Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra with Lang Lang

Ever since its founding in 1987 by Leonard Bernstein, the international Orchestral Academy of
the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival has enjoyed a superb reputation world-wide. Comprised of
the world\'s finest young musicians under the age of 27, who are hand-picked through a rigorous
auditioning progress and who work with experienced teachers from the Berlin Philharmonic,
Munich Philharmonic, and other notable conductors and musicians, the Schleswig-Holstein
Festival Orchestra makes its North American debut with this tour, which also features the
inimitable pianist Lang Lang as soloist. Heralded as the "biggest, most exciting keyboard
talent encountered in many years" by the Chicago Tribune, 26-year-old Lang Lang was seen by
over 5 billion people in August, 2008 when he performed in Beijing\'s opening ceremony for the
Games of the XXIX Olympiad, where he was seen as a symbol of the youth and future of China.
Program
· Prokofiev : Symphony No. 1 in D Major, Op. 25 ("Classical") (1917)
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Hill Auditorium