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Past Event
The Shepherd School of Music
Friday, December 1
7:30pm
Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra

About the Event

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William Eddins and Isaac Foreman

In Brahms’s Symphony No. 2, beautiful melodies build to a joyful, triumphant and famous finale. 2023 Shepherd School of Music Concerto Competition Winner Isaac Foreman scales the towering heights of Beethoven’s mighty “Emperor” Concerto. Eminent, multifaceted conductor William Eddins leads the Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra.

PROGRAM
BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
BRAHMS Symphony No. 2

Please note that the previously announced inclusion of Carpenter’s Skyscrapers will not be performed on this program.

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William Eddins is the Music Director Emeritus of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra and a frequent guest conductor of major orchestras throughout the world. Recent engagements include conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra with Yo-Yo Ma, and collaborations with Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with both the Detroit Symphony and Minnesota Orchestra. Eddins has conducted the New York Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, the symphony orchestras of Boston, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Detroit, Dallas, Baltimore, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Houston, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Internationally, Eddins was Principal Guest Conductor of the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (Ireland). He has also has conducted the Berlin Staatskapelle, Berlin Radio Orchestra, Welsh National Opera, and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Isaac Foreman, Piano


This event will be Live Streamed.
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Directions & Parking

West Lot 2 is the parking lot for all Shepherd School of Music events. Access this lot via campus entrance #18 off Rice Boulevard. 

Overflow parking is available in West Lot 3 or in the Central Campus Garage, located just east of the music school (underneath the Jones Graduate School of Business) near campus entrance #20 off Rice Boulevard.

Stude Concert Hall, Duncan Recital Hall, Hirsch Orchestra Rehearsal Hall, and Wortham Opera Theatre are located in Alice Pratt Brown Hall on the Rice University campus.  Alice Pratt Brown Hall is wheelchair accessible. Signs inside the campus near entrances 1, 2, 8, and 20 provide directions to all visitor parking.

Location

Alice Pratt Brown Hall
Stude Concert Hall

6100 Main St
Houston, TX 77005
United States