December 4
Holiday
St. Paul & St. Andrew Church, 263 West 86th Street
Celebrate the season with The Chelsea Symphony! Please note the Thursday date and the location on W. 86th St. Our annual holiday concert features wintry favorites by Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, along with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s cheerful Bassoon Concerto. The program concludes with two beloved TCS holiday traditions: Leroy Anderson’s Sleigh Ride, conducted by a lucky raffle winner from the audience; and Aaron Dai’s The Night Before Christmas, featuring a special guest narrator.
Program
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
A Christmas Scherzo
The Night Before Christmas
Featured Artists
Tilden Marbit
Bassoon
Thursday, 12.4
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Bassoon Concerto in B-flat Major, K. 191/186e
Tilden Marbit, a native New Yorker, began his musical journey on the piano at the age of four. He later attended LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, where he was required to choose an orchestral instrument in addition to piano. What began as an unexpected choice—the bassoon—quickly became his passion.
Tilden went on to study at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music as one of its first Schulich Scholars, training under Stéphane Lévesque, principal bassoonist of the Montreal Symphony. …
A graduate of Columbia University and the Mannes School of Music, Aaron Dai began studying piano at the age of five and went on to win the UNICEF Youth Concerts Competition three times by the age of fifteen. As a soloist and collaborative pianist, he has performed around the country and abroad, in New York venues such as Carnegie Hall, Steinway Hall, Symphony Space, and The Town Hall, and cities including Dublin, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and San Francisco. …
Conductor
A leader in the 21st century orchestral landscape, Dr. Matthew Aubin is constantly reaching new audiences through innovative performance formats and creative initiatives both on and off the podium.
The 2022-23 season kicks off Dr. Aubin’s inaugural year as Music Director of the Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra. Additionally, he is Music Director of the Jackson Symphony Orchestra and serves as Artistic Director of The Chelsea Symphony. In his role at TCS, he has led highly visible collaborations with partners such …
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 Associate Teaching Professor of Music at Brown University, where he directs the Brown University Orchestra and teaches courses in music history, theory, and conducting. Recent highlights include performances with violinist Itzhak Perlman, violinist Randall Goosby, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and the Martha Graham Dance Company.
Since Mark’s tenure with The Chelsea Symphony …