Benjamin Beilman Plays Barber Violin Concerto

Lauded as “a prodigious artist who combines the gift of utmost sound perfection and a deep, delicate, intense, simmering sensitivity” by Le Monde, violinist Benjamin Beilman makes his Benaroya Hall debut performing Barber’s rhapsodic Violin Concerto. Kahchun Wong also returns to our stage, conducting British composer Malcolm Arnold’s emotional PeterlooOverture, which commemorated Manchester radicals who were killed while protesting for parliamentary reform in 1819. The evening finishes with Bartók’s cherished Concerto for Orchestra, an adventurous melding of folk themes and unorthodox tonality that highlights each section of the orchestra.