Viola Concerto (co-commissioned with the Grant Park Music Festival) (world premiere)

Masumi Per Rostad, viola

Eric Jacobsen, conductor

Dvořák urged fellow-composers to seek inspiration in their own cultures, as he did in his beloved Ninth, drawing on African- and Native American melodies he heard during his American sojourn (yet never forgetting the rhythms and colors of his native Bohemia). You’ll also hear exciting contemporary voices: African American composers James Lee III’s Amer’ican and Jessie Montgomery’s Viola Concerto, composed for Grammy Award-winner Masumi Per Rostad.

https://orlandophil.org/event/dvoraks-postcard-from-the-new-world/