2024-2025 Masterworks Season

Prepare for an unforgettable musical journey at Palm Beach Symphony's 2024-2025 Masterworks Concerts at the Kravis Center! Featuring renowned artists like Julian Schwarz, Leonidas Kavakos, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Gil Shaham, Garrick Ohlsson, and Anne-Marie McDermott, alongside captivating compositions by contemporary masters like Ellen Taaffe Zwilich and Jennifer Higdon. From Mahler to Rachmaninoff, experience a season brimming with timeless classics and mesmerizing performances. Join us for an extraordinary season of musical brilliance!

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Julian Schwarz, cello

Sunday, November 10 at 3:00 pm

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Coming from a dynasty of revered classical musicians, cellist Julian Schwarz will grace the stage with his father and our Music Director, Gerard Schwarz, performing one of the greatest cello concertos of all time composed by Dvořák.  The program builds to the ultimate Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky that was later orchestrated by Ravel, a symphonic homage and musical depiction of Mussorgsky’s dear friend Victor Hartmann’s artwork. 

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Leonidas Kavakos, violin

Tuesday, December 10 at 7:30 pm

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Violin sensation Leonidas Kavakos, acclaimed for his matchless technique, captivating artistry, and superb musicianship, promises to enrapture us as he performs Brahms’ impassioned Violin Concerto.  Said to be inspired by Brahms’ compositional style, Dvořák’s profoundly intimate Seventh Symphony comes after experiencing the deaths of his daughter and mother in which he examines the meanderings of his soul and the search for answers to elementary issues of human existence.  

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

Monday, January 13 at 7:30 pm

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French pianist extraordinaire Jean-Yves Thibaudet will perform Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major.  Chicago Classical noted, “Few keyboard artists embody Ravel’s blend of supple elegance and unbridled bravura so naturally and effortlessly.”  Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony has an overwhelmingly uplifting, enthusiastic spirit that is steeped in wartime patriotism.  Prokofiev indicated this work is, “…very important not only for the musical material that went into it, but also because I was returning to the symphonic form after a break of 16 years.  The Fifth Symphony is the culmination of an entire period in my work.  I conceived of it as a symphony on the greatness of the human soul.” 

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Gil Shaham, violin

Thursday, February 6 at 7:30 pm

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Bringing this remarkable concerto to life is American phenom Gil Shaham, one of the foremost violinists of our time who embodies flawless technique combined with inimitable warmth and generosity of spirit who is sought after throughout the world for concerto appearance with leading orchestras and conductors.

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Garrick Ohlsson, piano

Sunday, March 2 at 3:00 pm

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Back by popular demand, American pianist Garrick Ohlsson is known worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess.  Join us for what promises to be a masterful performance of Rachmaninoff’s most celebrated, intensely impassioned Second Piano Concerto composed during the turn of the century.  “Melody is the music and the foundation of all music,” said Rachmaninoff. During one of his tours in the United States, he noted what still holds true today, “These Americans cannot get enough of it.”  

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Anne-Marie McDermott, piano

Tuesday, April 8 at 7:00 pm

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One of the most versatile, highly respected, and best-reviewed artists of her generation, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott, known especially for her brilliant interpretations of Classical and early Romantic repertoire, will be our featured soloist in Beethoven’s sublime First PianoConcerto.  Music critics shower her with praise, one noting, “Anne-Marie McDermott plays with both technical virtuosity and evident joy.  The music comes alive under her fingers.”

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