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Ryan Bancroft, Conductor
MUSSORGSKY Pictures at an Exhibition
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3
COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Solemn Prelude
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Carlos Prieto, Conductor
RAVEL Rhapsodie Espagnol
CHAVEZ Sinfonia India
de FALLA Three-Cornered Hat Suite
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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
BOCCHERINI/BERIO The Night Retreat of Madrid
SALONEN Kinema
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
RAVEL Le Tombeau de Couperin
BARTOK Piano Concerto No. 2
PROKOFIEV Selections from Romeo & Juliet
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James Conlon, Conductor
Sam Glicklich, piano
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’, Op. 73
SCHUBERT Symphony No. 9 ‘Great’, D. 944
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Daniella Candillari, Conductor
Yo Yo Ma, Cello
MAZZOLI River Rouge Transfiguration
ELGAR Cello Concerto
DVORAK Symphony No. 8
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Leslie Dunner, Conductor
BRYAN & THOMPSON (World Premiere)
STILL Symphony No. 2
HAILSTORK Done Made My Vow: A Ceremony
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Jacqueline Woodson, Education Artist-In-Residence
Quinn Mason, Composer
MASON This Is The Rope (World Primiere)
PRICE Dances in the Canebrakes
HOLLAND Motor City Dance Remix
ABELS Delights and Dances
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KORNGOLD ‘Much Ado About Nothing,’ Suite for Chamber Orchestra
SCHOENBERG Chamber Symphony No. 1
SCHREKER Chamber Symphony
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JOHN WILLIAMS Selections
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Andrew Manze, Conductor
Susie Park, Violin
Silver Ainomäe, Cello
BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
ALBERGA Tower
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony 1
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Kevin John Edusei, Conductor
Isata Kanneh-Mason, Piano
KODALY Peacock Variations
PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto no. 3
BRAHMS Symphony no. 4
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David Hamilton, Conductor
Cece Winans, Vocalist
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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Julia Bullock, Soprano
ESMAIL Black Iris
GERSHWIN“Somebody from Somewhere”
BONDS “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
GERSHWIN “Summertime”
BONDS “Winter Moon”
GERSHWIN “Soon”
RAVEL Daphnis et Chloé (complete)
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Alexander Malofeev, piano
Yang Bao, piano
Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, guitar
RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez
BAO Piano Concerto
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2
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RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances
STRAVINSKY Petroushka (1911 version)
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MONTGOMERY Soul Force
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GRIEG Holberg Suite
MONTGOMERY Starburst
HOLLAND Motor City Dance Remix
MOZART Die Zauberflöte Overture
COLERIDGE TAYLOR Petite Suite de Concert
DVORAK Slavonic Dance No. 1
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Stéphane Denève, Conductor
Nathalie Joachim, flute and voice
IBERT Escales
JOACHIM Fanm d'ayiti Suite
DVORAK Symphony 8
Kyle Dickson
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Ruth Reinhart, Conductor
Joey Tkach, Trumpet
BRAHMS Tragic Overture
DESENCLOS Incantation, Thrène et Danse for Tpt and Orchestra
BARTOK Concerto for Orchestra
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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Bertrand Chalamou, piano
MUSSORGSKY Night on Bald Mountain
LISZT Totentanz
BERLIOZ Symphonie Fantastique
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Esa-Pekka Salonen, Conductor
Christopher Purves, baritone
BARTOK Miraculous Mandarin Suite
HERRMANN Suite from Psycho
GRUBER Frankenstein!!
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Notes for Peace Project
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Raphael Payare, Conductor
Emmanuel Ax, Piano
STILL Darker America
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 2
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony 12
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Fabio Biondi, Conductor
Liv Redpath, soprano
Hannah Ludwig, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Myers, tenor
Neal Davies, bass
HANDEL Messiah
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Marin Alsop, Conductor
BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide
MONTGOMERY Rounds for Piano and Orchestra
RIMSKY-KORSOKOV Scheherazade
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Biography
American conductor Kyle Dickson is quickly building a reputation as an inspiring and compelling presence on the podium. Recipient of the 2021 Grant Park Music Festival Advocate for Arts Award and the Concert Artists Guild's (CAG) Robert S. Weinart Award, Dickson is a Salonen Conducting Fellow with the San Francisco Symphony and the Colburn School under the guidance of Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen.
Highlights of this season included debuts with San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox and concerts with the Detroit, Oakland, Wichita and National Symphony Orchestras. In 2023-2024, he will appear as a Guest Conductor with the Louisville Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, and the Pasadena, Portland (ME), and Marin Symphony Orchestras.
Appointed Assistant Conductor of the Chicago Sinfonietta from 2021-2022, Dickson has served as Assistant/Cover Conductor for the Orchestre de Paris, NDR Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, New York Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Baltimore, St. Louis, Minnesota, San Diego, San Francisco, Chicago, and the National Symphony (Washington, DC). He has assisted Esa-Pekka Salonen, Fabio Biondi, Stéphane Denève, Andrew Manze, James Conlon, Carlos Prieto, Osmo Vänskä, Raphael Payare and Kevin John Edusei among others.
His passion for music education has led to many collaborations with youth ensembles around the country. Dickson has served as Conductor of the Claremont Young Musicians Orchestra and the South Side Chicago Youth Symphony. He’s been Assistant Conductor for Carnegie Hall’s 2022 NYO USA/NYO2 Tour and the Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles. Additionally, he was named 2017 Hyde Park Youth Symphony Artist-In-Residence and has worked with Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, National Symphony Orchestra's 2021 Summer Music Institute, Ravinia’s El Sistema program, Colburn Academy Virtuosi and the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music. Dickson was a Guest Conductor at 2023 Chicago Youth In Music Festival Orchestra and this season will conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition.
Dickson was selected as a Conducting Fellow at the 2021 National Orchestral Institute’s Conducting Academy directed by Marin Alsop and as a Paul Freeman Conducting Fellow under the mentorship of Mei-Ann Chen from 2019-2022. Dickson was also trained as a violinist and a prizewinner at the 2010 NANM National Concerto Competition. He’s held residencies at Indiana University-South Bend, the United World College of South East Asia, and served on the violin and chamber music faculty at the New Music School (Chicago). He has performed with the Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Quad City Symphony, and was Concertmaster of the Chicago Composers Orchestra. Additionally, his playing can be heard on albums by recording artists such as John Legend, Chance the Rapper, and Jessie J as a member of the Matt Jones/Recollective Orchestra.
Dickson studied conducting at the Colburn School and Northwestern University. His principal conducting teachers include Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mei-Ann Chen, Kevin Noe, and Victor Yampolsky. He received degrees in violin performance and music education from DePaul University and Michigan State University studying with Walter Verdehr, Laura Roelofs, and Olga Kaler.
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