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

Yannick Leads Rautavaara, Boulanger, Ravel, and Debussy

Witness the breathtaking culmination of Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s 2024–25 series as acclaimed pianist and Curtis alumna Yuja Wang takes center stage. Celebrated for her “exceptional power, depth, and dazzle” (Los Angeles Times), Yuja collaborates with award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin to deliver a tour de force performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 1, a stunning work of musical and emotional extremes—raw, primal, and explosively cinematic, yet achingly romantic and quietly ethereal.

This delightful program also features three French masterpieces, including Lili Boulanger’s joyful D’un matin de Printemps (“Of a Spring Morning”), Maurice Ravel’s sumptuous orchestral song cycle Shéhérazade, and Claude Debussy’s evocative childhood recollections of the sea, the atmospheric symphonic sketches, La mer.

Program

BOULANGER D'un matin de printemps

RAUTAVAARA Piano Concerto No. 1

RAVEL Shéhérazade, Three Poems of Tristan Klingsor for Voice and Orchestra

DEBUSSYLa mer, trois esquisses symphoniques pour orchestre