Tumblebird Contrails (Duration: 12 minutes) Gabriella Smith Piano Concerto (Duration: 30 minutes) Edvard Grieg Claire Huangci, piano Intermission Symphony No. 4, “The Inextinguishable”(Duration: 36 minutes) Carl August Nielsen Feel the rush of nature and unrelenting power! Gabriella Smith’s Tumblebird Contrails paints a vivid soundscape of wind, waves, and wild motion. Grieg’s Piano Concerto then soars with breathtaking melodies and virtuosic fire. The evening climaxes with Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, "The Inextinguishable", a fierce, defiant triumph of resilience and raw orchestral energy. Don’t miss this exhilarating ride! Tickets start at $22 with $10 student/youth tickets. Buy Tickets Buy Tickets This concert is generously sponsored by Go Behind The Music This event has passed. The video of the event and podcast will be available soon. Please check back! Guild Legacy Pre-Concert Talk 6:30pm-7pm on concert night; Doors open at 6pm • Soreng Theater at the Hult Center Join Music Director Alex Prior and Executive Director Dave Moss for the Guild Legacy Pre-Concert Talk to get the inside scoop on the music you’re about to experience. The talk is included with the cost of your ticket. The Artists Alex Prior Conductor Claire Huangci Piano Soloist About Claire Huangci The American pianist Claire Huangci continuously captivates audiences with her “radiant virtuosity, artistic sensitivity, keen interactive sense and subtle auditory dramaturgy” (Salzburger Nachrichten). With an irrepressible curiosity and penchant for unusual repertoire, she proves her versatility with a wide range of repertoire spanning from Bach and Scarlatti via German and Russian romanticism to Bernstein, Amy Beach, and Barber. Claire’s 24/25 season was peppered with exciting projects, starting with a new collaboration on Alpha Classics. Following a highly acclaimed Mozart concerto album with the Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, she will release an all-American solo disc titled MADE IN USA. Kicking off a string of international orchestral engagements, Claire will return to the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra, Porto, Iceland, Vorarlberg, Nordwestdeutsche, and Pacific symphony orchestras, and debut with the Basel, Hannover, Bremen, Bochum, and Milwaukee symphonies. In the last seasons, she has been a fixture on the concert circuit presenting an unusual breadth of repertoire and also directing various concertos from the piano in the play-direct tradition. In solo recitals and with international orchestras, Claire Huangci has appeared in some of the most prestigious halls such as Carnegie Hall, Suntory Hall Tokyo, Paris Philharmonie, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Dortmund Konzerthaus, Munich Prinzregententheater, Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, and Salzburg Festspielhaus. She is a welcome guest of renowned festivals including the Lucerne Festival, Rheingau Musik Festival and Klavier Festival Ruhr. Her esteemed musical partners includ...
