SMCO Tenth Anniversary Celebration: American Experiences

Leonard Bernstein — Overture to Candide
Samuel Barber — Violin Concerto, Op. 14
Jennifer Higdon — Dance Card
Randall Woolf / Wordisbon — Blues for Black Hoodies

Geoffrey Larson, conductor
Michael Jinsoo Lim, violin
Michael 'The Wanz' Wansley, vocals

Leonard Bernstein – Candide Overture (Scottish Opera Version)
Jennifer Higdon – Selections from Dance Card
Randall Woolf/Wordisbon – Blues for Black Hoodies
Samuel Barber – Violin Concerto

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra celebrates the opening of its tenth anniversary season with special guests and a rich cross-section of American experience, told through the music of great American composers. Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim joins SMCO for Barber's breathtaking Violin Concerto, and chart-topping Seattle-based rapper Wanz adds vocal styles to Woolf's powerful Blues for Black Hoodies. SMCO will become only the second orchestra in the world to perform this work with live emcee. Masterworks by Bernstein and Higdon complete the program, conducted by Music Director Geoffrey Larson.

About Michael Jinsoo Lim

Violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim has been praised by Gramophone for playing with "delicious abandon," and hailed by the Los Angeles Times as a "conspicuously accomplished champion of contemporary music." Concertmaster and solo violinist for the internationally acclaimed Pacific Northwest Ballet, Lim is featured as soloist with the company in concertos by Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Bach, and others, and has toured with PNB to Paris and New York City. Lim is violinist and co-founder of the Seattle-based ensemble Frequency and was co-founder of the award-winning Corigliano Quartet, with whom he appeared on over a dozen albums. The quartet's Naxos label CD was honored as one of The New Yorker's Ten Best Classical Recordings of the Year. His discography can be found on Naxos, Planet M, Sono Luminus, DreamWorks, Albany, Bridge, CRI, Bayer Records, RIAX, and New Focus. Lim has served on the faculty of the Banff Centre, taught at Indiana University as a guest professor, and currently serves on the faculty of Cornish College of the Arts.

http://www.michaeljinsoolim.com/

About Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra

http://www.seattlemetropolitanchamberorchestra.com/