BBC Concert Orchestra
With conductor Keith Lockhart and pianist Ilya Yakushev
Friday, November 19th, 2010 | 7:30pm
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PROGRAM:
Mendelssohn – A Mid Summer Night’s Dream
Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto no. 1 in G Minor, op. 25
Vaughan Williams – Symphony no. 5 in D Major
Biography:
The BBC Concert Orchestra still very much has the same aims as it did when it first began in 1952, albeit with a much wider scope. As Barry Wordsworth says “The Orchestra is made up of musicians all of whom enjoy crossing the musical boundaries. It is a unit of people with incredibly wide-ranging tastes. It plays as broad a repertoire as possible in as stylish a fashion as possible.” As well as continuing to appear every week on Friday Night is Music Night and in seasons of Melodies for You on BBC Radio . . . 2, it performs regularly on various BBC Radio 3 programmes, and has carved itself something of a niche on BBC Television, appearing on many shows including the Proms. They can also be heard providing the soundtracks to various BBC Television programmes, including The Blue Planet, Walking with Dinosaurs, The Key, Wild Down Under and Peter Ackroyd’s London. Keith Lockhart currently serves as Conductor of the Boston Pops and Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the summer institute and festival at the Brevard Music Center. He recently completed his highly successful 11-year tenure as Music Director of the Utah Symphony where his leadership of the symphony allowed him to stand at the front of that organization’s historical merger with the Utah Opera to create the first-ever joint administrative arts entity of the Utah Symphony and Opera. Since the merger, arts institutions nationally and internationally have looked to Maestro Lockhart as an example of an innovative thinker on and off the podium.