Program Book / October 10, 2022 / CAMA Presents the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla and Sheku Kanneh‑Mason
The Board of Directors of Community Arts Music Association dedicate this concert to the memory of Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II and of Her Majesty's 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms, and the Commonwealth. MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022, 7:30PM City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla, Music Director Sheku Kanneh‑Mason, cello The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham—and one of the world’s great orchestras. The tradition began with their very first concert back in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. The CBSO became internationally famous when conductor Simon Rattle took the helm in 1980. In 2016, the CBSO welcomed the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a native of Vilnius, Lithuania, as its Music Director, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, watched by nearly two billion people globally. Sheku’s album Elgar on the Decca Classical label made him the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top 10. PROGRAM: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85 MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: “Jewish Rhapsody,” from Festive Scenes, Op.36 CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer PRE-CONCERT LECTURE: Jennifer Kloetzel, Professor, Cello and Head of Strings, UCSB Department of Music Sullivan Goss Art Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara Doors open 5:45PM ⫽ Lecture 6:00–6:40PM Presented by the CAMA Women’s Board •
The Board of Directors of Community Arts Music Association dedicate this concert to the memory of
Her Majesty The Queen Elizabeth II and of Her Majesty's 70 years of service to the people of the
United Kingdom, the Realms, and the Commonwealth.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022, 7:30PM
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Mirga Gražinytė‑Tyla, Music Director
Sheku Kanneh‑Mason, cello
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is the flagship of musical life in Birmingham—and one of the world’s great orchestras. The tradition began with their very first concert back in 1920—conducted by Sir Edward Elgar. The CBSO became internationally famous when conductor Simon Rattle took the helm in 1980. In 2016, the CBSO welcomed the appointment of Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, a native of Vilnius, Lithuania, as its Music Director, following her time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a Dudamel Fellow, Assistant Conductor, and Associate Conductor. British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason became a household name in 2018 after performing at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at Windsor Castle, watched by nearly two billion people globally. Sheku’s album Elgar on the Decca Classical label made him the first cellist in history to reach the UK Top 10.
PROGRAM:
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
SIR EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op.85
MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG: “Jewish Rhapsody,” from Festive Scenes, Op.36
CLAUDE DEBUSSY: La Mer
PRE-CONCERT LECTURE:
Jennifer Kloetzel, Professor, Cello and Head of Strings, UCSB Department of Music
Sullivan Goss Art Gallery, 11 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara
Doors open 5:45PM ⫽ Lecture 6:00–6:40PM
Presented by the CAMA Women’s Board
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Photo by Frans Jansen
MIRGA
GRAŽINYTĖ-TYLA
conductor
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla was named Music
Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra in February 2016 following
in the footsteps of Sir Simon Rattle,
Sakari Oramo and Andris Nelsons. With
the start of the 2022/2023 season she assumes
the position of principal guest conductor
of the CBSO for one season. Winner
of the 2012 Salzburg Festival Young Conductors
Award, she subsequently made
her debut with the Gustav Mahler Youth
Orchestra in a symphonic concert at the
Salzburger Festspiele.
Recent highlights include a highly acclaimed
performance of Britten’s War Requiem
at the Salzburger Festspiele, her
celebrated return to opera with a new production
of Janáček’s The Cunning Little
Vixen, staged by Barrie Kosky, at the Bayerische
Staatsoper München in January 2022,
numerous European tours with the City
of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and
performances with the London Symphony
Orchestra, the NDR Elbphilharmonie, the
Swedish Radio Orchestra, Filarmonica della
Scala, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Gražinytė-Tyla has electrified audiences
as a guest conductor all over the
world. In Europe, she has collaborated
with the Lithuanian National Symphony
Orchestra, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic,
the Beethoven Orchestra Bonn, the
Deutsche Radiophilharmonie, the Bavarian
Radio Symphony Orchestra, MDR Leipzig,
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France,
Orchestre National de France, the Orchestre
National de Lyon, as well as the
Chamber Orchestra of Vienna, the Danish
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