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Stefan Sanderling—70 Years of Music Making: What’s Ahead for the Toledo Symphony?
Stefan Sanderling, Principal Conductor since 2002, will comment on the Toledo Symphony’s 70th Anniversary Season; the important and unique role an orchestra plays in a community; and his perspective on the quality of the TSO musicians given his extensive experience with orchestras worldwide. He will talk about the challenges ahead for the musical arts and take questions from the floor. Stefan Sanderling commences his 11th year as Principal Conductor of the Toledo Symphony, celebrating its 70th Season, on Friday/Saturday 20/21 with all-Rachmaninoff romantic performances of “Symphonic Dances” and Piano Concerto No. 3 featuring Philippe Bianconi, a Van Cliburn competition winner with a magnificent international career. In his Toledo Rotary presentation Sanderling will comment on the Toledo Symphony’s 70th Anniversary, the important role the Symphony plays in our regional community – a benefit to annual audiences of 255,000; and his perspective on the quality of the TSO musicians leading up to and beyond the Toledo Symphony’s Carnegie Hall debut in 2011. He may also address the cultural and economic challenges to American orchestras. Sanderling will invite the audience to experience the spectacular capstone event of the 70th Anniversary Season – a performance of Beethoven 9th Symphony at the Huntington Center Arena on Sunday, April 6 at 4 p.m. which will feature the Symphony, Masterworks Chorale and 1,000 high school and college singers from choirs across Northwest Ohio.