The Cayuga Chamber Orchestra (CCO) will conclude the 2024-2025 Orchestral Series with “Translations” on Saturday, March 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Ithaca College’s Ford Hall.
Conducted by Maestro Guillaume Pirard, the Season Finale performance features art’s ability to transform, impress and inspire generations throughout time. “Translations” will begin with a world premiere CCO commission by Afghani-American composer Seare Farhat, Judith Weir, Paul Klee and Thomas Ada, ending the night with Beethoven’s “Eroica Symphony.” The CCO promises an unforgettable conclusion to an unforgettable season.
“I am so thrilled for this upcoming premiere performance of shadows rising soundless as night by the inimitable CCO!,” Farhat said. “The piece is a quiet rumination on Derek Walcott’s poem A Season of Phantasmal Peace that explores the sounds of twilight and choruses of birds – a piece that is at once delicate and anxiously bubbling to the surface.”
Farhat prides himself in creating music that connects listeners to heartment imagery, energy and transformation within narrative forms. With roots in Afghan folk music, the composer builds his sound with a combination of western classical traditional influences and other interests, such as mathematics. Farhat has received commissions from the JACK and Flux Quartets, IU New Music Ensemble, Metropolitan Youth Symphony, Quintessence Wind Quintet and the Oberlin Sinfonietta. He has also held residencies at Avaloch Farm Music Institute, Banff Evolution: String Quartet and the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. Farhat received a B.M. in Composition and B.A. in Mathematics from Oberlin College and Conservatory, a master’s degree from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music, and is pursuing a D.M.A. at Cornell University.
Founded in 1976, the CCO serves officially as “Ithaca’s Orchestra.” Each season includes their Orchestral Series, Chamber Music Series, a Holiday concert, Family Concerts, and the long-standing Willard Daetsch Youth Outreach Program.
The CCO’s 2024-2025 Chamber Series will continue with “Fauré and Britten” on Sunday, April 6.
For ticketing and general information, visit CCOithaca.org.
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