Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is one of the few ensembles playing today that performs without a conductor and rotates musical leadership for each work.

This presents obvious challenges for the musicians but it also offers great rewards: By performing without a conductor, Orpheus conveys the intimacy of chamber music in work of orchestral proportions, changing the way we think about musicians, conductors, and orchestras in the process.

For the first half of the program, Orpheus will be joined by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, a pianist known for his poetic musicality and dazzling technical prowess, in a performance of Shostakovich's Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, op. 35, no. 2 as well as Tippett's Divertimento on "Sellingers' Round."

The second half will feature the ensemble in Honegger's Pastorale d'ete and Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C for Strings, op. 48.

http://claricesmithcenter.umd.edu/2010/c/performances/performance?rowid=13703

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