May 15-16
CANCELLED: WE CAN BE HEROES
Saturday | 5.16.20 | 8:00 PM
St. Paul's Church, 315 West 22nd Street
The May 15-16 “We Can Be Heroes” concert series has been cancelled. All of our originally planned featured artists, including the 2019-20 TCS Composition Competition winner (Sam Wu, Wind Map), will be rescheduled to a future concert date. We are sad about this news but make this decision to support New York and with our musicians' and audience members' safety as our first and foremost priority. Wishing all of you a safe and healthy spring!
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Ring in the spring with The Chelsea Symphony for “We Can Be Heroes” on May 15-16 as part of the fourteenth season RISE UP.
Featuring Schumann’s Third Symphony, the “Rhenish,” this work is the composer’s last, written during the autumn of 1850. It features musical inspiration from nature and is often compared to Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Sixth Symphony. The inner movements are in homage to the Rhine (the inspiration for its nickname), a country dance, and the ceremony for the elevation of a cardinal in a cathedral in Cologne. The work closes with the cheerful vigor introduced in the opening movement with a celebratory brass fanfare.
Alongside this work are the Barber Violin Concerto featuring Camille Enderlin on Friday’s concert, and two more works for strings on Saturday’s concert: Amanda Maier-Röntgen’s Violin Concert welcoming Juliana Pereira back as TCS soloist and a work by Kamala Sankaram featuring violist Brian Thompson.
Both concerts open with the winning piece of The Chelsea Symphony’s 2019-20 Composition Competition, now in its sixth year.
Concert run time: 85-90 minutes including a 15-minute intermission
Know before you go
Khan Academy, “Robert Schumann: Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish,” analysis by Gerard Schwarz
The New York Times, “Women Are Making Opera. And It’s Not Easy.” (feat. Kamala Sankaram 2016)
Program
Wind Map
(Winning Piece of the 2019-20 TCS Composition Competition)
Viola Concerto
(World Premiere)
Violin Concerto in D minor
Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, op. 97 "Rhenish"
Featured Artists
Camille Enderlin is a New York City-based violinist. As an orchestral musician, Camille has performed with ensembles, such as the Binghamton Philharmonic, the Allentown Symphony, Symphoria, the Orchestra Now, the Chelsea Symphony, and the National Orchestral Institute + Festival (NOI). With NOI, Camille played on the recording for a Naxos Records “American Classics” album, which received a 2018 Grammy nomination for “Best Orchestral Performance.”
Camille is a proponent of all genres of music and keeps a musically diverse performance schedule. …
A New York City native, Juliana began playing the violin at the age of 3 at the School for Strings in Manhattan where she is currently a member of the Board of Trustees. As an undergraduate at Brown University, Juliana was the concertmaster of the orchestra and frequent soloist. She also served as co-concert master of the Sorbonne University Orchestra in Paris while studying abroad. Juliana has performed with orchestras and ensembles throughout the U.S., U.K., Canada, France, and Brazil. …
Brian Thompson is a NYC based music teacher and freelance violist and violinist. Brian holds a masters in viola performance from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College and Suzuki certification from The School for Strings. Collaborating with a variety of ensembles ranging from The Chelsea Symphony to The Dream Unfinished, Brian seeks a diversity of musical experience. When not performing, Brian is on faculty at The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music as well as maintaining a private studio in Brooklyn.
Conductor
Reuben Blundell has been a Chelsea Symphony conductor/violinist since 2012, enjoying collaborations with musicians, soloists, composers and other conductors. Conducting Aaron Dai’s The Night Before Christmas, first with B. D. Wong then Annie Golden narrating, he initiated, conducted and edited (in Premiere Pro) the orchestra’s 2020 remote performance, narrated by John Lithgow.
Blundell is Music Director of the Riverside Orchestra on the Upper West Side, rehearsing Mondays and performing five concerts each season. He also directs another outstanding community …
Mark Seto leads a wide-ranging musical life as a conductor, scholar, teacher, and violinist. He is Artistic Director and Conductor of The Chelsea Symphony in New York City, and Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Music at Brown University, where he directs the Brown University Orchestra and teaches courses in music history, theory, and conducting. Highlights of his 2023-24 season include performances with violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Randall Goosby, and clarinetist Anthony McGill, and the inauguration of The …