Sebastian Lang-Lessing returns! Music Director Emeritus, San Antonio Sym.

515 McCullough Avenue,San Antonio TX 78215

12 May, 2022

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Sebastian Lang-Lessing, Music Director Emeritus of the San Antonio Symphony returns to conduct an orchestra of familiar faces and guests. Repertoire Skoryk - MelodyMozart - Clarinet Concerto, with Ilya ShterenbergBeethoven - Symphony No. 7German conductor Sebastian Lang-Lessing holds the title of Music Director Emeritus of the San Antonio Symphony where he had been Music Director from 2010-2020. Lang-Lessing, who received the Ferenc Fricsay Award when he was twenty-four years old, began his career at the Hamburg State Opera. Based on Sebastian’s work as assistant conductor to Gerd Albrecht in Hamburg, legendary stage director and opera manager Götz Friedrich engaged him as Resident Conductor at Deutsche Oper Berlin. Today, Sebastian Lang-Lessing regularly appears with the leading opera companies of the world, including those in Paris, Hamburg, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington, Oslo, Copenhagen, and Stockholm. His operatic repertoire is exceptionally wide, with seventy-five works ranging from Baroque to contemporary opera. From 2004 until 2011, Mr. Lang-Lessing was Music Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, which grew to become one of the leading orchestras in the Pacific Rim. With this orchestra, Sebastian Lang-Lessing built a comprehensive, award-winning discography, especially of Classical and Romantic repertoire. He appears regularly as guest conductor with leading European orchestras including the Copenhagen Philharmonic and the orchestras in Bordeaux, Toulouse, Gran Canaria, Malaga, and Palermo. He also appears with leading orchestras in North America such as the Vancouver, Cincinnati, and Milwaukee Symphonies. Principal clarinetist of the San Antonio Symphony and Principal clarinetist of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra (Columbus, OH), Ilya Shterenberg balances a busy career as an orchestral musician, chamber music performer, and a soloist. Hailed by the press: “He possesses that miraculous gift of an innate musical sense…music seemed to flow toward the infinite, as if divinely ordained”, he has been featured as a soloist performing standard works by Mozart, Weber, Rossini, Debussy, as well as rarely heard clarinet concertos by Krommer and Kurpinsky, as well as the American premiere of Richard Strauss’s Serenade for Clarinet and Chamber Orchestra. A native of Ukraine, Ilya began his music education at the Kosenko Music College, in Zhitomir, city of his birth. After his immigration to the United States in 1989, he received an Artist Certificate diploma from the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, after which he did further study at DePaul University in Chicago. His principal teachers have included Larry Combs, Stephen Girko, and Charles Neidich. more at the concert. Notes: COVID policy for this venue - First Baptist Church recommends that masks be worn while on the FBCSA campus. We will continue to monitor our community situation and adjust our protocols accordingly.Parking is available in paid lots and street parking surrounding the church.Artists and repertoire are subject to change.mosasperformancefund.org This event is being organized by the MOSAS Performance Fund, a 501c3 non profit to provide great performances in our community. The MOSAS Performance Fund is an organization started by musicians in the San Antonio Symphony. MOSAS Performance Fund concerts are not produced or sponsored by the San Antonio Symphony.  The MOSAS Performance Fund gratefully acknowledges the contributions from individuals, orchestras and organizations both here in San Antonio and around the country. Many have given in order to help preserve great orchestral music in San Antonio. Money going to the musicians will help relieve the financial hardship they have endured. More information can be found at mosasperformancefund.org Some of our sponsors are listed below our logo