Purchase Tickets | Seating Chart War Memorial
September 25 & 26, 2009
War Memorial Auditorium
Friday-8:00pm | Saturday-8:00pm
50th Anniversary of the Greensboro Symphony
Emanuel Ax
Schumann
Manfred Overture
Beethoven
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Emanuel Ax, piano
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante con moto
III. Rondo: Vivace
Intermission
Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56, "Scottish"
I. Andante con moto; Allegro un poco agitato
II. Vivace no troppo
III. Adagio
IV. Allegro vivacissimo
September 25 sponsor September 26 sponsor
Born in Poland, Emanuel Ax and his family moved to Canada, when he was a young boy. His studies at the Juilliard School were supported by the Epstein Scholarship Program of the Boys Clubs of America. He also attended Columbia University, where he majored in French. Mr. Ax captured public attention when he won the first Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition in Tel Aviv followed by the Young Concert Artists’ Michaels Award and the coveted Avery Fisher Prize.
Mr. Ax has performed for the past three decades with every major orchestra in the world including the Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic and many more. Special projects include duo recital tours with Yefim Bronfman, Itzhak Perlman, Edgar Meyer, and long-standing colleague and partner Yo-Yo Ma. In the 2005–06 season, he served as Pianist-in-Residence with the Berlin Philharmonic, performing with the orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin and New York.
Mr. Ax has been an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist since 1987. He has received Grammy awards for his cycle of Haydn’s piano sonatas and made a series of Grammy-winning recordings with cellist Yo-Yo Ma of the Beethoven and Brahms sonatas for cello and piano. Mr. Ax contributed to a BBC documentary commemorating the Holocaust that aired on the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, which was awarded a 2005 International Emmy.
Mr. Ax resides in New York City with his wife, pianist Yoko Nozaki and two children, Joseph and Sarah. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and holds honorary doctorates of music from Yale and Columbia Universities.
Preludes
Learn more about the evening’s music with Dr. Gregory Carroll, Associate Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Prelude on Friday, September 25th begins at 7:15 p.m., and the Prelude on Saturday, September 26th begins at 7:00 p.m. Both Preludes will take place on the Mezzanine level of the War Memorial Auditorium.
Meet the Artists
Join us after the Thursday
evening concert for a brief question and answer
session held at the front of the stage with our
guest artists and Dima.
Radio Broadcast
WFDD will broadcast this
concert on Sunday, October 25th at 8:00 p.m.
