2013-2014 Season

RSO Homecoming

with Vijay Venkatesh, piano

Roanoke Symphony Orchestra

David Stewart Wiley, conductor

Sun 10 Nov 2013, 3:00 PM
Mon 11 Nov 2013, 7:30 PM
Jefferson Center

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RSO programs are partially supported by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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The RSO's first performance took place at Jefferson High School in 1953. We open this "homecoming" program with the triumphant and magical horn calls from Weber's Der Freischutz. Rising young star Vijay Venkatesh makes his RSO debut in Liszt's grand and expressive first piano concerto. Cascades of brass, romantic Finnish melodies, and a triumphant finale conclude the second symphony of Sibelius and this second Concert Hall Masterworks program.

Weber Overture to Der Freischutz

Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1

Sibelius Symphony No. 2

David Stewart Wiley

Conductor

About this Artist

David Stewart Wiley serves concurrently as Music Director & Conductor of our Roanoke Symphony Orchestra and New York's Long Island Philharmonic. Prior to these positions, he served as Assistant Conductor of the Minnesota Orchestra and, before that, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. In demand as a guest conductor, pianist, and composer, Maestro Wiley has performed all over the world including numerous countries in Europe, Asia, and Africa. He has led top American orchestras including the symphonies of Atlanta, Boston, Cincinnati, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Minnesota, Oregon, Saint Louis, San Francisco, and Utah. David Stewart Wiley is the recipient of the Aspen Conducting Prize (1993), a Conducting Fellowship at Tanglewood, the Daniels Prize in Music & Literature from Tufts University, and Virginia's Perry F. Kendig Award for Service to the Arts. Maestro Wiley holds four degrees: Doctor and Master of Music degrees in Conducting from Indiana University, a degree in piano performance with honors from the New England Conservatory, and a degree in Religion, summa cum laude, from Tufts University.

As a solo pianist, David Stewart Wiley has performed with numerous major orchestras throughout the United States and has appeared as a jazz pianist in Boston's Symphony Hall and in recital appearances throughout the U.S. as well as in China, Russia, Romania, Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria. Wiley has collaborated with a diverse list of top artists in the Classical and Pops world, including Billy Joel, Jessye Norman, Leonard Bernstein, Sir James Galway, Midori, Lynn Harrell, John Williams, David Kim, Elmar Oliveira, Jon Nakamatsu, Andre Watts, Norman Krieger, Zuill Bailey, Bernadette Peters, Bruce Hornsby, Jennifer Holliday, Marvin Hamlisch, Mercedes Ellington, Lou Rawls, Doc Severinsen, Michael McDonald, Art Garfunkel, the Pointer Sisters, Ben Vereen, Kool & the Gang, and the Sounds of Blackness. The RSO & Wiley announced that David will extend his contract with the RSO through 2013.

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Vijay Venkatesh

Piano

KeyNotes - Pre-Concert w/ David Stewart Wiley 2:00 PM - Nov 10

KeyNotes - Pre-Concert w/ David Stewart Wiley 6:30 PM - Nov 11

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Pre-Concert KeyNotes
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10 Nov 2013 2:00 p.m.
11 Nov 2013 6:30 p.m.

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