Slatkin to direct the IU Philharmonic Orchestra tonight

Famous conductor Leonard Slatkin will direct the IU Philharmonic Orchestra along with guest performers and IU professors Jaime Laredo on violin and Sharon Robinson on cello at 8 p.m. tonight at the Musical Arts Center.

Slatkin conducted here at IU last September with world-famous violinist Joshua Bell the IU Philharmonic Orchestra.

He has conducted with numerous orchestras and is the current music adviser for the Nashville Symphony  Orchestra and the  principal guest conductor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
 
Married couple, Laredo and Robinson will perform in the night's feature piece, "Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Cello and Orchestra, Op. 29" by Miklos Rozsa.

The music school's Director of Marketing and Publicity Alain Barker said the two play together and with their Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio in concerts and small performances year round. The couple has performed duets with many orchestras, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra  in 2006.
 
The concert will also include "Academic Festival Overture" by Johannes Brahms and "Symphony No. 5 in E-Flat Major" by Jean Sibelius.  
 
Philharmonic concerts at the MAC are free and open to the public, but tonight's performance will also stream live online.

Watch the show from home by visiting music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive.