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MOZART AND BRAHMS JOSEPH MEYERHOFF SYMPHONY HALL Friday, May 18, 2018, 8pm Sunday, May 20, 2018, 3pm MUSIC CENTER AT STRATHMORE Saturday, May 19, 2018, 8pm Mario Venzago, conductor Kit Armstrong, piano Franz Liszt Les Préludes, S. 97, Symphonic Poem No. 3 Wolfgang Amadeus Concerto No. 22 in E-flat Major Mozart for Piano and Orchestra, K. 482 Allegro Andante Rondo: Allegro Kit Armstrong INTERMISSION Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major, op. 90 Allegro con brio Andante Poco allegretto Allegro The concert will end at approximately 9:50 pm on Friday and Saturday and 4:50 pm on Sunday. PRESENTING SPONSOR: The appearance of pianist Kit Armstrong is made possible through the support of the Hilda Perl Goodwin Young Artist Fund. About the Artists Mario Venzago, Mario Venzago is the principal conductor and artistic director of the Bern Symphony Orchestra and artist-in- association at Finland’s Tapiola Sinfonietta. In the capacity either of principal conductor or general music director, Venzago has directed the Musikkollegium Winterthur, the Theatre and Philharmonic 18 OV E R T U R E / BSOmusic.org Orchestra of the City of Heidelberg, The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt (now Bremen), the Graz Opera, the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra, the Basel Symphony Orchestra, the Basque National Orchestra in San Sebastian, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. From 2000 to 2003, he was artistic director of the Baltimore Summer Fest as successor to Pinchas Zukermann and David Zinman. From 2010 to 2014, he was principal conductor of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Before taking up conducting, Venzago was a concert pianist at Radiotelevisione Svizerra in Switzerland and performed throughout Europe as a soloist and accompanist. Venzago has conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the Filarmonica della Scala and the NHK Symphony Orchestra. He is a regular guest conductor with internationally renowned symphony orchestras such as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and prestigious chamber orchestras including the Tapiola Sinfonietta and the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne. Venzago has given concerts with the world’s most famous soloists and worked with directors such as Ruth Berghaus, Peter Konwitschny and Hans Neuenfels. Several of his CDs have won international prizes such as the Grand Prix du Disque, the Diapason d’or and the Edison Award. His recordings of the operas Venusâ and Penthesilea and of all choral works by Othmar Schoeck with the MDR choir and symphony orchestra received great international recognition and prestigious awards, as did his first film, My Brother the Conductor by Alberto Venzago, which was shown in cinemas across Europe and released on DVD. In the spring of 2015, the collaboration between Venzago and the CPO label on the project The Other Bruckner, with all ten Bruckner symphonies, was completed. The individual releases, acclaimed by international critics, are available from CPO, as are the complete CD box and a documentary film. Mario Venzago last appeared with the BSO in February 2016, conducting works of Gluck, Mozart and Schumann.