Principal Conductor Guillermo Figueroa leads us into another year of world-class performances in celebration of our exciting 36th Season! Our 2019-2020 season features something for everyone, offering ten exceptional and diverse performances at The Lensic. We kick off the season with “Double Chooi,” presenting 2018 Joseph Joachim Violin Competition winner, Timothy Chooi, alongside his brother and former concertmaster of New York’s MET orchestra, Nikki Chooi. We look forward to seeing you for an extraordinary season of music!
Vivaldi
Concerto for Two Violins
Seyfried
Concerto for Two Violins
The Seyfried Double Concerto was made possible through the generosity of Charles and Judith Freyer. It was premiered at the Lake George Music Festival in 2017.
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4
Of Note
The Vivaldi is part of a collection of concertos he entitled The Harmonic Inspiration, considered “perhaps the most influential collection of instrumental music to appear during the whole of the eighteenth century.”
If you like the lush, romantic sound of Brahms and Sibelius, but also the driving rhythm of bluegrass, you’ll love the Seyfried Double Concerto.
Tchaikovsky’s most beloved symphony, the Fourth is filled with excitement, anguish, panache, and glory—with high-flying strings and powerful brass that will leave you breathless.
Nikki Chooi, violin
Canadian violinist Nikki Chooi, praised for his passionate and poetic performances, has established himself as an artist of rare versatility. Described as “vigorous, colorful” by The New York Times, he has received critical acclaim in recent engagements at the Harris Theatre in Chicago, Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Carnegie Hall and Kauffman Center in New York, Koerner Hall in Toronto, Place des Arts and Salle Bourgie in Montreal, as well as appearing as soloist with orchestras across Canada.
Timothy Chooi, violin
Canadian violinist, Timothy Chooi is the First Prize Winner of the 2018 Joseph Joachim International Violin Competition in Hannover, Germany. He most recently also won the First Prize of the Schadt Violin Competition in the United States of America. He had already made a name for himself as an awarded of numerous prizes, among them the Michael Hill Violin Competition in New Zealand, Montréal Symphony ManuLife Competition, and this summer, the ‘Prix Yves Paternot’ of the Verbier Festival Academy.