Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM) presents

Emily D’Angelo and the TSO at the Maison Symphonique

The OSM is thrilled to welcome the TSO and its conductor Gustavo Gimeno in a program showcasing the extraordinary voice of mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo. She will perform enargeia, a suite of early and contemporary melodies arranged by Jarkko Riihimäki, as well as the premiere of a new piece by Alison Yun-Fei Jiang. Completing this program is Brahms’ Symphony no. 1, an intensely dramatic work of powerful creative impetus.

Artists
Toronto Symphony Orchestra

Gustavo Gimeno, conductor

Gustavo Gimeno is the Music Director with Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg – a title he has held since 2015, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra where he remains through the 2029/30 season. He is also Music Director Designate of Teatro Real, where he will assume his role in season 2025/26.

During the 2023/24 season, Gimeno and the TSO usher in a bold new beginning for the Orchestra in its 101st year, with major symphonic works – including Mahler’s Symphony No.3, Brahms’ Symphony No.1, Respighi’s Pines of Rome, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and Pulcinella – presented alongside an unprecedented number of pieces never before performed by the TSO. Gimeno will share the stage with, among other soloists, Daniil Trifonov, James Ehnes, Emily D’Angelo, Frank Peter Zimmermann, and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano

Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the world’s special young singers,” Emily D’Angelo has continued her meteoric rise and firmly established herself as one of the most exciting and critically acclaimed artists of her generation. Called “wondrous and powerful“ by The NY Times for her recent US recital debut, the mezzo-soprano is the first and only vocalist to have been presented with the Leonard Bernstein Award from the Schleswig Holstein Festival. A 2020 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist, one of Canada’s “Top 30 Under 30” Classical Musicians, and WQXR NYC Public Radio’s “40 Under 40” singers to watch, D’Angelo made her stage debut, at only 21 years of age, as Cherubino in Le nozze di Figaro at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, where she was awarded the 2016 Monini Prize.

Emily D’Angelo is a Deutsche Grammophon exclusive recording artist. Her debut album energeia presents music from the 12th and 21st centuries by composers Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli and Sarah Kirkland Snider, and is described by the artist herself as a “a soundworld, bound together by the multi-sensory ancient concept of enargeia.” It was named one of the 50 best albums of 2021 by NPR, the best Canadian classical album of 2021 by the CBC, was featured on NPR’s 100 best songs of 2021, and received JUNO and Gramophone awards in 2022.

Program
BEETHOVEN, Coriolan, Overture, op. 62
Jarkko RIIHIMÄKI, enargeia, Suite based on themes by von Bingen, Guðnadóttir, Mazzoli and Kirkland Snider – Quebec Première
BRAHMS, Symphony no. 1 in C minor, op. 68 (45 min.)

Maison symphonique
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 2:30pm

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