This concert will feature the string section of the Annapolis Symphony Orchestra performing lyrical and dynamic compositions that highlight the range of their instruments. Music can evoke places where we might like to travel. The salons of Paris in the gilded age come to mind in Gabriel Pierné’s ...

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor

The 2020-2021 Season concludes with a performance featuring Wu Man, the world’s reigning pipa virtuoso. Together with the Annapolis Symphony, she will perform Tan Dun's Pipa Concerto. The pipa, sometimes called the Chinese lute, is a four-stringed instrument that has been around for 2,000 years. ...

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson was a versatile African-American musician – composer, conductor, pianist and drummer – familiar both in jazz, pop and classical music. He came from an artistic family and his mother named him after the African-British composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor.

Perkinson studied...

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor
Chee-Yun, violin

I. Verano Porteño (Summer)
II. Otoño Porteño (Autumn)
III. Invierno Porteño (Winter)
IV. Primavera Porteña (Spring)

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra
José-Luis Novo, conductor

I. Allegro molto
II. Scherzo. Allegro non troppo
III. Adagio non troppo
IV. Menuetto I & II
V. Scherzo. Allegro
VI. Rondo. Allegro

(from String Quartet in G Major)

British-born concert pianist Dr. Rachel Franklin presents Meet the Masterworks ahead of the third concert of the 20-21 Virtual Series. Learn more about the program and featured composers Debussy and Bartók.