Pratibha Singh Baghel, the sensational singer, makes her UK debut live in concert with Chineke! Orchestra.

The Symphony of Love is a confluence of the rich musical traditions of India and the West, featuring a curated collection of popular old film classics, current Bollywood hits and ghazals – rearranged for orchestra.

As well as Chineke!, who are known for championing change and diversity in classical music and one of the Southbank Centre’s Resident Orchestras, Baghel is joined by eight of India’s leading instrumentalists.

Presented by Ragatip

The Chineke! Wind Quintet and Adjoa Andoh feature in our Sunday family concerts of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, in partnership with Workspace. Chineke!’s mission is to “champion change and celebrate diversity within classical music”. Peter and the Wolf is a much-loved classic and the perfect family-friendly concert.

Leslie Suganandarajah conducts Chineke! Orchestra in a programme of Coleridge-Taylor, Saint-Saëns and a world premiere by 19-year-old composer Tristen JT Watts.

Watts’ piece, Majestique – a rhythmically driven symphonic work which blends mainstream classical influences, particularly Beethoven and Mendelssohn, with a unique personal voice – opens the concert. It also marks Watts’ first orchestral piece to implement full sonata form and it, as its name suggests, is truly majestic.

The programme continues with Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony and sees William Campbell, usually a junior violinist with Chineke!, making his solo organ debut. This symphony integrates the grand sound of the organ with orchestral timbres, providing a stunning conclusion to a diverse and dynamic evening.

The evening concludes with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Symphony in A minor – also written when the composer was aged 19. It’s a composition that seamlessly combines African and European musical traditions, reflecting the rich cultural heritage of its creator.

Programme:

Tristen Watts: Majestique (World Premiere)

Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 in C minor (Organ)

Interval

Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony No.1 in A minor

Leslie Suganandarajah: Conductor

The critically acclaimed musicians of Chineke! make their Stratford East debut with a kaleidoscopic programme for string quartet. The evening celebrates the work of two African-American composers: rising star Brian Nabors, who draws on jazz, funk, R&B and gospel alongside contemporary classical music, and William Grant Still, who was arguably the first Black composer to gain prominence in the world of American classical music in the 1930s. 

Bookended by well-loved classics by Mendelssohn and Haydn, this evening will be a night to remember for the classical music newcomer as well as the contemporary classical connoisseur.

The critically acclaimed musicians of Chineke! come to Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic Theatre with a kaleidoscopic programme for string quartet. Bookended by well-loved classics by Mendelssohn and Haydn, the evening focuses in on work by two contrasting African-American composers: rising star Brian Nabors draws on jazz, funk, R&B and gospel alongside contemporary classical music, while William Grant Still was arguably the first Black composer to gain prominence in the world of American classical music in the 1930s.

This December, get into the festive spirit with A Chineke! Christmas.

Celebrate a joyful occasion with a programme packed full of traditional and soulful carols, classical gems, and opportunities for audience participation!

Join us, along with a splendid lineup of guests, for what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music and celebration.

This December, get into the festive spirit with A Chineke! Christmas.

Celebrate a joyful occasion with a programme packed full of traditional and soulful carols, classical gems, and opportunities for audience participation!

Join us, along with a splendid lineup of guests, for what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music and celebration.

This December, get into the festive spirit with A Chineke! Christmas.

Celebrate a joyful occasion with a programme packed full of traditional and soulful carols, classical gems, and opportunities for audience participation!

Join us, along with a splendid lineup of guests, for what promises to be an unforgettable evening of music and celebration.

Witness the premiere of Joan Armatrading’s first symphony, paired with Tchaikovsky’s expansive Fifth, in a concert of boundary-defying works.

Forging a path that has consistently defied categorisation, the composer, singer and multi-instrumentalist Armatrading explores a new voice in writing for the orchestra. With a renowned catalogue of 21 albums to her credit, Armatrading’s distinctive musicianship has always followed her own curiosity outside of genre boundaries and into new creative arenas. Her first symphony, premiered by the Chineke! Orchestra, brings an electrostatic charge to the concert hall.

