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October 29 & 31, 2009
Thursday-7:30pm | War Memorial Auditorium
Saturday-8:00pm | Dana Auditorium
Tchaikovsky Spectacular
Dmitry Sitkovetsky 
Tchaikovsky
Waltz from Eugene Onegin Op. 24
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Fouad Fakhouri, conductor
Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D major, Op. 35
Dmitry Sitkovetsky, violin
Fouad Fakhouri, principal guest conductor
I. Allegro moderato
II. Canzonetta: Andante
III. Finale: Allegro vivacissimo
Intermission
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
I. Andante sostenuto; Moderato con anima
II. Andantino in modo di canzona
III. Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato
IV. Allegro con fuoco
Dmitry Sitkovetsky (Dima) is an artist whose creativity defies categorizing. He has built up an active and successful career as a violinist, conductor, arranger, chamber musician and festival director. Sitkovetsky has performed as soloist with a number of the world’s leading orchestras including the Berlin, New York and LA Philharmonic Orchestras, Leipzig Gewandhaus, London Philharmonia, London Symphony, NHK, Chicago, Philadelphia and Cleveland orchestras. He has performed at a number of high-profile festivals including Salzburg, Lucerne, Edinburgh and Verbier.
Sitkovetsky has built a flourishing career as a conductor. He was appointed Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor of the Ulster Orchestra (1996-2001) and subsequently made Conductor Laureate, and was Principal Guest Conductor of the Russian State Orchestra (2002-2005). In 2003, Sitkovetsky has been the Music Director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and, in 2006, named Artist-in-Residence of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla y Leon (Spain), positions he still holds. As a guest conductor, he has worked with the London & Royal Philharmonic Orchestras, San Francisco, Seattle and Dallas Symphony Orchestras, Santa Cecilia, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris & St Petersburg Philharmonic.
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Fouad Fakhouri has been lauded for his ability to elicit the best of his musicians and to elevate the artistic performance level of orchestras he conducts. In May 2004 he was named Music Director and Conductor of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra of North Carolina. He is the fifth music director in the symphony’s fifty-two year history. Since assuming his post he has significantly raised the orchestra’s artistic standard, created novel educational and outreach programs, and dramatically increased the symphony’s audience.
Fakhouri holds a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition from West Texas A&M, a M.M. in conducting and another in composition from Pennsylvania State University, and a D.M.A. in composition from the University of North Texas. He is married to Diane Lavelle, an advertising executive and their daughter is Isabella Margaux.
Preludes
Learn more about the evening’s music with Dr. Joan Titus, Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The Prelude on Thursday, October 29th begins at 6:45 p.m. on the Mezzanine level of the War Memorial Auditorium. The Prelude on Saturday, October 31st begins at 7:00 p.m. in the Moon Room at Dana Auditorium.
Meet the Artist
Join us after the Thursday
evening concert for a brief question and answer
session held at the front of the stage with our
guest artist and Dima.
Radio Broadcast
WFDD will broadcast this
concert on Sunday, January 17 at 8:00 p.m.
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.”
SERGEI RACHMANINOV
