2014 - 2015 Season

Introducing The Commons at Baxter & Love

The Commons is a State-of-the-Art Community Center Featuring: Easy Access Ample, Convenient Parking Comfortable, Padded Seating Spacious Lobby World Class Concert Quality Visual Capabilities Incredible Sound Finest House & Theatre Lighting in the Area

Why You’ll Love it… Experience Exceptional Live Music Performances Enjoy Refreshments Including Beer & Wine No More Hunting for a Parking Space Say Goodbye to Restroom Lines Appreciate Quality Temperature Control for Optimized Comfort

Matthew Savery Music Director & Conductor

Dear Friends, Nothing compares to the magic of live symphonic music. The atmosphere is charged with intensity, the drama is captivating, and the music making is electric.

For our 47th concert season, we’ll experience the exciting venue of The Commons at Baxter and Love--with all its superb technology and wonderful amenities--until March when we return to a newly refurbished Willson Auditorium. There’s a lot of excitement in the air, and a season subscription to the Bozeman Symphony will make certain you don’t miss one thrilling moment.

Enjoy!

Concert Sponsored by Mrs. Robert W. Martin, Jr. and Solid Rock Foundation

Discover your wild side as we open our 2014-2015 concert season with this thrilling performance full of surprises.

We’ll begin with American composer Kenneth Fuchs’s tribute to the vast landscape of the American West accompanied by a stunningly beautiful presentation of photography from Bozeman’s very own Thomas F. Lee. Next, we’ll team up with students from the Bozeman High School Art Department, displaying their interpretation of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. And for a truly wild finish, Alexander Markov, one of the world’s greatest violin virtuosos, returns to Bozeman for the first time in a decade to captivate you with the awe-inspiring virtuosity of Niccolo Paganini’s second violin concerto.

Epic!

Saturday, October 25th Dress Rehearsal, 10:30 a.m.

Concert, 7:30 p.m. The Commons

Concert Sponsored by Chico Hot Springs Resort & Day Spa, Mike & Eve Art

Special Guest Jolyon Pegis,

Cello

Le Tombeau de Couperin Ravel Concerto, Violoncello, D minor LaloSymphony, D minor Frank

Join us for a quick getaway to the “City of Love” with this evening of music by French composers.

Ravel’s gentle homage to the 17th and 18th century—the golden era of French music—will set the tone for an evening of sumptuous sounds. Next, we welcome the Associate Principal Cellist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Jolyon Pegis, performing the cellistic fireworks and Spanish flair of Édouard Lalo’s Cello Concerto in D minor. To complete the evening we’ll tackle César Franck’s Symphony in D, widely considered to be his most popular work, and his greatest achievement.

Oo la la!

Concert Sponsored by First Security Bank, ERA Landmark, and Allegra Bozeman

Get ready to be wowed, and to laugh all night in this Holiday spectacular.

Current Principal Trumpet for the Dallas Symphony and former Principal Trumpet for the world famous Canadian Brass, Ryan Anthony is known as one of the greatest trumpeters and entertainers in the world today. Having performed many times with Maestro Savery, Ryan convinced Matthew to work together on writing a new and humorous Christmas extravaganza. You’ll see them both ham it up while simultaneously being amazed at Ryan’s incredible talent. Join us as we perform Trumpet Voluntary, The Little Drummer Boy, The Christmas Song, Deck the Horn, Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, music from Polar Express, and much, much more.

It’s Joyful AND Triumphant!

Special Guest Ryan Anthony,

Trumpet

Saturday, December 13th Dress Rehearsal, 10:30 a.m. Concert, 7:30 p.m. The Commons

Concert Sponsored by Bruce Jodar & Kimberlie Birdwell

Escape your winter doldrums as we serenade you with beautiful music designed to warm both your heart and soul.

