- Event dates: November 16 & 17, 2024
- Showtimes: Sat 7:30pm, Sun 3:00pm
- Featured Artists:
Alyssa Wang, Conductor
Martina Filjak, PianoLocation:
Barnstable Performing Arts Center
744 West Main Street, Hyannis MA 02601 - Buy Tickets: /fantastique-tickets
Masterpiece 2
Led by Music Director candidate Alyssa Wang
Some of history’s most profound musical masterpieces have been inspired by a hero’s journey from light to darkness, love and loss, with it encompassing all of life’s beauty and horror. These themes play out in magnificent form in Berlioz’s monumental “Symphonie Fantastique” and Grieg’s enchanting Piano Concerto. Buckle your seat belts, these stories are truly epic!
Program
Turbulent Flames
JESSICA MEYER
Piano Concerto
EDVARD GRIEG
Symphonie Fantastique
HECTOR BERLIOZ
Alyssa Wang, Conductor
Alyssa Wang is a passionate and versatile conductor, violinist, and composer. A recipient of the 2023 Solti Foundation Career Assistance Award and the 2022 St. Botolph Emerging Artist Award, Alyssa has enjoyed exploring diverse creative paths across several areas, with a focus on audience inclusivity and engagement. She is the Co-Founder, Artistic Director, and Principal Conductor of the Boston Festival Orchestra, which presents an annual summer festival, chamber music series, and music education program. In 2021, she joined the Boston Ballet as Assistant Conductor and serves as Music Director for the annual Next Generation project with Boston Ballet School. Alyssa has worked as a conductor with the Dallas Symphony, San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Concord Orchestra, and more.
As a violinist, Alyssa has soloed with ensembles across the country and is the newest member musician of the Boston Chamber Music Society. She has been featured in numerous contemporary recordings, such as Carlos Simon’s Grammy-nominated album, Requiem for the Enslaved (Decca), Nancy Galbraith’s Violin Concerto with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, and David Post’s Violin Sonata (Centaur). As a composer, she premiered her violin concerto, Swept Away, with the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh in February 2023. Her latest composition project, a collaboration with Boston Ballet Principal Dancer John Lam, is set to premiere in March 2025.
Martina Filjak, Piano
Croatian pianist Martina Filjak established herself internationally with her passionate, poetic playing, brilliant technical mastery of her instrument, and magnetic stage presence.
Filjak garnered international attention in 2009 by winning first prize and the Beethoven Prize at the Cleveland International Piano Competition. She has worked with renowned orchestras, performed in prestigious concert halls, and collaborated with top-class chamber music ensembles across the United States and Europe. Her large repertoire ranges from Bach to Berio and includes more than 30 piano concertos. In addition, she is committed to researching less well-known piano literature and various concert formats.
The artist divides her time between Berlin and Zagreb, loves to travel, and speaks seven languages.
Ticketholders are invited to get to know the guest conductor, who is a candidate to be Cape Symphony's next Music Director, at a Q&A session led by Assistant Conductor Joe Marchio. These sessions begin one hour prior to each Masterpiece Series concert.