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Friday and Saturday evenings at 8:00 pm Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater


Calin Ovidiu Lupanu

Carmina burana
Fri May 9 & Sat May 10
• 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Christof Perick, conducting
Calin Ovidiu Lupanu, violin
Oratorio Singers of Charlotte
Scott Allen Jarrett, Director

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MENDELSSOHN Violin Concerto
ORFF Carmina burana


Scott Allen Jarrett

Past Performances

Olga Kern Plays Rachmaninov
Fri Sep 28 & Sat Sep 29 • 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Alan Yamamoto, conducting
Olga Kern, piano*
 

Jennifer HIGDON Blue Cathedral *
STRAVINSKY Symphony in Three Movementsº
RACHMANINOV Piano Concerto No. 2

Mahler’s Fourth
Fri Oct 26 & Sat Oct 27 • 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Christof Perick, conducting
Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Maria Jette, soprano

BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
MAHLER Symphony No. 4

Beethoven’s Seventh
Fri Nov 9 & Sat Nov 10 • 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Christof Perick, conducting
Eric Ruske, horn*

MOZART Horn Concerto No. 4
STRAUSS Horn Concerto No. 1
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7


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The Firebird
Fri Nov 30 & Sat Dec 1
• 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Edwin Outwater, conducting*
William Wolfram, piano*

MOZART Symphony No. 10*
BERLIOZ

Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet

BERLIOZ Rakoczy March (Hungarian March) from The Damnation of Faust
FRANCK Symphonic Variations
STRAVINSKY The Firebird º

Tchaikovsky's Fifth
Fri Jan 11 & Sat Jan 12
• 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

William Eddins, conducting and piano

GRIFFES The White Peacock
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 25
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5

 

Shostakovich's Fifth
Fri Feb 8 & Sat Feb 9 • 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Stefan Sanderling, conducting*
Peter Serkin, piano*

MOZART Overture to La Clemenza di Tito
STRAVINSKY Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra Geoffrey Tozer, Neeme Järvi & Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements & Song of the Nightingale & Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra - Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra: I. Presto
MOZART Rondo for Piano and Orchestra Geoffrey Tozer, Neeme Järvi & Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements & Song of the Nightingale & Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra - Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra: I. Presto
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5 Geoffrey Tozer, Neeme Järvi & Orchestre De La Suisse Romande - Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements & Song of the Nightingale & Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra - Capriccio For Piano And Orchestra: I. Presto

Radio Interview on WDAV Serkin & Sanderling with CSO

Lynn Harrell
Fri Feb 22 & Sat Feb 23
• 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Christof Perick, conducting
Lynn Harrell, cello*
Nokuthula Ngwenyama, viola

SCHUBERT Symphony No. 8, “Unfinished”

DVORÁK Rondo for Cello and Orchestra

STRAUSS Don Quixote

Beethoven Violin Concerto
Fri Mar 14 & Sat Mar 15
• 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

Christof Perick, conducting
Augustin Hadelich, violin

BEETHOVEN Violin Concerto in D Major
STRAUSS Death and Transfiguration
STRAUSS Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks

Dvorák’s New World
Fri Apr 18 & Sat Apr 19
• 8:00 pm
Blumenthal Performing Arts Center - Belk Theater

James Gaffigan, conducting*
Elmar Oliveira, violin

MOZART Ballet Music from
Idomeneo
 
BARBER Violin Concerto
DVORÁK Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”


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Pre-Concert Talks
at 7:00 pm in the theater

Come early for Classics concerts... get the inside scoop from CSO Resident Conductor Alan Yamamoto and hear informative, provocative, and amusing insights about the evening’s program. Free to all ticket holders.

 

Friday Morning Coffee Classics
Open Rehearsals of Classics concerts will be held the following four Fridays in the Belk Theater at 10 am:
October 26, November 30, January 11, and April 18.
Admission is just $15 and includes complimentary coffee and pastries with musicians during the break.

* indicates Charlotte Symphony debut / first performance
º in celebration of Stravinsky’s 125th birthday