CAMA presents Chicago Symphony Orchestra - October 21, 2017 - International Series at The Granada Theatre
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Saturday, October 21, 2017, The Granada Theatre, 8pm Riccardo Muti Music Director Stephen Williamson Clarinet Franz Schubert: Symphony No.8, D.759, “Unfinished” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622 Robert Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C Major, Op.61 Not seen in Santa Barbara since 1987, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-selling recordings and sold-out tour performances in the United States and around the globe. Maestro Riccardo Muti is one of the preeminent conductors of our day. In 2010, when he became the tenth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), he already had more than forty years of experience at the helm of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Teatro alla Scala.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, October 21, 2017, The Granada Theatre, 8pm
Riccardo Muti Music Director
Stephen Williamson Clarinet
Franz Schubert: Symphony No.8, D.759, “Unfinished”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K.622
Robert Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C Major, Op.61
Not seen in Santa Barbara since 1987, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the greatest orchestras in the world. In collaboration with the best conductors and guest artists on the international music scene, the CSO performs well over one hundred concerts each year at its downtown home, Symphony Center and at the Ravinia Festival on Chicago’s North Shore. Music lovers outside Chicago enjoy the sounds of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through best-selling recordings and sold-out tour performances in the United States and around the globe. Maestro Riccardo Muti is one of the preeminent conductors of our day. In 2010, when he became the tenth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO), he already had more than forty years of experience at the helm of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, and Teatro alla Scala.
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Passion<strong>at</strong>e about teaching young musicians,<br />
Maestro Muti founded the Luigi Cherubini Youth<br />
<strong>Orchestra</strong> in 2004 and the Riccardo Muti Italian<br />
Opera Academy in 2015 to pass on the Italian opera<br />
tradition to young conductors and répétiteurs.<br />
Golden Ring and the Otto Nicolai Gold<br />
Medal from the Philharmonic for his<br />
outstanding artistic contributions to the<br />
orchestra. He also is a recipient of a<br />
silver medal from the Salzburg Mozarteum<br />
and the Golden Johann Strauss Award<br />
by the Johann Strauss Society of Vienna.<br />
He is an honorary member of Vienna’s<br />
Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, the Vienna<br />
Hofmusikkapelle, the Vienna Philharmonic,<br />
and the Vienna St<strong>at</strong>e Opera.<br />
In addition to his distinguished<br />
appointments as music director, Muti<br />
has received innumerable intern<strong>at</strong>ional<br />
honors. He is a Cavaliere di Gran Croce of<br />
the Italian Republic, Officer of the French<br />
Legion of Honor, and a recipient of the<br />
German Verdienstkreuz. Queen Elizabeth<br />
II bestowed on him the title of honorary<br />
Knight Commander of the British Empire,<br />
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded<br />
him the Order of Friendship, and Pope<br />
Benedict XVI made him a Knight of the<br />
Grand Cross First Class of the Order of<br />
Saint Gregory the Gre<strong>at</strong>—the highest<br />
papal honor. Muti also has received<br />
Israel’s Wolf Prize for the arts, Sweden’s<br />
prestigious Birgit Nilsson Prize, Spain’s<br />
Prince of Asturias Award for the Arts,<br />
Japan’s Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and<br />
Silver Star decor<strong>at</strong>ion, and the gold medal<br />
from Italy’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br />
as well as the prestigious “Presidente<br />
della Repubblica” award from the Italian<br />
government. He has received more than<br />
twenty honorary degrees from universities<br />
around the world.<br />
Passion<strong>at</strong>e about teaching young<br />
musicians, Muti founded the Luigi<br />
Cherubini Youth <strong>Orchestra</strong> in 2004 and the<br />
Riccardo Muti Italian Opera Academy in<br />
2015 to pass on the Italian opera tradition<br />
to young conductors and répétiteurs.<br />
Through Le vie dell’Amicizia, a project<br />
of the Ravenna Festival in Italy, he has<br />
conducted in many of the world’s most<br />
troubled areas in order to bring <strong>at</strong>tention<br />
to and advoc<strong>at</strong>e for civic and social issues.<br />
Riccardo Muti’s vast c<strong>at</strong>alog of<br />
recordings, numbering in the hundreds,<br />
ranges from the traditional symphonic<br />
and oper<strong>at</strong>ic repertoires to contemporary<br />
works. He also has written two books,<br />
Verdi, l’italiano and Riccardo Muti: An<br />
Autobiography: First the Music, <strong>The</strong>n<br />
the Words, both of which have been<br />
published in several languages.t<br />
www.riccardomutimusic.com
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