Maestro Glen Cortese will explore the romantic side of three of the world’s greatest composers when the Western New York Chamber Orchestra opens its 2009-10 Classics Series with “The Great Romantics.”
The concert is scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. in King Concert Hall. A pre-concert talk will be held at 3 p.m. in the art gallery lobby.
Featured will be works including Beethoven’s iconic Symphony No. 5, and the Tragic Overture by Johannes Brahms. Renowned pianist Claudia Hoca joins the orchestra for Mozart’s D minor Piano Concerto K.466.
Ms. Hoca is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where her teachers included Eleanor Sokoloff and Mieczyslaw Horszowski. She has a master’s degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where studied with Leo Smit. A Fulbright grant enabled her to return to her native Austria, where she pursued advanced studies under Bruno Seidlhofer.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including top prizes in the Chopin Young Pianist Competition and the Washington International Bach Competition. She has appeared with the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Pops and the Philharmonia Virtuosi of New York. During the 1990s she played more than 20 different concertos with the Buffalo Philharmonic as conducted by Semyon Bychkov, Christopher Keene, Kazuyoshi Akigama, Hermann Michael, Carlos Kalmar, and Maximiano Valdes.
She has appeared in recital throughout the United States and abroad, and she is much sought after as a chamber music collaborator.
Tickets are available through the SUNY Fredonia Ticket Office in the Williams Center, by phone at 716-673-3501 (1-866-441-4928) or online at www.fredonia.edu/tickets. Tickets will also be available at the door.
