Award-winning Russian-born American pianist Yuliya Gorenman has rightfully been called a “pianist without fear.”  Now firmly established in her performing career, Gorenman first achieved international acclaim as a prizewinner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Belgium in 1995.  Since then, she has been invited to perform solo, chamber, and orchestral concerts throughout the world, and, in the process, has earned consistent praise for her artistic fire, for her fluid and unpretentious technique, and for the lyrical honesty and generosity of her playing. 

 Born in Odessa and raised in Kazakhstan, Gorenman began studying with her late mother, Svetlana Gorenman.  She continued to shape her performance style while attending the St. Petersburg Conservatory.  After immigrating to the USA in 1989, she studied first at the San Francisco Conservatory and then at the Peabody Conservatory with mentors such as Nathan Schwartz and Leon Fleischer. 

After leaving the former Soviet Union, Gorenman earned a steady procession of awards and honors.  Gorenman has recorded all the Beethoven Piano Concerti and the Triple Concerto live with the Bavarian Chamber Orchestra and conductor Philip Greenberg in France and Switzerland.  She concluded the critically acclaimed The Gorenman  Beethoven Project in 2011, performing the complete cycle of the 32 Beethoven Piano Sonatas at American University in Washington,DC.  Currently, she is professor of piano and Musician in Residence at the American University.

 All ticket holders are welcome to attend “Prelude” which takes place one hour before each concert.  Music Director Elizabeth Schulze and the guest artists share information on featured composers and their works that will enhance concert-goers enjoyment and appreciation of the concert.  Program notes and audio clips of the musical selections being performed are available at www.marylandsymphony.org by clicking on “Listen to Program Notes” on the performance page. 

 Tickets ranging from $15 to $49 may be purchased online; in person at 30 W. Washington Street, Hagerstown (Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.); or by calling 301-797-4000 during business hours.  Through a special Angel Ticket Program, students in grades 1 through 12 will be admitted free.  Student Rush Tickets are available for higher education students (no reservations accepted) at the Maryland Theatre Box Office before each performance for $5.00.  Seat selection will be at the discretion of the box office personnel.  The Maryland Theatre Box Office opens 90 minutes prior to MSO concerts.

 Celebration Sponsors, Phoebe Z. Black and Paige Remington, are sponsoring this concert in loving memory of Bill and Ginn Plummer.  Additional support is being given by Maryland Public Television and Mercedes-Benz of Hagerstown.  Student tickets are generously underwritten by contributions from Jim & Georgia Pierne and MSO Music Director Elizabeth Schulze. 

The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is also supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. 

Under the leadership of Music Director Elizabeth Schulze, The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 30^th Season as the area’s premier professional orchestra, dedicated to providing musical performances that educate and entertain, while enhancing the cultural environment of Western Maryland and the surrounding region. 

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 Who would have thought that a country singer, a contemporary artist and an opera singer on stage at the same time would cause such frenzy?  The trio had performed only a few times together before (on a whim) they auditioned for “America’s Got Talent.”

 Soon after their phenomenal success on that show, The Texas Tenors took their modern interpretation of country and classical music all over the world in nearly 300 concerts that included a tour of twenty-three cities in the United Kingdom.  The Tenors are currently on a second national tour that will take them to ninety-three cities across the United States and will be adding international dates, including China and Australia, in the fall of 2012.  They are booked for over sixty concerts at The Starlite Theatre in Branson, MO during 2012, where they continue to outsell some of the biggest names in show business.  “Country Roots-Classical Sound,” the group’s first CD, was the only album to ever be #1 on both the country and classical charts as tracked by CD Baby.  Their second CD, “You Should Dream,” has just been released.

The concert will be a blend of gospel, country, classical, standard and Broadway favorites with a lot of humor and cowboy charm thrown in for good measure.  The Texas Tenors take their music seriously, but never themselves.  Weaving effortlessly from John Denver to Puccini to “West Side Story,” they take their audience on a musical ride from West Virginia to Italy to New York City, pausing between genres long enough only to tell stories and smile for pictures. An evening with The Texas Tenors and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra promises to be one that the whole family will enjoy.   

