CRISTIAN MĂCELARU CONDUCTS SHOSTAKOVICH
April 21, 22 & 23, 2023
Overview
Wynton Marsalis blends jazz, ragtime, and spirituals in his Blues Symphony, a powerful celebration of Black history and folklore. SF Symphony English horn player Russ de Luna stars in Outi Tarkiainen’s Milky Ways, a celestial and hypnotic work that portrays life at its grandest and most miniscule. Led by Cristian Măcelaru, the program concludes with Dmitri Shostakovich’s First Symphony, a youthful piece of charming brashness and madcap action.
Concert Extras
A pre-concert Q&A with composer Outi Tarkiainen will be presented from the stage one hour before the concert on April 21 from 6:30–7:00pm. Free to all ticketholders.
Program
Wynton
Marsalis
Selections from Blues Symphony
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
[San Francisco Symphony Premiere]
Outi
Tarkiainen
Milky Ways
[San Francisco Symphony Commission & U.S. Premiere]
Dmitri
Shostakovich
Symphony No. 1
The U.S. premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s Milky Ways is supported by the Phyllis C. Wattis Fund for New Works of Music.
Russ de Luna
English Horn
Russ de Luna joined the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra as English Horn in 2007 and holds the Joseph & Pauline Scafidi Chair. In the 2022–23 season, he appears as soloist with the orchestra in the US premiere of Outi Tarkiainen’s Milky Ways, and he was previously featured in Aaron Copland’s Quiet City and Jean Sibelius’s The Swan of Tuonela under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas and Esa-Pekka Salonen. He appears regularly on the San Francisco Symphony chamber music series.
Mr. de Luna has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic, where he soloed in The Swan of Tuonela. He spent three summers as a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan under the direction of Seiji Ozawa and is now the English Horn for the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra.
A graduate of Boston University and Northwestern University, Mr. de Luna now teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and coaches the oboe section of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra.
Mr. de Luna has also performed with the Atlanta Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic, where he soloed in The Swan of Tuonela. He spent three summers as a member of the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Japan under the direction of Seiji Ozawa and is now the English Horn for the Sun Valley Music Festival Orchestra.
A graduate of Boston University and Northwestern University, Mr. de Luna now teaches at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and coaches the oboe section of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra.
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