"Unforgettable can come in small moments and big moments. This year, we are going BIG!" says Giancarlo Guerrero, Music Director of the GRAMMY® Award-winning Nashville Symphony. Performing more than 140 concerts annually, Nashville Symphony will bring size and substance to its upcoming 2012/13 season, beginning with a performance of Mahler’s larger-than-life Eighth Symphony. World-class guest artists performing at Schermerhorn Symphony Center throughout the season include Edgar Meyer, Joshua Bell, Boyz II Men, Charlie Haden, Esperanza Spalding andYo-Yo Ma.
SunTrust Classical Series and Special Events
The Nashville Symphony 2012/13 season kicks off with a special performance of Mahler’s Eighth - Symphony of a Thousand (September 7 and 9, 2012). This monumental work will push the physical boundaries of the Schermerhorn stage to its fullest capacity. With more than 450 musicians and singers onstage, the hall will be reconfigured to showcase one of the most ambitious symphonies ever written, in an event that promises to rival the grand opening of Schermerhorn Symphony Center in 2006.
The Nashville Symphony has earned worldwide acclaim and GRAMMY® Awards for its commitment to new American music, and this season the orchestra’s SunTrust Classical Series will feature a number of notable American works, beginning withRichard Danielpour’s A Woman’s Life, based on a series of poems by Maya Angelou (September 20-22, 2012). Featuring soloist Angela Brown, this piece will be recorded for a forthcoming release on Naxos.
“The Sound of Enlightenment” (October 4-6, 2012) will showcase American composer Stephen Paulus’ Three Places of Enlightenment and The Veil of Tears, both of which will also be recorded for future release. “Harmonic Convergence”(February 7-9, 2013) features John Adams’ minimalist masterpiece Harmonielehre, and “Tchaikovsky Meets Techno”(February 29, March 1-2) will include a new violin concerto by composer and DJ Mason Bates, a cutting-edge talent who mixes classical and electronica. A showcase for soloist Anne Akiko Meyers, this piece is a Nashville Symphony co-commission.
Throughout the season, the Nashville Symphony will also tap into the depths of the classical repertoire. Notable performances including “ ‘The Ring’ without Words” (March 28-30, 2013), an instrumental version of Wagner’s epic journey into Norse and Germanic mythology. Rising young pianist Daniil Trifonov makes his first appearance with the Nashville Symphony (April 18-20, 2013), performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9. Other selections in this concert, titled “Uncommon Folk,” include Kodály’s Háry János Suite and Mexican composer Carlos Chavez’s Sinfonia india, both of which feature ethnic and folk instruments rarely seen on the concert hall stage.
Concluding this monumental season, the Nashville Symphony comes full circle with Mahler’s popular “Titan” Symphony (May 30, 31 & June 1, 2013) and a new commission, Edgar Meyer’s Double Concerto for Violin and Double Bass, featuring soloists Meyer and Joshua Bell.
Special events at the Schermerhorn in 2012/13 include an appearance by The Silk Road Ensemble with Yo-Yo Ma (March 23, 2013), renowned for their cross-cultural explorations.
