FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 29, 2018
CAMBRIAN SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH SAN JOSE SYMPHONIC CHOIR FOR SEASON FINALE CONCERT, ONE HUNDRED YEARS
- Orchestra and Choir will celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100 Year Birthday -
SAN JOSE, California – Recently named “Best of the Bay” in two categories by San Francisco Classical Voice, Cambrian Symphony is pleased to announce its finale concert of the 2017-2018 season, One Hundred Years. This concert features a collaboration with San Jose Symphonic Choir and celebrates the 100-year anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth.
To open the concert, Cambrian Symphony and the 90-member San Jose Symphonic Choir will perform two spectacular works by Beethoven, the Hallelujah chorus from Christ on the Mount of Olives and the Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, featuring piano soloist Tamami Honma. These works are a joyful lead-in to the birthday celebration featuring Chichester Psalms and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. The Cambrian Symphony will conclude the concert with Arturo Marquez’s wildly popular Danzon No. 2.
"What a thrill to close out our season by celebrating one of our core principles - community and collaboration,” said Scott Krijnen, conductor for Cambrian Symphony. “Additionally, we get to perform one of America's masterworks, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. I am so grateful to be able to share our joy of music making with other ensembles, with our audience and with every musician that calls the Cambrian Symphony home."
“We are excited to be collaborating with the Cambrian Symphony to highlight the music by the incomparable Leonard Bernstein, in celebration of his 100th birthday. 'Lenny' was severely criticized for doing both 'popular' and 'serious' works and we will be presenting both of these during this concert," said Leroy Kromm, Music Director of San Jose Symphonic Choir. "According to the critics, it was not appropriate to do both serious and popular music at the same time. At this concert, Bernstein’s controversial brilliance of the late 20th century is contrasted in the first half of the program by the brilliance of an early 19th century Beethoven: both described as bold, daring, innovative and annoying to critics.”
Winners of SFCV's Best of the Bay for their collaboration last season, Cambrian Symphony is thrilled to have Tamami Honma return as piano soloist for the Choral Fantasy. Tamami Honma has consistently received high praise and accolades for her work internationally as performing, recording and collaborative pianist. She played her first piano concerto at age 8 with the Utah Valley Symphony and went on to win many national and international competitions. She went to New York City at age 16 to study with the legendary Byron Janis who just celebrated his 90th birthday and who was one of the few students of Vladimir Horowitz and of the revered masters of teaching, Josef and Rosina Lhévinne. (Martin Scorsese is also currently producing a biopic with Paramount Pictures about Janis). After graduating from Manhattan School of Music she was awarded her LRAM and Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music/University of London, later also honored with an honorary ARAM degree.
Tamami's appearances in the world's great musical institutions has attracted acclaim, from the Bolshoi Hall in Moscow (soloist with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra) to several appearances at Carnegie Hall (“An eloquent, powerful performance” - New York Times) and the Wigmore Hall in London (“an interpretation of the Goldberg Variations that was probably as transparent and faithful to Bach as it's possible to be on a modern piano” - Music & Vision). Whilst residing in London she was editor of the Liszt Society of Europe’s annual Journal, lectured at the Academy alongside maintaining an active performance schedule throughout England and in other European countries. Her association with the music of the late John McCabe is celebrated in the five-star recordings they created together, and the works that were dedicated to her. Other composers such as Anatolijus Senderovas, Osvaldas Balakauskas, Basil Athanasiadis, Feliksas Bajoras, Alex Hills, Sadie Harrison and Luis Andrei Cobo have written works for which she presented the world premieres.
This free concert will be held on Saturday, June 9th at San Jose State University's Music Concert Hall at 7:30 pm. Reserve seats at www.cambriansymphony.org or www.sanjosesymphonicchoir.org.
About Cambrian Symphony
Cambrian Symphony is dedicated to supporting and mentoring young musicians by engaging students in performance side by side with professionals. Through this unique collaboration, Cambrian Symphony strives to share the joy of creating music not only with its audiences but with the next generation of musicians.
Cambrian Symphony is affiliated with San Jose Dance Theatre and is just completed its fifth year of collaboration in the joint performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, receiving rave reviews.
San Jose Symphonic Choir is supported in part by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose, and by a generous grant from the Peery Fund.
