Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA: VSO Holiday Pops with Maestro Farkhad Khudyev & David Shifrin, clarinet
In person: $47-$60 ($15 student) |
Stream: $20
- David Shifrin, clarinet
- Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky — Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20a
Florence Price — Dances in the Canebrakes (arr. William Grant Still)
Eldar Hudiyev — Circus (David Shifrin, clarinet)
John Williams — "The Tale of Viktor Navorski" (Viktor's Tale) from The Terminal (David Shifrin, clarinet)
George Gershwin / Michele Mangani — Blues from An American in Paris (David Shifrin, clarinet)
Leroy Anderson — A Christmas Festival
Leroy Anderson — Sleigh Ride
Johann Strauss II — Tritsch-Tratsch Polka, Op. 214
Johann Strauss — Radetzky March, Op. 228
Guest conductor Farkhad Khudyev leads this Holiday Pops program, which opens with a grand overture by Suppé, and a suite from Tchaikovsky's well-known Swan Lake. After an evocative work by Florence Price, we welcome clarinetist David Shifrin for a set of three entertaining works: by Eldar Hudiyev, John Williams, and Michele Mangani's Blues from An American in Paris. After a pair of holiday favorites by Leroy Anderson, we end, as always, in Vienna!
Performances on Dec. 14 & 15.
Pre-Concert Talk: An hour before each performance, 6pm on Saturday and 2pm on Sunday, all ticket holders will enjoy an educational pre-concert talk from a VSO Musician or VSO's Music Director and Conductor Salvador Brotons. Don't miss this special opportunity to learn all about the history of the music that will follow!
About David Shifrin, clarinet
An artist member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center since 1989, Mr. Shifrin served as its Artistic Director from 1992 to 2004. He has toured extensively throughout the United States with CMSLC and hosted and performed in several national television broadcasts on PBS's Live from Lincoln Center. He also served as Artistic Director of Portland's Chamber Music Northwest from 1981 through 2020 and is currently Artistic Director of the Phoenix Chamber Music Festival.
http://www.davidshifrin.com/About Farkhad Khudyev, conductor
Farkhad Khudyev, of Azerbaijani descent, was born in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, where he first studied violin, piano and composition at the State Music School for gifted musicians. At the age of 10, he distinguished himself as the youngest performer selected to play with the National Violin Ensemble of Turkmenistan and toured around Central Asia and Eastern Europe.
Currently, Mr. Khudyev serves as the Music Director of the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra and the Assistant Professor of Music in Orchestral Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as the Music Director of the Orchestral Institute at the Hidden Valley Institute of the Arts in Carmel, California.
https://www.farkhadkhudyev.com/