Concert will feature music by Antonin Dvorak
The Redlands Symphony Orchestra will present “Dvorak in America,” a concert featuring music by Antonin Dvorak, 8 p.m. Saturday in the University of Redlands Memorial Chapel.
Guest soloist is cellist Nicholas Canellakis, who will play Dvorak’s Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104.
“I’m so happy to have Nicholas Canellakis performing with our orchestra,” Ransom Wilson, the orchestra’s music director and conductor, said in a news release. “He is a passionate performer and will no doubt deliver a memorable interpretation of Dvorak’s concerto for cello.”
The program also includes “From the Southland”: by Harry Thacker Burleigh (1866-1949) and Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, “From the New World.”
The concert is sponsored in part by a gift from Larry and Char Burgess. Doors open at 7 p.m.
Tickets start at $18 and are available at redlandssymphony. com or by calling 909-587-5565.
Nicholas Canellakis, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and New England Conservatory, made his Carnegie Hall concerto debut with the American
Symphony Orchestra in 2015, according to his website.
His teachers have included Orlando Cole, Peter Wiley, Paul Katz and Madeleine Golz (a 1979 Redlands High School graduate and daughter of violinist John Golz) at Manhattan School of Music Precollege.
He was a member of the Bowers Program (formerly CMS Two), and has also been in residence at Carnegie Hall as a member of Ensemble Connect.
Recent highlights include solo debuts with the Virginia, Albany, Bangor and Delaware symphony orchestras; concerto appearances with the Erie Philharmonic
and with the New Haven Symphony as artist in residence; Europe and Asia tours with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; and recitals throughout the United States with his duo collaborator, pianist-composer Michael Brown.
Canellakis is a regular guest artist at music festivals and is artistic director of Chamber Music Sedona in Arizona. He has also produced, directed and starred in several short films and music videos.
For information about Canellakis and his work, go to nicholascanellakis.com.