YOUNGSTOWN SYMPHONY Season to include guest conductors

The orchestra will unveil a new Steinway piano during the opening concert.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The Youngstown Symphony Society has announced the guest conductors who will lead the symphony during the 2006-07 season.
On the list are conductors who have led orchestras around the globe, are active in recording studios, won Grammy and Tony awards and are associated with prestigious music schools.
Peter Breiner
On Oct. 21, Peter Breiner will take to the podium to open the John S. and Doris M. Andrews Masterworks Series. A freelance artist, arranger, pianist and conductor, Breiner has played in and conducted hundreds of concerts and recordings. He was co-host of a popular television talk show in his native Czechoslovakia before immigrating to Toronto, Canada. He will conduct Sibelius' "Finlandia" and Second Symphony.
During the opening concert, the orchestra will unveil a new Steinway Concert D piano. Performing on the instrument will be pianist Vladimir Feltsman in Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto.
Grant Cooper, music director of the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra and resident conductor of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, will conduct the Youngstown orchestra Nov. 18, when violinist Joan Kwuon performs Mozart's Violin Concerto in G.
The orchestra will perform Hayden Variations by Brahms and Bizet's Symphony in C.
In 2007
On Jan. 20, 2007, the orchestra will perform three orchestral masterpieces: Barber's Adagio for Strings, the La Passione Symphony by Haydn and Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony. Shinik Hahm, artistic director and principal conductor of Daejeon (Korea) Philharmonic Orchestra and professor of conducting at Yale School of Music, will conduct. He is also music director of the Yale Philharmonia Orchestra.
On Feb. 24, 2007, Randall Craig Fleischer will lead the orchestra, after conducting in the October 2006 Stambaugh Auditorium Predication Concert.
As music director/conductor of the Hudson Valley Philharmonic and the Anchorage and Flagstaff Symphony Orchestras, Fleischer has led each orchestra through a dramatic period of artistic growth. Highlighting Russian composers in February, the evening's repertoire includes Tshaikovsky's Fifth Symphony and Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto with pianist Denis Matseuv.
Works from the Baroque to the 20th century will be featured March 24, 2007, when violinist Robert McDuffie performs Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" and the orchestra performs Benjamin Britten's Interludes from "Peter Grimes," conducted by Peter Rubardt, the Pensacola Symphony Orchestra music director.
The orchestra concludes the Masterworks Series April 28, 2007, when Darryl One conducts the orchestra in the Mahler First Symphony.
Joining One will be pianist Stewart Goodyear in Mozart's 23rd Piano Concerto.
Enjoying a wide and varied career as a professional conductor, Darryl One hods music directorships at the Modesto, Calif., and Victoria, Texas, symphony orchestras.
Pops conductors
Some of America's best-loved pops conductors will lead the orchestra during the John W. and Dorothy B. Ford Pops Series.
The series begins Nov. 4 with Cleveland Pops conductor Carl Topilow. The "Salute to Hollywood" program features Topilow and his red clarinet in scores from movie blockbusters, "The Lord of the Rings," "Raiders of the Lost Ark," "The Terminal," "Pirates of the Caribbean" and the Mario Lanza songbook with tenor Kip Wilborn.
Marvin Hamlisch, principal pops conductor for the Pittsburgh and National symphony orchestras, will present a Dec. 2 holiday concert.
On Feb. 10, 2007, the legendary pianist and Philly Pops conductor Peter Nero conducts the orchestra in some of the greatest love songs ever written.
Featuring bluegrass, jazz, classical and country/western, the string trio Time For Three joins Topilow for the pops finale April 27, 2007.
Topilow and Time For Three will also present Young People's Concerts April 19-20, 2007.
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