23/24 CSO Season Brochure

2 3/24 S E A SO N at music hall

Dear Friends, Our journey together through music will forever hold a special place in my heart. In my last season as CSO Music Director, we celebrate special moments from the previous decade while embracing a future full of possibilities. I am eager to share with you what we have imagined, created, innovated, and generated as fresh experiences for you this season.

The best way to experience orchestral music is to fully come together for live concerts. It can move us, allow us to feel more fully, and embrace one another more wholeheartedly. It can unite people from all backgrounds through shared musical experiences, and we are deeply grateful to you for sharing your time with us over the years.

This celebratory season will be one to remember.

I can’t wait for you to join us.

Musically Yours,

Louis Langrée, Music Director

THE RITE OF SPRING

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SEP 30, 2023 SAT 7:30 pm OCT 1, 2023 SUN 2 pm Christian Reif conductor Clara-Jumi Kang violin FALLA Interlude and Dance from La vida breve BARTÓK Violin Concerto No. 2 STRAVINSKY Le sacre du printemps (“The Rite of Spring”) The 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring was perhaps the most famous opening-night scandal in history. Confronted with its primal and untamed nature, its first audience was ignited into a riot, instantly cementing its reputation as a work that, to this day, triggers visceral responses. Conductor Christian Reif sets the stage for our wild encounter with a light and airy dance by Manuel de Falla and violinist Clara-Jumi Kang, bringing her poise to Bartók’s second violin concerto.

Saturday Evening C & Sunday Afternoon Series

BERNSTEIN, PRICE & COPLAND

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OCT 13 & 14, 2023

FRI 11 am; SAT 7:30 pm Louis Langrée conductor George Takei narrator BERNSTEIN Overture to Candide PRICE Symphony No. 1 COPLAND Lincoln Portrait BERNSTEIN Symphonic Suite from On the Waterfront The CSO performs music of American composers representing a variety of perspectives. Bernstein’s optimistic Candide and gripping score to the Oscarwinning film On the Waterfront frame a program including Copland’s Lincoln Portrait, a reprise from Louis Langrée’s first CSO subscription concert as Music Director, and Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1.

In 1933, Price’s magnificent, tour de force Symphony No. 1 was the first symphonic work by a Black woman to be played by a major American orchestra.

Saturday Evening C & Sunday Afternoon Series

RING WITHOUT WORDS

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OCT 27 & 28, 2023 FRI & SAT 7:30 pm James Gaffigan conductor BACEWICZ Overture MOZART Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade in G Major) WAGNER Der Ring ohne Worte für Orchester (“The Ring Without Words”) Fantasy kingdoms, scandalous love affairs, dwarfs, giants, and powerful music. Game of Thrones? Tolkien?

Actually, before those came the Ring cycle, Wagner’s master achievement in his quest to create an allencompassing theatrical experience. Conductor James Gaffigan returns to lead the CSO in a concert compilation of Wagner’s four epic operas, on a program that opens with two musical gems: Bacewicz’s delightfully bracing Overture and Mozart’s Eine kleine Nachtmusik.

Friday Evening & Saturday Evening B Series

TETZLAFF & TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH

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NOV 10 & 11, 2023 FRI 11 am; SAT 7:30 pm Gustavo Gimeno conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin Daníel BJARNASON New Work, Part II (CSO Co-Commission, World Premiere) SZYMANOWSKI Violin Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 5 “One of today’s most in-demand violinists” (NPR), Christian Tetzlaff returns to Music Hall after last showcasing his “jaw-dropping virtuosity” (Cincinnati Enquirer) here in the Queen City in 2017. Conductor Gustavo Gimeno leads Tetzlaff and the CSO in Szymanowski’s sweepingly lyrical Violin Concerto and a world premiere from Daníel Bjarnason’s multipart commissioned work. Tchaikovsky’s wellspring of melodies is on display in his Fifth Symphony— opening with a fateful funeral march, winding through a sonorous solo horn song and lilting waltz, then finishing with bombastic brass.

