Overture Magazine: 2016-2017 Season May-June 2017 | Page 20

{ program notes Markus Stenz Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Friday, May 12, 2017 — 8 pm Music Center At Strathmore Saturday, May 13, 2017 — 8 pm Markus Stenz, conductor Andrew Balio, trumpet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Symphony No. 29 in A Major, K. 201 (186a) Allegro moderato Andante Menuetto Allegro con spirito Franz Joseph Haydn Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major, Hob.VIIe:1 Allegro Andante Finale: Allegro ANDREW BALIO INTERMISSION Detlev Glanert Frenesia Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 18 O v ertur e | The concert will end at approximately 9:50 pm on Friday and Saturday. bsomusic.org For Markus Stenz’s bio, please see pg. 13. Andrew Balio Wisconsin native Andrew Balio was appointed principal trumpet of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in 2001 by Yuri Temirkanov. In the 2014-2015 season, he served as principal trumpet of the Oslo Philharmonic concurrently with his BSO duties. Prior to his arrival in Baltimore, Mr. Balio was principal trumpet of the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta since 1994 and the Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de Mexico since 1990. As a soloist, Mr. Balio has appeared in Europe, South America, Japan and the U.S. under such conductors as Hanu Lintu, Nicholas McGeegan, Zubin Mehta, Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Yuri Temirkanov, among others. In recent years Mr. Balio has made solo appearances in Lithuania, Russia, Italy and Brazil, and released his solo recording for Naxos, the Weinberg Trumpet Concerto with the St. Petersburg Symphony. He made his Carnegie Hall solo debut with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra in a special concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy, many of whom were Soviet émigrés. Mr. Balio has taught master classes regularly in Russia, Poland and Italy, the Conservatorio Nacional of Mexico, and in Brazil, Chile, Scandanavia, Israel, Japan and the United States. He has recorded for the Sony, RCA, Angel, Phillips, Naxos and Teldec labels. He and his wife Laura recently launched The Future Symphony Institute, an online think tank (futuresymphony. org) that examines the complexities of making symphony orchestras financially viable while preserving their artistic mission. For his work in this area, he was inducted into the Academy of Philosophy and Letters and presented a paper at one of the organization’s recent conferences. Mr. Balio’s solo debut was at age 15 with the Milwaukee Symphony playing the Haydn Concerto. His teachers