Carnegie Hall Presents

Sterling Elliott, Cello
Louis Langrée, Conductor
Orchestra of St. Luke's

Program:
VALERIE COLEMAN Fanfare for Uncommon Times
HAYDN Cello Concerto No. 2 in D Major
BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 7
Encore: MARK SUMMER Julie-O (Sterling Elliott)

Wednesday, October 23, 2024 (Ann Arbor, MI) — Sterling Elliott, winner of the 2024 Sphinx Organization Medal of Excellence and 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant, will make his debut with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra (A2SO) on November 9, 2024. Elliott will partner with A2SO Music Director Earl Lee and the orchestra to perform Czech composer Antonín Dvořák’s Cello Concerto No. 1, perhaps the most famous of its kind ever composed and considered “supreme” by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Harold Schonberg.

An acclaimed voice in the classical music industry, Elliott emerged from a musical family, appearing on the NPR-distributed From the Top program when just 14 years old. Since then he has appeared with a number of major orchestras such as the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and will make further debuts across the 24-25 season in addition to appearing at Carnegie Hall.

Sterling has a long history with the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization, a leading Detroit-based non-profit dedicated to the development of young Black and Latino classical musicians. Winner of the Junior and Senior Divisions of the Annual Sphinx Competition, Sterling received the Sphinx Medal of Excellence in 2024, the highest honor bestowed by the organization.

Music Director Earl Lee returns to the podium at the Michigan Theater as the orchestra performs its third concert of the 24-25 season. In addition to the Dvořák, the program includes Hungarian composer György Kurtág’s ominous and austere 1989 work Ligatura – Message To Frances-Marie, as well as Johannes Brahms’ Symphony No. 3, the penultimate work of the great German composer’s symphonic output.

Concert details:
Dvorak Cello Concerto (November MainStage)
The Michigan Theater
<603 E Liberty St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra
Earl Lee, Music Director
Sterling Elliott, cello

Concert sponsor: The Rebecca Sue Horvath Concert Endowment Fund

Box Office services begin at 6:30 PM. Pre-concert talk on stage at 7 PM with guest artists, sponsored by Exchange Capital Management. Concert begins at 8 PM and lasts approximately 2 hours with a 20-minute intermission.

More info at https://a2so.org/24-25-nov-mainstage/

(734) 994-4801

Photo: Titilayo Ayangade