"Pictures Within"

Alyssa Wang is a finalist auditioning for the position of Music Director.  Wang is active as a conductor, violinist, and composer.  She is Co-Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Conductor of the Boston Festival Orchestra and the Assistant Conductor of Boston Ballet.  She is a violinist performing regularly with multiple Boston-based organizations and has given lectures and master classes throughout the United States.  She looks forward to the premiere of her Violin Concerto by the Palo Alto Philharmonic in 2022.

Nicholas Brown is the soloist for Carl Maria von Weber’s Clarinet Concerto No. 2.   Brown is a Boston-based clarinetist, educator, and arts leader. He is a member of the Boston Lyric Opera Orchestra, New Bedford Symphony, and Phoenix, and is Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Boston Festival Orchestra.

Elgar’s popular Enigma Variations are a series of short musical portraits of his friends, wife and himself.  Elgar wrote a caption on the score of the piece  “pictured within,” which inspired Alyssa Wang to choose the program title “Pictures Within.”

Rossini’s  L’italiana in Algeri Overture is humorous and fun with musical surprises.   Weber’s dazzling second Clarinet Concerto shows off the full range of the clarinet.

In an interview with the Yale School of Music, composer Robert Honstein made these remarks about his work Rise, “What does it mean to romanticize nature in the post-industrial, climate-changing 21st century? Perhaps this explains the somewhat haunting mood of my piece, Rise. There is a celebration of the natural world, but also an unsettled feeling that never resolves.”