This preview has been provided by the North Carolina Symphony.

Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony will perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Maurice Ravel, and Benjamin Britten, Friday, Nov. 14, at noon in Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh, and Tuesday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Memorial Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

The Friday, Nov. 14, concert, which is part of the popular noontime Friday Favorites series, will feature Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin, and Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31, with tenor Nicholas Phan and Symphony Principal Horn Rebekah Daley.  The Tuesday, Nov. 18, Chapel Hill concert will include the Britten, the Ravel, the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, featuring Symphony Principal Viola Samuel Gold, and Symphony Associate Principal Viola David Marschall.

Nicholas Phan’s many engagements this season included appearances with the St. Louis Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Toronto Symphony, Boston Baroque, Chicago Bach Project, Oratorio Society of New York in Carnegie Hall, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and recitals in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, and Istanbul.  Also considered one of the rising young stars of the opera world, Mr. Phan recently appeared with the Portland Opera as Fenton in Falstaff, the Atlanta Opera as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, and the Seattle Opera as Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia.

Rebekah Daley won her position as Principal Horn of the North Carolina Symphony while pursuing her graduate work at the Shepherd School of Music, studying with William VerMeulen.  She previously completed her bachelor’s degree at the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with Jerome Ashby and Jennifer Montone. Also an avid chamber musician, Ms. Daley has spent several summers at the Marlboro Music Festival. Other summer festivals include Twickenhamfest, Music Academy of the West, National Repertory Orchestra, Sarasota Summer Music Festival, and Colorado College Festival. She has performed with the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, New World Symphony, and Symphony in C in Camden, N.J.

North Carolina Symphony Principal Viola Samuel Gold began studying the viola at the age of four with Sherida Josephson of the Des Moines Symphony.  He is a graduate of the New England Conservatory, where he studied primarily with Martha Strongin Katz and Roger Tapping, and the University of Iowa, where he studied with Christine Rutledge and Elizabeth Oakes. Mr. Gold has performed at the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Taos School of Music, and the Montreal International String Quartet Academy. In May of 2008 he performed as soloist with the University of Iowa Chamber Orchestra after winning the school’s concerto/aria competition.

David Marschall has been a member of the North Carolina Symphony since 1987 and was appointed Associate Principal Viola in 2007. Since 1990, he has spent his summers playing in the orchestra of the Santa Fe Opera. Mr. Marschall is a member of the chamber ensemble Quercus, and he is a member of New Music Raleigh, an ensemble dedicated to the music of living composers. He also performs regularly in the Manning Chamber Music Series at William Peace University. Mr. Marschall has also served as Principal Viola for the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra and the Columbus Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra. He was a member of the New Orleans Symphony, the Innsbruck (Austria) Symphony, the Des Moines Metro Opera, and the Colorado Philharmonic. A native of Columbus, Ohio, he studied first at Ohio State, and he received his Master’s degree from the Peabody Conservatory, where he studied with Karen Tuttle. His viola was made in 2009 by Grubaugh and Seifert of California.

Tickets to the Friday Favorites performance on Nov. 14 at noon are $28.  Student tickets are $10.  Tickets to the Chapel Hill Classical Series performance on Nov. 18 range from $18 to $55. To purchase tickets, visit the North Carolina Symphony website at www.ncsymphony.org or call the Symphony Box Office at 919.733.2750 or toll free 877.627.6724.  Concert tickets at all performances are also available at the door one hour prior to concert start time.

In addition to stellar performances, North Carolina Symphony concertgoers can enjoy pre-concert talks, post-concert discussions, and “Meet the Artists,” which feature interactive conversations with guest artists and select orchestra members, at many Symphony events.  On Friday, Nov. 14, at 11 a.m., Dr. Jonathan Kramer, of N.C. State University, will give a talk in Swalin Lobby of Meymandi Concert Hall.   On Tuesday, Nov. 18, Dr. Letitia Glozer of UNC-Chapel Hill will give a pre-concert talk at 6:40 p.m. in Gerrard Hall

Partners for the 2014/15 Friday Favorites series include Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina, The Cypress of Raleigh, and SearStone.

Partners for the 2014/15 Chapel Hill Series include Carol Woods Retirement Community, and The Businesses of Market Street, Southern Village.  The Nov. 18 concert is made possible in part by The E.T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Foundation Fund.

Meymandi Concert Hall is located in the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., in Raleigh.  Memorial Hall is located at 114 East Cameron Ave., on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

About the North Carolina Symphony

Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony gives more than 200 performances annually to adults and school children in more than 50 North Carolina counties. An entity of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the orchestra employs 66 professional musicians, under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry, and Associate Conductor David Glover.

Headquartered in downtown Raleigh’s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington — as well as individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year — and conducts one of the most extensive education programs of any U.S. orchestra.

Concert/Event Listings:

North Carolina Symphony
Brandenburg
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Rebekah Daley, horn
Samuel Gold, viola *
David Marschall, viola*

Friday, Nov. 14, 2014, noon
Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh

Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Program Listing

North Carolina Symphony
Brandenburg
Grant Llewellyn, conductor
Nicholas Phan, tenor
Rebekah Daley, horn
Samuel Gold, viola*
David Marschall, viola*

BACH – Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV 1048
I.  Mvt. I
II. Allegro

BRITTEN – Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, Op. 31
I.       Prologue
II.      Pastora
III.     Nocturne
IV.    Elegy
V.     Dirge
VI.    Hymn
VII.   Sonnet
VIII.  Epilogue
    Nicholas Phan, tenor
    Rebekah Daley, horn

BACH – Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat Major, BWV 1051*
I.    Mvt. I
II.   Adagio ma non tanto
III.  Allegro
Samuel Gold, viola
David Marschall, viola

RAVEL – Le Tombeau de Couperin
I.     Prelude
II.    Forlane
III.   Menuet
IV.  Regaudon

*Evening performance only