Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

with Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano

The renowned Royal Philharmonic Orchestra returns with soloist Isata Kanneh-Mason, who made her Kansas City recital debut in 2022 with the Series.

As a respected cultural ambassador, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra enjoys a busy schedule of international touring, performing in the world’s great concert halls and prestigious international festivals. They are recognized as being the UK’s most in-demand orchestra and count passion, versatility and uncompromising artistic standards as hallmarks and are celebrated as one the world’s most openminded, forward-thinking and accessible symphony orchestras.

the way is over and over dematerialized: all references, never realistic, yet recognizable at first in the incidents and the various characters of the Poem, gradually become less obvious. And at the same time, more and more in focus is the visual heart of entertainment, into the understanding and restitution of the progressive loss of Dante himself, in the prevalence of an astonished spiritual feeling, in a suspended and white lightness.

“ANGELS and DEVILS clash in spectacular duels. ACROBATIC lights, flying actors, SOULS that fall like leaves in autumn…

It could be the description of a painting by Hescher or Bosch, but it’s an EMILIANO PELLISARI’ show.” - La Repubblica

Friday, January 12, 2024, 7:30 PM

Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Generously sponsored by: Mrs. Gretchen Jacobson

In great demand internationally as a soloist and chamber musician, KannehMason was an ECHO Rising Star in 21/22, performing in many of Europe’s finest halls and is also the recipient of the coveted Leonard Bernstein Award and an Opus Klassik award for best young artist. Her debut album on Decca Classics, Romance – the Piano Music of Clara Schumann, drew popular and critical acclaim, entering the UK classical charts at No. 1.

Kanneh-Mason plays Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 and the orchestra closes the program with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2.

Tuesday, January 23, 2024, 7 PM

Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Generously sponsored by: Jackie and John Middelkamp

“ THE INGRAM EVENTS

Simone Dinnerstein piano with conductor Volodymyr Sirenko and soloist Natalia Khoma, cello

Pianist Simone Dinnerstein makes her Series debut with the first multi-media production she has conceived, created, and directed, which uses as source materials her father Simon Dinnerstein’s painting The Fulbright Triptych and Charles Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 2 (Concord). The program consists of live performance visuals, camera work, and paintings to heighten Ives’ demanding Concord Sonata. Dinnerstein’s program seeks to highlight the connections between Ives and the Transcendentalists.

National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine has long been one of the most distinguished European orchestras, achieving worldwide recognition through its many international tours which include Australia, the US, Europe and Asia.

Dinnerstein has played with orchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra to the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai. She has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Seoul Arts Center and the Sydney Opera House. She has made thirteen albums, all of which topped the Billboard classical charts, with repertoire ranging from Couperin to Glass.

Internationally renowned cellist, Natalia Khoma, has been hailed around the world as “technically dazzling”, “intense, brilliant, and with perfect structure”. Khoma solos with the returning NSO Ukraine who perform a program of Ukrainian composers and Sibelius’ Third Symphony. This tour is an important showcase of the ensemble’s artistry and war-torn perseverance through selections from occupied nations.

Program:

Dmitry Bortniansky: Sinfonia Concertante in B flat Major (1790)

Robert Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 (Khoma) Jean Sibelius Symphony No 3 in C major, Op. 52

Sunday, February 18, 2024, 7 PM Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

Generously sponsored by: The Karbank Family Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation

Saturday, February 3, 2024, 7 PM Folly Theater

Generously sponsored by: Sanders and Blanche Sosland Music Fund