Karina Canellakis Conducts the Curtis Symphony Orchestra

Karina Canellakis (Violin ’04), conductor
Amanda Majeski (Opera ’09), soprano
Carlos Ágreda, conducting fellow

“The model of a modern musician” (Los Angeles Times) and winner of the 2016 Sir Georg Solti Conducting Award, Curtis alumna Karina Canellakis leads the emerging virtuosos of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Metropolitan Opera star Amanda Majeski, also a Curtis alumna, joins them in Strauss’s poignant final songs, a perfect match for her “glowing” soprano (Opera News). Renowned African-American composer George Walker  wrote his pensive Lyric for Strings in memory of his grandmother. Webern’s Six Pieces for Orchestra offers an otherworldly counterpoint to Scriabin’s rarely heard Poem of Ecstasy, which provides the exhilarating close.

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Orchestral concerts are supported by the Jack Wolgin Curtis Orchestral Concerts Endowment Fund.