On May 3 and 4, Music Director Rossen Milanov concludes the 2013-14 seasons for both Symphony in C and Princeton Symphony Orchestra. May 3 sees the Bulgarian conductor in Camden, NJ for Symphony in C where he conducts Schumann’s Manfred Overture, Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto featuring soloist Augustin Hadelich, and Schoenberg’s orchestration of Brahms’s Piano Quartet No. 1.
The following day, Rossen is in Princeton for the city’s namesake Symphony with pianist Joseph Kalichstein. There, the program includes Webern’s arrangement of Bach’s Fuga (“Ricercata”) for six voices, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4, and Brahms’s Symphony No. 2.
Under Rossen, both Symphony in C and the Princeton Symphony Orchestra have boasted successful seasons. The Huffington Post praised his work with the former, writing “As Milanov seems to prove with every concert, to have players for a relatively short time, while keeping an orchestra consistently fine, takes vision and passionate dedication.” The Philadelphia Inquirer added, “[Milanov] rarely shows a conventional idea, and he sees the unusual in the expected.”