This concert features the Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen, who has frequently collaborated with the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra, in a new work by Aida Shirazi. Since receiving her doctorate in music composition from UC Davis in 2021, Shirazi has been gaining attention far and wide for her acoustic and electro-acoustic music, which a New York Times music critic described as “unfolding with deliberation.” In Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony the audience will enjoy the composer’s Slavonic spirit in an energetic and varied musical landscape.

Program

Jaques Ibert: Allegro scherzando from Concerto for Flute and Orchestra
with Nathan Haghgoo, winner of the UC Davis Symphony Orchestra’s Concerto Competition

Aida Shirazi (Ph.D., composition, ’21): Meditations on Departure (World Premiere)
with Anssi Karttunen, cello

Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 7

$12 Students and Children, $24 Adults (Reserved Seating)