2013 - 2014 Highlights

January 13, 2013

Akron Symphony

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune  

February 17, 2013

Akron Youth Symphony

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture

Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet

March 7 - 9, 2013

Cover Conductor, Atlanta Symphony

Roberto Abbado, guest conductor

Schubert: Overture to Rosamunde

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto

Schubert-Berio: Rendering

Rossini: William Tell Overture

March 12, 2013

Akron Youth Symphony

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter"

March 23, 2013

Akron Youth Symphony side by side with the Akron Youth Philharmonic

April 20, 2013

Akron Symphony

Pops series: The Music of James Taylor

May 1 - 10, 2013

Akron Symphony

Mozart: Overture to the Magic Flute

Ravel: Mother Goose (complete ballet)

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5

May 3, 2013

Art Song Recital - University of Akron

Amy Petrongelli, soprano 

Debussy: Trois Poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé

Debussy: Fêtes galantes (Deuxième recueil)

Ravel: Mélodies

Poulenc: Fiançailles pour rire

Fauré: La Bonne Chanson

May 5, 2013

Akron Youth Symphony

Maggie Niekamp, violin

Vincenzo Volpe, flute

Bartok: Rumanian Folk Dances

Bach: Violin Concerto in a-minor

Quantz: Flute Concerto in G-major

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5

May 27 - August 11, 2013

Associate Conductor, Central City Opera 

Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Our Town (Rorem,) Showboat

Barbiere performances July 16, 18, 19, 21

Our Town performance July 26

August 31, 2013

Rock legend Todd Rundgren and the Akron Symphony

September 15, 2013

Levi Hammer, piano

Christopher Wilkins, conductor

Akron Symphony

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 25, K. 503

Akron Beacon Journal

Cleveland Classical Interview

Cleveland Classical Review

November 14, 2013

Master class with voice students of Baldwin Wallace University

November 17, 2013

Akron Youth Symphony

Verdi: Overture to La Forza del Destino 

Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus , Op. 43

Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana 

Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut 

Fauré: Pavane in f-sharp minor, Op. 50

Ravel: Pavane for a Dead Princess

Rossini: Overture to William Tell 

February 9, 2014

Akron Youth Symphony

Mozart: Serenade in E-flat, K. 375

Barber: Adagio for Strings

Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

February 22, 2014

Akron Symphony

Kodály: Dances of Galánta

March 13 - 16, 2014

Cover Conductor, Atlanta Symphony

Donald Runnicles, Principal Guest Conductor

Robert Spano, Piano

Wagner: "Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde

Ravel: La Valse

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

March 18, 2014

Akron Youth Symphony

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7, Op. 92

May 4, 2014

Akron Youth Symphony

Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3, Op. 61

Dvorak: Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"

April 30 - May 9, 2014

Akron Symphony

Poulenc: The Story of Babar

Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1, Op. 25 "Classical"

May 18, 2014

Toledo Symphony

Rossini: La Gazza Ladra Overture

Gould: Pavanne

Miller: Beautiful Ohio

Copland: Appalachian Spring

Copland: Hoedown

July 27 - August 10, 2014

Akron Symphony

Summer Parks Concerts

Program includes:

Gimenez: La Boda de Luis Alonso

Smetana: Dance of the Comedians

Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla

and music of John Williams, Max Steiner, Ennio Morricone and Astor Piazzola