This concert will last about 1 hour without intermission.
Please silence your electronic devices.
Photography, video, or recording of any part of this performance is prohibited
Program
Robert Planel 1908-1994
Légende 1966
Richard Strauss 1864-1949
Horn Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, Op. 11 1882-83
Allegro
Andante
Allegro
Wayne Lu
Epiphanies
James Naigus 1987
Guardian 2024
Lauren Bernofsky 1967
Two Latin Dances 2015
Frederic Chopin 1810-1849
arr. Machala
Polonaise Brilliante 1836
About the Artists
Victoria Knudtson
Minnesotan horn player Victoria Knudtson joined the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as Assistant/Utility Horn during the 2019/2020 season. Born to musical parents, Knudtson began serious study on the horn when she was 16 after a coincidental meeting with her first teacher, Wayne Lu. At Indiana University, Knudtson studied with Jeffery Nelsen, Dale Clevenger, and Richard Seraphinoff and spent six months in Vienna, Austria, studying the historic style of Vienna horn-playing. During her undergraduate degree, she also served as principal horn of the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic. In March 2018-2020, Knudtson joined the St. Louis Brass. She continued studies at Curtis with Jennifer Montone and Jeffery Lang. In Philadelphia, Knudtson performed with the ensemble Symphony in C. She also soloed with the Indiana University Symphony and the Yale New Music Ensemble. Knudtson was a horn fellow of the Tanglewood Music Center and the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan. Knudtson plays a leader/teacher role in the St. Louis Symphony’s Peer-to-Peer program and is on the faculty at Heartland Horn Camp in Iowa.
Patti Wolf
Since being chosen at age nineteen as the youngest competitor of the 1985 Van Cliburn Competition, Patti Wolf has performed as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. She has collaborated in recital with many of the world’s most distinguished musical artists, such as cellist Lynn Harrell, pianist Jon Kimura Parker, flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist Ilya Kaler, concertmasters Glenn Dicterow, Andrés Cárdenas, David Halen and Nina Bodnar, soprano Erin Wall, Chicago Symphony principal horn Dale Clevenger, and renowned German horn soloist and recording artist Hermann Baumann. Before her move to Austin in the fall of 2017, Ms. Wolf lived in St. Louis, where she was a member of the Chamber Music Society of St. Louis and a frequent guest with the Saint Louis Symphony.
Upcoming Events
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20th Anniversary Performance of Circus Maximus
by John Corigliano
Join us this winter in Downtown Austin for the 20th Anniversary Performance of John Corigliano's epic third symphony, Circus Maximus. Commissioned by The University of Texas Wind Ensemble and premiered in 2004, Circus Maximus is scored for three different bands: one on stage, an antiphonal ensemble in the hall, and a marching band. The composer used the Circus Maximus arena in Rome as inspiration, with the audience situated in the center, surrounded by sound. Get your tickets now!
Saturday, January 25, 7:30 p.m.
The Long Center for the Performing Arts
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Sunday, October 13, 4:00 p.m.
Bates Recital Hall
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Bates Recital Hall
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Sunday, November 10, 4:00 p.m.
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Wednesday, November 13, 7:30 p.m.
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