Ben performs with Symphony in C for the following program:

Rutgers University–Camden presents Festival Mahogany, a weekend of outstanding concerts featuring award-winning conductor Marlon Daniel leading Symphony in C, in two spectacular concerts with renowned artists, virtuoso cellist Ifetayo Ali, and scintillating soprano Karen Slack.

This concert features the esteemed conductor Marlon Daniel and the vocally ravishing soprano Karen Slack in a program that highlights their remarkable artistry and the diversity of the classical music repertoire.

American Portraits Masterworks Concert
Sunday, March 2, 2025 | 2 PM

Walter K. Gordon Theater
Symphony in C
Marlon Daniel, Conductor
Karen Slack, Soprano

Price: Adoration
Grant Still: Symphony No. 5 “Western Hemisphere”
Strauss: Vier letzte Lieder
Dvořák: Symphony No 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 “From the New World”

Ben performs with Symphony in C for the following program:

Rutgers University–Camden presents Festival Mahogany, a weekend of outstanding concerts featuring award-winning conductor Marlon Daniel leading Symphony in C, in two spectacular concerts with renowned artists, virtuoso cellist Ifetayo Ali, and scintillating soprano Karen Slack.

Tour de Force
Walter K. Gordon Theater
February 28, 2025 at 7 PM

Symphony in C
Marlon Daniel, Conductor
Ifetayo Ali, Cello

The concert will feature Symphony in C under the baton of conductor Marlon Daniel, alongside the rising star cellist Ifetayo Ali. This program highlights the diversity within the French classical music repertoire, beginning with Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, one of the first known composers of African descent who has experienced a significant resurgence in recent years. It should also be noted that this year, 2025, also marks the 150th year of Maurice Ravel’s birth and the 280th year of the birth Joseph Bologne.

Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Symphony in G Major, Op. 11, No. 1
Bouglanger: D’un matin de printemps
Saint-Saëns: Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor, Op. 33
Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte
Poulenc: Sinfonietta

Ben performs Jean Coulthard’s oboe sonata on the Curtis Recital Series. More information below.

Program:

Chopin - Mazurkas, Op. 24

Schoenfield - Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano

Françaix - Wind Quintet No. 1

Ben performs with Symphony in C for the following program;

Beethoven & Schubert
Saturday, February 22, 2025 at 7:30 pm

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3
Drew Petersen, piano
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 “The Great”

Ben performs with the Curtis New Music Ensemble for the following program:

This exciting concert features musical and academic explorations of the 20th century, including works by Curtis alumni, inspired by the “Bold Experiment” initiated by Mary Louise Curtis Bok in 1924 when she opened a conservatory in Philadelphia. The program will feature late Pulitzer Prize-winning modern classical and avant-garde composer George Crumb’s foreboding “voyage of the soul,” Black Angels, for electric string quartet. Subtitled “Thirteen Images from the Dark Land,” this gripping piece, written during the Vietnam War, captures the horrors, anguish, and upheaval of the era and was conceived as a parable for a troubled contemporary world, as poignant then as it is now.

Program

VILLA-LOBOS Choros No. 2

CRAWFORD SEEGER Suite for wind quintet

MEREDITH MONK Folkdance and Ellis Island

EASTMAN Buddha

DU YUN The Ocean Within

CRUMB Black Angels

Ben performs with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra for the following program:

Program

POULENC Les Animaux Modèles

VIVIER Lonely Child

Intermission

RACHMANINOFF Symphonic Dances, Op. 45