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Monterey Symphony's fabulous Season 72, a six-concert series, continues Nov. 18-19 With Award-Winning South Korean Piani

Award-winning South Korea-born pianist David Jae-Weon Huh will be featured in the second program of the Monterey Symphony's six-concert series on Nov. 18 and 19, at the Sunset Center in Carmel.

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Monterey Symphony's fabulous Season 72, a six-concert series, continues Nov. 18-19 With Award-Winning South Korean Piani

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  1. Monterey Symphony's fabulous Season 72, a six- concert series, continues Nov. 18-19 With Award- Winning South Korean Pianist David Jae-WeonHuh Award-winning South Korea-born pianist David Jae-Weon Huh will be featured in the second program of the Monterey Symphony's six-concert series on Nov. 18 and 19, at the Sunset Center inCarmel. Monterey, CA, October 24, 2017 - Award-winning South Korea-born pianist David Jae-Weon Huh will be featured in the second program of the Monterey Symphony's six-concert series on Nov. 18 and 19, at the Sunset Center inCarmel. This concert will also feature a side-by-side performance with members of the Honors Orchestra of Youth Music Monterey County (YMMC). The season, titled "Concert Grand," under the direction of Maestro Max Bragado-Darman, opened Oct. 14-15, and runs through May19-20. Huh, silver medalist at the 2015 Santander Piano Competition, will lend his talents to Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 26, in this powerful program, which also will include the Symphony's interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, Op. 68("Pastoral.) Recognized for his sense of poetry and technical brilliance, Huh has performed extensively throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, and has appeared in numerous festivals, including recitals at Animato den Paris, San Francisco Music Festival, and Leipzig Euro Music Festival, among manyothers. This will be Huh’s first appearance with the MontereySymphony.

  2. Guest pianists in Season 72 will also include Josu de Solaun, Juan Perez Floristan, Phillipe Bianconi, and Michael Davidman, who was selected by guest conductor Conner Gray Covington, who will preside over the March 17-18program. The symphony will perform pieces by Dvorak, Beethoven, Schumann, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Prokofiev, de Falla andTchaikovsky. All programs will be performed at the Sunset Center (Ninth Avenue, between San Carlos and Mission streets) in Carmel at 8 p.m. on Saturdays and 3 p.m. on Sundays. Special youth concerts, also at the Sunset Center, have been scheduled March 19 and April 23, with performances at 9:30 and 11 a.m. on eachdate. The Monterey Symphony's chamber players will present a holiday concert at 7:30 p.m. on Dec. 7 at All Saints Church (Ninth Avenue, between San Carlos and Monte Verde streets inCarmel). For ticket information, call 831-646-8511, visit the website at www.montereysymphony.org, or send an email toinfo@montereysymphony.org. Here's an in-depth look at the rest of the upcomingseason: Program 3: Feb.17-18 Josu de Solaun, first-prize winner at the 2014 Enescu Piano Competition, will join the Symphony to perform Camille Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto No. 5, Op. 103 in a concert that also willinclude Symphony renditions of Johannes Brahms' Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80, and Robert Schumann's Symphony No. 2, Op.61. De Solaun's teachers, mentors, and musical influences have Nina Svetlanova, Horacio Gutierrez, Ricardo Roca, Ana Guijarro, Maria Teresa Naranjo, Albert and Miyoko Lotto, Joaquin Achucarro, Matti Raekallio, Edna Golandsky, and JeromeLowenthal. Symphony audiences will remember de Solaun for his previous solo recital, featuring Mussogorky's Pictures at anExhibition. Program 4: March 17-18 (with youth concert on March19) Celebrate St. Patrick's Day weekend with the Monterey Symphony and wall-to-wall Mozart, a program that will include the overture from his beloved opera, DonGiovanni. This concert will be performed under the baton of guest conductor Connor Gray Covington (recently appointed Assistant Conductor of the Utah Symphony) and will include Mozart's Symphony No. 1, KV 16, and Symphony No. 41, KV 551("Jupiter"). Covington is currently completing his tenure as the Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he is being mentored by Philadelphia Orchestra Music Director Yannick Nezet-Seguin. He recently made his debut with the Curtis Symphony at Carnegie Hall, sharing the podium with LudovicMorlot.

