Spring Concerts
In anticipation of our upcoming tour to Italy this season, we offer on our March concert series the symphonic masterpiece Pines of Rome, by Ottorino Respighi. This most famous of the trilogy of Rome-inspired orchestral showpieces by Respighi paints evocative images of Roman Catacombs, nightingales singing in the evening air, and remembrances of former Roman glories on the Appian Way. Our featured soloist Jeremy Tai will perform one of Prokofiev’s final works, the Sinfonia Concertante for Cello and Orchestra, commissioned and first performed by the great Russian cellist Mstislav Rostropovich one year before the composer’s death. The orchestra will also perform the wonderfully exotic and ethereal Blue Cathedral, composed by acclaimed American composer Jennifer Higdon.
Leo Eylar, conductor
Jeremy Tai, cello
Higdon: Blue Cathedral
Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante (Jeremy Tai, soloist)
Respighi: Pines of Rome
Young Artist Competition Winner
From Cupertino, CA, cellist Jeremy Tai, 17, is a senior at Saint Francis High School and studies with Jonathan Koh at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Pre-College Division. Jeremy also studied with Hans Jensen at Meadowmount School of Music and other renowned faculty at Music@Menlo Chamber Music Festival and Sid & Mary Foulger International Music Festival in the past summers.
