The winter concert of the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota bubbles with good humor. The featured work on the program is Dmitri Shostakovich’s brilliant Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor for piano, trumpet, and strings, performed by guest artist Inna Faliks. Full of jokes and parodies of the great classical masters like Haydn and Beethoven, this is a wonderfully boyish and light-hearted work that has retained a constant place in the concert repertoire, most of all for the infectious pleasure that it affords both to audiences and to performer. The trumpet soloist for the concerto will be Gianluca Farina.
Other works on the concert include Gioachino Rossini’s Sonata for Strings in G Major, Josef Strauss and Johann Strauss Jr’s Pizzicato Polka, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Viennese Waltz King, and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto in G Minor.
Ms. Faliks will be the soloist for both piano concertos.
Inna Faliks, pianist
“Adventurous and passionate” (The New Yorker), Ukrainian-born American pianist Inna Faliks has made a name for herself through her commanding performances of standard piano repertoire, as well genre-bending interdisciplinary projects, and inquisitive work with contemporary composers. After her acclaimed teenage debuts at the Gilmore Festival and with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, she has appeared on many of the world’s great stages in recital and with many major orchestras, performing with conductors Leonard Slatkin, Keith Lockhart and many others. Her recent seasons include performances at Ravinia Festival in Chicago, National Gallery in Washington DC, as soloist with US orchestras nation-wide, and repeated tours of all the major venues in China.
Robert Vodnoy, music director
Music Director Robert Vodnoy has enjoyed a long and illustrious career as a conductor, composer, violinist, and educator. He co-founded the Chamber Orchestra of Sarasota in 2017. Vodnoy made his professional debut as a conductor in 1975 with the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra, which he led as music director for 30 years. He was Music Director of the Northwest Indiana Symphony (1976-1996), the Whiting Park Festival Orchestra (2000-present), the Huron Symphony (2010-2015) and has guest conducted orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim. He was Director of Orchestras/Professor of Strings and Music History at Northern State University from 2005-2018.
Vodnoy holds a BM summa cum laude and MM in composition from Hartt College of the University of Hartford and a DM in Conducting from Indiana University. He also studied conducting at the Monteux School for Conductors and the L'academia Chigiana.
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