Kyle Wiley Pickett
Music Director
and Conductor
Welcome to the 2009-2010 Concert Season
2009-2010 Concerts
Click here for program details
Guest Artists:
September
Chico Jazz X-Press
plays Ellington
Young Artist winner,
Jeremiah Trujillo, piano, plays Khachaturian
November
Young Artist winner
Emily Hayes, piano,
George
Hayes, violin
play Mendelssohn
February
Natalya Shkoda,
piano, plays Prokofiev
May
Jon Manasse,
clarinet, plays Liebermann
Symphony Presents Piano Soloist,
Music of Eastern Europe
February 20 & 21
"The Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto is one of the happiest
and most enjoyable piano pieces I have ever played. It is a Russian
concerto, but it is not tragic at all. In my opinion, it is technically
dazzling, musically demanding, structurally convincing and also absolutely
entertaining for the performer and the listener alike. In the concerto,
the pianist is always competing with the orchestra, trying at times
to 'overplay' the
piano itself. Even though the Concerto is already 100 years old,
it still sounds quite contemporary. I am very excited about my upcoming
performance of Prokofiev's First Piano Concerto with the North
State Symphony."
~~~ Natalya Shkoda
The North State Symphony resumes its season on February 20th and 21st
in Redding and Chico with a fiery program entitled “Hot Passions from
Cold Climates.”
Natalya Shkoda, a pianist born in the Ukraine, will perform the First
Piano Concerto of the Russian master Sergey Prokofiev, who also wrote “Peter
and the Wolf.” Shkoda, now on the faculty at California State University,
Chico, has performed throughout Europe and the US.
The Symphony will also play the second symphony of Jan Sibelius of
Finland. Sibelius wrote romantic and energizing music, inspired partly
by Finnish legends. He tried to awaken nationalistic feelings in the
people of Finland.
Also on the program is an overture by Mikhail Glinka, an aristocrat
from the 19th Century, and the first important Russian composer.
Program notes and soloist's bio
Tickets
West Coast Premiere
Read a review in the Roanoke Times of Jon Manasse's performance of the Liebermann Concerto, which will have its California premiere at the NSS May concert series.
"But when the Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, Op. 110, by American composer Liebermann cruised to a breathless finish and the standing ovation and shouts of bravo were echoing through the hall, it seemed clear that we had heard a piece that will remain in the repertoire for decades to come."