Audiences have long been entranced by Tchaikovsky’s ability to generate a rollercoaster of emotional depths and heights, and nowhere is this more evident than in his Fifth Symphony. But the composer’s uninhibited creative choices attracted stinging criticism in his time, derided by many a reviewer as frivolous and sentimental. In his own words, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth marked his ‘complete resignation before Fate’, tracing an expansive journey through both despair and triumph.

With the works of Armatrading and Tchaikovsky, the Chineke! Orchestra offers an evening that celebrates two uncompromising creative voices.

Programme:

Joan Armatrading: Symphony No.1 (World Premiere)

Interval

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.5

Andrew Grams: Conductor

Five-time Grammy Award-winner Angélique Kidjo returns to the Royal Albert Hall for a celebration of her 40-year career, performing her greatest hits accompanied by the Chineke! Orchestra, conducted by Chris Cameron, and special guests including Grammy-nominated trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf and Senegalese superstar Youssou N’Dour.

Part of the EFG London Jazz Festival, this concert will celebrate the career-spanning catalogue of one of Africa’s best-known artists, with TIME magazine describing her as ‘Africa’s premier diva’, and including her in their list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2021.

Kidjo, who is also the recipient of this year’s prestigious Polar Music Prize, has become renowned for merging the West African traditions of her childhood with American R&B, funk and jazz, alongside influences from Europe and Latin America.

A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, she has appeared at the Hall twice before – at the 2019 BBC Proms and at a 2008 Stars of Africa fundraising concert. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with high-profile artists such as Sting, Philip Glass, Carlos Santana, Burna Boy, Alicia Keys, Joss Stone and Peter Gabriel, among many others.

Travel through pre- and post-revolutionary Paris, where musical and political ambitions collide in the works of Haydn, Bologne and Beethoven.

From the grandiose opening of Haydn's fourth ‘Paris’ Symphony, to the fizzing wit of its finale, the composer makes the most of an orchestra over three times the size of his usual ensemble.

Reportedly a favourite of the soon-to-be-deposed Marie Antoinette, it was commissioned by the dazzling violinist, fencer and composer Joseph Bologne. Despite his close engagement with the highest aristocratic circles, Bologne - who had dual French/Caribbean heritage - was invigorated by the Revolution’s ethos of social reform, later leading a legion in support of the Republic.

The evening concludes with a work that transformed the classical symphony, catapulting it into the Romantic era. Initially dedicated to Napoleon, his decision to proclaim himself Emperor dashed Beethoven’s hopes that he would realise the ideals of the Revolution, and the dedication was swiftly removed. Nonetheless, the sense of rebellion remains.

Programme:

Haydn: Symphony No.85 (La Reine)
Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): Violin Concerto in G, Op.8

Interval

Beethoven: Symphony No.3 (Eroica)

Travel through pre- and post-revolutionary Paris, where musical and political ambitions collide in the works of Haydn, Bologne and Beethoven.

From the grandiose opening of Haydn's fourth ‘Paris’ Symphony, to the fizzing wit of its finale, the composer makes the most of an orchestra over three times the size of his usual ensemble.

Reportedly a favourite of the soon-to-be-deposed Marie Antoinette, it was commissioned by the dazzling violinist, fencer and composer Joseph Bologne. Despite his close engagement with the highest aristocratic circles, Bologne - who had dual French/Caribbean heritage - was invigorated by the Revolution’s ethos of social reform, later leading a legion in support of the Republic.

The evening concludes with a work that transformed the classical symphony, catapulting it into the Romantic era. Initially dedicated to Napoleon, his decision to proclaim himself Emperor dashed Beethoven’s hopes that he would realise the ideals of the Revolution, and the dedication was swiftly removed. Nonetheless, the sense of rebellion remains.

Programme:

Haydn: Symphony No.85 (La Reine)
Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): Violin Concerto in G, Op.8

Interval

Beethoven: Symphony No.3 (Eroica)

Travel through pre- and post-revolutionary Paris, where musical and political ambitions collide in the works of Haydn, Bologne and Beethoven.

