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LAUSANNE - SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 | This week, we’re coming to you from Lausanne, Switzerland, with conductor Joshua Weilerstein, soprano Olesya Golovneva, mezzo-soprano Stella Grigorian, tenor Stephan Rugamer, baritone Daniel Schmutzhard, the Swiss Youth Choir, and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne | The program features Beethoven’s 9th Symphony | The work, which includes text from Friedrich Schiller’s “Ode to Joy”, is widely recognized for celebrating the commonality and shared joy of all of mankind
ELGIN, UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 | This week, we’re coming to you from Elgin, Illinois in the United States, with violinist Philippe Quint, conductor Andrew Grams, and the Elgin Symphony Orchestra • Program includes: Sarasate’s “Ziguenerweisen”, Massenet’s “Meditation” from Thais, Haydn’s Symphony No. 60, and George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings” — Walker was the first African American composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music
DALLAS - SEPTEMBER 15, 2020 | This week, we’re coming to you from Dallas, with conductor Fabio Luisi, pianist Yefim Bronfman, and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra — one of the first, large American arts organizations to return to the live concert stage during the COVID-19 pandemic | The program, in front of a socially-distanced audience of 75 people, includes Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major and his Symphony No. 8 in F major

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TAIPEI - SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 | This week, we’re coming to you from Taipei for a masterclass with violinist, VC Artist Ray Chen | Presented by the NSO國家交響樂團and the TSMC Foundation, the program includes: Korngold’s Violin Concerto, Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 2, Sarasate’s “Carmen Fantasy”, and Wieniawski’s “Variations on an Original Theme” with Taiwanese students Yun Lee, Huei-Ciao Yang, Pei-Cheng Chu, and Wei-Lin Chent
GRAFENEGG - SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 | We’re coming to you from Grafenegg, in Austria, with conductor Marin Alsop, soprano Camila Nylund, and the ORF Radio-Symphony | The program includes Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major and Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” — a work for voice and orchestra, and based on a poem by James Agee, in which he reflects on his experience of summertime in small-town America
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON - SEPTEMBER 12, 2020 | This week, we’re coming to you from Annandale-on-Hudson, New York from a COVID-compliant outdoor tent with conductors Leon Botstein and James Bagwell, and The Orchestra Now | Program including William Grant Still’s “’Out of Silence’, from Seven Traceries” and “Serenade”, George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings”, and Felix Mendelssohn’s String Symphony No. 8 in D Major

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VC ARTIST | Brannon Cho, 25 – Paulo International Cello Competition 1st Prize

The Violin Channel - September 21, 2020

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Brannon is a graduate of Northwestern University's Bienen School of Music and the New England Conservatory, where he studied with Hans Jørgen Jensen and...