Bjarnason co-commission is made possible by Ann and Harry Santen.

Friday Evening & Saturday Evening B Series

THOMAS’ HAMLET

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NOV 17, 2023 FRI 7:30 pm NOV 19, 2023 SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Stéphane Degout Hamlet Jodie Devos Ophélie Laurent Alvaro Claudius Béatrice Uria-Monzon Gertrude Céline Gaudier director May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director THOMAS Hamlet

Presented in collaboration with Ópera Comique

To be or not to be….” French composer Ambroise Thomas’ grand opera is a musical setting of Shakespeare’s tragic story of the melancholic Prince Hamlet, his murderous uncle, ghostly father, and lover driven to madness.

Louis Langrée leads the CSO and May Festival Chorus in this new touring production created in collaboration with Paris’ famed Ópera Comique.

Friday Evening & Saturday Evening B (Sunday Performance) Series

SIBELIUS SYMPHONY NO. 5

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NOV 25 & 26, 2023 SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Dalia Stasevska conductor Davóne Tines bass-baritone DVOŘÁK Largo from Symphony No. 9, From the New World Kaija SAARIAHO True Fire WALKER Lyric for Strings SIBELIUS Symphony No. 5 Dalia Stasevska returns to lead a Thanksgiving weekend of music that calls us home. Music drawn from the American heartland opens the program, with the beloved “Goin’ Home” theme from Dvořák’s New World Symphony and George Walker’s Lyric for Strings. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines performs Saariaho’s True Fire, a work based on Native American texts and Emerson’s Spiritual Laws. Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony provides a finale of sweeping and grand themes, evoking the spirit of Stasevska’s own Finnish homeland.

Saturday Evening C & Sunday Afternoon Series

BACH’S FOURTH & MAHLER’S FIFTH

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DEC 1 & 2, 2023 FRI 11 am; SAT 7:30 pm Case Scaglione conductor Randolph Bowman flute Henrik Heide flute Stefani Matsuo violin BACH Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 MAHLER Symphony No. 5 Two extremes of orchestral scale combine for a showcase of the CSO that’s both intimate and expansive.Conductor Case Scaglione makes his CSO debut with Bach’s beautifully playful Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, which highlights individual virtuosity within a smaller ensemble, alongside Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. First performed in the U.S. by the CSO, Mahler’s Fifth Symphony employs an orchestra of impressive proportions, from its iconic trumpet opening to the beloved, emotional Adagietto.

Friday Morning & Saturday Evening A Series

BRAHMS: RUNNICLES & TRIFONOV

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JAN 5, 6 & 7, 2024 FRI 7:30 pm; SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Sir Donald Runnicles conductor Daniil Trifonov piano BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 Sir Donald Runnicles, celebrated for his interpretations of Romantic symphonic repertoire, leads an all-Brahms program, joining forces with powerhouse pianist Daniil Trifonov, following his stunning solo Music Hall performance in 2022.

Together, they explore Brahms’ more brooding and emotional side in his Piano Concerto No. 1. Runnicles then conducts the CSO in Brahms’ Symphony No. 2, from its iconic “lullaby” to its cheerfully triumphant and brass-filled finale.

Friday Evening, Saturday Evening B & Saturday Evening C (Sunday Performance) Series

RACHMANINOFF & ADAMS

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JAN 19 & 20, 2024 FRI 11 am; SAT 7:30 pm Kevin John Edusei conductor George Li piano Samy MOUSSA Elysium RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 2 John ADAMS Harmonielehre Kevin John Edusei leads a program that invites you to explore the concept of harmony and its many forms, beginning with Elysium by Samy Moussa, a composer who has a “gleeful sense for …shocking harmony” (Los Angeles Times). John Adams describes his rhythmically and harmonically complex Harmonielehre as a parody “without the intent to ridicule,” with “shades of Mahler, Sibelius and Debussy.” Both pieces frame George Li’s performance of the Second Piano Concerto from Rachmaninoff, arguably the hero of the lush, Romantic style.

