A Night in Vienna

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2010 - 8:00PM
SUNDAY, MARCH 28, 2010 - 3:00PM

Wells Fargo Center for Arts, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa

 

Discover why Vienna has reigned as a great music capital in this concert that features four of its most beloved composers. Delight in the sparkle and wit of Mozart and be moved by the grandeur of Strauss. American Philharmonic is proud to host pianist Marilyn Thompson in a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major.

Program:

Gabriel Sakakeeny - Conductor

 

Mozart – Le Nozze di Figaro, Overture

Beethoven – Concerto for Piano No. 4 in G Major

Marilyn Thompson, piano

Schumann – Overture, Scherzo, and Finale

R. Strauss – Rosenkavalier Suite

 

Pianist Marilyn Thompson received her Bachelor’s Degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where she was a student of Adolph Baller. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to the Vienna Academy of Music, and subsequently received her Master’s Degree from Stanford University, where she studied under the Helen Evans Memorial Scholarship - a full-tuition grant. While at Stanford, she gave the West Coast Premier of Roger Sessions’ Piano Concerto. She has given countless recitals in the United States and abroad, and has been the featured soloist in concerti of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, Gershwin, Martinu, Hindemith, Barber and others. She has performed virtually the entire standard chamber music repertoire. Her recordings include performances of the Thomas Beversdorf Cello sonata, the Brahms Trio Op.87, and Ravel’s Violin-Piano Sonate. Miss Thompson has performed in chamber music concerts in Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center; the 92nd Street ’Y’ in New York City; the Philip’s Gallery, Washington D.C.; Boston’s Symphony Hall; Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco; and most recently in the Teatro Nacional, San Jose, Costa Rica. In the 1980’s she was the pianist member of the Chamber Soloists of San Francisco and the San Francisco Trio. At the present time Miss Thompson is the pianist of the Navarro Trio, a group which performs frequently throughout the Bay Area. Marilyn Thompson has taught at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music; the College of Holy Names, Oakland, California; at the University of California at Santa Cruz; and is presently on the faculty of Sonoma State University where she has taught since 1976.

This concert is a joint fundraiser for American Philharmonic-Sonoma County and the Santa Rosa Junior College "Bridging the Doyle Scholarship Program."