The Great Return & Dvorak Cello

October 11, 2022
Vance Brand Civic Auditorium
Begins at 7:30pm

Kick off the 2022-2023 season with beauty and passion! We are thrilled to unveil a world premiere symphonic work on our season opener Main Stage concert alongside the power of Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, the reflective sweetness of George Walker’s Lyric for Strings, and the audience favorite Cello Concerto by Antonin Dvorak featuring international competition and award winner, Clancy Newman. Come back to Vance Brand Civic Auditorium for our “Great Return”!

AARON COPLAND
Fanfare for the Common Man

GEORGE WALKER
Lyric for Strings

JOHN HENNECKEN
Symphony for the Great Return—World Premiere

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK
Cello Concerto in B minor, Opus 104
Featuring Clancy Newman, Cello

Featured Guest Soloist

Clancy Newman, Cello

Cellist Clancy Newman has enjoyed an extraordinarily wide-ranging career, not only as a cellist, but also as a composer, producer, writer, and guest lecturer. He received his first significant public recognition at the age of twelve, when he won a Gold Medal at the Dandenong Youth Festival in Australia, competing against contestants twice his age. He went on to win first prize at the Naumburg International Competition, and he has performed as soloist throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia.

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A recipient of an Avery Fisher career grant, he can often be heard on NPR’s “Performance Today” and has been featured on A&E and PBS. As a composer, he has expanded cello technique in ways heretofore thought unimaginable, particularly in his “Pop-Unpopped” project. He has been a featured composer on series by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Chicago Chamber Musicians, and in March 2019 his piano quintet was premiered at the opening ceremony of the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington DC. In 2021 he was commissioned by the Kingston Chamber Music Festival to produce four educational videos to assist school teachers as they navigate the covid-19 pandemic. Mr. Newman is a graduate of the five-year exchange program between Juilliard and Columbia University, receiving a M.M. from Juilliard and a B.A. in English from Columbia.