Orchestra NOVA Northwest presents Testimony: Prokofiev, Shostakovich, & Stalin

Orchestra NOVA Northwest (formerly Portland Columbia Symphony)

Sunday, May 18, 2025 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)

Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, Beaverton, OR, United States

$39.50-$64.50 ($19.50 student)

Yaron Kohlberg, piano
Steven Byess, conductor

Sergei Prokofiev — Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major, Op. 26
Dmitri Shostakovich — Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93

The Orchestra Nova Northwest welcomes international competition winner and President of the Cleveland International Piano Competition Yaron Kohlberg as he performs one of the most challenging and exciting piano concertos in the repertoire, the dazzling Piano Concerto No. 3 of Sergei Prokofiev. The orchestra performs Shostakovich's mighty, tragic, but ultimately triumphal Symphony No. 10, a musical rebuke of the oppressive regime of Joseph Stalin, written immediately after the death of the Soviet dictator.

2 performances:
- Saturday, May 17, 7:30pm at Mount Hood Community College in Gresham
- Sunday, May 18, 3pm at the Reser Center for the Arts in Beaverton