FAIRBANKS – As summer is slowly slipping into autumn, it’s time to get ready for the 2011-12 Concert Season.
The season opens on Sunday October 2 with a 4:00 pm concert by the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, featuring the lovely Korean born pianist Klara Min. Maestro Zilberkant leads the Arctic Chamber Orchestra in a program of works by Gordon Jacob, Robert Schumann and Rodion Shchedrin. The Arctic Chamber Orchestra’s wind and brass section will perform Jacob’s setting of English Folk songs entitled Old Wine in New Bottles. Ms. Min will perform Schumann’s Piano Concerto. After intermission, the concert concludes with a performance of Shchedrin’s thrilling 1967 arrangement of memorable tunes from Bizet’s opera Carmen for percussion and string orchestra.
The next performance occurs on Sunday, October 30 and features Dmitri Berlinsky performing the Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Fairbanks Symphony. After intermission, the audience will be treated to a full performance of Anton Bruckner’s powerful Symphony No. 4. This piece has never been performed in its entirety in Fairbanks (and maybe in all of Alaska). Don’t miss this opportunity to hear one of the great late-romantic era compositions.
A perennial favorite, the Design Alaska Holiday Concert happens on December 4 this year. As usual, the concert will feature the Choir of the North, the University Chorus, the Northland Children’s Choir and the FSO in music tailored to celebrate the glory of the Holiday Season. The Fairbanks Symphony will also host its annual Silent Auction on this date beginning at 2:00 pm, two hours prior to the start of the Holiday Concert.
The 21st annual Concerto Competition, sponsored by Great Northwest Inc. will be held on January 28-29, 2012 and the winners will be featured at our final concert of the season on April 29, 2012.
February offers two special performances featuring two dramatic guest soloists who have a special affinity with Fairbanks audiences. Violinist Paul Rosenthal and cellist Zuill Bailey will team up with Maestro Zilberkant in an intimate chamber music recital on Thursday, February 23, 2012. They will also be joined by violist Nina Missildine.
On Sunday, February 26, 2012 Rosenthal, and Zilberkant will be featured soloists with the Fairbanks Symphony Orchestra. The concert includes Beethoven’s Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano and the Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello.
On March 25, the young Israeli harp virtuoso Sivan Magen, makes his Fairbanks debut as soloist in Alberto Ginastera’s Harp Concerto. Works by Mendelssohn and Poulenc are also included in the concert.
Our final concert of the 2011-12 season occurs on April 29 featuring the winners of the 21st Concerto Competition. The soloists will be announced shortly after the competition in late January 2012. Maestro Zilberkant will fill out the concert with other works to be performed by the orchestra once the soloists have been selected.
For more information, please call the Symphony Office at 474-5733 or visit our website: www.fairbankssymphony.org
Tickets for the individual performances – currently available only in subscription packages – will go on sale to single ticket buyers beginning Tuesday, September 1, 2011. Tickets for all concerts can be purchased by calling the Symphony Office at (907) 474-5733, visiting the FSO Website at www.FairbanksSymphony.org or by visiting the Symphony Office in the Fine Arts Complex at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The symphony office hours are from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Monday through Friday.
George Rydlinski
Fairbanks Symphony
907-474-5852
grydlinski@alaska.edu
www.FairbanksSymphony.org
2011-2012 Fairbanks Symphony Season at a Glance
Sunday, October 2 – Arctic Chamber Orchestra, featuring pianist Klara Min
Gordon Jacob Old Wine In New Bottles
Robert Schumann Piano Concerto
Rodion Shchedrin. Carmen Suite
Sunday, October 30 – Fairbanks Symphony featuring Dmitri Berlinsky
Sibelius Violin Concerto
Bruckner Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” .
Sunday December 4 – The Design Alaska Holiday Concert
Choir of the North, the University Chorus, the Northland Children’s Choir
Fairbanks Symphony
January 28-29, 2012 – The 21st annual Concerto Competition
Thursday, February 23, 2012 – Chamber Music Recital
Violinist Paul Rosenthal, Violist Nina Missildine, cellist Zuill Bailey, and pianist Eduard Zilberkant
Sunday, February 26, 2012 – Fairbanks Symphony with Rosenthal, Bailey, Zilberkant
Brahms Tragic Overture
Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello
Beethoven Coriolanus Overture
Beethoven Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano
Sunday, March 25, 2012 – Arctic Chamber Orchestra, featuring harpist Sivan Magen
Mendelssohn Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Ginastera Harp Concerto
Poulenc Sinfonietta
Sunday, April 29, 2012 21st Concerto Competition Winners Concert
Concert Repertoire TBA