Sponsored by Peter Landgren and Judith Schonbach Landgren

Friday Morning & Saturday Evening A Series

SYMPHONIC MOZART

JAN 27 & 28, 2024 SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Dame Jane Glover conductor Stefani Matsuo violin Christian Colberg viola MOZART Symphony No. 13 MOZART Sinfonia Concertante MOZART Symphony No. 36, Linz Dame Jane Glover is widely regarded as a preeminent conductor of Mozart’s music. She leads an “all-Amadeus” program, showcasing CSO Concertmaster Stefani Matsuo and Principal Viola Christian Colberg in Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante. Their performance is folded between works illustrating Mozart’s evolution of the symphony from the lighter style of early composers such as Haydn to the more emotionallyinfused music of Beethoven, to its cheerfully triumphant and brass-filled finale.

Saturday Evening C & Sunday Afternoon Series

SHOSTAKOVICH: 1905

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FEB 2 & 3, 2024 FRI 11 am; SAT 7:30 pm Cristian Măcelaru conductor Kian Soltani cello LUTOSŁAWSKI Cello Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905 Grammy-winning conductor Cristian Măcelaru joins the CSO for music of two Slavic luminaries. Cellist Kian Soltani brings his expressive and charismatic presence to Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto, frequently interpreted as an escalating struggle between the seemingly heroic soloist and the orchestra representing totalitarian authority. The acclaim and popularity of his Symphony No. 11 helped Shostakovich, who had weathered criticism and persecution from the Soviet regime, win back State approval. It offers a depiction of the 1905 Russian Revolution, from the first shots of Bloody Sunday to funeral marches lamenting those who were lost.

Friday Morning & Saturday Evening A Series

BRAHMS’ REQUIEM

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FEB 9, 10 & 11, 2024 FRI 7:30 pm; SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Will Liverman baritone May Festival Chorus, Robert Porco director BRAHMS Ein Deutsches Requiem With prayerful music for both the living and the dead, the source of comfort in Brahms’ A German Requiem is as much human as it is divine. Louis Langrée leads the CSO and the May Festival Chorus in Brahms’ large-scale masterpiece. Though Brahms was often discreet in nature, his Requiem is a deeply personal work. Spurred by the loss of his mother, and influenced by lingering emotions of self-doubt, he turned to his true religion — music — as a way to console not only himself, but others as well.

Friday Evening, Saturday Evening B & Saturday Evening C (Sunday Performance) Series

SPRINGS OF COPLAND & SCHUMANN

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MAR 8, 9 & 10, 2024 FRI 7:30 pm; SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Matthias Pintscher conductor Conrad Tao piano COPLAND Appalachian Spring inti figgis-vizueta New Work (CSO Commission, World Premiere) R. SCHUMANN Symphony No. 1, Spring As the winter winds quell and the flowers of spring begin to blossom, CSO Creative Partner Matthias Pintscher conducts the Orchestra in works capturing the feeling of life beginning anew. Copland’s Appalachian Spring shines with the “Simple Gifts” of the season. After wowing CSO audiences in 2021 and 2022, pianist Conrad Tao returns for the world premiere of a CSO-commissioned work from composer inti figgis-vizueta, whose music “feels sprouted between structures” (The Washington Post).

Then, Schumann’s Symphony No. 1 triumphantly ushers in the spring season.

Friday Evening, Saturday Evening B & Sunday Afternoon Series

HEROIC STRAUSS & MELODIC MOZART

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MAR 23 & 24, 2024 SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Sir Mark Elder conductor Pavel Kolesnikov piano WAGNER Overture to Tannhäuser MOZART Piano Concerto No. 17 R. STRAUSS Ein Heldenleben (“A Hero’s Life”) Stories of glory, chivalry and adventure abound as conductor Sir Mark Elder leads the CSO. Wagner’s Tannhäuser is a musical story of lust, love, and deliverance, as the opera’s title character makes a pilgrimage from the magical realm of Venus to his final redemption in Rome. Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben is an epic portrayal of the hero that exists in all of us, along with the accompanying joys and struggles, depicted through battling brass and tender string melodies. Pianist Pavel Kolesnikov brings his “fluid, fine-toned” (Gramophone) playing to Mozart’s melodic Piano Concerto No. 17.

