Seattle Symphony: An Evening with Audra McDonald

• Audra McDonald, voice
• Andy Einhorn, conductor

Six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald brings her unparalleled artistry and passion to the Benaroya Hall stage for an evening of classics from Broadway and the American Songbook.

About Seattle Symphony

Recognized as one of the “most vital American orchestras” (NPR), the Seattle Symphony is internationally acclaimed for its inventive programming, community-minded initiatives, and superb recordings on the Seattle Symphony Media label. With a strong commitment to new music and a legacy of over 150 recordings, the orchestra has garnered five Grammy Awards, 26 Grammy nominations, and two Emmy Awards, and was named Gramophone’s 2018 Orchestra of the Year. The Symphony performs in Benaroya Hall in the heart of downtown Seattle.

About Audra McDonald, voice

Audra McDonald is unparalleled in the breadth and versatility of her artistry, as both a singer and an actor. The winner of a record-breaking six Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and an Emmy Award, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2015 and received a 2015 National Medal of Arts—America’s highest honor for achievement in the arts—from President Barack Obama. Blessed with a luminous soprano and an incomparable gift for dramatic truth-telling, she is as much at home on Broadway and opera stages as she is in roles on film and television. In addition to her theatrical work, she maintains a major career as a concert and recording artist, regularly appearing on the great stages of the world.

About Andy Einhorn, conductor

Leading Broadway music director and conductor Andy Einhorn directs concerts this year with the Baltimore, St. Louis, Santa Barbara, and South Dakota Symphony Orchestras. At Aspen Music Festival, Einhorn led performances of Sondheim's A Little Night Music and a concert performance of South Pacific and returns in 2020 to lead Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, music by Ricky Ian Gordon. Einhorn recently returned to Blossom Music Festival to lead The Cleveland Orchestra in a concert performance of South Pacific. Most recently he served as the Music Supervisor and Musical Director for the Broadway productions of Carousel and Hello Dolly! Einhorn's previous Broadway credits include Holiday Inn, Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella, Evita, Brief Encounter, The Light in the Piazza, and Sondheim on Sondheim.