CSO 2025-2026 Season

THE ORCHESTRAL KALEIDOSCOPE

Concert I: Iconic Legends

featuring virtuoso Philip Edward Fisher

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2025 - DOORS AT 6:30, CONCERT AT 7:30 - FOOTHILLS PAC IN ONEONTA

Glen Cortese, Artistic Director, Catskill Symphony Orchestra

Michael Emery, Concertmaster


Program

Berlioz: King Lear Overture

Migó: The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (2025)

  1. Dans le Chapelle (“In the Chapel”)

  2. Extase (“Ecstasy”)

INTERMISSION

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 15

  1. Maestoso

  2. Adagio

  3. Rondo: Allegro non troppo


About Philip Edward Fisher

A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and The Juilliard School, the pianist Philip Fisher is widely recognised as a unique performer of refined style and exceptional versatility. He has performed across Europe, Africa, and North America where he made his New York debut at Alice Tully Hall in 2002, performing Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, and has also appeared at the Merkin Concert Hall and the Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. At home he has given performances at the Purcell Room, Wigmore Hall, Barbican Centre and Royal Festival Hall in London, Usher Hall in Edinburgh, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, and Symphony Hall in Birmingham. He has appeared as a soloist with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Copenhagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Toledo Symphony Orchestra and Juilliard Symphony Orchestra, and as a chamber musician has worked with performers such as the tenor Robert White, pianist Sara Buechner, and violinists Elmar Oliveira, Philippe Graffin and Augustin Hadelich. In 2001, Philip Fisher received the Julius Isserlis Award from The Royal Philharmonic Society in London.


Program Notes

To be published soon!