San Jose’s own Cliburn gold medal winner Jon Nakamatsu reprises the first work he ever played with Symphony San Jose: Grieg’s Piano Concerto. (A critic once noted that the work ‘brought smile after smile to Nakamatsu’s face.’) The program ends with Florence Price’s pioneering Symphony No. 1, skillfully incorporating spirituals, folksong and syncopated African American dance rhythms into a classical structure.
Conductor Aram Demirjian bio: https://www.symphonysanjose.org/performers/aram-demirjian/
Pianist Jon Nakamatsu bio: https://www.symphonysanjose.org/performers/jon-nakamatsu/
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David Amram
Jhaptal
Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto
Florence Price
Symphony No. 1
Performers
Aram Demirjian
Conductor
Jon Nakamatsu
Soloist, piano