Seattle Philharmonic: "Passionate & Fascinating" – Schumann's Fourth

Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra

Saturday, March 29, 2025 @ 2:00pm – 4:00pm (PDT)

Benaroya Hall – S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States

$28 ($20 student/senior; ages 16 & under free)

Tokuji Miyasaka, violin (2024 Don Bushell Concerto Competition Winner)
Adam Stern, conductor

Rosa García Ascot — Suite para Orquesta (U.S. premiere)
Niccolò Paganini — Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 6
Robert Schumann — Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

This festive program opens with the U.S. premiere of the sparkling Suite para Orquestra by Spanish composer Rosa García Ascot. Violinist Tokuji Miyasaka, winner of the Philharmonic's 2024 Don Bushell Competition, is the dazzling soloist in the Violin Concerto No. 1 by Niccolò Paganini, the composer/performer whose legendary virtuosity caused contemporaries to suspect him of an alliance with The Devil. We conclude with Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 4, a work in which the composer displays amazing structural unity wedded to his characteristic rhapsodic intensity.