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Max Valdes Returns
Saturday, November 15, 2008 at 8:00pm
Sunday, November 16, 2008 at 2:30pm
Max Valdes, conductor
Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus
Esther Heidman, soprano
Timothy Mix, baritone
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Program Information
Fauré - Requiem
Saint-Saëns - Symphony No.3 "Organ"
Ives - The Unanswered Question
Former BPO maestro Maximiano Valdes returns to the podium at Kleinhans in a lush, French melange of evocative styles. The program features two masterpieces from the Romantic Age, beginning with Fauré's revered Requiem, for orchestra, soloists and chorus, a work dearly revered for its sense of mystery. Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony offers the composer's rich, symphonic lyricism embellished by the thrilling timbres of a full-register organ.
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Artist Profile
Maximiano Valdés began his studies in piano and violin at the Conservatory of Music there and continued at the Accademia de Santa Cecilia in Rome where he took courses in composition and conducting. Completing his diploma in piano, he decided to concentrate entirely on conducting and enrolled in the conducting classes of Franco Ferrara in Bologna, Siena and Venice and also worked with Sergiu Celibidache in Stuttgart and Paris. In 1976 Mr. Valdés was engaged as Assistant Conductor at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice and the following year was a conducting fellow at Tanglewood where he worked with Leonard Bernstein and Seiji Ozawa. He won First Prize at the Nicolai Malko Competition in Copenhagen, First Prize at the Vittorio Gui Competition in Florence and Second Prize from the Rupert Foundation Conducting Competition in London.
Mr. Valdés made his American symphonic debut in October 1987 with the Buffalo Philharmonic and was immediately re-invited for the following season. After a successful return to the orchestra in 1989, he was appointed Music Director, a position he held for almost 10 years. In North America he has guest conducted many of the leading orchestras including the Saint Louis, National, Montreal, Baltimore, Seattle, Houston, Dallas and New World symphonies and the Calgary Philharmonic. Summer festival appearances have included the Mann Music Center with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Caramoor, Interlochen, Grand Teton, Eastern Music Festival, Chautauqua, Music Academy of the West and Grant Park in Chicago.
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