Joshua Bell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields with SFCM students and soloist Fiona Cunninghame-Murray
Concert
This special event features a collaboration between Opus 3 Artists The Academy of St Martin in the Fields and SFCM, in Davies Symphony Hall. As part of the San Francisco Symphony’s Great Performers Series, the Academy and SFCM students will perform side-by-side in a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, led by Joshua Bell. The concert will also feature SFCM violin student Fiona Cunninghame-Murray performing as soloist with Bell in Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins. Cunninghame-Murray won this opportunity through a competition with other SFCM students.
Program
Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Two Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043
I. Vivace
II. Largo, ma non tanto
III. Allegro
Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 29 in E Major, Hob.I:29
I. Allegro di molto
II. Andante
III. Minuet. Allegretto - Trio
IV/ Finale. Presto
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35
I. The Sea and Sinbad's Ship
II. The Legend of the Kalendar Prince
III. The Young Prince and The Young Princess
IV. Festival at Baghdad. The Sea. Ship Breaks upon a Cliff Surmounted by a Bronze Horseman
Artists
Joshua Bell, violin
Fiona Cunninghame-Murray, violin
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Departments
Strings
About SFCM’s Violin Department
Transform your playing in the heart of the Bay Area music scene. About 50 students study violin at SFCM, learning from world-class faculty members, including the concertmasters of the nearby San Francisco Symphony, Opera, and Ballet ensembles. As a violinist at SFCM, you’ll perform with your peers, explore new possibilities for your instrument, and develop your voice through music from the baroque to the new.
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