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ASO Opens 99th Concert Season

September 8, 2009
  • Who: Leon Fleisher & Katherine Jacobson Fleisher with the Austin Symphony Orchestra
  • When: September 18 & 19, 2009
  • Where: Michael & Susan Dell Hall of the Long Center for the Performing Arts
  • Cost: $19 - $48
  • Contact: Don Hill, Director of Public Relations

For Immediate Release

Season Sponsor: JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Concert Sponsor: Wells Fargo
Media Sponsors: Time Warner Cable/News 8 Austin, Austin American-Statesman and Majic 95.5 FM

Maestro Peter Bay and the ASO open their 99th season with performances of works by Ravel and Mozart, featuring pianists Leon Fleisher and Katherine Jacobson Fleisher. Performances will be held on Friday and Saturday, September 18th & 19th in Dell Hall at the Long Center for the Performing Arts. The concerts are proudly sponsored by Wells Fargo.

Program

Mozart – Symphony No. 31 in D Major, K. 297 “Paris”
Ravel – Piano Concerto in D Major for the Left Hand
Mozart – Concerto in F Major, K. 242 [version for two pianos]
Ravel – Rapsodie espagnole

Renowned pianist, conductor and teacher Leon Fleisher, now in his sixth decade before the public is playing another exciting season of duos with the acclaimed concert pianist Katherine Jacobson Fleisher. Last season the duo played at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Celebrity Series of Boston and the Shriver Hall Concert Series in Baltimore Maryland. This season they will also collaborate on duo recording with the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra playing Mozart’s Concerto for two pianos, K.242, the piece they will perform with the Austin Symphony.

Recipient of the 2007 Kennedy Center Honors and subject of the 2006 Oscar-nominated short documentary “Two Hands: The Leon Fleisher Story,” legendary pianist Leon Fleisher is celebrating his 80th year with leading musical organizations around the world. In addition to these performances, he marked his birthday in July as soloist and conductor of an all-Mozart program with the Baltimore Symphony, followed by concerts with the Chicago Symphony at the Ravinia Festival and with the Boston Symphony at Tanglewood. He will also be heard in his annual Carnegie Hall appearance and with such orchestras as the San Francisco Symphony and Janowski, the New York Philharmonic under Maazel and the London Philharmonic with Jurowski in London and at Lincoln Center and in Washington, DC.

Tickets for Leon & Katherine Jacobson Fleisher with the Austin Symphony range from $19 to $48. Student rush tickets are also available 20 minutes prior to performance for $5 cash and current student ID. Charge tickets online at http://www.austinsymphony.org where you will find seating maps, price options and a wealth of concert information. Tickets are also available at the Austin Symphony Box Office, 11th and Red River or call 476-6064 or 1-888-4-MAESTRO (toll-free).