SAN DIEGO (Press Release)–The Tifereth Israel Community Orchestra will present its first series of concerts of the 2012-13 season on Sunday, November 18 at 3:00 pm, and Tuesday the 20th at 7:30 pm. Both concerts will be at the synagogue’s Cohen Social Hall.
These programs will feature Armando Pesqueira as guest conductor, and pianist Kanae Matsumoto. Musical selections will include the monumental Symphony No.1 in C minor by Johannes Brahms, the Romantic and popular Piano Concerto in A Minor by Robert Schumann, and the delightful Prelude to Hansel and Gretel by Englebert Humperdinck.
Maestro Pesqueira is no stranger to TICO. In his younger years, he was a member of the orchestra as a player, conductor, and composer. He is now one of the rising young conductors in Mexico. Born and raised in Tijuana, he holds a Masters Degree from San Diego State University and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in musical composition and orchestral conducting, respectively. His principal teachers have been David Ward-Steinman, Jung-Ho Pak, and David Milnes. He has appeared as guest conductor with many of Mexico’s leading ensembles, such as the orchestras of Aguascalientes, Guanajuato, Morelia, Sinaloa, and four orchestras in Mexico City. OutsideMexico, he has given concerts directing the San Diego Symphony, The Orchestra on the Minsk Bolshoi Theatre, and the New European Chamber Orchestra.
Since 2007, he is the resident conductor of the Chihuahua State Philharmonic Orchestra; under his leadership, the orchestra has grown into one of the principal orchestral ensembles inMexico. Locally, he founded in 1998 the Friends of the Opera of the Northwest, which worked together with Opera Tijuana, and the Tijuana Bach Festival.
Pianist Kanae Matsumoto, originally from Japan, is active as a soloist and chamber musician. She has performed in Russia, Japan, Canada, and many venues in the United States. She frequently performs with violinist Jacques Israelievitch (who will be the guest TICO artist playing Bach, Beethoven and Brahms in June of 2013), and as the Israelievitch-Matsumoto Duo they have recently recorded an album of French Music for violin and piano, with music by Debussy, Pierne, Ravel and Poulenc on the Fleur de Son label.
Ms. Matsumoto is currently teaching collaborative piano at the UCLA Music Department, and during the summers, she serves as faculty collaborative pianist at the Chautauqua Institution Music Festival inNew York.
Be sure to pencil into your calendar the future concerts of TICO:
FARAWAY LANDS: January 27, 2013, 4:00 pm at Chula Vista’s First United Methodist Church, and January 27, 7:30 pm at Tifereth Israel. Rimsky Korsakov’s Introduction and Cortege from Le Coq D’or, the world premiere of Mark Donnelly’s Hawaiian-inspired Rhapsody in Three Movements, Ho’maka’Ana, and Joaquin Rodrigo’s melodious and popular Fantasia Para Un Gentilhombre, with guest guitarist, San Diego’s own Gregg Nestor.
GRAND OPUS: April 14, 3:00 pm, and April 16, 7:30 pm, both at Tifereth Israel. Jean Sibelius’ Karelia Suite, Rachmaninoff’s ever popular Piano Concerto No. 2 with pianist Yukiko Sekino, and the Western Hemisphere premiere of a work for narrator and orchestra called Genesis, by the Israeli composer Baruch Berliner. The narration, which will be done in Hebrew, will be recited by Simon Ordever.
THREE VIOLIN CONCERTI: June 9, 3:00 pm, and June 11, 7:30 p.m., both at Tifereth Israel. As the title implies, violinist Jacques Israelievitch, former concertmaster of theSt. Louisand Toronto Symphonies, will undertake the formidable task of doing three concertos, all in one program, Bach’s E Major, and the violin masterpieces of Beethoven and Brahms.
SUMMER POPS: July 21, 7:00 pm, at the AlliedGardensRecreationPark, and July 28, 3:00 pm at Tifereth Israel. A patriotic All-American Pops Spectacular.
For more information, season ticket packages, or for individual concerts, such as the upcoming programs of November 18 and 20, directions, or group tickets, call (619) 697- 6001, or you can buy tickets online at www.tiferethisrael.com/TICO.
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