Symphony Orchestra Concert

Co-Sponsor: Community Partnership Programs of the St. Louis Symphony

Free Admission.

Program to include:

Overture to Fidelio Op. 72 (1814) – Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 – 1827)

Concertino for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 12 (1840) –
Ferdinand David (1810 - 1873)

Romance for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 62 (1911) –
Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)​

Peer Gynt, Suite 1 Op. 46 (1888) and Suite 2 Op. 55 (1891) – Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907)

Featured soloist:
Prior to taking the position of Assistant Principal Bassoon of the St. Louis Symphony in 2006, Andrew Gott was Principal Bassoon of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra under the baton of JoAnn Falletta. He has also played Principal Bassoon with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Woodlands Symphony Orchestra. He has attended numerous music festivals both here and abroad including Tanglewood, National Repertory Orchestra, Jerusalem International Symphony Orchestra, Aspen, Sarasota, Domain Forget, Kent Blossom, and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria. An active chamber musician, Gott has also played in the Innsbrook Institute Music Festival, Norfolk Chamber Consort, and the Virginia Arts Festival. He has served on the faculty at the Governor’s School for the Arts, Old Dominion University, Christopher Newport University, and Ball State Bassoon Camp. Gott received his Bachelor of Music from Ball State University and his Master of Music from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University, where he studied with Ben Kamins. Andrew Gott was born and raised in Bolivar, Missouri and teaches bassoon at Washington University in St. Louis.

Conductor:
Praised for his “uncommonly expressive and detailed” performances by the Miami Herald and described as an “eloquent and decisive” conductor by the Wall Street Journal, Steven Jarvi is recognized as one of America's fastest rising conductors with an equal passion for the concert hall and the opera house. Jarvi is the Resident Conductor of the St. Louis Symphony, Music Director of Winter Opera Saint Louis, and the Music Director of the St. Louis Symphony Youth Orchestra. Formerly the Associate Conductor of the Kansas City Symphony (KCS), he won the Bruno Walter Memorial Foundation Award in 2009. He came to the KCS after several years as the Conducting Fellow with Michael Tilson Thomas and the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, as an Associate Conductor for the New York City Opera at Lincoln Center, and as the Apprentice Conductor with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Raised in Grand Haven, Michigan, Steven Jarvi holds a bachelor's degree in Music Theory from the University of Michigan where he studied with Kenneth Kiesler, Martin Katz, and Jerry Blackstone, along with a master's in Orchestral Conducting from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied with the legendary conducting pedagogue, Gustav Meier.