Saturday Evening C & Sunday Afternoon Series

THE INEXTINGUISHABLE

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MAR 29 & 30, 2024 FRI 11 am; SAT 7:30 pm Ryan Bancroft conductor Inon Barnatan piano COLERIDGE-TAYLOR Ballade for Orchestra TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1 NIELSEN Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable “Music is life, and like it, it is inextinguishable.” With this declaration written at the top of his score, Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4 pits the everlasting spirit of life against the horror of World War I with dramatic music leading to, what else, but a battle between two timpani! Making his CSO debut, conductor Ryan Bancroft opens this program with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade for Orchestra, and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, displaying the virtuosity of guest pianist Inon Barnatan, heralded by The New York Times as “one of the most admired pianists of his generation.”

Friday Morning & Saturday Evening A Series

HADELICH PERFORMS BRAHMS

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APR 20 & 21, 2024 SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Augustin Hadelich violin Jonathan Bailey HOLLAND New Work (CSO Co-Commission, CSO Premiere) SCHOENBERG Verklärte Nacht (“Transfigured Night”) BRAHMS Violin Concerto Schoenberg’s music, before he became known as a father of 20th-century 12-tone composition, developed from the harmonic bedrock of Romantics like Brahms, Mahler and Richard Strauss. His “Transfigured Night” was further heightened when Schoenberg met the love of his life and found inspiration in poetry of hope and acceptance.

Led by Louis Langrée, the CSO performs this, along with Brahms’ Violin Concerto, which features the return of Grammy-winning violinist Augustin Hadelich, and a cocommission from former CSO Composer-in-Residence Jonathan Bailey Holland.

Holland co-commission is made possible by Irwin and Melinda Simon.

Saturday Evening C & Sunday Afternoon Series

DVOŘÁK SYMPHONY NO. 8

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APR 26 & 27, 2024 FRI 7:30 pm; SAT 7:30 pm Katharina Wincor conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture SHOSTAKOVICH Cello Concerto No. 1 DVOŘÁK Symphony No. 8 Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 is filled with optimistic and lyrical music, leading to a finale of fanfares and dances. Conductor Katharina Wincor, who led the May Festival’s 2022 production of Candide, returns to Music Hall and welcomes cellist Sheku KannehMason for Shostakovich’s raw and rhythmic first Cello Concerto.

Friday Evening & Saturday Evening B Series

BEETHOVEN 7 & DESSNER PREMIERES

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MAY 3 & 4, 2024 FRI 11 am; SAT 7:30 pm Louis Langrée conductor Alice Sara Ott piano Bryce DESSNER Mari Bryce DESSNER Piano Concerto (Co-Commission, US Premiere) BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7 If Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony is known as a musical embodiment of fate, his Seventh carries the spirit of freedom and liberation, with catchy, dance-like melodies woven throughout. Bryce Dessner, founder of Cincinnati’s MusicNOW Festival and a member of the Grammy-winning band The National, shares two of his works for orchestra.

Dessner co-commission made possible by Kari and Jon Ullman.

Friday Morning & Saturday Evening A Series

STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRD

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MAY 10, 11 & 12, 2024 FRI 7:30 pm; SAT 7:30 pm; SUN 2 pm Louis Langrée conductor Latonia Moore soprano Janni Younge director Anthony DAVIS New Orchestral Song Cycle (CSO Commission, World Premiere) STRAVINSKY The Firebird [complete] This is a Firebird unlike any you’ve experienced before.

Louis Langrée, in his final program as Music Director, leads the CSO in the premiere of a new song cycle by Anthony Davis, whose 2007 You Have the Right to Remain Silent made a poignant impression on CSO livestream audiences in 2020. Then, Langrée concludes his tenure in collaboration with South African director Janni Younge of Janni Younge Productions, which is critically acclaimed for imaginative designs including their Tony Award-winning puppetry in War Horse. The result is a visually stunning performance of Stravinsky’s score with music of enchantment, infernal dance, and a finale featuring the Firebird making a glorious appearance inside Music Hall.

