Direct from London's Southbank Centre, the ground-breaking European orchestra of majority Black and ethnically diverse makes its Koerner Hall debut in program of Afro-British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, African American composer Florence Price's Symphony No. 1, and Callaloo – Goodyear's spicy Caribbean Suite for Piano and Orchestra.
Conductor Andrew Grams is Music Director of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra whose charismatic conducting and easy accessibility have made him an audience favorite.
"One of the best pianists of his generation" (Philadelphia Inquirer), Royal Conservatory Artist in Residence, Stewart Goodyear, is an accomplished orchestral soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, and composer.
Programme:
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Othello Suite
Stewart Goodyear: Callaloo – Caribbean Suite for Piano and Orchestra
Florence B. Price: Symphony No. 1 in E Minor
Conductor: Andrew Grams
Piano: Stewart Goodyear