Performer
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Manfred Honeck, Music Director and Conductor Seong-Jin Cho, Piano

When pianist Seong-Jin Cho last performed one of Rachmaninoff’s orchestral works at Carnegie Hall, a modern-day legend was born. The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) now invites Cho to perform another of the composer’s pulse-quickening piano-and-orchestra showpieces: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. This exciting program also features Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony, for which the PSO earned a Best Orchestral Performance Grammy Award in 2018—the same year that conductor Manfred Honeck was named Artist of the Year by the International Classical Music Awards jury. A New York premiere by internationally renowned composer Lera Auerbach, commissioned by the PSO, rounds out the performance.

Program
LERA AUERBACH Frozen Dreams (NY Premiere)
RACHMANINOFF Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 5