Presenting Sponsor: HORAN

Friday Evening, Saturday Evening B & Sunday Afternoon Series

EL NIÑO: NATIVITY RECONSIDERED NOV 30, 2023 THU 8 pm Christian Reif conductor Julia Bullock soprano Jasmin White mezzo-soprano Anthony Roth Costanzo countertenor Davóne Tines bass-baritone John ADAMS El Niño In a new arrangement created by conductor Christian Reif, John Adams’ massive revisionist opera-oratorio is transformed into an intimate setting for chamber orchestra. Interweaving biblical verse with poetry by Latin American writers, El Niño considers the Nativity story from Mary’s perspective and explores in Adams’ words, “what is meant by a miracle.”

The CSO is grateful for support from CSO Presenting Sponsors Irwin and Melinda Simon.

FROM THE CANYONS TO THE STARS MAR 1 & 2, 2024 FRI 8 pm; SAT 8 pm Matthias Pintscher conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano Hicham Berrada video art MESSIAEN Des canyons aux étoiles Inspired by his visits to Utah’s Bryce Canyon and Zion National Park, Messiaen’s Des canyons aux étoiles (“From the Canyons to the Stars”) depicts the birdsong and red rock hues he experienced during his time in the desert. Messiaen – who was also synesthetic – heard colors and saw sounds.

Accompanied by immersive video-art from Hicham Berrada, Springer Auditorium will be transformed, allowing listeners to escape into the southwestern landscape and experience a synesthesia of their own.

The CSO is grateful for support from CSO Presenting Sponsors Irwin and Melinda Simon.

RÉPONSE MAY 3, 2024 FRI 8 pm Louis Langrée conductor LUTOSŁAWSKI Musique funèbre “Music of Mourning” Bryce DESSNER Réponse Lutosławski Bryce DESSNER Tenebre Lutosławski’s interpretation of music for a funeral, and Bryce Dessner’s Réponse, which was inspired by the Musique funèbre, open this enlightening program.

In his Tenebre, Dessner shares his take on the typical music for a Tenebrae service, where the extinguishing of candles symbolizes Christ’s death. But unlike the service’s descent into darkness, Dessner inverts it and takes listeners on a journey from darkness to light.

The CSO is grateful for support from CSO Presenting Sponsors Irwin and Melinda Simon.

SPECIALS NINA SIMONE

PIANO CONCERTO COMPETITION FINALS OCT 6, 2023 FRI 7:30 pm Louis Langrée conductor Created to give a platform to talented young African American pianists, the Competition will take place this summer in Cincinnati on the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music campus.

The Competition aims to get more African American artists on concert stages, to commission new works, and to add more African American pianistic voices to the classical canon. Join the competition’s three finalists as they come together with Louis Langrée and the CSO to compete for the grand prize on Music Hall’s stage.

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SPECIALS CLASSICAL ROOTS APR 19, 2024 FRI 7:30 pm John Morris Russell conductor Love and fellowship ring throughout Music Hall for one of Cincinnati’s most anticipated musical traditions of each year! JMR leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Classical Roots Community Choir and Nouveau Players in an evening of powerful and inspirational music.

Jeffrey & Jody Lazarow and Janie & Peter Schwartz Family Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation

CSO SERIES PACKAGES

FRIDAY MORNING 7 Concerts at 11 AM

BERNSTEIN, PRICE & COPLAND OCT 13, 2023 | FRI 11 AM Louis Langrée conductor George Takei narrator

TETZLAFF & TCHAIKOVSKY'S FIFTH NOV 10, 2023 | FRI 11 AM Gustavo Gimeno conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin

BACH'S FOURTH & MAHLER'S FIFTH DEC 1, 2023 | FRI 11 AM Case Scaglione conductor Randolph Bowman flute Henrick Heide flute Stefani Matsuo violin

RACHMANINOFF & ADAMS JAN 19, 2024 | FRI 11 AM Kevin John Edusei conductor George Li piano

SHOSTAKOVICH: 1905

FEB 2, 2024 | FRI 11 AM Cristian Măcelaru conductor Kian Soltani cello

THE INEXTINGUISHABLE MAR 29, 2024 | FRI 11 AM Ryan Bancroft conductor Inon Barnatan piano

BEETHOVEN 7 & DESSNER PREMIERES MAY 3, 2024 | FRI 11 AM Louis Langrée conductor Alice Sara Ott piano

Programs, dates, times and artists subject to change.