  3. Special guest pianist Michael Davidman, selected by Covington, will also be part of this spectacular program. New York City-born Davidman started piano lessons at age 5, studying with Efrem Briskin at Manhattan School of Music, studied conducting with Jonathan Strasser and David Gilbert and is currently studying piano with Robert McDonald at Curtis Institute of Music since fall2015. An avid opera enthusiast, exceptional sight reader, chamber player, and accompanist, he has won numerous first-place awards in various competitions and recently completed the four-year scholarship program with The Chopin Foundation of the United States. Davidman has performed at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, Kimmel Center, Sandler Center, Symphony Space, Merkin Hall, DiMenna Center, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Steinway Hall, Bechstein Hall, as well as recitals in Italy, Spain, andRussia. Program 5: April 21-22 (with youth concert on April23) Guest pianist Juan Perez Floristan, winner at the 2015 Santander Piano Competition, will showcase his talents with a performance of Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 83, in a program that also will include the Symphony's rendition of FelixMendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 ("Italian") -- a piece Mendelssohn, himself, declared to be the "jolliest" he ever composed. Regarded as a beacon among new generations of Spanish and European musicians, Perez has performed with the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Malmo Symphony, Radio Television Espanola, Seville Royal Symphony, Gran Canaria Philharmonic, Malaga and Cordoba Symphonies, and the Andres Segovia and Spanish National YouthOrchestras. Program 6: May19-20 The incomparable Phillipe Bianconi will be at the piano for the Monterey Symphony's final program of the season, performing Franz Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2. Liszt perfected the art of thematic transformation and took it to an extreme level with this impassionedconcerto. French pianist Bianconi has been described as an artist whose playing is “always close to the soul of the music, filling the space with poetry and life” (Washington Post), “an extraordinary exhibition of musicianship, technical control and good taste which lent the music a freshness, immediacyand conviction one all too seldom encounters” (The London Times). After winning the Silver Medal in the Seventh Van Cliburn International Competition, Bianconi made an acclaimed recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 1987 and, since then, has enthralled audiences and critics throughout theworld. Also featured will be Manuel de Falla's lovely Noches en los Jardines de Espana, his most impressionist-style work, which details three gardens in a setting for piano andorchestra. Chamber Program: Dec. 7 (7:30 p.m. at All Saints Church) The Monterey Symphony is pleased to offer a special holiday chamber music treat, featuring concertmaster Christina Mok, with selections that include Piazzolla, Beethoven, Mozart, andthe

  4. Hampton String Quartet's "What if Mozart wrote 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas!" Come have fun and enjoy holiday music in a classical style with the Monterey Symphony chamberplayers. Media Comp Tickets and Media Interviews Available Contact Marci Bracco Cain at Marci@ChatterboxPublicRelations.com About the MontereySymphony The mission of the Monterey Symphony is to engage, educate and excite our community through the performance and continual discovery of symphonicmusic. The Monterey Symphony, under the artistic leadership of Music Director & Conductor Max Bragado- Darman, is the only fully professional, full-season orchestra serving the communities of the Monterey Bay, Salinas, Salinas Valley, Big Sur, and San Benito County. It provides double performances of a six-concert subscription series at Carmel’s Sunset Theater, as well as youth education programs that include in-class visits and culminate in full-orchestra concerts for school children. The Monterey Symphony is a nonprofit, public benefit corporation, supported in part through the fundraising efforts of the Friends of the Monterey Symphony, and through grants from The Arts Council of Monterey County, The Berkshire Foundation, The Buffet Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, The Community Foundation for Monterey County, Frisone Family Foundation, The Harden Foundation, The Todd Lueders Fund for the Arts of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, The Monterey County Weekly Community Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County, Music Performance Trust Fund, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The Pebble Beach Company Foundation, Samson Foundation, Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation, Alexander F. Victor Foundation, and any other generous foundations and individualdonors. For additional information, please call 831-646-8511 or visit the website: www.montereysymphony.org. Contact: Marci BraccoCain Chatterbox PR Salinas, CA93901 (831)747-7455 http://www.montereysymphony.org

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