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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Since his surprise appearance with the VSO when he was just 17 years old (a last-minute replacement for Yehudi Menuhin) Gil Shaham has been a special favorite of local audiences even as he has become one of America’s most revered and recorded instrumentalists. He performs the beautiful Dvorák Violin Concerto, a youthful piece that is virtuosic and joyous all the way through, and British composer and conductor Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s last major work, his Violin Concerto. The program also includes the world premiere of Grammy-nominated composer and violinist Curtis Stewart’s “The Famous People,” five newly commissioned reimaginings of Dvorák’s Slavonic Dances, and we welcome back Gil Shaham for the second movement! Eric Jacobsen, conductor Gil Shaham, violin