What began with Beethoven’s most famous work, ends with his most optimistic symphony.
“Springfield Symphony Orchestra began its 2024-2025 season with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 and will end its formal season on Saturday with a performance of my favorite work by the composer, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7,” said Paul Lambert, President and CEO of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra.
Showtime is at 19:30 to Springfield Symphony Hall.
The final concert of the season, “Variations and virtuosity”, will have the guest director Marcelo Lehninger and the guest pianist Natasha Paremski.
“We are very excited for Marcelo to run our latest program of the season. When his name appeared as a possibility, our musicians were very excited about the perspective of directing the SSO. It comes from a tremendously talented musical family originally from Brazil and his sister is a violinist who plays with us on a regular basis,” said Lambert.
Lehninger’s roots in Brazil are reflected in his choice of “temporary variations” by Ronaldo Miranda followed by one of the largest variation structures, “Rhapsody on a Paganini theme” by Rachmaninoff, one of the great compositions of classical music literature, performed by the night of the night of the night. The program will conclude with Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 7”, a dynamic symphony that he understood to be one of his best compositions.
Lehninger has been the music director of the Symphony of Grand Rapids since 2016 and has recently been appointed artistic director of the Bellingham Festival of Music, where he opened his annual leader institute, a one -month residence for young promising drivers. Lehninger previously served as a musical director of the New West Symphony in Los Angeles, for which the American Orchestra League awarded him the Helen H. Thompson Award for emerging music directors. Prior to that, Lehninger served as an assistant and later associate conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
As guest director, Lehninger has led many of the most important orchestras in the United States and Europe. He has debuted with the symphonies of Sydney and Melbourne, the Yomirui Symphonia Nippon in Tokyo, and the Kyushu Symphony Orchestra in Fukuoka, as well as throughout Brazil and South America as the former advisor to the Orchestra music of the Americas.
Before dedicating his career to the realization, Lehninger studied violin and piano. He is a master’s degree at the New York Bard College Institute of Conductors.
Born in Moscow, the Concert’s guest pianist moved to the United States at the age of eight, becoming an American citizen shortly after, and is now based on New York City where the New York Society’s Dfirecta artistic is artistic, a non-profit organization that supports pianists who are out of music.
Paremski is a regular return guest of many important orchestras throughout North America. In Europe, he has widely appealed with orchestras such as Tonkünstler Orchester in Vienna, Scottish National Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Moscow Philharmonic.
A passionate chamber musician, Paremski is a regular recital partner of the Grammy Zuill Bailey -winning cellist, with whom he has recorded several CDs. His album Britten in Tellarc made his debut at the number 1 of Billboard Classical, which he remained there for several weeks, as well as presenting on the New York Times reproduction list.
Lambert said he is “proud” of the season they have just produced.
“It has been a beautiful season for us full of variations and a variety of music that has just been impressive and notable performances. Some of our patrons have told me that performances are some of the best concerts they have ever seen,” said Lambert.
“ What we have tried to do this season is to expand our bids and types of music presented to the community.I think it has been a very exciting season full of beautiful music for a particularly difficult time, given what we hear in the news every day. I hope that the people who have come out during our season have found healing among the beautiful music. I am increasingly convinced the importance of gathering our community for a few hours of joy, ” he added.
Tickets, ranging from $ 25 to $ 80, are available online at Springfieldsymphony.org.