Symphony Napa Valley Presents: American Icons

Symphony Napa Valley Presents - American Icons

October 04, 2015

Napa Valley Performing Arts Center
100 California Drive, Yountville, CA 94599

Maestro Michael Guttman and Symphony Napa Valley open the season with a celebration of America’s most iconic composers. Russian violinist Artur Kaganovskiy returns to the Lincoln Theater stage to join Maestro Guttman as we explore themes of realism, modernity and cultural identity through the works of Bernstein, Copland, Barber, and Rosza. Concert will feature the Adagio for Strings, Quiet City, Hoedown, Serenade, after Plato: Symposium, and more.

Born in Moscow, Russia in 1986, Artur started to play the violin at age three and, with guidance from the famed Isaac Stern, he quickly established himself, as a leading personality in the violin world. Mr. Kaganovskiy made his Carnegie Hall debut, performing Elgar’s Violin Concerto at the Stern Auditorium in 2007 with the retired members of the New York Philharmonic, under the baton of David Gilbert. He has appeared on the Russian Television network, toured the U.S, Europe, and China with the Juilliard Orchestra. As an invited guest of the United States Ambassador, William H. Moser, Mr. Kaganovskiy has toured Moldova and Tiraspol performing Samuel Barber’s Violin Concerto and Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade with the National Philharmonic of Moldova and the Tiraspol National Symphony. 2015-16 Concert Season highlights include performances in Mexico, USA, Romania, Serbia, Ukraine, Italy, and Sweden, as well as performing and recording the Brahms and Tchaikovsky Violin Concertos with the National Symphony of Ukraine and The Kiev Philharmonic, conducted by Maestro Philip Greenberg in 2016.

Some of his recording accolades include a Debut Album featuring David Chesky’s 3rd Violin Concerto with The Chelsea Symphony and a Duo Album of the Kaganovskiy Duo with Eszter Szilveszter Kaganovskiy, viola. In December 2014, Mr. Kaganovskiy was signed to Cantaur Records for whom he will be producing six albums over the next three years.

Mr. Guttman is the principal guest conductor of the Brussels Chamber Orchestra, the leader of the acclaimed Arriaga Quartet and of the Michael Guttman Tango Quartet, as well as the founder and artistic director of PIETRASANTA IN CONCERTO, the highly praised music festival in Tuscany. The Paris Camerata, an ensemble created by Guttman, will make its Italian debut at both festivals this summer. As a conductor, he has collaborated with such artists as Martha Argerich, Peter Serkin, James Galway and Richard Stolztman. Following his recording of three concertos by Israeli composers with the London Philarmonic and the late David Shallon, Mr. Guttman performed with most Israeli orchestras and will play the concerto by Noam Sheriff with the Israel Philarmonic. Like his mentor Isaac Stern, Guttman is dedicated to helping young artists, notably at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Brussels.

Tickets are available at http://lincolntheater.org, or by phone at (707) 944-9900, or at the Napa Valley Performing Arts Center at Lincoln Theater box office at 100 California Drive in Yountville, California. The box office is open between 11am and 3pm, Tuesday through Saturday.