Just a handful of years before the outbreak of revolution, we meet Haydn revelling in the creative possibilities of a new French commission. From the grandiose opening of his fourth Paris Symphony, to the fizzing wit of its finale, the composer makes the most of an orchestra over three times the size of his usual ensemble at Eszterháza. Reportedly a favourite of the soon-to-be-deposed queen Marie Antoinette, the symphony gained the nickname La Reine. Haydn’s Parisian commissioner was also a dazzling violinist and composer himself, as well as a celebrated fencer.

The concert offers a taste of Joseph Bologne’s virtuosity, with the flair of his G major violin concerto speaking to his prowess as both a composer and performer. As a man with dual French and Caribbean heritage, Bologne deployed his artistry to fight for his social survival as much as he used it as a means of creative expression. Despite his close engagement with the highest aristocratic – even royal – circles, he was invigorated by the Revolution’s ethos of social reform, later leading a legion in support of the Republic.

The evening concludes with a work that transformed the classical symphony, catapulting it into the Romantic era. Napoleon’s decision to appoint himself Emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral, the heart of Paris, dashed Beethoven’s hopes that he would realise the democratic ideals of the Revolution. On hearing the news, the composer scratched out his Third Symphony’s dedication to Napoleon so violently he tore through the manuscript page. But Beethoven’s rebranded Eroica has never lost its revolutionary zeal.

Programme:

Haydn: Symphony No.85 (La Reine)
Bologne (Chevalier de Saint-Georges): Violin Concerto in G, Op.8

Interval

Beethoven: Symphony No.3 (Eroica)

Get to know Chi-chi Nwanoku and the soloists of Chineke! in this uniquely intimate chamber concert. This beautiful programme of double bass chamber works juxtaposes rarely heard arrangements of Florence B. Prices ‘5 Folksongs in Counterpoint’ with Franz Schubert’s Trout Quintet, and includes a candid interview with Artistic Director Shiry Rashkovsky about all things musical.

Experience the electric atmosphere of a Chineke! Prom first-hand, as Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra returns to the Royal Albert Hall with Beethoven’s joyful Fourth Symphony and Haydn’s exuberant Trumpet Concerto.

On a mission to champion change and celebrate diversity in classical music, Chineke! also showcases music by pioneering Black British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and his American namesake, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson. Plus there’s an opportunity to hear Valerie Coleman’s pandemic anthem, Seven O’Clock Shout.

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Programme:

Valerie Coleman: Seven O’Clock Shout
Coleridge-Taylor: Four Noveletten
Haydn: Trumpet Concerto in E flat major

Interval

Perkinson: Sinfonietta No. 1 – Rondo (3rd mvt)
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major

Chineke! Orchestra
Aaron Azunda Akugbo: Trumpet
Anthony Parnther: Conductor

Enjoy an extraordinary evening of music as the Chineke! Junior Orchestra takes the stage for their highly anticipated summer concert, marking the culmination of their annual week-long residential course.

The Chineke! Junior Orchestra is the sister ensemble to the Chineke! Orchestra, and is made up of majority Black and ethnically diverse musicians aged 11 - 22. Both ensembles were founded simultaneously in 2015 with the aim of creating opportunities for emerging and established musicians of Black and ethnically diverse heritage.

This concert comes at the end of an intensive musical week spent together rehearsing and exploring the music that they will perform, as well as receiving individual tuition from members of the senior orchestra, who act as mentors, teachers and role models.

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Programme:

Tristen J. T. Watts: Jeremiah (16 mins)
Margaret Bonds: Montgomery Variations (26 mins)
- interval -
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Symphony in A minor (37 mins)

Shaun Matthew: Conductor

This concert is delivered as part of the Chineke! Junior Orchestra summer residential course, which is generously supported by Bank of America, Arts Council England, The Linbury Trust, and the Borletti-Buitoni Trust.

2023 marks the 250th anniversary of one of the world’s most beloved hymns, Amazing Grace. Written by the Reverend John Newton to accompany his New Year’s Day service in the Olney Parish Church of St Peter & St Paul on 1 January 1773, the hymn has gone on to inspire countless people around the world and has even become known in America as the nation’s ‘spiritual anthem.’

250 years on, the Cowper & Newton Museum in Olney in partnership with The Stables present the world premiere of Forever?, a new work for voice and chamber ensemble responding to the anniversary and to the different meanings Amazing Grace has for people in the 21st Century.

