Grammy Award-winning conductor and Shepherd School alumnus Cristian Măcelaru ’06, ’08 will take the baton at the Feb. 29 performance by Rice University’s Shepherd School Symphony Orchestra.
The concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Alice Pratt Brown Hall’s
Stude Concert Hall. Music director for the orchestra is Larry Rachleff,
the Walter Kris Hubert Professor of Orchestral Conducting.
The program will open with Dvořák’s “Cello Concerto in B Minor, Op.
104,” featuring soloist Lukas Goodman and conductor Joshua Hong,
followed by Barber’s “Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17” and Britten’s
“Sinfonia da Requiem, Op. 20.” Goodman is an undergraduate student
studying with Desmond Hoebig, professor of cello.
Măcelaru won a Grammy for Best Classical Instrumental Solo this year
for his direction of “Marsalis: Violin Concerto; Fiddle Dance Suite,”
performed by Nicola Benedetti. He also recently conducted the National
Symphony Orchestra of Romania in its first U.S. tour.
Măcelaru studied violin with the late Shepherd School violin
professor Sergiu Luca and received a master’s degree in 2006. He
completed a master’s in orchestral conducting in 2008 with Rachleff. He
is music director of the Orchestre National de France, was named the
inaugural artistic director and principal conductor of the World Youth
Symphony Orchestra at Interlochen Center for the Arts and is music
director and conductor at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music.
The performance is free and open to the public; no tickets are
required. For more information on the Shepherd School Symphony
Orchestra, visit https://music.rice.edu/orchestra.
More information about Măcelaru is available online at http://macelaru.com.
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