“The stage is set for Bramwell Tovey’s first season as music director of the Sarasota Orchestra,” writes Spencer Fordin in Wednesday’s (4/20) Your Observer (FL). “The orchestra announced its … 2022-23 season on Wednesday, including an appearance by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma in March 2023. Tovey, who has spent the past year as the orchestra’s music director designate, will play a leading role in the Masterworks series, but he will also conduct a Pops performance and a Discovery concert in addition to performing on piano in a Chamber Soiree event. Tovey will conduct four of the seven Masterworks events, [the first featuring] pianist Joyce Yang, … and … material by Quinn Mason, Grieg and Berlioz. Tovey will also conduct a Mahler-themed performance in January and a Brahms-themed event in February…. Three Pops events [will range] from Broadway standards and Noel Coward tunes to James Bond theme songs and the hits of … Billy Joel and Elton John…. Guest soloist Zlatomir Fung will play the cello at [the] first Discovery [series] performance…. Highlights of the Chamber Soiree series include the Sarasota String Quartet [and] pianist Orion Weiss playing Bach and Franck…. [A] February 18 [performance], will feature the Sarasota Youth Philharmonic.”
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