Grammy Award-winning soprano Ana María Martínez has captivated audiences worldwide in some of opera's most iconic and intriguing leading roles. Ravel's magically evocative song cycle Shéhérazade will showcase her spellbinding talent. As a young man, Ravel was so fascinated by Scheherazade that he tried to write an opera on the subject. He abandoned the effort, but later discovered a collection of poems called Shéhérazade by a friend of his. He promptly set three to them to music.

2015 International Chopin Competition Winner Seong-Jin Cho has been acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal as a ""master," [displaying] an impressive variety of tonal colors and remarkable technique, dispatched with jaw-dropping panache." Hear him in Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto, written after a long stay in Italy when the young composer was only 22. The graceful beauty and flawless construction of the piece are sure to delight you.

Richard Struass was only 25 when he composed Death and Transfiguration. On his deathbed, sixty years later, he remarked to his daughter-in-law, "It's a funny thing, dying is just the way I composed it in Death and Transfiguration."

Ravel's sensuous and simmering orchestration in the ballet suite Daphnis and Chloe makes it one of the most beautiful creations in all of music. The depiction of the sunrise is especially sublime, and the frenzied bacchanale will bring this extraordinary concert to a thrilling conclusion.