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VIRTUAL PERFORMANCE
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Branford Marsalis, saxophone
ROSSINI: Overture to The Barber of Seville
Rodrigo: Suite from Soleriana
DEBUSSY: Rhapsody for Alto Sax
IBERT (arr. Bizet): Concertino da Camera Carmen Suite
Three-time Grammy Award-winner and revered jazz saxophonist Branford Marsalis has continued to exercise and expand his skills as an instrumentalist, a composer, bandleader and educator, crossing stylistic boundaries while maintaining an unwavering creative integrity. No stranger to classical music, Brandford has performed works by Copland, Debussy, Glazunov, Ibert, Mahler, Milhaud, Rorem, Vaughan Williams and Villa-Lobos with leading orchestras in the United States and Europe, and has served as Creative Director for the Cincinnati Symphony’s Ascent Series in 2012-13.
The Grammy Award-winning Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is known for its collaborative leadership style in which the musicians, not a conductor, interpret the score. Accompanying the critical acclaim for Orpheus' live appearances are numerous distinctions and awards, including a 2001 Grammy Award for “Shadow Dances: Stravinsky Miniatures,” a 1998 Grammy nomination for its recording of W.A. Mozart piano concerti with Richard Goode, the 1998 "Ensemble of the Year" award by Musical America, as well as performances on Herbie Hancock's Grammy-winning “Gershwin's World.”
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