Master Sinfonia Chamber Orchestra Concert

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David Ramadanoff kicks off MSCO's 2012-2013 season conducting Schumann’s Manfred Overture, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major, and Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. Mack McCray, San Francisco Conservatory of Music faculty member, is piano soloist. Join us for the concert, Maestro Ramadanoff's insightful introductions to each piece, and our free reception with the orchestra and soloist.

Mack McCray studied at the Juilliard School in New York from 1963 to 1971. In the single season of 1969-1970, McCray won first prizes in the San Francisco Symphony's International Young Artists Competition and Charleston Symphony Competition, while winning a Silver Medal at the International Enesco Competition in Bucharest and numerous other awards. During that same season McCray made his first tour of Europe, including London, Vienna, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Brussels, and Zurich, among other cities.

Since that year, Mack McCray has performed around the world, notably at the Paris Festivale d'automne, at Seville's Great Interpreters Series with the Monte Carlo Orchestra at the UNESCO Festival of International Artists in Monaco, at Hong Kong's City Hall Concert Series, at the Bucharest Philharmonic Bach-Beethoven-Brahms Festival, and Boston's Fromm Foundation Concerts at Harvard. In 1972 McCray founded an international chamber music festival in Trogen, Switzerland and for many years was concert accompanist for the Metropolitan Opera soprano Teresa Stratas. His recording of John Adams' piano work Phrygian Gates (New Albion Records) was placed on the Best Recordings of the Year (1981) lists of both the New York Times and High-Fidelity-Musical America.

Recently McCray performed with the Japan Philharmonic in Tokyo, on the all-Schubert series at famed Trinity Church in Manhattan, at the Carmel Bach Festival, and at the Los Angeles County Art Museum, as well as in Alaska and across the United States. He currently is Artistic Director of the Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival in Courmayeur, Italy. Since 1971 he has been on the faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

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