Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra: Leslie Dunner Conducting
November 9 @ 7:30 pm
$18 – $72
Our search for a new Music Director continues, with our third of four candidates*: Leslie B. Dunner.
Hailed as “dazzling, elegant, polished, and riveting” by critics for his electrifying concert performances, guest conductor Leslie B. Dunner comes to perform a program that is sure to stir concertgoers. Lauded for his world premiere performances of Anthony Davis’s opera “The Central Park Five” winning the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Music, and his “March to Liberation” subscription series concerts with the New York Philharmonic as part of their 2023 Inaugural Season in the new David Geffen Hall. The New York Times “Critic’s Pick” wrote Dunner’s performances had ” … a streak of urgency and plenty of orchestral splendor… dive-bombing phrases with terrific energy and articulation… style, sagaciously managed, suave, with bursts of piquant personality,” and a concert finale which “came across as grandly cosmic.” Maestro Dunner is joined by Indiana University’s Dean Charles H. Webb Chair in Music, Norman Krieger in Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F major, a work shimmering with orchestrational brilliance.
