Oregon Symphony’s concertmaster Jun Iwasaki has accepted the concertmaster position with the Nashville Symphony, effective September, 2011. Iwasaki has been a great leader for the past four seasons in Portland and will be missed. I have appreciated his top level of discipline and preparation, his artistic flexibility working with artists and conductors, and his superb…
Play-violin.com Interview: Amy Schwartz Moretti
Former Oregon Symphony concertmaster Amy Schwartz Moretti has been keeping very busy since leaving Portland in 2007 to become Director of the Robert McDuffie Center for Strings at the Mercer University Townsend School of Music. Earlier this year, Moretti released her debut solo CD entitled Kaleidoscope in 2011. Her elegant and refined violin playing…
Oregon Symphony celebrates the Orchestra
Alas, the final Classical week of the Oregon Symphony’s 2010-2011 season is here this already, but what a way to go! It’s been only nine days since our performance at Carnegie Hall. The symphony soloists sound great and are a joy to listen to. Then the entire orchestra performs the virtuosic Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra….
Another rave review for the Oregon Symphony plus update
Another review, this one by David D. Rooney, music critic for Musical America who wrote about the Oregon Symphony’s Carnegie debut: Kalmar’s musical preparation seemed little short of miraculous. The orchestra had both the notes and the motivation to deliver a superbly proportioned account that was tonally sophisticated and also hit all the interpretative marks….
Links to Oregon Symphony Carnegie debut
It really was a dream come true. I am still reflecting on last Thursday’s concert at Carnegie Hall. It was so heartening to take in such an enthusiastic roar of applause by the audience, that it caught me by surprise emotionally. Before intermission I had a lump in my throat and had to tightly grin…
Oregon Symphony concert before Carnegie Hall
Today was the second of two concerts in Portland to prepare for the Oregon Symphony’s historic Carnegie Hall debut this coming Thursday. On both concerts we were recorded live and will be commercially released to the general public next fall. This morning Carlos Kalmar listened to last night’s live recording, and was busy taking notes…
How do I get a job in a symphony orchestra?
hannaviolin wrote a blog for non-musicians who are curious about what the process is to get a job in a symphony orchestra. I still don’t know her real name, but evidently she is a well-trained musician who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music (my alma mater) with Linda Cerone and William Preucil. What she…