FRIDAY EVENING 7 Concerts at 7:30 PM RING WITHOUT WORDS OCT 27, 2023 | FRI 7:30 PM James Gaffigan conductor

THOMAS’ HAMLET

NOV 17, 2023 | FRI 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Stéphane Degout Hamlet Jodie Devos Ophélie May Festival Chorus

BRAHMS: RUNNICLES & TRIFONOV JAN 5, 2024 | FRI 7:30 PM Sir Donald Runnicles conductor Daniil Trifonov piano

BRAHMS’ REQUIEM

FEB 9, 2024 | FRI 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Will Liverman baritone May Festival Chorus

SPRINGS OF COPLAND & SCHUMANN MAR 8, 2024 | FRI 7:30 PM Matthias Pintscher conductor Conrad Tao piano

DVOŘÁK SYMPHONY NO. 8 APR 26, 2024 | FRI 7:30 PM Katharina Wincor conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello

STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRD MAY 10, 2024 | FRI 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Latonia Moore soprano Janni Younge director

SATURDAY EVENING A 7 Concerts at 7:30 PM

BERNSTEIN, PRICE & COPLAND OCT 14, 2023 | SAT 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor George Takei narrator

TETZLAFF & TCHAIKOVSKY’S FIFTH NOV 11, 2023 | SAT 7:30 PM Gustavo Gimeno conductor Christian Tetzlaff violin

BACH’S FOURTH & MAHLER’S FIFTH DEC 2, 2023 | SAT 7:30 PM Case Scaglione conductor Randolph Bowman flute Henrick Heide flute Stefani Matsuo violin

RACHMANINOFF & ADAMS JAN 20, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Kevin John Edusei conductor George Li piano

SHOSTAKOVICH: 1905

FEB 3, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Cristian Măcelaru conductor Kian Soltani cello

THE INEXTINGUISHABLE MAR 30, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Ryan Bancroft conductor Inon Barnatan piano

BEETHOVEN 7 & DESSNER PREMIERES MAY 4, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Alice Sara Ott piano

SATURDAY EVENING B 7 Concerts at 7:30 PM

*Dates & times unless otherwise noted

RING WITHOUT WORDS OCT 28, 2023 | SAT 7:30 PM James Gaffigan conductor

THOMAS’ HAMLET*

OCT 28, 2023 | SAT 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Stéphane Degout Hamlet Jodie Devos Ophélie May Festival Chorus

BRAHMS: RUNNICLES & TRIFONOV JAN 6, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Sir Donald Runnicles conductor Daniil Trifonov piano

BRAHMS’ REQUIEM

FEB 10, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Will Liverman baritone May Festival Chorus

SPRINGS OF COPLAND & SCHUMANN MAR 9, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Matthias Pintscher conductor Conrad Tao piano

DVOŘÁK SYMPHONY NO. 8 APR 27, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Katharina Wincor conductor Sheku Kanneh-Mason cello

STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRD MAY 11, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Latonia Moore soprano Janni Younge director

SATURDAY EVENING C 7 Concerts at 7:30 PM

*Dates & times unless otherwise noted

THE RITE OF SPRING

SEP 30, 2023 | SAT 7:30 PM Christian Reif conductor Clara-Jumi Kang violin

SIBELIUS SYMPHONY NO. 5 NOV 25, 2023 | SAT 7:30 PM Dalia Stasevska conductor Davóne Tines bass-baritone