With text by celebrated poet and writer Rommi Smith and music by renowned baritone and composer Roderick Williams OBE, the premiere will be performed by members of Chineke!, Europe’s first majority Black and ethnically diverse orchestra, whose mission is to champion change and celebrate diversity in classical music. The concert will also feature chamber works by Black and ethnically diverse composers.

Forever? has been commissioned by Cowper & Newton Museum with The Stables for Amazing Grace 250. Supported using public funding by The National Lottery through Arts Council England and Milton Keynes City Council.

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Programme:

Florence B. Price: Five Folksongs in Counterpoint
William Grant Still: Folk Suite No.1
Tomaso Albinoni: Trumpet concerto B flat op.7 No.3
Roderick Williams: Forever?

Musicians from Chineke! return to the Pittville Pump Room. Journeying across broad musical terrain, they take you from Ligeti’s lively and irreverent bagatelles and Ravel’s expansive harmonies to the American soundworlds of William Grant Still and Valerie Coleman.

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Programme:

Ligeti: Six Bagatelles
William Grant Still: Summerland
Paquito D'Rivera: Lecuoneras (Solo Clarinet)
Paul Hindemith: Klein Kammermusik

Interval

A. Marquez: Danza de Mediodia (for Wind Quintet)
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Jones)
G. Silvestrini: Le Ballet Espagnol (Solo Oboe)
Valerie Coleman: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

Callaloo is a five-movement musical fantasy, mixing Jamaican mento; Afro-Cuban guaguancó, son, conga and guaracha; and the inter-island soca.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Othello Suite, first published in 1909 and performed in 1911, is a high-drama, five-movement work.

The work, conceived as incidental music to accompany Shakespeare’s play, is operatic and grand in style, with both funeral and military marches, along with lyrical, intimate moments.

Florence Price expresses aspects of her African American heritage within a symphonic framework in her Third Symphony, completed in 1940.

Avoiding direct references to existing folk songs and dances, it creates highly distinctive African spiritual moods and uses the syncopated rhythms of the juba in its jazzy third movement.

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Programme

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
Stewart Goodyear: Callaloo – A Caribbean Suite for Piano and Orchestra
Florence Price: Symphony No. 3 in C minor

International orchestra Chineke! will make their Harrogate debut, opening the Summer Festival at the Royal Hall. The Chineke! Foundation was created by Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE in 2015 to provide outstanding career opportunities to established and up-and-coming Black and ethnically diverse classical musicians in the UK and Europe. The Foundation’s flagship ensemble, the Chineke! Orchestra, comprises exceptional musicians from across the continent brought together multiple times per year. Praised for their ‘special electricity’ at their Proms debut and joining Stormzy on stage at the 2023 BRIT Awards, their programme features Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Famously dubbed the Black Mahler, his light yet spirited Novelletten is actually inspired by German Robert Schumann’s piano miniatures, the eight Novelletten.

Completing the programme are Gustav Holst’s St Paul’s Suite, which takes its name from the Hammersmith school where Holst taught; Vaughan Williams’ Oboe Concerto, a wartime piece penned after his Fifth Symphony, and Beethoven’s enchanting Fourth Symphony, first performed in 1808.

Scotland-based American conductor Kellen Gray has earned a reputation as a versatile and imaginative artist. Kellen is the current Assistant Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Associate Conductor of the Charleston Symphony (USA).

Born in France, soloist Armand Djikoloum studied at Conservatoire National Supérieur Musique et Danse de Lyon and with Philippe Tondre at the Hochschule für Musik Saar. In 2021 he was a prize-winner at the Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions.

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Programme:

Holst: St Paul’s Suite in C major, Op. 29, No. 2
Coleridge-Taylor: Novelletten for Strings, No. 3 & 4, Op. 54
Vaughan Williams: Concerto in A minor for Oboe and Strings
Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 60

Repertoire

Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite, Op.79

Stewart Goodyear: Callaloo - Caribbean Suite for piano & orchestra

Price: Symphony No.3 in C minor

Callaloo is a five-movement musical fantasy, mixing Jamaican mento; Afro-Cuban guaguancó, son, conga and guaracha; and the inter-island soca.

