Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra

2012 - 2013 SEASON TICKETS

Arend Arts Center

Bentonville, AR

Steven Byess, Music Director

www.arkansasphilharmonic.org

Single tickets - $25.00
Season tickets - $85.00

Classic Masters

October 27, 2012, 7:30 PM

Allison Eldredge, Cello      

SAINT SAENS    Concerto in A minor

VIVALDI              Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor
                            with Stephen Gates, cello

BEETHOVEN      Symphony No. 7

Additional repertoire TBA 

The Arkansas Philharmonic Orchestra (APO) welcomes internationally acclaimed cellist Allison Eldredge, who has performed with such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Saint Louis Symphony, Montreal Symphony, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony, Berlin Symphony, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, The Hague Philharmonic, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Warsaw Philharmonic and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Ms. Eldredge performs an exciting concerto by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, and the APO Principal Cellist Stephen Gates will be featured with Ms. Eldredge on a delightful concerto for two cellos by Vivaldi. The APO will perform Beethoven’s exhilarating Symphony No. 7.

Christmas with the Arkansas Philharmonic

December 16, 2012 2:00 PM                   

Don’t miss one of Arkansas’ greatest collaborative musical holiday celebrations!

 “America’s Tenor” Steve Amerson and Broadway sensation Laurie Gayle Stephenson.

Program to include:

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
My Favorite things
I'll Be Home for Christmas

Winter Wonderland Sleigh Ride
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Silver Bells

We Need a Little Christmas

Let It Snow
Is There a Place?
Mary, Did you Know?
Silent Night

The APO welcomes the McNair Middle School Glee Club to the stage!

Jennie Alves, director

Gershwin and Friends

February 2, 2013, 7:30 PM

Yoonie Han, piano       

GERSHWIN                 Rhapsody in Blue

Additional Repertoire TBA

Yoonie Han is the recipient of South Korea’s Gawon Music Award as the “most brilliant pianist aged 17 to 31 of any nationality who possesses the most promising potential for global prominence.” She is the first-prize winner of the Washington International Piano Competition (2011), the Fulbright Concerto Competition (2011), Juilliard’s Gina Bachauer International Piano Competition (2008), the World Piano Competition (2008), and the Kosciuszko Chopin Competition (2005), and has garnered major prizes at the Helsinki Maj Lind International Piano Competition and Milan Concorso Pianistico Ettore Pozzoli Internaziole. Ms. Han will perform Gershwin’s powerful Rhapsody in Blue. The APO performs works written by contemporaries of Gershwin, and by composers who were influenced by him.

April 20, 2013, 7:30 PM
Jonathan Story, piano

Fayetteville native Jonathan Story recently completed his Master's Degree in Piano Performance at the University of Arkansas, where he studied with Professor Jura Margulis. Dubbed "Fayetteville's Piano Man" by the Northwest Arkansas Times, Story has collaborated with the North Arkansas Symphony, the University of Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, and The Arkansas Philharmonic. He has served as accompanist of the Barbara Mashburn Scholarship Foundation, Schola Cantorum and Concert Choir at the U of A, and the Gospel Echoes Quartet. He has served as organist of Central United Methodist Church in Fayetteville for seven years, and has accompanied Singing Men of Arkansas since 2008. He serves on the Board of the Barbara Mashburn Scholarship Foundation and the Washington County Historical Society, and is a member of the Fayetteville Downtown Rotary Club, which recently named him a Paul Harris Fellow.

 RACHMANINOFF    Piano Concerto No. 2

Winner of the 2013 University of Arkansas Concerto/Aria Competition will also be a featured soloist.