Following a return to the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra for a concert that “blended discipline, direction, and an enormous range of sonic and dynamic contrasts, into a thrilling, thoroughly engrossing performance” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), Bulgarian conductor Rossen Milanov can be heard in three performances with the Florida Orchestra.
The program begins with Haydn’s Symphony No. 103, “Drum Roll” and concludes with Sibelius’s Symphony No. 2. In between is Tan Dun’s Water Concerto. This work will feature the talents of principal percussionist John Shaw, and make use of water itself as an instrument onstage. Performances take place at Tampa’s Straz Center for the Performing Arts (April 25), St. Petersburg’s Duke Energy Center for the Arts (April 26), and Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall (April 27). Rossen last performed with the Florida Orchestra in February 2013, when he led works by Franck, Jongen, and Tchaikovsky.