2023-2024 Masterworks Season

Maestro Gerard Schwarz will be joined by pianists Yefim Bronfman, Vladimir Feltsman, Emanuel Ax and Ignat Solzhenitsyn and violinists Akiko Suwanai and Pinchas Zukerman in the six-concert Masterworks Series to be performed November 2023 - April 2024 at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, Florida celebrating Palm Beach Symphony's Golden Anniversary Season.

The season will also feature new works composed by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, the first woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Music; Aaron Jay Kernis, another Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of two GRAMMY® Awards; Bright Sheng, who received a MacArthur Fellowship, unofficially known as the “genius grant;” and Maestro Schwarz, who in addition to having his arrangements of orchestral suites performed worldwide, has premiered and recorded his own works with leading orchestras.



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Yefim Bronfman, Piano

Sunday, November 19 at 3:00pm

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
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World premiere work by Bright Sheng

Piano virtuoso Yefim Bronfman returns to open this Golden Anniversary Season performing Johannes Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2, the last work that the great composer added to his repertoire as a pianist and one that is filled with technical challenges for the performer and rich rewards for the audience.

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Akiko Suwanai, Violin

Wednesday, December 13 at 7:30pm

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
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World premiere work by Maestro Gerard Schwarz

Acclaimed violinist Akiko Suwanai performs Tchaikovsky’s only Violin Concerto, a bravura and lyrical work inspired by that composer’s visit to Switzerland. Palm Beach Symphony accompanies Dvořák on his travel to the United States with Symphony No. 9 “From the New World,” and Maestro Schwarz will lead the Symphony in a world premiere of his own composition commissioned for the Palm Beach Symphony by Don and Mary Thompson in honor of the 50th Anniversary of Palm Beach Symphony.

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Pinchas Zukerman, Violin

Monday, January 15 at 7:30pm

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
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Violin virtuoso Pinchas Zuckerman returns to celebrate this Golden Anniversary Season by performing three lush and joyful works: Tchaikovsky’s melodic Sérénade mélancolique and the sentimental “Mélodie” from Souvenir d’un lieu cher paired with Mozart’s buoyant Violin Concerto No. 3 “Strassburg.” The uplifting program also features Hailstork’s inspirational Four Hymns Without Words and Sibelius’ majestic and powerful Symphony No. 2.  

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Santiago Rodriguez, Piano

Monday, February 5 at 7:30pm

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
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World premiere work by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Acclaimed pianist Santiago Rodriguez returns to deliver the exhilarating passion and power contained in Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A Minor. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade weaves an entrancing, musical spell that has proven worthy of the hypnotic power of its literary namesake. Audiences will be treated to a world premiere composition by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich commissioned for the Palm Beach Symphony by Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter in honor of Gil Maurer.

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Emanuel Ax, Piano

Wednesday, March 6 at 6:00pm

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
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World premiere work by Aaron Jay Kernis

Piano virtuoso Emanuel Ax joins Palm Beach Symphony in a program of treasured masterworks and new discoveries. The acclaimed pianist performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major. K. 503, composed the same year as The Marriage of Figaro and displaying the same melodic genius and magnificent breadth. The Symphony will join Tchaikovsky on his exploration of fate, melancholy, whimsy and joy in that composer’s Symphony No. 4. The program also features the world premiere of a composition by Aaron Jay Kernis commissioned for the Palm Beach Symphony by Ambassador Bonnie McElveen-Hunter in honor of Leonard and Judy Lauder.

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Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Piano

Thursday, April 25 at 7:30pm

The Kravis Center for the Performing Arts
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Palm Beach Symphony’s 50th Anniversary Season culminates with an apt program that celebrates Beethoven’s early work followed by one of his greatest. Acclaimed pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn uncovers the genius of the composer’s first full-length orchestral piece, Piano Concerto No. 2. The finale of this historic season soars to the rafters as the Symphony is joined by Frost Chorale, Frost Bella Voce, Frost Symphonic Choir and Frost Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Amanda Quist to perform Beethoven’s groundbreaking Symphony No. 9 “Choral” with its “Ode to Joy.”

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