Round Top Music Festival 2014: Texas Festival Orchestra

Round Top Festival Institute presents the Round Top Music Festival 2014 June 1 through July 12, 2014.

Founded 44 years ago by concert pianist James Dick, the Round Top Music Festival annually has selected 92 students (from over 500 applicants) who study with master faculty and perform in the Texas Festival Orchestra and the Texas Festival Chamber Orchestra.

Programs for the two dozen concerts include works by composers ranging from Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky to Elgar, Britten, Strauss, Vaughn Williams, Walton, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and many others.

Conductors include Christian Arming, Perry So, Heiichiro Ohyama, Charles Olivieri-Munroe, Pascal Verrot, Christoph Campestrini, Kenneth Woods, Linus Lerner, Ransom Wilson and Emilio Colon.

Featured soloists include James Dick, piano; Eteri Andjaparidze, piano; Stefan Milenkovich, violin; Brett Deubner, viola; Emilio Colon, cello; Erin Hannigan, oboe; Nathan Hughes, oboe; Kenneth Grant, clarinet; and Benjamin Kamins, bassoon.

Master classes and orchestra rehearsals are open to the public.

Concerts are performed in the fabled Festival Concert Hall (air conditioned, 1,000 seats.)

Food and Drinks are available every Saturday from 2:30 pm to 7:00 pm.

Texas Festival Orchestra
Saturday June, 21 @ 3:30 PM
Festival Concert Hall

FEATURING:
Conductor, Heiichiro Ohyama (pictured)
Cristian Zimmerman*, concertmaster

Repertoire

Concerto for Cello and Orchestra in e, Op. 85 (1919)
Sir Edward Elgar
(1857-1934)

1. Adagio – Moderato
2. Lento – Allegro molto
3. Adagio
4. Allegro – Moderato – Allegro, ma non troppo

Emilio Colón, cello

Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 (1877)
Johannes Brahms
(1833-1897)

1. Allegro non troppo
2. Adagio non troppo
3. Allegretto grazioso (quasi andantino)
4. Allegro con spirito