The evening begins playfully with the jaunty and festive ballet music from Mozart’s opera Idomeneo. Next we’ll charm you with Dvořák’s beautiful serenade for wind instruments, influenced heavily by his hero Johannes Brahms, and written as a tribute to the form made popular by Mozart himself. Finally, we conclude with what is widely considered one of Haydn’s greatest achievements—the profound, tender, and humorous Symphony no. 102 in B-flat major.

Sublime

Saturday, February 7thDress Rehearsal, 10:30 a.m.

Concert, 7:30 p.m. The Commons

Saturday Concert Sponsored by Big Sky Western Bank Sunday Concert Sponsored by Langlas & Associates and Indian Uprising Gallery

Saturday, March 7, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 8, 2:30 p.m. Willson Auditorium

Festive Overture, Op. 96 Shostakovich Glacier (Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra) FuchsRomeo and Juliet: Suite No. 2 Prokofiev

We return to a newly renovated Willson Auditorium—back to our normal schedule of TWO performances, with this grand celebration.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s Festive Overture trumpets in the occasion as we open this very special concert event. Next, commissioned by the Bozeman Symphony in honor of Maestro Savery’s 20th anniversary as Music Director, and inspired by the beautiful panoramic vistas of Yellowstone and Glacier National Parks, we’ll present the world premiere of American composer Kenneth Fuchs’s Glacier (Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra). The program concludes with the second suite of Prokofiev’s powerful interpretation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

Adam Rogers

Kenneth Fuchs

Saturday Concert Sponsored by Walter & Regina Wunsch, Spectec/TIC Sunday Concert Sponsored by Michael & Sharon Beehler

Christine Lombardozzi,soprano

Daniel Weeks, tenor

Anton Belov, baritone

Claire Shackleton, mezzo-soprano

Ode to Joy!Saturday, April 11, 7:30 p.m.Sunday, April 12, 2:30 p.m. Willson Auditorium

We conclude our 47th concert season with the Master’s masterpiece— the powerful and exultant 9th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven.

It’s considered not only one of the greatest pieces of music ever written, but one of the greatest achievements of the Human Spirit. With its highly innovative structure of emotional depth, intensity and musical splendor, and its powerful and jubilant chorus celebrating the brotherhood of mankind, the 9th speaks a universal truth just as relevant today as it was when composed in 1824. With a quartet of renowned soloists, and our Symphonic Choir enhanced by special guests the MSU University Chorus, this program promises to be our most inspirational concert ever. Rapture!

Symphony No. 9, op. 125, D minor (Choral) Beethoven

Also featuring the Bozeman Symphonic Choir and the MSU University Chorus

Featuring Special Guests:

Concert Sponsored by Dave & Kippy Sands

Sunday, November 16, 2014 3:00 pmHoly Rosary Church, 220 West Main

Join us for this special afternoon performance in which the Bozeman Symphonic Choir teams up with the MSU Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tobin Stewart, to present this heavenly program of religious music from around the world. Featured on the program will be Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass.

Divine!

The Bozeman Symphony is proud to enter our 12th season presenting world-class pianists in recital. The beautiful Reynolds Recital Hall on the Montana State University Campus offers a superb setting to enjoy the vast variety of repertoire for solo piano and we are pleased this season to present nationally acclaimed artists Soheil Nasseri and Young-Ah Tak.

Concert Sponsored by Tim & Mary Barnard, Dr. William & Carol Mealer, Montana Arts Council, Montana Cultural Trust, and Target Foundation

Special Guest James Stephenson,

Composer & Conductor

Gianforte Family Foundation, Tall Boys Catering, Bruce Jodar & Kimberlie Birdwell,

Yellowstone Club Community Foundation

Free Concert & Free Fireworks follow Gallatin County Fairgrounds

Barbecue to Benefit the Bozeman Symphony 6:30-8:30 July 4th

Presented with Gallatin Empire Lions Club

Concert Sponsors:

Matthew Savery Music Director &

Conductor

Bozeman Symphony Society 1001 W. Oak STE. 201Bozeman, MT 59715

2014 - 2015 Season 406.585.9774 BozemanSymphony.org