DVOŘÁK, SAINT-GEORGES, AND VERDI

Photo Credit: Matt Clayton

SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 2021
7:30 PM (MST)
LIVESTREAM CONCERT
WHERE: Bozeman Symphony Website, YouTube, & Facebook
Conductor: Norman Huynh
Guest Artist: William Hagen, Violin

The Bozeman Symphony returns to the Willson Auditorium for a free livestream performance featuring violinist William Hagen playing Chevalier de Saint-Georges’ Concerto for Violin in A Major. Antonin Dvořák's painstakingly beautiful Lento from String Quartet No. 12 “American” opens the program and we conclude with Giuseppe Verdi’s only surviving chamber music work in his catalogue: String Quartet in E minor, arranged for full string orchestra.

REPERTOIRE:
DVOŘÁK Lento from String Quartet No. 12 in F major “American”
SAINT-GEORGES Violin Concerto in A major
VERDI (ARR. DREW) Symphony for Strings in E minor

PRESS RELEASE

CONCERT PROGRAM

   DVOŘÁK             String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 “American”
     II. Lento

         SAINT-GEORGES         Violin Concerto in A major, Op. 5, No. 2
        I. Allegro moderato
         II. Largo
         III. Rondeau

         William Hagen, violin

  Published by Artaria Editions

— INTERMISSION (15 Minutes) —

         VERDI (arr. Drew)        Symphony for Strings in E minor [String Quartet in E minor]
        I. Allegro
        II. Andantino
        III. Prestissimo
       IV. Scherzo fuga

WILLIAM HAGEN, VIOLIN

Photo Credit: Matt Clayton

The riveting 27-year-old American violinist William Hagen was the third-prize winner of the 2015 Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, one of the highest-ranking Americans ever in the prestigious competition. Already a seasoned international performer who has won friends around the world, William has been hailed as a “brilliant virtuoso…a standout” (The Dallas Morning News) with “an intellectual command of line and score, and just the right amount of power” (violinist.com). William performs on the 1732 ‘Arkwright Lady Rebecca Sylvan’ Stradivarius, on generous loan from the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation.

Hagen’s 2019-20 season features performances with the Sacramento and Savannah Philharmonics, the North Carolina and Omaha Symphonies, and Symphoria, with recitals for the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and the Colburn School. In 2018-19 he performed under Carlos Kalmar, Peter Bay, Brett Mitchell, and Alexander Prior with the San Francisco Symphony; his 2017-18 season featured debuts with the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra conducted by Christoph Eschenbach and the Seattle Symphony directed by Pablo Rus Broseta, and return engagements with the Utah Symphony under the direction of Matthias Pintscher and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra led by Andrew Gourlay.

William has performed with conductor Nicolas McGegan both at the Aspen Music Festival and with the Pasadena Symphony, and made his debut with the Oregon Symphony under Carlos Kalmar, performed with the Brussels Chamber Orchestra in Beijing and at the Aspen Music Festival with conductor Ludovic Morlot, and played recitals in Paris, Brussels, and at the Ravinia Festival. Collaborations include those with Steven Isserlis at the Wigmore Hall, with Tabea Zimmermann at the Beethovenhaus in Bonn, with Gidon Kremer, Steven Isserlis, and Christian Tetzlaff in Germany, and in New York City with the Jupiter Chamber Players.

Since his debut with the Utah Symphony at age nine, William has performed with conductors such as Marin Alsop, Christian Arming, Placido Domingo, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Michel Tabachnik and Hugh Wolff. A native of Salt Lake City, William first heard the violin when he was 3 and began taking lessons at age 4 with Natalie Reed, followed by Deborah Moench. At age 10, he began studying with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn School in Los Angeles, where he studied until the age of 17.

After studying at the Juilliard School for two years with Itzhak Perlman, William returned to Los Angeles to continue studying with Robert Lipsett at the Colburn Conservatory. He is currently enrolled at the Kronberg Academy in Germany, where he is a student of Christian Tetzlaff. William is an alumnus of the Verbier Academy in Switzerland, the Perlman Music Program, and the Aspen Music Festival.

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BOZEMAN SYMPHONY MUSICIANS

Violin I
Carrie Krause, concertmaster
Megan Karls, acting associate concertmaster
Megan McFadden
Yu-Ting Huang
Sharon Eversman
Cherí Ladd LeCain
Claudia Albrecht

Violin II
Natalie Padilla, acting principal
Jill McJunkin
Sarah Church
Athena Carson
Kaitlin Shaw
Noah Certalic

Viola
Amy Letson, acting principal
Naomi Vliet
Nathan Hallauer
Ashleigh Snider
Kristina Otfinoski

Cello
Julia Slovarp, acting principal
Cayley Hunt
Lisa Woidtke
David Heinzen

Bass
Max Johnson, acting principal
Cortney Peres
William Scott Stebbins