For more information and to reserve seats, please visit our website at www.cambriansymphony.org
Press Contact for Cambrian Symphony: Elisheva Bailey, [email protected], 408-431-6114 for Cambrian Symphony or SJSC Office Manager, [email protected], 408-995-3318
May 29, 2018
CAMBRIAN SYMPHONY ANNOUNCES COLLABORATION WITH SAN JOSE SYMPHONIC CHOIR FOR SEASON FINALE CONCERT, ONE HUNDRED YEARS
- Orchestra and Choir will celebrate Leonard Bernstein’s 100 Year Birthday -
SAN JOSE, California – Recently named “Best of the Bay” in two categories by San Francisco Classical Voice, Cambrian Symphony is pleased to announce its finale concert of the 2017-2018 season, One Hundred Years. This concert features a collaboration with San Jose Symphonic Choir and celebrates the 100-year anniversary of Leonard Bernstein’s birth.
To open the concert, Cambrian Symphony and the 90-member San Jose Symphonic Choir will perform two spectacular works by Beethoven, the Hallelujah chorus from Christ on the Mount of Olives and the Choral Fantasy, Op. 80, featuring piano soloist Tamami Honma. These works are a joyful lead-in to the birthday celebration featuring Chichester Psalms and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. The Cambrian Symphony will conclude the concert with Arturo Marquez’s wildly popular Danzon No. 2.
"What a thrill to close out our season by celebrating one of our core principles - community and collaboration,” said Scott Krijnen, conductor for Cambrian Symphony. “Additionally, we get to perform one of America's masterworks, Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. I am so grateful to be able to share our joy of music making with other ensembles, with our audience and with every musician that calls the Cambrian Symphony home."
“We are excited to be collaborating with the Cambrian Symphony to highlight the music by the incomparable Leonard Bernstein, in celebration of his 100th birthday. 'Lenny' was severely criticized for doing both 'popular' and 'serious' works and we will be presenting both of these during this concert," said Leroy Kromm, Music Director of San Jose Symphonic Choir. "According to the critics, it was not appropriate to do both serious and popular music at the same time. At this concert, Bernstein’s controversial brilliance of the late 20th century is contrasted in the first half of the program by the brilliance of an early 19th century Beethoven: both described as bold, daring, innovative and annoying to critics.”
Winners of SFCV's Best of the Bay for their collaboration last season, Cambrian Symphony is thrilled to have Tamami Honma return as piano soloist for the Choral Fantasy. Tamami Honma has consistently received high praise and accolades for her work internationally as performing, recording and collaborative pianist. She played her first piano concerto at age 8 with the Utah Valley Symphony and went on to win many national and international competitions. She went to New York City at age 16 to study with the legendary Byron Janis who just celebrated his 90th birthday and who was one of the few students of Vladimir Horowitz and of the revered masters of teaching, Josef and Rosina Lhévinne. (Martin Scorsese is also currently producing a biopic with Paramount Pictures about Janis). After graduating from Manhattan School of Music she was awarded her LRAM and Master’s degree from the Royal Academy of Music/University of London, later also honored with an honorary ARAM degree.
Tamami's appearances in the world's great musical institutions has attracted acclaim, from the Bolshoi Hall in Moscow (soloist with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra) to several appearances at Carnegie Hall (“An eloquent, powerful performance” - New York Times) and the Wigmore Hall in London (“an interpretation of the Goldberg Variations that was probably as transparent and faithful to Bach as it's possible to be on a modern piano” - Music & Vision). Whilst residing in London she was editor of the Liszt Society of Europe’s annual Journal, lectured at the Academy alongside maintaining an active performance schedule throughout England and in other European countries. Her association with the music of the late John McCabe is celebrated in the five-star recordings they created together, and the works that were dedicated to her. Other composers such as Anatolijus Senderovas, Osvaldas Balakauskas, Basil Athanasiadis, Feliksas Bajoras, Alex Hills, Sadie Harrison and Luis Andrei Cobo have written works for which she presented the world premieres.
This free concert will be held on Saturday, June 9th at San Jose State University's Music Concert Hall at 7:30 pm. Reserve seats at www.cambriansymphony.org or www.sanjosesymphonicchoir.org.
About Cambrian Symphony
Cambrian Symphony is dedicated to supporting and mentoring young musicians by engaging students in performance side by side with professionals. Through this unique collaboration, Cambrian Symphony strives to share the joy of creating music not only with its audiences but with the next generation of musicians.
Cambrian Symphony is affiliated with San Jose Dance Theatre and is just completed its fifth year of collaboration in the joint performance of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, receiving rave reviews.
San Jose Symphonic Choir is supported in part by a Cultural Affairs grant from the City of San Jose, and by a generous grant from the Peery Fund.
For more information and to reserve seats, please visit our website at www.cambriansymphony.org
Press Contact for Cambrian Symphony: Elisheva Bailey, [email protected], 408-431-6114 for Cambrian Symphony or SJSC Office Manager, [email protected], 408-995-3318