HOUSTON SYMPHONY WELCOMES BACK KIRILL KARABITS AND LEILA JOSEFOWICZ

Karabits conducts memoriam work honoring father

HOUSTON (March 29, 2011) – Returning to the site of his North American

debut, Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits will take the Houston Symphony

podium on April 14, 16 and 17 at Jones Hall performing Mendelssohn’s Scottish

Symphony No. 3. Beginning the concert is a performance of Valentin Silvestrov’s

Elegy, a work with significant ties to Karabits, followed by American violin

virtuoso Leila Josefowicz and her performance of the Sibelius Violin Concerto.

Silvestrov’s Elegy is a memoriam piece written to honor Ukrainian composer Ivan

Karabits, father to Kirill Karabits, who passed away in 2002. Silvestrov was a

friend and colleague of Ivan Karabits and composed Elegy from unfinished music

sketches that Karabits had written while in the hospital. Kirill Karabits lead the

world premiere of this work on September 15, 2002, in Kiev.

Fidelity Investments Classical Series

Jones Hall

615 Louisiana St.

Houston, TX 77002

Thursday, April 14, 2011, 8:00 PM

Saturday, April 16, 2011, 8:00 PM

Sunday, April 17, 2011, 2:30 PM

Mendelssohn’s Scottish Plus Josefowicz

Kirill Karabits, conductor

Leila Josefowicz, flute

Silvestrov: Elegy

Sibelius: Violin Concerto

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, Scottish

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