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The Cleveland Orchestra

Visiting Orchestras Series

Hayes Hall

Image of Franz Welser-Möst, conductor of the The Cleveland Orchestra on stage during a performance
© Roger Mastroianni
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider
Image of Franz Welser-Möst, conductor of the The Cleveland Orchestra on stage during a performance
© Roger Mastroianni
Image of Franz Welser-Möst, conductor of the The Cleveland Orchestra on stage during a performance
© Roger Mastroianni
Image of Franz Welser-Möst, conductor of the The Cleveland Orchestra on stage during a performance
© Roger Mastroianni
Image of members of The Cleveland Orchestra on stage during a performance of classical music
Jan 28, 7:00pm
Hayes Hall 7:00pm
 
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The Cleveland Orchestra
Visiting Orchestras Series


The Cleveland Orchestra
Franz Welser-Möst
music director
Nikolaj Szeps-Znaiderviolin

Knussen — Cleveland Pictures
Bruch — Violin Concerto in G Minor
Brahms — Symphony No. 1

The Cleveland Orchestra returns to present an evening of classical wonders under the baton of Music Director Franz Welser-Möst. The world-renowned orchestra opens its performance with Oliver Knussen’s lively and colorful Cleveland Pictures, a work commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra that saw its premiere in 2022. Violin master Nikolaj Szeps-Znaider also returns to play Bruch’s dreamy Violin Concerto, a timeless masterpiece filled with lush orchestration and technically demanding virtuosic challenges perfectly suited for a violinist of Szeps-Znaider’s caliber. The evening concludes with Brahms’ towering Symphony No. 1, showcasing the musical mastery of one of the world’s finest orchestras from its triumphant opening to its sweeping finale.

Music and Museum
All Visiting Orchestras tickets include same-day admission to the The Baker Museum. Special museum hours on day of The Cleveland Orchestra performance: Noon-7pm. In addition, the doors to Hayes Hall will open 60 minutes prior to this performance. Arrive early to enjoy the exhibitions and light fare available at Heidi's Place.

The Visiting Orchestras series is generously sponsored by Judy and Verne Istock.

Franz Welser-Möst

Franz Welser-Möst


Franz Welser-Möst began his tenure as music director of The Cleveland Orchestra in 2002 and has extended his contract through the orchestra’s centennial in 2018. Under his direction, The Cleveland Orchestra is enhancing its community programming, presenting a series of ongoing residencies in the United States and Europe, continuing its historic championship of new composers through commissions and premieres and reestablishing itself as an important operatic ensemble. Concurrently with his post in Cleveland, Welser-Möst became general music director of the Vienna State Opera in September 2010.

Under Welser-Möst’s leadership, the Cleveland Orchestra has established an ongoing biennial residency in Vienna at the famed Musikverein concert hall and at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland. Artistic highlights of Welser-Möst’s first nine seasons as music director in Cleveland including 13 world and 15 United States premieres under his direction. Through the Roche Commissions project, he and the orchestra have premiered works by Harrison Birtwistle, Chen Yi, Hanspeter Kyburz, George Benjamin and Toshio Hosokawa in partnership with the Lucerne Festival and Carnegie Hall.

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