Featuring Heather Schmidt, piano | Paul Haas conducting
The Launch Concert opens with Arvo Pärt’s hauntingly beautiful Silouan’s Song for Strings, a modern masterpiece by the ‘Baltic Mystic’ composer. Next, Heather Schmidt’s virtuosic tour-de-force for the piano——played by the composer herself——features a high-octane orchestral arrangement. The evening closes with Brahms’ astonishingly powerful First Symphony, the masterwork that secured his place as Beethoven’s true successor.
Arvo Pärt Silouan’s Song
Heather Schmidt Piano Concerto No. 4 “Phoenix Rising”
Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C Minor