Washington Performing Arts: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal with Yefim Bronfman, piano

Washington Performing Arts (D.C.) and Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Montreal Symphony Orchestra)

Monday, March 6, 2023 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (EST)

Concert Hall at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, United States

$30-$110

Yefim Bronfman, piano

Dorothy Chang — Precipice
Béla Bartók — Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101
Gustav Mahler — Symphony No. 5

The celebrated Orchestre symphonique de Montréal returns to Washington Performing Arts at the dawn of a new era, as it welcomes the exciting Venezuelan-born conductor Rafael Payare as its ninth music director. A graduate of his home country's renowned El Sistema, Payare has been hailed as "a prodigious artist who combines a rare gift of auditory perfection with a profound, delicate, intense, quivering sensitivity" (Le Monde, France).

Complementing this "new beginning" on the bill is a longtime favorite of Washington Performing Arts audiences: Yefim "Fima" Bronfman. The great Israeli-American pianist joins the OSM for Bartók’s technically imposing, ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 2—a work featured on Bronfman's 1997 Grammy Award-winning recording of Bartók concerti. The OSM rounds out the program with Mahler's monumental Symphony No. 5 and with Precipice, a compact and ethereal work commissioned by the OSM from contemporary American-born, Canadian-resident composer Dorothy Chang.