ASO Concert

ASO Concert with Philip Mann

Featured Soloist:  Tatiana Roitman
25th Anniversary Special Event

Friday, April 20, 2012
Woodlands Auditorium

$35.00 per person

The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Philip Mann, with soloist Tatiana Roitman, a special event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Hot Springs/Hot Springs Village Symphony Guild.

Pianist Tatiana Roitman Mann has appeared as a soloist and recitalist across North America and Europe. The BBC hailed her performance of G. Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Oxford Pops Orchestra as "formidable...both accurate and with rarely seen joy." Mann's radio broadcasts include H. Villa-Lobos' Mystic Sextet, on NPR's Performance Today, and B. Bartok's Contrasts heard n New York's classical music station, WQXR. As a performer of contemporary works, she premiered Speak No Evil by E. McKinley at the American Composer's Forum, and performed For Don by M. Babbitt, with the composer in attendance, in celebration of his 90th birthday at Tanglewood's Contemporary Music Festival. As the recipient of the Peggy Rockfeller Memorial Fellowship at Tanglewood, she worked with James Levine, Dawn Upshaw, Yo-Yo Ma, Charles Rosen and Claude Frank.

Mann's recent engagements include Stravinsky's Petrushka with the San Diego Symphony, several performances on their SDSO's "Symphony Exposed" series, as well as a recording of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Hot Springs Music Festival, Don Vappie and the Creole Jazz Serenaders for the Naxos album titled Jazz Nocturne' - American Concerti of the Jazz Age, to be released in 2010. Upcoming performances include Mainly Mozart "Joyful Noise" outreach series, and several chamber music and concerto engagements in San Diego and L.A.