BRAHMS: RUNNICLES & TRIFONOV* JAN 7, 2024 | SUN 2 PM* Sir Donald Runnicles conductor Daniil Trifonov piano

SYMPHONIC MOZART*

JAN 27, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Dame Jane Glover conductor Stefani Matsuo violin Christian Colberg viola

BRAHMS’ REQUIEM

FEB 11, 2024 | SUN 2 PM* Louis Langrée conductor Joélle Harvey soprano Will Liverman baritone May Festival Chorus

HEROIC STRAUSS & MELODIC MOZART MAR 23, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Sir Mark Elder conductor Pavel Kolesnikov piano

HADELICH PERFORMS BRAHMS APR 20, 2024 | SAT 7:30 PM Louis Langrée conductor Augustin Hadelich violin

SUNDAY AFTERNOON 7 Concerts at 2 PM THE RITE OF SPRING OCT 1, 2023 | SUN 2 PM Christian Reif conductor Clara-Jumi Kang violin

SIBELIUS SYMPHONY NO. 5 NOV 26, 2023 | SUN 2 PM Dalia Stasevska conductor Davóne Tines bass-baritone

SYMPHONIC MOZART

JAN 28, 2024 | SUN 2 PM Dame Jane Glover conductor Stefani Matsuo violin Christian Colberg viola

SPRINGS OF COPLAND & SCHUMANN MAR 10, 2024 | SUN 2 PM Matthias Pintscher conductor Conrad Tao piano

HEROIC STRAUSS & MELODIC MOZART MAR 24, 2024 | SUN 2 PM Sir Mark Elder conductor Pavel Kolesnikov piano

HADELICH PERFORMS BRAHMS APR 21, 2024 | SUN 2 PM Louis Langrée conductor Augustin Hadelich violin

STRAVINSKY’S FIREBIRD MAY 12, 2024 | SUN 2 PM Louis Langrée conductor Latonia Moore soprano Janni Younge director

Programs, dates, times and artists subject to change.

Season Support

The Nina Browne Parker

Trust

Platinum Baton Circle | $50,000+ ArtsWave • Louise Dieterle Nippert Musical Arts Fund of the Greenacres Foundation • Ohio Arts Council • National Endowment for the Arts PNC Bank • Western & Southern Financial Group • David C. Herriman Fund of Greater Cincinnati Foundation • H.B., E.W., and F.R. Luther Foundation The Mellon Foundation • Dr. John & Louise Mulford Fund for the CSO • The Nina Browne Parker Trust • The Marge & Charles J. Schott Foundation

Gold Baton Circle | $25,000-$49,999 Coney Island • The Cincinnati Symphony Club • United Dairy Farmers & Homemade Brand Ice Cream • The Charles H. Dater Foundation Jeffrey & Jody Lazarow and Janie & Peter Schwartz Family Fund • George and Margaret McLane Foundation • Ladislas and Vilma Segoe Family Foundation The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation

Silver Baton Circle | $15,000-$24,999 HORAN • Johnson Investment Council • Wodecroft Foundation

Conductor’s Circle | $10,000-$14,999 Bartlett Wealth Management • Chemed Corporation • CVG Airport Authority • HORAN • Johnson Investment Council Messer Construction Company The Lewis and Marjorie Daniel Foundation • Peter E. Landgren & Judith Schonbach Landgren • The Daniel & Susan Pfau Foundation Laura Gamble Thomson

Concertmaster’s Circle | $5,000-$9,999 AARP Ohio • Graeter’s Ice Cream • Ohio National Financial Services • PyroTechnical Investigations, Inc. • Queen City Chapter of the Links, Incorporated Thompson Hine • Kelly Dehan and Rick Staudigel

Commission Underwriters Ann and Harry Santen • Irwin and Melinda Simon • Connie Bergstein Dow and Buzz Dow Kari and Jon Ullman, Paul and Anna Isaacs, Kelly and Rick Staudigel

C I N C I N N AT I S Y M P H O N Y O R C H E S T R A C I N C I N N AT I P O P S O R C H E S T R A

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