Curtis Symphony Orchestra “Yuja Wang Plays Rautavaara” (Photo Roundup)
The 2024–25 Curtis Symphony Orchestra series concluded on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 3 p.m., in Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center. One of the world’s most celebrated pianists, superstar Yuja Wang (’08), known for her “exceptional power, depth, and dazzle” (Los Angeles Times), joins the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and five-time Grammy Award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Curtis’ head of conducting, for a tour de force performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
This exciting program opened with Lili Boulanger’s joyful D’un Matin de printemps (“Of a Spring Morning”) under the baton of Mariana Corichi Gómez, first-year Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow. The second half of the program featured Maurice Ravel’s sumptuous orchestral song cycle Shéhérazade with mezzo-soprano Judy Zhuo, Curtis’ Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow, and Claude Debussy’s atmospheric symphonic sketches, La mer, in a cinematic and emotionally charged afternoon of Nordic fire and French elegance.
Check out the photo highlights below, courtesy of Margo Reed Studio.
