INDIANAPOLIS—The ISO flexes its musical muscles with three show-stopping concertos, plus a world premiere of a new piece written by Daixuan Ai.
Beach Adventure is a short concerto for orchestra written by Daixuan Ai. It is based on a story written by 7-year-old cancer survivor McKenzie, with help from her siblings Xavier, CJ, and Imani in partnership with the Sing Me A Story Foundation.
Paul Huang joins us for Barber’s gorgeous Violin Concerto, and composer Gabriela Lena Frank takes us to her Peruvian mountain town in a “little concerto” for orchestra. Music Director Jun Märkl leads the ISO in Bartók’s virtuosic Concerto for Orchestra, a piece that challenges every ensemble member.
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Performances begin at 7 p.m., Friday, January 24, and at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, January 25.
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About Jun Märkl
Jun Märkl assumed his duties as Music Director of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in September 2024, having previously acted as the ISO’s Artistic Advisor from 2021–2024. This new appointment celebrates the culmination of Mr. Märkl’s nearly 25-year-long collaboration with the ISO. Märkl also serves as Music Director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Taiwan, as Principal Guest Conductor of the Oregon Symphony, and was recently named Chief Conductor of the Residentie Orkest in The Hague beginning with the 2025–26 season.
Maestro Märkl is a highly respected interpreter of both symphonic and operatic Germanic repertoire and for his idiomatic explorations of the French impressionists. His long-standing relationships with the great opera houses and orchestras of Europe have been highlighted by his leadership as General Music Director of the National Theater Mannheim (1994–2000) and as Music Director of the Orchestre National de Lyon (2005–11), the MDR Symphony Orchestra Leipzig (2007–2012) and the Basque National Orchestra (2014–17). He has appeared with many of the world’s leading orchestras, including the Bavarian Radio Symphony, the Munich Philharmonic, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, the Orchestre de Paris in Europe, the Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Montreal Symphony in North America, the NHK Symphony Orchestra Tokyo, and the Sydney Symphony and Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in Australia among many others.
About Paul Huang
Recipient of the prestigious 2015 Avery Fisher Career Grant and the 2017 Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists, violinist Paul Huang is considered one of his generation’s most distinctive artists. The Washington Post remarked that Mr. Huang “possesses a big, luscious tone, spot-on intonation and a technique that makes the most punishing string phrases feel as natural as breathing” and further proclaimed him as “an artist with the goods for a significant career” following his recital debut at the Kennedy Center.
Known for his “unfailing attractive, golden, and resonant tone” (The Strad), Mr. Huang’s recent highlights have included acclaim debut at Bravo!Vail Music Festival stepping in for violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter in Mozart’s Violin Concerto No.4 with Chamber Orchestra Vienna-Berlin, Rotterdam Philharmonic with Lahav Shani, Detroit Symphony with Leonard Slatkin, Houston Symphony with Andres Orozco-Estrada, NHK and Dallas Symphonies with Fabio Luisi, Mariinsky Orchestra with Valery Gergiev, Baltimore Symphony and Seoul Philharmonic with Markus Stenz, San Francisco Symphony with Mei-Ann Chen, and recital debuts at the Lucerne Festival in Switzerland and Aspen Music Festival. In the Fall of 2021, Paul also became the first classical violinist to perform his arrangement of the National Anthem for the opening game of the NFL at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, to an audience of 75,000. An exclusive recording artist with France’s Naïve Records, his debut album “Kaleidoscope” was released worldwide in October of 2023, and a second album is scheduled for release in January 2025. His recording of Toshio Hosokawa’s Violin Concerto “Genesis” with Residentie Orkest Den Haag was released on NAXOS in June of 2024.
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