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Andrés with Houston Symphony on Tour Through Europe
Music Director Andrés Orozco-Estrada will lead the Houston Symphony on a four-country, eight-city European Tour from March 9–March 19, 2018 through some of Europe’s most prestigious concert halls as BOZAR in Brussels, Philharmonie Essen, Konzerthaus Berlin, Filharmonia Narodowa Warsaw, Vienna Konzerthaus, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Hannover Congress Centrum and Gasteig München.
World-renowned violinist and three-time Grammy Award-winner Hilary Hahn joins the Houston Symphony for all performances. The high-profile tour is Orozco-Estrada’s first international tour with the orchestra and the Houston Symphony’s first major European tour in more than 20 years.
Central to the tour repertoire will be Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, a work that was featured in Orozco-Estrada’s critically-acclaimed inaugural recording with the Houston Symphony. The program also celebrates the 100th birthday of legendary conductor, composer and musical ambassador Leonard Bernstein, including Bernstein’s Serenade for Violin (featuring Hilary Hahn); Overture to West Side Story; and Three Dance Episodes from On the Town. Rounding out the tour repertoire will be Dvořák’s The Noon Witch.