COMPOSER ANDREW NORMAN POSTPONES WORLD PREMIERE OF CELLO CONCERTO SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 21 & 23

CELLIST JOHANNES MOSER WILL INSTEAD PERFORM WORKS BY JOHN WILLIAMS ON THE ALL-AMERICAN PROGRAM

SEATTLE, WA – Composer Andrew Norman and the Seattle Symphony announce the postponement of the world premiere of Norman’s Cello Concerto, originally scheduled for June 21 and 23, 2018, with Johannes Moser as soloist. Instead of the premiere, Moser will perform John Williams’ Elegy for solo cello and orchestra and selections from Memoirs of a Geisha. The remainder of this all-American program remains as scheduled with Leonard Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Aaron Copland’s grand Symphony No. 3.

Ticketholders are being notified of the program change. The premiere is postponed indefinitely.

Andrew Norman shared, “While I regret postponing the scheduled first performances of my new concerto with soloist Johannes Moser and the Seattle Symphony, I believe that artistic excellence must take precedence over timeliness in the creative process.  I very much look forward to sharing the piece, in its full and final form, with Seattle audiences at a date in the near future.”

TICKET INFORMATION

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JOHANNES MOSER CELLO

Hailed by Gramophone magazine as "one of the finest among the astonishing gallery of young virtuoso cellists," German-Canadian cellist Johannes Moser has performed with the world’s leading orchestras. Moser is gaining increasing renown for his efforts to expand the reach of the classical genre, as well as his passionate focus on new music, and is committed to reaching out to young audiences, from kindergarten to college and beyond.

SEATTLE SYMPHONY

The Seattle Symphony is one of America's leading symphony orchestras and is internationally acclaimed for its innovative programming and extensive recording history. Under the leadership of Music Director Ludovic Morlot since September 2011, the Symphony is heard from September through July by more than 500,000 people through live performances and radio broadcasts. It performs in one of the finest modern concert halls in the world — the acoustically superb Benaroya Hall — in downtown Seattle. Its extensive education and community engagement programs reach over 65,000 children and adults each year. The Seattle Symphony has a deep commitment to new music, commissioning many works by living composers each season. The orchestra has made nearly 150 recordings and has received three Grammy Awards, 23 Grammy nominations, two Emmy Awards and numerous other accolades. In 2014 the Symphony launched its in-house recording label, Seattle Symphony Media.

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