Tommy Mesa returns to the Quad Cities to perform Andrea Casarrubios’s SEVEN for solo cello, a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the pandemic’s essential workers and those who lost their lives, followed by Jessie Montgomery’s Divided for cello and orchestra, which finds beauty amid conflict and chaos.
Cellist Tommy Mesa returns to the Quad Cities to perform Andrea Casarrubios’s SEVEN for solo cello, a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the pandemic’s essential workers and those who lost their lives, followed by Jessie Montgomery’s Divided for cello and orchestra, which finds beauty amid conflict and chaos.
Mischa Santora, conductor— SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto No. 1 in A minor—JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Divided for cello and orchestra
Andrew Constantine, conductor DVOŘÁK: Cello Concerto in B minor
Stuart Malina, conductor SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto No. 1 in A minor—JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Divided for cello and orchestra
Stuart Malina, conductor SAINT-SAËNS: Concerto No. 1 in A minor—JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Divided for cello and orchestra
Concert and repertoire TBD
Cello and Piano Recital—Repertoire TBD
Co-curators Thomas Mesa and Melissa White bring together two entities—the Sphinx Organization and Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra—to create a chamber music series that programs great music by Black and Latinx composers. This concert’s repertoire and personnel are currently TBD.
Andrew Constantine, conductor JESSIE MONTGOMERY: Divided for cello and orchestra (TCHAIKOVSKY: Variations on a Rococo Theme will not be featured on the matinee concert but will be on the 7:30pm concert that evening)
