Mendelssohn Violin Concerto

• A former Dudamel Conducting Fellow with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gemma New is Resident Conductor of St. Louis Symphony and a highly sought after guest conductor.
• Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto is one of the most popular and most frequently performed violin concertos in history, influencing many composers’ violin concertos, such as Tchaikovsky and Sibelius.
• George Walker is the first African-American to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music.
• Dan Coleman is Composer-in-residence for the TSO.

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