José Luis Gomez, conductor
Natasha Paremski, piano
Juan Pablo Contreras: MeChicano (Co-commission with New Music USA Amplifying Voices program)
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2
Carl Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, “Inextinguishable”
Stunning Russian-American pianist Natasha Paremski makes her TSO debut with Rachmaninoff’s beloved second piano concerto. Maestro Gomez returns to the most popular symphony of Carl Nielsen, whose music he conducted on his auspicious 2014 TSO debut, and Juan Pablo Contreras’s new opener introduces a young Mexican composer on the rise.
Photo by Clarence Chan