TSO Concertmaster Emma McGrath reunites with Australian conductor Nathan Aspinall, Resident Conductor of the Nashville Symphony, to perform John Corigliano’s celebrated 1998 film score for The Red Violin. The program also includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 1, composed for his graduation when he was just 18 and premiered by the Leningrad Philharmonic to instant acclaim. TSO violist William Newbery hosts this cinematic and virtuosic evening.

Limelight Editor’s Choice

John Corigliano’s film score to The Red Violin (1998) is a certified modern masterpiece. TSO Concertmaster Emma McGrath performs its opening movement as she reunites with Australian conductor Nathan Aspinall, who is Resident Conductor of the famed Nashville Symphony. The pair last collaborated in the US in 2019.

Shostakovich’s Symphony No 1 is an astonishingly assured graduation piece written at the Petrograd Conservatory when the composer was just 19. Unbelievable.