PAUL TERRACINI conductor
SIMON TEDESCHI piano
STRAUSS II Die Fledermaus Overture
GERSHWIN Piano Concerto in F
ALEX TURLEY Train Window (world premiere)
BIZET Excerpts from Carmen Suites
The ever popular Overture to Die Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II leads us into this festive evening of orchestral music.
One of Australia’s most loved pianists, and well-known in western Sydney, Simon Tedeschi, appears with PSO as soloist in George Gershwin’s glittering Piano Concerto in F. Commissioned immediately after Rhapsody in Blue by Walter Damrosch, the work explores more traditional concerto forms than its predecessor.
A new work, Train Window by Alex Turley, the winner of PSO’s Young Composer Award, will be premiered at this concert.
Completing the program is a selection from the two Carmen Suites, drawn from one of the most widely performed operas in the repertoire, Bizet’s Carmen.