SARASOTA – A music director’s death leads to changes in the Sarasota Orchestra’s season.
Director Bramwell Tovey died suddenly July 12th after a recurrence of a rare form of sarcoma. He was 69.
He already mapped out a season that would feature him prominently in multiple series, including playing piano to one of his own compositions in February.
The opening Masterworks concert will now be led by David Alan Miller, the Grammy winning conductor of the Albany Symphony. The Herald-Tribune reports the season features contemporary works by Quinn Mason, Jessica Hunt, Sarah Gibson, and Nina Shekhar. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma will be a guest soloist March 2nd. And the Discoveries concerts series will explore influences between composers, such as Mozart’s influence on Tchaikovsky.