Eugene Symphony: New Year's Even Celebration

• Alexandre Dossin, piano
• Halie Loren, voice
• Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

George Gershwin — Girl Crazy Overture
Irving Berlin — Blue Skies
Guy Wood — My One and Only Love
Luis Demetrio / Pablo Beltrán Ruiz — Sway (¿Quién será?)
George Gershwin — Cuban Overture ("Rumba")
Halie Loren — Cuando Bailamos
Halie Loren — A Woman's Way
Halie Loren — Butterfly
Calvin Custer / Duke Ellington — Duke Ellington! A Medley for Orchestra
Louis Guglielmi — La Vie en Rose
Richard Rodgers — "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music
George Gershwin — "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue

Ring in 2024 in style with your Eugene Symphony at the Hult Center! The festivities begin with a concert featuring Eugene's own Halie Loren performing jazz favorites like La Vie en Rose and Sway with the orchestra and pianist Alexandre Dossin playing George Gershwin's timeless Rhapsody in Blue as it marks the 100th anniversary of its 1924 premiere. Afterward, commemorate the end of the old year and the beginning of the new one with dancing, drinks, and a special countdown to midnight.

About Eugene Symphony

https://eugenesymphony.org/

About Alexandre Dossin, piano

Before joining the University of Oregon music faculty in 2006, Alexandre Dossin was a member of the faculty of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette from 2001–02, and from 2002–06 at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. Dossin's principal teachers were Sergei Dorensky at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory and William Race and Gregory Allen at the University of Texas at Austin.

In 1997 Dossin was the youngest person ever to receive the prestigious State Award "Ambassador of Rio Grande do Sul" in Brazil, and in 1998 he was the only student in the University of Texas at Austin School of Music to receive the Graduate Pre-Emptive Fellowship.

Conductors with whom Dossin has performed include Charles Dutoit, Isaac Karabtchevsky, and Michael Gielen, with orchestras such as the Buenos Aires Philharmonic, Brazilian National Symphony, Mozarteum University Symphony, and Tchaikovsky Conservatory Symphony. Dossin performed numerous live recitals for public radio in Wisconsin and Illinois, including the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago. Dossin has performed in international festivals in Japan, Canada, the United States, and Argentina, in some occasions sharing the stage with Martha Argerich.

Critics have called Dossin a "wonderful pianist," "master of contrasts," "master of expressiveness," and “a stunning pianist with a symbiotic relationship with the instrument."

Dossin has seven albums released worldwide by Naxos (Verdi-Liszt Paraphrases, Kabalevsky Sonatas, Kabalevsky Preludes, Liszt in Russia, Leonard Bernstein piano music, Prokofiev Childhood Manuscripts and Liszt’s Buch dar Lieder). He is also an editor for the Schirmer Performance Edition Series (Tchaikovsky The Seasons, Tchaikovsky Album for the Youth, Prokofiev Visions Fugitives, Liszt Consolations and Liebesträume, Rachmaninoff Preludes, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2).

A Steinway Artist, Dossin is the Vice-President of the American Liszt Society and president of its Oregon Chapter. Currently the chair of the piano area, he keeps a studio of advanced pianists from several countries and is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

https://musicanddance.uoregon.edu/directory/profiles/all/adossin

About Halie Loren, voice

Halie Loren is an international, award-winning jazz singer/songwriter. Raised in Alaska, this Oregon-based artist brings a fresh and original perspective to time-honored musical paths, channeling her innate understanding of connectedness across musical boundaries to forge bonds with diverse audiences in North America, Asia, and Europe. A lover of global cultures and music, her repertoire is a multi-lingual one, including songs in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, and Korean, as well as her native English. She's released eight albums to-date, garnering several national and international awards as well as significant critical and chart success along the way, with her albums consistently charting at #1 in Billboard/Japan Jazz Charts, iTunes (Canada and Japan), and Amazon Music

https://halieloren.com/

About Francesco Lecce-Chong, conductor

https://lecce-chong.com/