The TSO’s incoming Music Director leads a suite from Ravel’s lush and passionate Daphnis et Chloé. And the brilliant Beatrice Rana makes her TSO début playing Prokofiev’s blistering Piano Concerto No. 3.
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Oct 9 at 6:45pm: Free pre-concert performance by The TSO Chamber Soloists
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Gustavo Gimeno
Conductor Gustavo Gimeno made his TSO début in February 2018. Gustavo Gimeno is Music Director of the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg (OPL) and incoming Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Gustavo Gimeno made his Canadian début with the TSO—to public and critical acclaim—in February 2018. Gimeno has signed a five-year contract with the TSO to begin in the 2020/21 season. He will be the TSO’s 11th Music Director, starting in the Orchestra’s 99th season. Since he became Music Director of the OPL in 2015, he has conducted that orchestra in a wide variety of concert formats, appearing with the orchestra in many of the most prestigious concert halls throughout Europe. In the current season, he builds on the successful tours of previous years with guest performances in Germany, Spain, France, Sweden, and, for the first time, South America. During past seasons, Gustavo Gimeno has shared the stage of the Philharmonie Luxembourg with soloists such as Daniel Barenboim, Krystian Zimerman, Yuja Wang, Anja Harteros, Bryn Terfel, and Frank Peter Zimmermann. Highlights of the current season include the world première of Francisco Coll’s Violin Concerto with Patricia Kopatchinskaja, as well as guest concerts in Buenos Aires and São Paulo with Janine Jansen as soloist. Gustavo Gimeno is also a much sought-after guest conductor worldwide. In 2019/20, he will make his début with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and will return to the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Washington, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Münchner Philharmoniker, and the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, which specializes in historically informed performance practice. He will appear at the Liceu Opera Barcelona for the first time in January 2020 with Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida. In 2019, he gave his début at Zurich Opera with Verdi’s Rigoletto, in a production directed by Tatjana Gürbaca. Gustavo Gimeno made his opera début in 2015 with Bellini’s Norma at the Valencia Opera House. In 2017, he conducted Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra and Mozart’s Don Giovanni with the OPL at the Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg, where he will also appear in the current season, conducting Verdi’s Macbeth. Born in Valencia, Gustavo Gimeno began his international conducting career in 2012 as assistant to Mariss Jansons, while he was a member of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam. He also gained invaluable experience as assistant to Bernard Haitink and Claudio Abbado, who strongly supported and influenced him in many respects as a mentor.
Beatrice Rana piano
These performances mark Beatrice Rana’s TSO début. Beatrice Rana has shaken the international classical music world, arousing admiration and interest from concert presenters, conductors, critics, and audiences in many countries. Ms. Rana performs at the world’s most esteemed concert halls and festivals, and collaborates with conductors such as Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Antonio Pappano, Fabio Luisi, Riccardo Chailly, Yuri Temirkanov, Gianandrea Noseda, Jun Märkl, Trevor Pinnock, James Gaffigan, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Lahav Shani, Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Susanna Mälkki, Leonard Slatkin, Kent Nagano, and Zubin Mehta. During the upcoming seasons, she will début with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Bayerische Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester, New York Philharmonic, Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester, Orquesta Nacional de España, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestre National de Lyon, and will return to the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. She will also tour with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski, the Wiener Symphoniker and Andrés Orozco-Estrada, and the Philharmonia Zurich and Fabio Luisi. Ms. Rana will play recitals at the Berlin Philharmonie, Carnegie Hall, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Foundation, Barcelona’s Palau de la Musica, Lugano’s LAC, Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Madrid’s Scherzo Great Performers series, Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Tokyo’s Kioi Hall, and London’s Wigmore Hall, among other venues. An exclusive Warner Classics recording artist, Rana received international acclaim for her recordings of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, and Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Antonio Pappano and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Her next solo album will be released in October 2019 and will feature works by Stravinsky and Ravel. Beatrice Rana came to public attention in 2011 after winning First Prize at the Montreal International Competition, and in 2013, when she won the Silver Medal and the Audience Award at the 14th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. Born in Italy into a family of musicians, Rana currently lives in Rome where she continues her studies with her lifetime mentor, Benedetto Lupo. She studied previously with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik in Hanover.