The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra’s January 23 performance at Riverview Theater will mark the 65th anniversary of the orchestra’s Nena Wideman Piano Competition. Music Director Michael Butterman will lead a program featuring two previous winners of the competition: Stanislav Khristenko (2013) and Tomer Gewirtzman (2014). Khristenko will perform Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Gewirtzman will perform Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. The orchestra will perform the world premiere of Kermit Poling’s Symphony No. 1, commissioned in memory of Virginia Shehee, the SSO’s honorary board chair. Poling is a long-time violinist with the SSO who also serves as the orchestra’s associate conductor; he also is music director of the South Arkansas Symphony and Marshall Symphony Orchestra, in Texas.
Posted January 22, 2016
