The search for the new ASO music director has taken the next step. After sorting through all of the applicants, the Search Committee selected semi-finalist candidates in November, 2011. After careful consideration, in January 2012 the committee selected the final 5 candidates who will return next season. These candidates will each conduct a concert with the ASO during the 2012 – 2013 concert season:
Oct 19-21 (Fall Masterworks)
John Jong-hun Bae, Music Director
Verdi – La Forza del Destino Overture
Chausson – Poeme (Tena White, Violin)
Tchaikovsky – Symphony No.4
Dec 14-16 (Holiday Masterworks – “Making Spirits Bright”)
Geoffrey Pope, Music Director
Borodin: Polovetsian Dances
Palestrina/Stokowski: Adoramus Te
Humperdinck: Dream Pantomime
Bizet/Sarasate: Carmen Fantasy (Elizabeth Dickenson, violin)
Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Feb 9-10 (Children’s/Pops)
Arturo Gonzalez, Music Director
Pictures at an Exhibition (w/ El Sistema Colorado)
Ennio Morricone Suite
March 22-24 (Spring Masterworks)
Devin Hughes, Music Director
Dvořák – Symphony No.5
JS Bach – Partita in no. 2 in D minor
Mahler – Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Songs of a Wayfarer) (Thomas Fitzpatrick-Kittle, baritone)
May 10-12 (AFBT)
Norman Gamboa, Music Director
Barber – First Essay for Orchestra
(junior competition winner TBA)
(senior competition winner TBA)
Grant Still – Symphony No. 1 “Afro-American”
Details for performance dates and times will be published as they become final.
