KIRILL GERSTEIN, PIANO, VSO/ GURNON

Jazz and classical ‘crossover’ artist Kirill Gerstein should be just the right man for Shostakovich’s enigmatic and jazzy Second Piano Concerto, and we get to see him alongside very young British conductor Ben Gurnon, recently appointed as a Dudamel fellow and having just appeared at this year’s BBC Proms.  This concert celebrates the simultaneous 150th anniversaries of the birth of composers Jean Sibelius and Carl Nielsen, Gurnon conducting the former’s Fifth Symphony and the latter’s Aladdin Suite.  

JANUARY 24/26, 8PM, ORPHEUM