Last year, in our Young Artist Series, we introduced you to Jordan Bak, an incredibly talented young violist with a bright personality... and he continues to bloom. On this episode of Performance Today, hear violist Jordan Bak's performance in the final round at the Sphinx Competition.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Alberto Ginastera: Ollantay, Op. 17: Movement 1 Paisaje de Ollantaytambo
BBC Philarmonic Orchestra; Juanjo Mena, conductor
Ginastera Orchestral Works: Vol. 1
Chandos 10884
Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 7 in C major, Op. 60: Movement 4
Minnesota Orchestra; Juanjo Mena, conductor
Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis, MN
Antonio Vivaldi: Summer from Four Seasons
Livia Sohn, violin; Geoff Nuttall and Owen Dalby, violin; Masumi Per Rostad, viola; Nina Lee, cello; Doug Balliett, double bass; Pedja Muzijevic, harpsichord
Chamber Music Series at Spoleto Festival USA, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Natalie Dietterich: Chainlink Fences
Addy Sterrett, soprano; 2017 Norfolk Festival Chorus and Orchestra; Simon Carrington, conductor
Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The Barn, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, Norfolk, CT
Hour 2
Jennifer Margaret Barker: Na Tri Peathraichean: Gearr Aonach
Alice K. Dade, flute; John Novacek, piano
Living Music
Naxos 559831
Bela Bartok: Viola Concerto
Jordan Bak, viola; Sphinx Symphony Orchestra; Roderick Cox, conductor
Sphinx Organization, Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center, Detroit, MI
Erwin Schulhoff: Concertino
Alice K. Dade, flute; Maurycy Banaszek, viola; Susan Cahill, double bass
Festival Mozaic, United Methodist Church San Luis Obispo, San Luis Obispo, CA
Samuel Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24
Julia Bullock, soprano; Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Jeremy Denk, conductor
SPCO, Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN
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