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Morihiko Nakahara

November 07, 2009 | 8:00 PM

Themes of passion stream through this program, as Morihiko Nakahara first conducts Liszt's sensuous Mephisto Waltz. Next, Concertmaster Marcia Henry Liebenow solos in Kernis' lovely Air, which he dedicated to his wife, and then in Stanford's Irish Rhapsody, which attests to the love he held for his homeland. Finally, we hear Tchaikovsky's final symphony, known by the very name that means passion: "Pathetique."

MORIHIKO NAKAHARA, GUEST CONDUCTOR

Morihiko Nakahara has been recognized by critics as possessing “a poet’s sensitivity and a craftsman’s efficiency.” Nakahara is a leading young conductor who is equally at home in a wide range of repertoire and concert formats. The Resident Conductor of the Spokane Symphony, he is also the Music Director of the South Carolina Philharmonic and previously served as the Music Director of the Holland Symphony Orchestra in Michigan. In 2005, he was featured in the League of American Orchestra’s prestigious Bruno Walter Conductor Preview hosted by the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. Nakahara is also a popular guest conductor and clinician with youth orchestras and college ensembles, including the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artist Orchestra. A native of Kagoshima, Japan, Nakahara holds degrees from Andrews University and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music.

MARCIA HENRY LIEBENOW, VIOLIN SOLOIST

Marcia Henry Liebenow is Concertmaster of the Peoria Symphony Orchestra. Active as a soloist, recitalist and chamber musician, her performances have been broadcast in Europe and across the United States and she has appeared as soloist with orchestras in Russia, Germany and Italy. Liebenow teaches violin, viola and chamber music at Bradley University.

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