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TSO Music Director Gustavo Gimeno

Gimeno Conducts Chopin & Scheherazade

Wed, Sep 21, 2022–Sat, Sep 24, 2022 Roy Thomson Hall

Lose yourself in the magical world of 1,001 Nights when Music Director Gustavo Gimeno leads Rimsky-Korsakov’s bewitching Scheherazade—one of classical music’s most dramatic, exciting, and popular works! Spotlighting the prodigious talents of Canadian pianist Bruce Liu, who became the first Canadian to win the prestigious Chopin International Piano Competition in 2021, Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 bespeaks its young composer’s innermost thoughts and desires: unable to express his love for Konstancja Gladkowska in words, he poured it into this tender and exquisite music. Myth becomes music in Lera Auerbach’s scintillating Icarus, and Kevin Lau’s world première Celebration Prelude opens the performances in a joyful, festive fashion.

Program

Kevin Lau

The Story of the Dragon Gate: Celebration Prelude

World Première/TSO Commission

Lera Auerbach

Icarus

Chopin

Piano Concerto No. 2

Rimsky-Korsakov

Scheherazade

Performers

Gustavo Gimeno

conductor
Pianist Bruce Liu

Bruce Liu

piano
TSO Concertmaster Jonathan Crow

Jonathan Crow

violin
Gimeno Conducts Chopin & Scheherazade is Part of:

Wednesday 1

Seven Wednesday concerts at 8:00pm
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Six Saturday concerts at 8:00pm and one Friday concert at 7:30pm
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