San Juan Symphony To Present “ROCK ‘N ROLL IN VIENNA” Concert On Sept. 29, 2012

Durango, CO – The San Juan Symphony will kick off its 2012-13 Lollapalooza season at the Community Concert Hall at Fort Lewis College at 7:30 pm on September 29 with a knock-your-socks-off rowdy concert entitled Rock ‘n Roll in Vienna. Israeli Cellist Inbal Segev will return to Durango to perform Fredrich Gulda’s Cello Concerto. Also on the program for the evening is Beethoven’s majestic Symphony No. 7.

Music Director Arthur Post will preview the concert on Wednesday, September 26 at 6 pm at the Toh-Atin Gallery in downtown Durango. The pre-concert talk is free and open to the public.

Inbal Segev’s playing has been described as “characterized by a strong and warm tone . . . delivered with impressive fluency and style,” by The Strad and “richly inspired” by Gramophone. Equally committed to new repertoire and known masterworks, Segev brings interpretations that are both unreservedly natural and insightful to the vast range of music that she performs.

Segev’s repertoire includes all of the standard concerti and solo works for cello, as well as new pieces and rarely performed gems. She gave the U.S. premiere of Sir Arthur Sullivan’s Cello Concerto in D Major, which was written in 1866 but never published. She performed jazz musician and composer David Baker’s cello concerto at Town Hall in New York, and was the first cellist to perform Dutilleux’s challenging Trois strophes sur le nom de Sacher at Carnegie Hall. She gave the world premiere of Max Schubel’s Concerto for Cello, which was written for her. Currently, Grammy-nominated composer Avner Dorman is at work on a new concerto for Segev, and Grammy-winning composer Fernando Otero.

Segev’s many honors include the America-Israel Cultural Foundation Scholarship, and top prizes at the Pablo Casals, Paulo, and Washington International Competitions. She was invited by Isaac Stern to come to the U.S. at 16, and earned a B.M. from Juilliard and M.M. from Yale, studying with masters Joel Krosnick, Harvey Shapiro, Aldo Parisot, and Bernhard Greenhouse. She performs on a cello made by Francesco Rugeri in 1673 and is managed by Barrett Vantage Artists.

For tickets, please call the Community Concert Hall ticket office in Durango at 970.247.7657.

For more information, please call the SJS office at 970-382-9753, or visit online at www.sanjuansymphony.org.