This January, the Pro Musica Orchestra celebrates Mozart’s music, legacy, and birthday by featuring an early work—Divertimento in D Major K. 136—and a late work—his monumental Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter.” Italian conductor Marcello Cormio leads the orchestra. Known for his masterful interpretations of Mozart, the Herald Tribune (Sarasota) remarks that “the biggest detail is Mozart’s score, which received stellar treatment by the orchestra and conductor Marcello Cormio.” Sandwiched between Mozart are the colorful works Strum by Jessie Montgomery and Carl Nielsen’s Flute Concerto with “breezily virtuosic” soloist Anthony Trionfo (New York Times).
PROGRAM
MOZART Divertimento in D Major, K. 136
CARL NIELSEN Flute Concerto
JESSIE MONTGOMERY Strum
MOZART Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”
Join us one hour before the concert to explore the music with KHFM’s Brent Stevens, conductor Marcello Cormio, and flutist Anthony Trionfo. Included with ticket purchase.
TICKETS: $22–$92; available through the Pro Musica Box Office at 505.988.4640 X 1000 or click below.
Related Event: Mozart’s Birthday Party - Conversation and Demonstration
Join conductor Marcello Cormio and flutist Anthony Trionfo at the New Mexico Governor’s Mansion in a celebration of Mozart’s language and legacy on his 268th birthday. Wine and appetizers included.
Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 6 PM | Governor’s Mansion | $100 ($40 tax-deductible)
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Women of Distinction Initiative
Santa Fe Pro Musica presents the music of Jessie Mongomery as part of their Women of Distinction Initiative that features women engaged in various facets of the classical music industry.
photo: Sally Horowitz Photography
Marcello Cormio, conductor
Cormio is a conductor, opera coach, pianist, and educator, both in Europe and in the U.S. He holds graduate degrees in piano, composition, conducting, and musicology from Italian conservatories, as well as a Master of Music from Indiana University, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of Kentucky. He has conducted the Sarasota Opera, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Opéra National de Lorraine (France), Lexington Ballet (Kentucky), at the Manhattan and Indiana University schools of music, and others, and has been described as “an assured hand in the [orchestra] pit, conducting the score with vitality” (South Florida Classical).
photo: Jiyang Chen
Jessie Montgomery, composer
One of Santa Fe Pro Musica’s favorite contemporary composers, we present one of Montgomery’s most popular works, Strum, on our January 28 orchestra program. Fanfare magazine noted that her music combines "17th century English consort music, samba, mbira, Zimbabwean dance, swing, techno … and occasionally veers towards a modern jazz jam session.”
photo: Matt Dine
Anthony Trionfo, flute
Trionfo won first prize at the 2016 Young Concert Artists International Auditions and was praised as “a musician of prodigious talent and scintillating personality” at his debut concerts at Merkin Concert Hall (New York) and the Kennedy Center (Washington, D.C.). As a teenager he performed with the "President's Own" Marine Band and appeared on NPR’s “From the Top.” In addition to performing with orchestras and concert series across the country, he has earned advanced degrees from the Colburn School of Music (Los Angeles), and has become an activist addressing the Black experience within the classical music world.