Classical Concerts FOR STUDENTS

How to Use This Guide

This guide is designed as a curriculum enhancement resource for music teachers, classroom teachers, and students who will be attending a Charlotte Symphony education event. The main intent is to aid teachers in their own lesson plan preparation, so most of the language and information is geared towards the teacher, not the student. It is not expected that all the information given will be used. Since the concerts are open to students of middle through high school ages, it would be impossible to create materials that are applicable for all. Teachers can choose the elements that best meet the specific needs of their individual classrooms. Our hope is that the information will be useful, spark ideas, and make connections.

About the Charlotte SYmphony

Christopher Warren-green, Conductor

Now in his tenth season with the Charlotte Symphony, Music Director Christopher Warren-Green also serves as Music Director of the London Chamber Orchestra.

Working extensively in North America, key engagements have included The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Detroit, Houston, St. Louis, Toronto, Milwaukee, Seattle and Vancouver symphony orchestras, the Minnesota Orchestra and Washington's National Symphony Orchestra. Elsewhere he has been seen at the helm of the Philharmonia, London Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Belgique, Iceland Symphony, Beethoven Orchester Bonn and NHK, Singapore, Sapporo and KBS symphony orchestras. Also a regular with Tampere Philharmonic, he will conduct two programs this season featuring music by Ligeti, Bartok, Bruckner, Britten, Sibelius, and Elgar.

Personally invited to conduct the orchestra at the 2018 Royal Wedding of Prince Harry and Ms. Meghan Markle, Maestro Warren-Green returns to the podium in Charlotte in 2019-20 to conduct a celebration of Beethoven's 250th Birthday with Beethoven's Emperor Concerto, Symphony No. 8, Missa Solemnis, and Symphony No. 4. 

Also in the Charlotte Symphony's 2019-20 season, he welcomes world-renowned violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman to play Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. He also leads programs featuring Tchaikovsky's Greatest Hits, Copland's Appalachian Spring, Saint-Saëns's Organ Symphony, and Brahms's Double Concerto.

A product of community music education, Warren-Green plays a key role in the Charlotte Symphony's educational efforts, including two youth orchestras and Project Harmony, an El Sistema-based, nationally funded program providing afterschool music ensemble training in high-need areas. In London he works with LCO's Music Junction program, which gathers together young people from different backgrounds to create mutual empathy and connection through music.

Past royal engagements have included the marriage ceremony of TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge at Westminster Abbey in 2011 and the Service of Dedication and Prayer following the marriage of TRH the Duke and the Duchess of Cornwall in 2005. Other notable occasions have included HM The Queen's 80th birthday celebrations at Kew Palace, among others.

Warren-Green is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Music and has recorded extensively for Sony, Phillips, Virgin EMI, Chandos, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, and Signum Classics.

Repertoire resources

COPLAND Appalachian Spring

WILLIAM BRITTELLE Si Otsedoha ("We're Still Here")

Additional RESOURCES