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Othello Suite, first published in 1909 and performed in 1911, is a high-drama, five-movement work.

The work, conceived as incidental music to accompany Shakespeare’s play, is operatic and grand in style, with both funeral and military marches, along with lyrical, intimate moments.

Florence Price expresses aspects of her African American heritage within a symphonic framework in her Third Symphony, completed in 1940.

Avoiding direct references to existing folk songs and dances, it creates highly distinctive African spiritual moods and uses the syncopated rhythms of the juba in its jazzy third movement.

This concert is generously supported by the Dyers’ Company and through the ABO Sirens fund

The Chineke! Wind Quintet comprises players of the Chineke! Orchestra and the ensemble is delighted to bring a varied programme of wind repertoire to the Shaldon Festival. Highlights include the music of African-American composers William Grant Still (Summerland, 1935) and Valerie Coleman (Red Clay & Mississippi Delta, 2016). Both works speak to the Black experience in the American South, and are presented alongside music from Gyorgy Ligeti, Paul Hindemith, Maurice Ravel.

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Programme:

Ligeti: Six Bagatelles
William Grant Still: Summerland
Paquito D'Rivera: Lecuoneras (Solo Clarinet)
Paul Hindemith: Klein Kammermusik

Interval

A. Marquez: Danza de Mediodia (for Wind Quintet)
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (arr. Jones)
G. Silvestrini: Le Ballet Espagnol (Solo Oboe)
Valerie Coleman: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta

Craig David and Beverley Knight are among the very special guests confirmed for a night of celebration to mark 75 years since Windrush. The event at the Royal Albert Hall on 9 June is being curated and hosted by Trevor Nelson.

Other artists confirmed for the one-off show are saxophonist YolanDa Brown, poet Salena Godden, R&B group Loose Ends, calypsonian Tobago Crusoe, and ‘G-folk’ pioneer Hak Baker, whose acoustic music is rooted in grime.

Accompaniment will come from the Chineke! Orchestra, conducted by Chris Cameron.

The concert will capture the breadth of musical influence which the Windrush generation has had on British culture over the last 75 years, with performances including Loose Ends’ Hangin’ on a String, Hak Baker’s Windrush Baby, and Craig David’s Fill Me In, as well as renditions of classic tracks like Lord Kitchener’s London is the Place for Me, Bob Marley’s Is this Love, and Goldie’s Inner City Life.

It will also be broadcast on BBC Radio 2, on Sunday 18 June, as part of the BBC’s programming to mark the Windrush anniversary.

The ‘Windrush generation’ came to the UK from Caribbean countries between 1948 and 1971. The MV Empire Windrush had arrived in Tilbury on 22 June 1948, bringing workers from the Caribbean to help address a post-war labour shortage in the UK.

An allocation of subsidised tickets for the concert have been made available through community groups including the Windrush 75 network.

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Experience the European Premiere of Black Panther in Concert as part of the Royal Albert Hall’s Films in Concert series. With the Chineke! Orchestra and special guest Massamba Diop, talking drum soloist, who performed on the original score.

In 2018, Marvel Studios’ ‘Black Panther’ quickly became a global sensation and cultural phenomenon, showing a new dimension of what Super Hero films could be. Relive the excitement of T’Challa becoming king and battling Killmonger all while a live orchestra performs Ludwig Göransson’s Oscar® and Grammy®-winning score live to picture.

The Chineke! Foundation was founded in 2015 by the double bass player, Chi-chi Nwanoku CBE, to provide career opportunities for young black and ethnically diverse classical musicians in the UK and Europe. Chineke!’s mission is, “championing change and celebrating diversity in classical music”.

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The new concerto – the first of its kind – merges the sound-worlds of Western Africa, Southern Africa and Europe, immersing the listener in an exploration of the interplay and soundscapes between the cello and kora.

Selaocoe and Keita have collaborated as performers to critical acclaim and this new concerto draws on many inspirations and traditions in their writing, from Selaocoe’s South African roots and Keita’s immersion in the kora tradition of southern Senegal.

