei; Quad City Choral Arts; Minnesota Boychoir; Caroline Thomas, soprano; William Ferguson, tenor; Philip Zawisza, baritone

 

April 2012

Opera: Aldridge: Parables

Kathy Saltzman Romey, conducting

 

April 25, 2012

Mahler:  Totenfeier (1888) – MASTERCLASS WITH MARK WIGGLESWORTH

 

May 4, 2012

Mahler:  Totenfeier (1888)

Poulenc:  “Non monsieur mon mari” from Les Mamelles de Tirésias

Bernstein:  “Glitter and Be Gay” from Candide

Laura Hynes, soprano (Concerto Competition Winner)

Strauss:  Suite and Final Scene from Der Rosenkavalier

Carrie Hall, soprano

Caroline Cavadini, soprano

Sidney Walker, mezzo-soprano

 

2010-2011

 

October 25, 2010

  1. Strauss: Overture to Die Fledermaus
  2. Strauss: Don Juan

Doctoral Candidate Jeffrey Specht, conductor

Berlioz:  Symphonie fantastique

 

November 2010

Opera:  Aldridge:  Elmer Gantry

 

December 13, 2010

Gershwin:  An American in Paris

Masters Candidate Erik Rohde, conductor

Ibert:  Concertino da Camera

Preston Duncan, saxophone (Concerto Competition Winner)

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 7

 

March 7, 2011

Stravinsky:  Petrushka (1947 version)

Sibelius:  Symphony No. 7

Doctoral Candidate Foster Beyers, conductor

 

April 1, 2011

Bach:  St. John Passion

Doctoral Candidate Christina Chen-Beyers, conductor

 

April 2011

Opera:  J. Strauss:  Die Fledermaus

Final Performance conducted by Masters Candidate Erik Rohde and Doctoral Candidate Jeffrey Specht

 

April 14, 2011

Holst:  St. Paul’s Suite

Side-by-side outreach with the Blake School (Minneapolis)

Doctoral Candidate Christina Chen-Beyers, conductor

 

April 26, 2011

Mahler:  Symphony No. 3 – Side-by-side rehearsal with the Minnesota Orchestra

 

April 27, 2011

Mahler:  Symphony No. 3, Mvt. I – MASTERCLASS WITH MARIN ALSOP

 

April 29, 2011

Orchestra Hall – Mahler:  Symphony No. 3, Mvt. III, VI (broadcast on MPR)

 

May 6, 2011

Schubert:  Gesang der Geister über den Wassern

University of Minnesota Mens Choruses

Kathy Saltzman Romey, conductor

Mahler:  Symphony No. 3

Adriana Zabala, mezzo-soprano

University of Minnesota Womens Choruses

Minnesota Boychoir

 

2009-2010

 

October 7, 2009

Brahms:  Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80

Mahler:  Symphony No. 1 in D Major (Titan)

 

December 9, 2009

Kolm:  Prophecies (Winner – Swan Composition Competition)

Schwantner:  New Morning for the World

Dr. Joel Boyd, Narrator

Beethoven:  Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)

 

November 2009

Opera: Stravinsky Triple-Bill

Le Renard; Mavra; Le Chant du Rossignol

Doctoral Candidates Christina Chen-Beyers, Foster Beyers, Jeffrey Specht, conductors

 

February 24, 2010

Bruckner:  Symphony No. 9 – MASTERCLASS WITH STANISLAW SKROWACZEWSKI

 

March 3, 2010

Tchaikovsky:  String Serenade – CONDUCTING MASTERCLASS WITH OSMO VÄNSKÄ

 

March 10, 2010

Creston:  Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra

Eric Neseth, marimba (Concerto Competition Winner)

Doctoral Candidate Christina Chen-Beyers, conductor

Mozart:  Oboe Concerto

John Hammarback, oboe (Concerto Competition Winner)

Bruckner:  Symphony No. 9

 

April 2010

Opera: Mozart:  Die Zauberflöte

West Bank Mozart Players

 

April 29, 2010

Marimba Festival:  Igmar Alderete Acosta — Concerto No. 2 for Marimba and Orchestra

(World Premiere)  Carolina Alcaraz, marimba

 

April 30, 2010

Orchestra Hall – Appalachian Spring, Firebird Suite (broadcast on MPR)

 

May 5, 2010

Copland:  Appalachian Spring

Mozart:  Piano Concerto, K. 414

Lydia Artymiw, piano

West Bank Mozart Players

Stravinsky:  Firebird Suite (1919)
2008-2009

 

October 10, 2008

Stravinsky:  Divertimento from Le Baiser de la Fée  (The Fairy’s Kiss)

Beethoven:  Concerto No. 5 in Eb Major for Piano and Orchestra (Emperor)

Dr. Paul Shaw, piano

Prokofiev:  Romeo and Juliet, Excerpts from the Ballet

 

November 2008

Opera: Britten:  The Rape of Lucretia

 

December 1, 2008

Barber:  Symphony No. 1, Op. 9

Beethoven:  Concerto for Piano, Violin, Violoncello & Orchestra

Natalia Moiseeva, violin; Nick Donatelle, violoncello; Ivan Koven, piano

(Concerto Competition Winners)

Brahms:  Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 9

 

February 2009

Sibelius:  Symphony No. 2 — MASTERCLASS WITH OSMO VÄNSKÄ

 

March 12, 2009

Mahler:  Symphony No. 9

 

April 2009

Opera: Janáček: Jenůfa

 

May 1, 2009

Northrop Auditorium Closing Ceremony
Beethoven:  Symphony No. 9, op. 125 (Choral)
2007-2008

 

October 5, 2007

Debussy:  Prélude à “L’après-midi d’un faune” (Afternoon of a Faun)

Wagner:  Waldweben (Forest Murmurs) from Siegfried

Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung

Sibelius:  Symphony No. 1

 

November 2007

Opera: Puccini: Suor Angelica

Weill: Seven Deadly Sins

Timothy Lovelace, conductor

 

December 12, 2007

Schubert:  Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished)

Bartók:  Divertimento for String Orchestra

Tchaikovsky:  Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

 

March 9, 2008

Rachmaninoff:  Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 19

Denis Evstuhin, piano (Concerto Competition Winner)

Henry Charles Smith, Guest Conductor

Ravel: Mother Goose Suite

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé Suite No. 2

 

April 2008

Opera: Monteverdi:  The Coronation of Poppea

Dr. Matthew Mehaffey, conductor

 

May 2008

Mozart:  Symphony No. 41 — MASTERCLASS WITH SIR NEVILLE MARRINER

 

May 6, 2008

Mozart:  Symphony in C, K. 550 (Jupiter)

Mahler:  Symphony No. 4