Fabien will make his Baltimore Symphony Orchestra debut on March 9-12, conducting a program of Mahler and Klezmer. Mahler's inexhaustible Fifth Symphony floods the ear and heart with every conceivable human emotion, a work Mahler himself described as a “foaming, roaring, raging sea of sound.” Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, the first concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic, shows off another talent as the composer of a Klezmer fantasy filled with the wailing cries and stomping dances of this intoxicating folk style. Tickets are available for purchase here.
Fabien will also make his Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra debut on March 17-18 as part of the orchestra's Classical Series, conducting Håkan Hardenberger in a performance of Tomasi’s Trumpet Concerto, an expressive and technical piece that was once declared “unplayable.” Schmitt’s most famous composition—the symphonic suite from the ballet La Tragédie de Salomé—and Stravinsky’s ballet and orchestral work The Firebird, with its story of good versus evil, will come to life under the stylings of conductor Fabian Gabel. Tickets are available for purchase here.