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and Seiji Ozawa, Mr. Stenz has been
awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the
Royal Northern College of Music and the
Silberne Stimmgabel (Silver Tuning Fork) of
the state of North Rhein/Westphalia.
Recent engagements took Mr. Stenz
all over the world, from São Paulo to
Shanghai, conducting premieres and world
premieres, including the German premiere
of a cello concerto by Pascal Dusapin with
cellist Alisa Weilerstein and an orches-
tral work by Dieter Ammann with the
Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich in June 2016.
Internationally, Stenz’s touring schedule
takes him to the Mozarteum Orchestra
Salzburg and the Bern Symphony Orches-
tra, the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and
Leeds, and the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony
Orchestra on a tour throughout Japan per-
forming Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.
His extensive discography was recently
enlarged by the addition of the Dutch
premiere of K. A. Hartmann’s Simplicius
Simplicissimus (Challenge Classics); the
complete Mahler Symphonies (Oehms
Classics), which was selected among the
“Quarterly Critic’s Choice” by the German
Record Critics’ Award Association; as well
as various Schönberg recordings with the
Gürzenich-Orchestra Cologne, which
earned the 2016 Gramophone Classical
Music Award for best choral album.
The Firebird
Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
Thursday, May 4, 2017— 8 pm
Music Center At Strathmore
Sunday, May 7, 2017— 3 pm
Markus Stenz, conductor
Juho Pohjonen, piano

Felix Mendelssohn
Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27

Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G Major
Allegramente
Adagio assai
Presto

Juho Pohjonen
INTERMISSION

Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird (complete, 1910)
The concert will end at approximately 10pm on Thursday
and 5pm on Sunday.
Markus Stenz last appeared with the
BSO in February 2017, conducting
Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24.
Markus Stenz
Markus Stenz is
principal conductor
of the Netherlands
Radio Philharmonic
Orchestra, principal guest conductor
of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
and conductor-in-residence of the Seoul
Philharmonic Orchestra as of January
2017. He has appeared at many of
the world’s major opera houses and
international festivals.
Until the summer of 2014, he was
Gürzenich-Kapellmeister and general
music director of the City of Cologne,
and principal guest conductor of the Hallé.
His previous positions have included
artistic director and chief conductor of the
Melbourne Symphony, music director of
the Montepulciano Festival and principal
conductor of the London Sinfonietta.
Trained at the School of Music in
Cologne under Volker Wangenheim and
at Tanglewood with Leonard Bernstein
The Wagner Tuben used in this concert are a gift from Beth Green
Pierce in memory of her father, Elwood I. Green.
Juho Pohjonen
Finnish pianist Juho
Pohjonen collaborates
with such conductors
as Esa-Pekka Salonen,
Lionel Bringuier, Kirill Karabits, James
MacMillan and Marek Janowski. Mr. Po-
hjonen also enjoys frequent collaborations
with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. Pohjonen has performed with the
Los Angeles and Helsinki philharmonics,
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