“Noah Geller, the distinguished new concertmaster of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, has a concise yet heartfelt way of describing the enduring appeal of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem,” writes Tom Keogh in Tuesday’s (10/8) Seattle Times. “ ‘It’s good, man,’ the wry violinist says…. The symphony will perform Requiem … in three concerts beginning Thursday, Oct. 17 … at Benaroya Hall, under the baton of conductor Masaaki Suzuki, founder and director of the Bach Collegium Japan…. Geller … will be playing a vigorous solo during another performance on the bill, Karl Amadeus Hartmann’s ‘Concerto funebre (Funereal Concerto)’ … written in 1939 … Hartmann, a German, was horrified by the Third Reich. His reaction to the Nazis inspired ‘funebre’s’ striking tonal shift from initial hope to darkness…. Geller, Seattle Symphony’s first concertmaster since 2015 … received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School, served as acting assistant concertmaster for the Philadelphia Orchestra and as concertmaster for the Kansas City Symphony.” Says Geller, “We’re beginning a great new chapter for the [Seattle Symphony] with Thomas Dausgaard as music director. I couldn’t be happier with how we’re sounding right now and the direction we’re headed in.”
Posted October 8, 2019
