Innovative Programming, Classic Repertoire, Artistic Partnerships
and World-class Artists in a Season of Inspiration
SEATTLE SYMPHONY AND MUSIC DIRECTOR
LUDOVIC MORLOT ANNOUNCE 2013–2014 SEASON
Innovative Programming, Classic Repertoire, Artistic Partnerships
and World-class Artists in a Season of Inspiration
Highlights Include
Season to Open with all-Ravel Program and Close with Stravinsky’s Three Great Ballets,
and will Feature Mozart’s Last Seven Symphonies
Local Artistic Partnerships include Verdi’s Requiem Performed in Honor of Longtime Seattle Opera General Director Speight Jenkins; J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Pacific MusicWorks; Bartók’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with Seattle Chamber Music Society Artistic Director James Ehnes; an [untitled] Series Concert with the Earshot Jazz Festival; and Celebrate Asia, featuring a New Work for Vietnamese and Western Instruments by Richard Karpen, Director of University of Washington’s School of Music
Seattle Symphony and Global Co-Commissioners Present U.S. Premieres of Pascal Dusapin’s Violin Concerto, Alexander Raskatov’s Piano Concerto and James MacMillan’s The Death of Oscar
Sonic EvolutionFeatures MC Sir Mix-A-Lot, Plus World Premieres Inspired by
Seattle Music Icons Ray Charles, Sir Mix-A-Lot and Bill Frisell
Informal Audience Experiences Continues with Symphony Untuxed and Exciting Contemporary Repertoire Presented in the [untitled]Series, including Stockhausen’sSpiritual Masterpiece Inori
Piano Virtuoso Lang Lang to Join Morlot for Opening Night Concert & Gala,
Performing Prokofiev’s Dazzling Third Piano Concerto
New TchaikFest! to Showcase Tchaikovsky’s Four Instrumental Concertos Performed in Back-to-Back Nights
Morlot to Lead the Orchestra at Carnegie Hall on May 6 as Part of Spring for Music 2014
Conductor Laureate Gerard Schwarz to Lead all-Mozart and all-Strauss programs
Morlot and New Principal Pops Conductor Jeff Tyzik Team up for a Pops/Classical
New Year’s Eve Extravaganza, including Jon Kimura Parker Performing Gershwin’sRhapsody in Blue
Hitchcock’s Psycho with the Seattle Symphony Returns for Halloween by Popular Demand
