American conductor opens PPO Concert Season
MANILA, Philippines - American conductor Anthony Quartuccio opens the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ (CCP) Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra’s (PPO) 27th Concert Season 2009-2010, which opens on Sept. 3, 8 p.m., at CCP Main Theater.
Billed as “The PPO Signature Series: Tour de Force Performances with 8 Maestros,” the season begins with Antonin Dvorak’s Carnival Overture Op. 92, Buenaventura’s By The Hillside, Anica Galindo’s For Lambent Isles for String Orchestra, Debussy’s La Mer, and Peter Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4 in F-Minor Op. 36.
Quartuccio, an associate conductor of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, and music director of the San Jose Youth Chamber Orchestra, conducts regularly at Opera San Jose, California. He is also music director of the Gavilan College/South Valley Symphony in Silicon Valley. In the 2008-2009 season, he conducted two world premiers with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, and a private performance for the Dalai Lama of Tibet in San Francisco.
He has conducted the San Jose Youth Chamber Orchestra on its inaugural tour of New York City’s Ellis Island and at the United Nations Headquarters.
Ticket prices are P1,000, P800, P500, P350, P200, with discounts available to students, senior citizens and groups. Subscription packages are also available for eight or four shows. For inquiries, call 832-1125 loc. 1806 or the CCP Box Office (832-3704) or Ticketworld at National Bookstore (891-9999).
