Latest News

Excerpt from The Chautauquan Daily by Zachary Lewis Someone at the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra clearly knows what he’s doing. Case in point: the group’s concert Thursday night in the Amphitheater, the third in the orchestra’s season-long Russian Festival with Music Director Rossen Milanov. In both program and performance, not a thing was flawed. Every element was in its place. Indeed, it was …

[Read more...] about Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra Performs with Violinist Augustin Hadelich

Excerpt from The Chautauquan Daily By Andrew Druckenbrod, Guest Critic Think of the volume of a typical orchestral fortissimo and then double it. Then double it again. Now you have a good sense of the decibel level inside the Amphitheater Thursday night. The first amplification came with Igor Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” one of the loudest works in the Western canon. The second was due to …

[Read more...] about CSO and MSFO Bring Skill and Color to ‘Fiendishly Difficult Work’

Excerpt from The Chautauqua Daily by Guest Critic Christopher H. Gibbs Three long threads were woven into the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert Tuesday evening. The first is called “Into the Music/After the Music,” intermission-less programs after which the audience is invited to ask questions of Music Director Rossen Milanov. The second: several concerts this summer featuring Russian music, …

[Read more...] about CSO and Alexander Gavrylyuk Take on Rachmaninoff

Excerpt from The Columbus Dispatch By Jennifer Hambrick Symphony Orchestra Music Director Rossen Milanov led the orchestra and violin soloist Leila Josefowicz in performances of contemporary composer Thomas Adès Violin Concerto “Concentric Paths” and Mahler’s Fifth Symphony that took the spiritual idea of journeying to transcendent heights. Just as the proverbial journey of a thousand miles …

[Read more...] about Columbus Symphony Orchestra Ends Masterworks Season With Music About Journey

This past week in Asturias, Spain, Rossen conducted the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias in Szymanowski’s version of Stabat Mater. These concerts were supported by Ewa Tracz, soprano; David Menendez, baritone; and the chorus of the Fundación Princesa de Asturias. This concert was performed to observe and celebrate Semana Santa (Easter week) in Spain. Also on the program was Los …

[Read more...] about Semana Santa observed with Stabat Mater in Gijon and Oviedo

Excerpt from "The Columbus Dispatch" by Peter Tonguette The Columbus Symphony’s latest program, “The Trumpet Shall Sound,” featured a pair of pieces that showed off the instrument to dazzling and diverse effect: Dmitri Shostakovich’s “Piano Concerto No. 1″ and Leos Janacek’s “Sinfonietta.” Featured as a soloist on the first piece was former CSO principal trumpeter George Goad, who, after a …

[Read more...] about “The Trumpet Shall Sound” at The Ohio Theatre

Columbus Symphony and Chorus: Hip range of musical styles makes for impressive performance  By Jennifer Hambrick for The Columbus Dispatch A young work for two orchestras – “one live, one dead” – met up with a timeless setting of the ancient Catholic Mass for the Dead last night in the Ohio Theatre. Columbus Symphony Orchestra music director Rossen Milanov led the orchestra, the Columbus …

[Read more...] about Mozart Requiem in Columbus