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Andrew Grams
Jo seph M eyer ho f f Sy m pho ny Hall
B a lt i m o r e S y m p h o n y O rc h e s t r a
Marin Alsop
Music Director • Harvey M. And Lyn P. Meyerhoff Chair
The Blue Danube & More
Saturday, January 4, 2014 — 8 p.m.
Sunday, January 5, 2014 — 3 p.m.
Andrew Grams, Conductor
Lauren Snouffer, Soprano
Johann Strauss, Jr
Accelerations, Waltzes, opus 234
Annen Polka, opus 117
“Mein Herr Marquis” from Die Fledermaus
LAUREN SNOUFFER
Franz Lehár Gold and Silver Waltzes
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Batti, batti o bel Masetto” from Don Giovanni
LAUREN SNOUFFER
Johann Strauss, Jr.
Elgen a Magyar Polka, opus 332
Overture to Die Fledermaus
INTERMISSION
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Overture to The Abduction from the Seraglio, K. 384
“Deh vieni non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro
LAUREN SNOUFFER
Franz Lehár “Vilja” from The Merry Widow
LAUREN SNOUFFER
Johann Strauss, Jr
Voices of Spring Waltzes, opus 410
LAUREN SNOUFFER
On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Waltzes, Opus 314
The concert will end at approximately 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, and 4:45 p.m. on Sunday.
Newly appointed
music director of
the Elgin Symphony
Orchestra of Illinois
and one of America’s most promising
and talented young conductors, Andrew
Grams has already appeared with many
of the great orchestras of the world,
including the Toronto, Montreal and
Vancouver symphonies, Orchestre National
de France, BBC Symphony Orchestra,
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the
Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand
symphonies, Residentie Orchestra of
the Hague and the Oslo Philharmonic.
In the U.S., Mr. Grams has conducted
the symphony orchestras of Philadelphia,
Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati, the
National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D.C., and the orchestras of
Dallas, Houston and New Jersey.
Maestro Grams was a protégé of
Franz Welser-Moest and served as
assistant conductor of the Cleveland
Orchestra from 2004 –2007. He has
since led several concert programs in
Cleveland and will return to conduct
that orchestra in the summer of 2014
at the Blossom Music Festival.
This season, Mr. Grams began his
tenure with the Elgin Symphony and
debuts with the Hong Kong Philharmonic
and the Oregon Symphony. He returns to
the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
as well as the Luzern Symphony, and in
the U.S. he makes welcome second visits
to the orchestras of Grand Rapids, North
Carolina and Alabama.
A Maryland native raised in Severn,
Andrew Grams began conducting at the
age of 17, when he directed the World
Youth Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen
Arts Camp in Michigan. In 1999, he received a bachelor of music degree in violin
performance from The Juilliard School.
In 2003, he received a conducting degree
from the Curtis Institute of Music, where
he worked with Otto-Werner Mueller.
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