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Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

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Friday, March 4 at 7:30pm
Smith Opera House
Geneva Concerts

The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring Xiayin Wang, pianist, in a program with a distinctly Hispanic flavor led by Spanish-American conductor François López-Ferrer.

Pianist Xiayin Wang is an artist of keen musicality and sweeping virtuosity, and was praised by The New York Times for her “estimable grasp of pianistic color and her ability to maintain and illuminate a strand of melody within the thickest of textures.” An exclusive Steinway Artist, Ms. Wang has released numerous celebrated recordings and has performed throughout the world, from New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, to music centers in South America, Europe, and Asia. As Musical America put it: “She can be at one moment sensual and the next rhythmically driving…with such assuredness, such delicacy, that one forgets the difficulties inherent in the performance, and is left breathless in musical awe.”

Ms. Wang’s discography has received international acclaim, with her recent Chandos recording of Tchaikovsky and Scriabin piano concerti being hailed as “terrific” (Gramophone) and “the model of refinement” (The Herald). Her recordings of Alberto Ginastera’s Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 with the BBC Philharmonic and Music Director Juanjo Mena were commended by Gramophone as “jaw-droppingly impressive,” and were singled out by The New Yorker’s Alex Ross. Ms. Wang’s 2018 release of a lesser-known collection of works by Granados on Chandos was praised by the BBC Music Magazine a s catching “the spirit of youthful Spanish ardour.”

Ms. Wang has performed with the Baltimore, Houston, and Pittsburgh Symphonies, the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Israel Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma. She has appeared in recital in New York at Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall, Vienna at Mozartsaal, as well as in France, Italy, Hungary, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, Chile, Costa Rica, and her native China.

Spanish-American conductor François López-Ferrer came to international attention after a critically acclaimed debut at the 2018 Verbier Festival, where he substituted for Iván Fischer at short notice in a shared program with Sir Simon Rattle and Gébor Takécs-Nagy.

As Associate Conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) and the May Festival, he conducts the CSO’s Young People’s Concerts and provides artistic support to the CSO’s Music Director, Louis Langrée, and the May Festival’s Principal Conductor, Juanjo Mena. López-Ferrer is one of six participants to be featured in the 2022 Bruno Walter National Conductor Preview with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. He previously served for two years as associate conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Chile (OSNCH) and Principal Conductor of the Ballet Nacional Chileno, and he was the youngest-ever Conductor-in-Residence of the OSNCH’s Summer Concert Series.

López-Ferrer was winner of the inaugural 2015 Neeme Järvi Prize awarded at the Menuhin-Gstaad Festival and received third prize at the 2018 OFUNAM International Conducting Competition. He was previously a member of the prestigious Deutsche Dirigentenforum.

López-Ferrer holds a Master’s degree in Orchestral Conducting from the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, under the tutelage of professor Aurélien Azan Zielinski, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where his teachers included Joel Hoffman, Miguel Roig-Francoli, and Michael Fiday.

PROGRAM:

Alberto Ginastera: Estancia: Four Dances
Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F Major
Gershwin: Cuban Overture
Gabriela Lena Frank: Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout

TICKETS
Single ticket prices are $30 for adults and seniors and $10 for college students. Children through grade 12 are always admitted FREE thanks to our Sponsor-a-Student program. Hobart and William Smith students are admitted free with ID thanks to generous past support from the Colleges. Tickets are available online at www.GenevaConcerts.org and at the door, day of the concert.

ABOUT GENEVA CONCERTS
Geneva Concerts has brought live music and dance to the community since 1946, especially encouraging young people to attend through the Sponsor-A-Student program and educational outreach programs brought to the schools.
For more information, visit www.GenevaConcerts.org. Contact Geneva Concerts at (315) 945-7267 or info@genevaconcerts.org.

This concert is made possible by generous underwriting from the Williams Family Foundation.

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