Contact: Lois Robinson, Executive Director
(318) 222-7496
lrobinson@shreveportsymphony.com
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
 
SHREVEPORT SYMPHONY OPENS SEASON ON SAT., SEPT. 19 WITH RACHMANINOFF'S PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 AND GABRIELA MONTERO

SHREVEPORT, LA, SEPTEMBER 8, 2015 - The Shreveport Symphony Orchestra's 2015-16 season opens on Saturday, September 19, 7:30 PM at the RiverView Theater. The program is an all-Russian spectacular, featuring international piano star Gabriela Montero performing the much-loved Piano Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff.
   
WILLIS-KNIGHTON MASTERWORKS SERIES

OPENING NIGHT: Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2
Saturday, September 19, 2015 - 7:30 PM

RiverView Theater, 600 Clyde Fant Parkway
Gabriela Montero, piano
Michael Butterman, conductor
 
KABALEVSKY   The Comedians Suite
SHOSTAKOVICH  Symphony No. 9
RACHMANINOFF  Piano Concerto No. 2
 

Tickets are on sale now online at shreveportsymphony.com or by phone at 318-227-8863. Ticket prices range from $19-$59. Student tickets are $12. 

The SSO's season sponsor is Willis-Knighton Health System. The concert sponsor is The Shreveport Times/Times Media. 
 
Free shuttle service starts at 6:30 PM, picking up at Regions Bank parking garage at the corner of Milam & Market Streets.  
 
ABOUT GABRIELA MONTERO
Gabriela Montero's visionary interpretations and unique improvisational gifts have won her a devoted following around the world. Anthony Tommasini remarked in The New York Times, "Montero's playing had everything: crackling rhythmic brio, subtle shadings, steely power...soulful lyricism...unsentimental expressivity."

Highlights from recent seasons include recitals given at Avery Fisher Hall, Kennedy Center, Wigmore Hall, Vienna Konzerthaus, Berlin Philharmonie, Frankfurt Alte Oper, Cologne Philharmonie, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Munich Herkulessaal, Luxembourg Philharmonie, Lisbon Gulbenkian Museum, Tokyo Orchard Hall, and at the Edinburgh, Salzburg, Lucerne, Ravinia, Tanglewood, Saint-Denis, Dresden, Ruhr, Bergen, Istanbul, and Lugano festivals.

Gabriela has also been invited to perform with many of the world's most respected orchestras, including the Los Angeles, New York, Liverpool, Rotterdam, and Dresden philharmonic orchestras; Chicago, San Francisco, Houston, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Atlanta, and Toronto symphony orchestras; the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, and Zürcher Kammerorchester; the Cleveland, City of Birmingham Symphony, Philharmonia, and Komische Oper Berlin orchestras; and the Vienna Symphony, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, Residentie, and Sydney Symphony orchestras. www.gabrielamontero.com