Full program available here: https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2023-2024/concerto-showcase-2024/#/program

A New World Symphony tradition returns this April when LA Opera’s Lina González-Granados conducts concertos for harp, trumpet and violin performed by the winners of New World’s annual Concerto Showcase Competition.

Praised for her “ferocious” and “lithe” playing (Cleveland Classical) with “soaring tone and precision of the highest order” (South Florida Classical Review), Violin Fellow Beatrice Hsieh takes center stage for Korngold’s Violin Concerto, evoking the glamour and sophistication of Hollywood’s Golden Age.

On the heels of a sold-out solo performance, Harp Fellow Abigail Kent has won acclaim for their “immaculate playing and musical sensitivity” (Fanfare Magazine). She performs Ginastera’s intricate harp concerto inspired by Bartók, Stravinsky and Argentinian folk dances.

Trumpet Fellow Kenneth Chauby has performed with orchestras and ensembles around the world and recently won a job with the prestigious United States Air Force Ceremonial Brass. He makes Tomasi’s notoriously difficult trumpet concerto look easy, showing the full range of the instrument with music inspired by Bach and jazz.

- PROGRAM -

Jeder Baum spricht (2019)
Iman Habibi (b. 1985)
Approx. Duration: 6 minutes

Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Op. 25 (1956-64)
Alberto Ginastera(1916-1983)
Approx. Duration: 21 minutes

Allegro giusto
Molto moderato
Liberamente capriccioso – Vivace

Abigail Kent

Intermission

Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra (1948)
Henri Tomasi (1901-1971)
Approx. Duration: 15 minutes

Fantasque
Andante
Allegro vivo

Kenneth Chauby

Concerto in D major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 35 (1945)
Erich Korngold (1897-1957)
Approx. Duration: 23 minutes

Moderato nobile
Romance
Allegro assai vivace

Beatrice Hsieh