The Force of Youth

Dates

19. November 2020 at 19:30 Few tickets left
20. November 2020 at 19:30

Fartein Valen, Stavanger konserthus

Dates

Thursday 19. November 2020 at 19:30 Few tickets left
Friday 20. November 2020 at 19:30

Duration

1 hour and 40 minutes, including intermission

Program

Tsjajkovskij: Romeo & Julie, Fantasy-Overture
Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915
Sjostakovitsj: Symphony No. 1

Contributors

Christian Reif, conductor
Julia Bullock, soprano

Christian Reif

Conductor

German conductor Christian Reif has quickly established a name for himself as a fast-rising talent. In July 2019, Reif completed a three-year post as Resident Conductor of the San Francisco Symphony and Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. His tenure culminated in a six-city European tour with the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra including performances at Vienna’s Musikverein, Berlin Philharmonie and Hamburg Elbphilharmonie. Following the Berlin performance, the Merkur wrote of Reif that a “bright future and a great career must lie ahead”.

Reif makes debuts on subscription in the 2019/20 season with Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Gävle Symphony, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Romanian Radio Symphony, Brno Philharmonic, Ulster Orchestra and Fundación Excelentia of Madrid.
Julia Bullock

Soloist

American classical singer Julia Bullock is “a musician who delights in making her own rules” (New Yorker). Combining versatile artistry with a probing intellect and commanding stage presence, she has, in her early 30s, already headlined productions and concerts at some of the preeminent arts institutions worldwide.

Bullock recently made several key operatic debuts: at San Francisco Opera in the world premiere of Girls of the Golden West, at Santa Fe Opera as Kitty Oppenheimer in Adams’s Doctor Atomic, at Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Dutch National Opera as Anne Truelove in Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress, and at the English National Opera, Spain’s Teatro Real, and Russia’s Perm Opera House and Bolshoi Theatre in the title role of Purcell’s The Indian Queen.

She is also a prominent voice of social consciousness and activism. Bullock’s political engagement is informed by her own mixed heritage, and she is committed to integrating community activism with her musical life.