SFCM Orchestra with Edwin Outwater
Orchestra
SFCM concerto competition winner Samuel Liang is the youngest guitarist to have won eight guitar competitions, including internationally. As a winner of the SFCM Guitar Concerto Competition, Liang will be playing Joaquín Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre. The remainder of the evening is then dedicated to Mahler’s Sixth Symphony, written in the early 1900s during the peak of his professional life as a conductor. With Mahler’s own labeling of the Symphony as “Tragic,” his friend and assistant, the great conductor Bruno Walter, said of the symphony “The Sixth is bleakly pessimistic: it reeks of the bitter cup of human life.”
Program
Joaquin Rodrigo: Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Samuel Liang, guitar
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 6, "Tragic"
I. Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig.
II. Andante moderato
III. Scherzo: Wuchtig
IV. Finale: Sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Allegro energico
Artists
Edwin Outwater, conductor
Samuel Liang, guitar
SFCM Orchestra
Edwin Outwater
About the SFCM Orchestra
As a member of the SFCM Orchestra, you’ll experience firsthand the advantages of playing in a large ensemble. You’ll also get a complete overview of orchestral repertoire, and that begins with examining both masterworks and lesser-known pieces of every era. The symphony orchestra has a large repertoire, and each stylistic period deserves attention. Do you take to the classical period works of Mozart and Haydn? The grand romantic works of Brahms and Tchaikovsky? How about the 20th-century masterpieces by Aaron Copland and Benjamin Britten? Add to that more recent works by such luminaries as John Adams and Joan Tower, and collaborations with Opera Theatre, and you’re on your way to becoming the well-rounded, informed musician the performing world expects.
The SFCM Orchestra presents several performances a year that prominently feature student soloists. Participation also includes public orchestral workshops with distinguished guest conductors. Recent guests have included Donald Runnicles, Carl St. Clair, Nicola Luisotti, and Peter Oundjian.
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