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Dvořák: Violin Concerto
Music Center At Strathmore

Thursday, November 19, 2015 — 8 p.m.
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall

Friday, November 20, 2015 — 8 p.m.
Saturday, November 21, 2015 — 8 p.m.
Pre senting Sponsor:
Hannu Lintu, Conductor
Hilary Hahn, Violin

Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphony with
Angela Hewitt and Valerie HartmannClaverie — both for Ondine with the
Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Lintu won a 2011 Grammy
nomination for Best Opera CD, and
Gramophone Award nominations for
his recordings of Enescu’s Symphony
No. 2, and the Violin Concertos of
Sibelius and Thomas Adès with Augustin
Hadelich and the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic Orchestra.
Hannu Lintu studied cello and piano
at the Sibelius Academy, where he later
studied conducting with Jorma Panula.
Hannu Lintu last led the BSO in a program of Beethoven, Shostakovich, and
Brahms in October 2014.

Hilary Hahn

Antonín Dvořák

Violin Concerto in A Minor, opus 53
Allegro, ma non troppo
Adagio, ma non troppo
Finale: Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo
HILARY HAHN

INTERMISSION
Jean Sibelius

Four Legends, opus 22
Lemminkäinen and the Maidens the Island
The Swan of Tuonela
JANE MARVINE, English Horn
Lemminkäinen in Tuonela
Lemminkäinen’s Return

Music Center At Strathmore
The concert will end at approximately 10 p.m.
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
The concert will end at approximately 9:55 p.m.

K A AP O K AM U

Hannu Lintu

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Chief conductor of
the Finnish Radio
Symphony Orchestra since August
2013, Hannu Lintu previously held the
positions of artistic director and chief
conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic
Orchestra, principal guest conductor with the RTÉ National Symphony
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Orchestra, Dublin, and artistic director
of the Helsingborg Symphony and Turku
Philharmonic orchestras.
In summer 2015, he recorded Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky’s violin concertos
with Fumiaki Miura and the Deutsches
Symphonie-Orchester Berlin for Avex,
while other recent recordings feature
works by Ligeti, including the Violin
Concerto with Benjamin Schmid, and

In the two decades
since her professional
debut, three-time
Grammy Awardwinning violinist Hilary Hahn has
brought her virtuosity, expansive interpretations, and creative repertoire choices
to diverse global audiences. Ms. Hahn
has released 15 albums, three DVDs, an
Oscar-nominated movie soundtrack, an
award-winning recording for children,
and various compil ][ۜˈ[