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GRAMMY AWARD NOMINATED CONDUCTOR DMITRY YABLONSKY TO LEAD THE MONTEREY SYMPHONY IN A PROGRAM OF HIDDEN RUSSIAN TREASURERS, FEBRUARY 20, 21, 22, 2010.

January 26, 2010, Monterey, California: On February 20, 21, and 22, 2010, the Monterey Symphony under the baton of guest conductor Dmitry Yablonsky will present Glinka’s Valse fantaisie, Scriabin’s Symphony No.2, and Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No.2 (Suite No.1 for Variety Orchestra) and Tahiti Trot. This is the first time any of this music has been performed by the Monterey Symphony.

Concerts will take place in Salinas at Sherwood Hall, 940 N. Main Street, on Saturday, February 20 with the Stage Door Performance (Final Rehearsal) beginning at a new time 2:00 p.m. ($15) The Concert also begins at a new time 7:00 p.m.($39, $20). Student and Group rates are available. Contact Diane Cadei at 831-646-8511 or education@montereysymphony.org for more information.
Concerts will also take place in Carmel at Sunset Theater, 9th and San Carlos Avenue, on Sunday, February 21 at 3:00 p.m. and Monday, February 22 at 8:00 p.m. ($67, $50, $37).

Single tickets for these concerts may be purchased by calling 831-646-8511 or save the $5.00 service fee by buying on line at: www.montereysymphony.org. The orchestra seating charts are published in real time. Patrons are encouraged to purchase tickets in advance because of the likelihood of sold out performances.

The Friends of the Monterey Symphony will hold a concert preview luncheon on Friday, February 19 at the Golf Club at Carmel Valley Ranch. Guest conductor Dmitry Yablonsky will be the featured speaker. The cost of the luncheon is $45 per person and reservations need to be made by Tuesday, February 16. For additional information, call 831-646-8511. Register on line at montereysymphony.org.
Guest conductor Dmitry Yablonsky was born into a family of musicians in Moscow in 1962. His mother, Oxana Yablonskaya, is an internationally renowned pianist and professor at the Juilliard School of Music in New York, and his father is a solo oboist in the Radio and Television Orchestra in Moscow. Mr. Yablonsky led the Monterey Symphony in October 1998 performing works by Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, and Brahms.

At the age of six, young Dmitry was accepted into the Moscow Central Music School for gifted children and, at the age of 9, he gave his orchestral debut playing Haydn's Cello Concerto in C Major. In 1977, Dmitry Yablonsky immigrated to the United States to continue his studies at the Juilliard School of Music, the Curtis Institute, and Yale University.

As a soloist, he has performed all over the world in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Concertgebouw Hall, Teatro alla Scala, the Great Halls of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Taiwan National Hall and many others. He has collaborated with such conductors as Hiroyuki Iwaki, Dmitry Kitaenko, Vladimir Fedoseev, Kzistof Penderecki in his own cello concerto and many more. His chamber music partners include his mother Oxana Yablonskaya, Victor Tretiakov, Yuri Bashmet, Vadim Repin, Boris Beresovsky, Jean Bernard Pommier and many more. Dmitry has performed the American premiere of sonata No.26 by Luigi Boccherini and a concerto by Anton Filtz.

By chance in 1990, Dmitry was asked to conduct an octet by Igor Stravinsky in Camerino, Italy, with members of Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome. Interested in conducting since he was 18 years old, he pursue a duel career as conductor. At Yale University, he spent time with legendary conducting teacher Otto-Werner Muller and since 1992 has studied with Yuri Simonov, the chief conductor of Bolshoi Opera. As a conductor, Mr. Yablonsky has collaborated with such famous soloists as Yuri Bashmet, VadimRepin, Boris Berezovsky, Montserrat Caballe, Roberto Alagna and his mother, Oxana Yablonskaya.

Dmitry Yablonsky has performed in recital in many European countries, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and South Africa. In 1998, Dmitry Yablonsky founded a summer Festival on the French-Spanish border in the Pyrenees mountains, which is called Puigcerda Festival where many world class musicians come to perform and give master classes.

Dmitry Yablonsky has recorded more than 40 albums for labels like Naxos-Marco Polo, Erato, Conoisseur Soc, EMS, Discover, Sonora, Bel Air Music and Chandos. His recording with Repin and Berezovsky of the Tchaikovsky Trio and Schostakovich Trio for the Erato label, has won numerous prizes. He has recorded a world premiere CD of Nino Rota cello concertos for Chandos. His recording of the Miklos Rozsa Violin Concerto received a Grammy nomination.

The Monterey Symphony, under the artistic leadership of Max Bragado-Darman, is the only fully-professional orchestra serving the communities of the Monterey Bay, Salinas, Salinas Valley, Big Sur, and San Benito County. It provides triple performances of a seven-concert subscription series at Carmel’s Sunset Theater and Salinas’ Sherwood Hall, annual holiday concerts, and an extensive youth activities program, including more than 200 visits to classrooms by musicians, which culminates in concerts by the full orchestra for school children.

The Monterey Symphony is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation, supported, in part, through the fundraising efforts of the Friends of the Monterey Symphony; and grants from The James Irvine Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Harden Foundation, The Robert and Virginia Stanton Fund at the Community Foundation for Monterey County, The William and Flora Hewlitt Foundation, The Monterey Peninsula Foundation, The Chapman Foundation, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Upjohn California Fund, and many other generous foundations and individual donors.
For additional information, please call 831-646-8511 or visit our web site:
www.montereysymphony.org.

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MONTEREY SYMPHONY 64th SUBSCRIPTION SEASON 2009-2010
Max Bragado-Darman, music director Serving the communities of the Monterey Bay, Salinas Valley, Big Sur, and San Benito County


Concert IV

Dmitry Yablonsky, conductor

Saturday, February 20, 2010, 7:00 p.m. ♦ Sherwood Hall, Salinas
Sunday, February 21, 2010, 3:00 p.m. ♦ Sunset Theater, Carmel
Monday, February 22, 2010, 8:00 p.m. ♦ Sunset Theater, Carmel


PROGRAM

Mikhail Glinka (1804-1857)

Valse-Fantaisie

Dmitri Shostakovich(1906-1975)

Jazz Suite No.2 (Suite No.1 for Variety Orchestra)
I. March - Tempo di marcia
II. Dance I - Presto
III. Dance II - Allegretto schezando
IV. Little Polka - Allegretto
V. Lyrical Waltz - Allegretto
VI. Waltz I - Tempo di valse
VII. Waltz II - Allegretto poco moderato
VIII. Finale - Allegro moderato

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Tahiti Trot, Op.16



Intermission


Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915)

Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.29
 I. Andante
II. Allegro
III. Andante
IV. Tempestoso
V. Maestoso

This program will be broadcast on KUSP 88.9 FM on Friday, March 12, 2010, 8:00 p.m.


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