Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto: Radiant Vision

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Date

Saturday, Mar 28, 2026 7:30PM

Name

Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto - Radiant Vision

Description

📍 This concert takes place at Powell Hall

Stéphane Denève, conductor
Víkingur Ólafsson, piano

Ludwig van Beethoven The Consecration of the House Overture
Jasmine Guo New Work (SLSO Co-commission)
Kevin Puts Concerto for Orchestra
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”

Dedicated to Music Director Stéphane Denève and the SLSO, Kevin Puts’ Concerto for Orchestra is a complex, beautiful, and satisfying emotional journey. This music resonates in Powell Hall alongside a new work by Chinese composer Jasmine Guo and Beethoven’s magnificent, heroic Emperor Piano Concerto, performed with finesse by the SLSO’s good friend, acclaimed pianist Víkingur Ólafsson.

A few things to know:

• The push that influenced Kevin Puts to begin the Concerto for Orchestra came as he read Hymn for the Hurting, an emotional poem by National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman. The SLSO premiered this piece in January 2023.
• A composer for both concert and film, Jasmine Guo has scored more than 40 short films, receiving accolades at film festivals around the world. She is currently the Assistant Professor of Commercial Music Production at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
• When the SLSO embarked on a European tour in March of 2023, pianist Víkingur Ólafsson joined them as the headlining artist. Together, the orchestra and Ólafsson performed Edvard Grieg’s Concerto in five European cities and at home for audiences in St. Louis.

New Work by Jasmine Guo was commissioned by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program, an initiative of the League of American Orchestras in partnership with the American Composers Orchestra.

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