 Tickets, ranging from $15 to $49, may be purchased online at www.marylandsymphony.org; in person at 30 W. Washington Street, Hagerstown (Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.); or, by calling 301-797-4000 during business hours.

 Silver Baton sponsors for this concert are SpringHill Suites and Youngblood Studios.  Conductor’s Circle sponsors are Rider Jet Center, Tigers Eye Benefits Consulting, Lite 97.5, Oldies 95.9, WPS, The Columbia Bank, Hagerstown Trust Division and Sharrett.  Additional support is being provided by WAYZ Radio and Antietam Cable Television.  

 The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. 

 The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is the area’s premier professional orchestra, dedicated to providing musical performances that educate and entertain, while enhancing the cultural environment of Western Maryland and the surrounding region. 

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 Joseph McIntyre, principal timpanist with the Maryland Symphony Orchestra, is celebrating his 30^th season with the MSO by performing as a soloist for Michael Daugherty’s Raise the Roof.   McIntyre pursued degrees in percussion at the University of Maryland and has studied privately with Gordon Stout, Leigh Stevens, Fred Begun, Tony Ames, Cloyd Duff and John Tafoya.  He performs frequently with the National Symphony Orchestra and has played under numerous conductors including Leonard Bernstein, Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgo, Lorin Maazel, Mstislav Rostropovich, Maxim Shostakovich, Leonard Slatkin and Christoph Eschenbach.  He has also performed with the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, National Philharmonic, Cathedral Choral Society and Washington Brass, as well as the Richmond, Arlington, Millbrook, Fairfax, Alexandria and National Gallery Orchestras.

Michael Daugherty is one of the most frequently commissioned, programmed and recorded composers on the American concert music scene today.  Born in 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he first came to international attention when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by David Zinman, performed his “Metropolis Symphony” at Carnegie hall in 1994.  Since that time, Daugherty’s music has entered the orchestral, band and chamber music repertoire and made him, according to the League of American Orchestras, one of the ten most performed living American composers. 

 Raise the Roof was inspired by the contributions of such grand architectural wonders as the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (1345) and the Empire State Building (1931) in New York City.  This piece contains music reflections ranging from Gregorian chants to Rock and Latin rhythms. Daugherty created a grand acoustic structure by bringing the timpani into the forefront and giving the timpanist the rare opportunity to play long expressive melodies, and a tour de force cadenza.  The music is a cascade of major and minor triads, like laying down bricks and stones to build up a “wall of sound.” Eventually the work “rises” toward a crescendo of urban poly-rhythms and dynamic contrasts, allowing the timpani and orchestra to create a grand acoustic construction. 

 All ticket holders are welcome to attend “Prelude” which takes place one hour before each concert.  Music Director Elizabeth Schulze and the guest artists share information on feature composers and their works that will enhance concert-goers enjoyment and appreciation of the concert.  Program notes and audio clips of the musical selections being performed are available at www.marylandsymphony.org by clicking on “Listen to Program Notes” on the performance page. 

 Tickets ranging from $15 to $49 may be purchased online; in person at 30 W. Washington Street, Hagerstown (Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.); or by calling 301-797-4000 during business hours.  Through a special Angel Ticket Program, students in grades 1 through 12 will be admitted free.  Student Rush Tickets are available for higher education students (no reservations accepted) at the Maryland Theatre Box Office before each performance for $5.00.  Seat selection will be at the discretion of the box office personnel.  The Maryland Theatre Box Office opens 90 minutes prior to MSO concerts.

 The Celebration Sponsor is The Maryland Symphony Orchestra Guild.  Student tickets are generously underwritten by contributions from Jim & Georgia Pierne and MSO Music Director Elizabeth Schulze. 

 The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is also supported by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. 

Under the leadership of Music Director Elizabeth Schulze, The Maryland Symphony Orchestra is celebrating its 30^th Season as the area’s premier professional orchestra, dedicated to providing musical performances that educate and entertain, while enhancing the cultural environment of Western Maryland and the surrounding region. 

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