2021
Photo Credit: Lauren Kovacik Photography
December 9, 2021 – Azusa, California
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Corelli: Christmas Concerto (Melody Hung, graduate conductor)
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves (Raphaela Lacerda, graduate conductor)
Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from The Nutcracker
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November 12, 2021 – Azusa, California
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Alex Russell, violin
“Beethoven at Lunch”
Name Day Overture
Romance in G (Flora Xing, graduate conductor)
Symphony No. 5
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November 6-8, 2021 – Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
“Rachmaninoff, Reich, and Adams” – interview with John Adams
Pre-Concert lecture for the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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October 29, 2021 – Glendora, California
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Michele Zukovsky and Darkson Magrinelli, clarinets
Mussorgsky: Prelude to Khovanshchina (Ekaterina Myshliaeva, graduate conductor)
Krommer: Concerto for Two Clarinets
Hovhaness: Symphony No. 2 “Mysterious Mountain”
Smetana: The Moldau
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October 14-17, 2021 – Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles
“Dudamel Conducts Strauss”
Pre-Concert lecture for the Los Angeles Philharmonic
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October 2, 2021 – Azusa, California
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Shuo Ma, cello
Mozart: Symphony No. 34 (Flora Xing, graduate conductor)
Kaija Saariaho: Forty Heartbeats
Dvořák: Cello Concerto (I) (Raphaela Lacerda, graduate conductor)
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 “Reformation”
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September 2021
Judge in the final round of the Golden State International Music Competition
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August 2021
Judge in the final round of the 1st MAP International Music Competition
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July 29, 2021
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Bach/Stokowski: Little Fugue in G minor (online video release)
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June 21, 2021
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Ibert: Divertissment (online video release)
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May 2, 2021
“Enter the Weirdly Wonderful World of Galina Ustvolskaya”
Featured recording on Slipped Disc, the #1 Classical Music News Site
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April 29, 2021
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Ustvolskaya: Symphony No. 5 “Amen” (online video release)
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March 26, 2021 – Shenzhen, China (postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic)
Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra
Suli Xue, violin
Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture
Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
Ives: Symphony No. 2
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March 6, 2021
Azusa Pacific University Symphony Orchestra
Dvořák: Legend for Orchestra (online video release)
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February 17, 2021
Guest appearance on the “Classical Top 5” podcast based in London to discuss American Orchestral Works