January 2025 Concerts
♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ♦ Debussy’s La Mer Heinz Hall 01/10 7:30PM 01/12 2:30PM MARÍA HULD MARKAN SIGFÚSDÓTTIR: Oceans [PSO Premiere] PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 SIBELIUS: The Oceanides [PSO Premiere] DEBUSSY: La Mer Notes: Debussy developed his love of the sea beginning with childhood visits to the Mediterranean, and this imaginative, impressionistic sketch captures all the moods of the sea, from tranquil to ominous and stormy. Sibelius’ music evokes the myths and movement of deep waters while the PSO premiere of Sigfúsdóttir’s Oceans whirls with atmospheric flow. In another debut, soloist Vadim Gluzman plays Prokofiev with “one of the…