The Marin Symphony is proud to present these guest artists for the 2009-10 season:
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KEISUKE NAKAGOSHI Mr. Nakagoshi performs Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Marin Symphony in an all-Gershwin program on October 4 & 6, 2009. |
| A native of Japan, Keisuke began his piano studies at age ten. At age 18, he came to the U.S. and has studied both piano and composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he earned his Bachelor of Music in Composition and his Masters in chamber music. He won the Conservatory's Concerto Competition and performed Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Alasdair Neale. |
| In 2007, he participated in a professional training workshop with Emanuel Ax and then performed in Carnegie Hall. He also became principal pianist for conductor George Daughtery's award-winning "Bugs Bunny on Broadway," with which he toured, performing with orchestras of major U.S. cities. With the "Bugs Bunny on Broadway" conductor George Daughtery, he also participated in "Animals and the Arts," a concert and art show benefiting the San Francisco pet shelter and animal hospital "Pets Unlimited." |
Mr. Nakagoshi’s appearance with the Marin Symphony is sponsored by Frank and Lois Noonan.
ELIZABETH PITCAIRN Ms. Pitcairn performs Vivaldi's The Four Seasons with the Marin Symphony on November 1 & 3, 2009. |
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Born into a musical family in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Ms. Pitcairn began studying the violin at age three and performed her first concerto with orchestra at age 14. She made her New York debut at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall in 2000 with the New York String Orchestra, and she appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music. She has engaged in numerous high-profile creative projects worldwide, including collaborating with Lionsgate Films for the 10th anniversary re-release of The Red Violin DVD featuring documentary interviews by Pitcairn and Oscar-winning composer John Corigliano; performing the world premiere of Swedish composer Tommie Haglund's violin concerto Hymns to the Night, dedicated to her; and performing with Temple University's Center for Gifted Young Musicians in collaboration with the Puerto Rico Youth Orchestra in San Juan and Ponce. She has studied with preeminent violin professor Robert Lipsett at the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music (where she was a former adjunct professor of violin). She is currently a member of the distinguished faculty at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles. “(Pitcairn) played with a level of identification that suggested she wasn’t performing so much as speaking through Corigliano’s near-perfect balance of head and heart...” --Philadelphia Inquirer |
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VADIM GLUZMAN Mr. Gluzman performs Brahms's Violin Concerto in D Major with the Marin Symphony on January 31 & February 2, 2010. Vadim Gluzman is a phenomenon. He performed with us for the first time in January, 2008, rendering Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto so breathtakingly brilliantly that our audiences were propelled to their feet and have been clamboring for his return ever since.In technique and sensibility, this Israeli violinist harkens back to the Golden Age of violinists of the 19th and 20th centuries, while possessing the passion and energy of the 21st century. Mentored by Isaac Stern, Mr. Gluzman received the prestigious Henryk Szeryng Foundation Career Award, has performed in Carnegie Hall and has studied at Juilliard under the late Dorothy DeLay and Masao Kawasaki. He plays the extraordinary 1690 ex-Leopold Auer Stradivarius, on extended loan to him through the generosity of the Stradivari Society of Chicago. |
Reviewers of Mr. Gluzman's performances are typically ebullient in their acclaim. Here is just a smattering of the comments we've seen: -"Gluzman's technique is beyond perfection." --Music and Vision-"(Gluzman) had it all: Beautiful tone, flawless technique, a hell-for-leather approach to its virtuosic demands, and a heartfelt identification with its most soulful moments." --South Florida Classical Review -"The wonderful Vadim Gluzman was technically exacting, dramatically ferocious and simply staggering throughout."--The Guardian (UK -"Gluzman does not only perform but visibly lives every note." --MusicalCriticism.com -"A rare combination of natural ease, technical virtuosity and interpretive power." --Santa Rosa Press Democrat |
EDWARD ABRAMS Mr. Abrams will guest conduct Samuel Barber's Essay for Orchestra No. 2, Opus 17 on April 11 & 13, 2010. Alasdair Neale first met Teddy Abrams when he joined the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra as a clarinetist at the age of 10. A highly versatile musician who performs as a conductor, clarinetist and pianist in addition to composing, Mr. Abrams has studied conducting with Michael Tilson Thomas and was a student of Otto-Werner Mueller at the Curtis Institute of Music. He also studied with David Zinman at the American Academy of Conducting at Apsen. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance. He has soloed as both a clarinetist and pianist with many orchestras, including the San Francisco Symphony, Oakland East Bay Symphony and the Berkeley Symphony. |
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The inside scoop on Teddy is also that he's just plain a really great guy. Maestro Neale is delighted to be giving Teddy a turn at our podium on April 11 & 13. |
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CHRISTINE BREWER Ms. Brewer will perform the Magnum Opus world premiere of David Carlson's The Promise of Time and "Prelude and Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde on April 11 & 13, 2010. |
| This Grammy Award-winning American soprano appears frequently in opera, concert and recital on the finest stages in the world. Highlights of recent seasons have included performances with such greats as the Metropolitan Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She has worked with the world's finest conductors, including Kurt Masur, Robert Shaw, Pierre Boulez, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zubin Mehta, Donald Runnicles, Sir Neville Marriner and Lorin Maazel.- "Brewer's voice--big but pure, golden of tone, flawlessly produced and capable of great subtleties as well as great volume--puts her in the top tier of today's artists." --Musical America |
All concerts at Marin Center, San Rafael
Free pre-concert talks with the Maestro begin at 6:30pm in the concert hall
Meet these guest artists post-concert at our Tuesday Night Wrap parties