Seloacoe/Keita’s Double Concerto is co-commissioned by Orchestre national de Bretagne, Ulster Orchestra and the Southbank Centre.

Programme:

Abel Selaocoe (w/ Seckou Keita) Concerto for cello & kora (London Premiere)

Chineke! Orchestra
Conductor: TBA
Cello: Abel Selaocoe
Kora: Seckou Keita

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We’re proud to be part of this special programme launching the Harvey Parker Trust, which provides access to emotional and mental health support for young creatives, including neurodiverse, gender-diverse and marginalised musicians from under-represented communities.

As well as Chineke!, there are performances from Clean Bandit, Sheku Kanneh-Mason, Tomorrow’s Warriors, members of the National Children’s Orchestras of Great Britain, Choir of Westminster School and Future Talent. Surprise artists still to be announced.

In a spectacular of sound and inspiration, the evening also features appearances from members of the fashion world, plus artists and DJs from the queer community. Supported by Heaven and G-A-Y nightclub.

This event is organised by the Harvey Parker Trust and all profits will contribute to its aim to make a positive difference to the mental wellbeing of young creatives.

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Chineke! Wind Quintet performs the spirited bagatelles of György Ligeti, lush harmonies of
Maurice Ravel, and endlessly infectious sounds of Cuban American jazz clarinettist and GRAMMY award-winning composer, Paquito D’Rivera. A vibrant and wonderfully varied programme full of surprise and musical delight, performed by a selection of Chineke!’s finest wind players.

Programme:

György Ligeti Six Bagatelles

William Grant Still Summerland

Paquito D’Rivera Lecuonerias for solo clarinet

Paul Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik

Arturo Marquez Danza de Mediodia

Maurice Ravel arr Jones Le Tombeau de Couperin

Gilles Silvestrini Le Ballet Espagnol for solo oboe

Valerie Coleman Red Clay & Mississippi Delta

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Chineke! is Europe’s first professional orchestra comprising a majority of black and ethnically diverse musicians. Each of their programmes include works by composers of ethnically diverse backgrounds - with their latest concert featuring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. Famously dubbed The Black Mahler, his light yet spirited Two Novelletten is actually inspired by German Robert Schumann’s piano miniatures, the eight Novelletten.

Completing the programme are Gustav Holst’s St Paul’s Suite, which takes its name from the Hammersmith school where Holst taught; Vaughan Williams’ Oboe Concerto, a wartime piece penned after his Fifth Symphony; and Beethoven’s enchanting Fourth Symphony, with its noteworthy second movement.

The soloist is Armand Djikoloum, the 20-something prize-winner who has appeared with such leading orchestras as Hannover Staatsoper, Staatskapelle Dresden, Stavanger Symphony, Frankfurt Opera, and Oslo Opera House.

Programme:

Gustav Holst St Paul's Suite for string orchestra
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Two Novelletten Op. 52
Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto
Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 4 in B flat

Conductor: Kellen Gray
Oboe: Armand Djikoloum

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A new work by Carlos Simon, a U-M alumnus and Kennedy Center composer-in-residence, opens the concert. Fate Now Conquers was inspired by a journal entry in one of Beethoven’s notebooks and is based on the same harmonic structure as the second movement of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony.

Elena Urioste, who won first place in the Sphinx Competition’s Junior Division in 2002 and repeated the feat in the Senior Division five years later, is the violin soloist for Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto, “bring[ing] the work everything it deserves: a rich, glowing tone, rhythmic panache, shedloads of charisma, and a tenderness that cradled the slow movement as if it were the most precious jewel in the world.” (The Arts Desk)

Steeped in American folk music, spirituals, and church hymns, Florence Price’s first symphony reflects her experience as a Black woman raised in the post-Civil War South. The premiere of her symphony in Chicago in 1933 marked the first time a major American orchestra had performed a work written by an African American woman composer.


Programme:

Carlos Simon Fate Now Conquers
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 20
Florence B. Price Symphony No. 1 in E minor

Violin: Elena Urioste
Conductor: Andrew Grams

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Programme

Carlos Simon Fate Now Conquers
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 20
Dvořák Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 (From the New World)

Conductor: Andrew Grams
Violin: Elena Urioste

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