Ringling International Arts Festival Blog in Sarasota, FL. Theater, Dance, Music and Visual Arts

Florida State University Symphony Orchestra
Robert Spano, conductor
Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Wednesday, October 7  – 8:30 p.m.
Mertz Theater / FSU Center for the Performing Arts

Program:
F. Liszt,  Orpheus
L. Beethoven, Concerto for Piano and Orchestra no. 4, op. 58
F. Liszt,  Les Preludes

Robert Spano leads the Florida State University Symphony Orchestra and pianist Pedja Muzijevic in the inaugural concert for the Ringling International Arts Festival. Recognized as one of the most imaginative conductors of his generation, the Grammy Award-winning Spano is in his eighth season as Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony. He has conducted the greatest orchestras of the world including those in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, New York, as well as the Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Filarmonica della Scala (Milan) and BBC Symphony Orchestra. Pianist Pedja Muzijevic has performed to acclaim with the Milwaukee Symphony, Dresden Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and Residentie Orkest in The Hague.

“Robert Spano has that great skill in a conductor of making every performance radiate joy. You would think, each time, that he has been waiting all his life to make this music happen, and that he is darned well going to make it happen to the utmost.” – The New York Times

“Pedja Muzijevic is a virtuoso with formidable fingers and a musician with fiercely original ideas about the music he plays.” – Financial Times, London

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