Purchase Performing Arts Center
Featuring Star Cellist Sterling Elliott Danail Rachev, Conducting
Fresh off his recent Lincoln Center performance, Sterling Elliott joins the Phil for Robert Schumann’s magically exhilarating Cello Concerto. No longer a “rising” star, the 2021 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner has since performed with major orchestras across the country, including NY, Boston, Cleveland, and LA. This concert opens with an achingly beautiful work, Andante Moderato, by mid-century composer Florence Price, the first African-American woman to be widely recognized as a classical composer. Beethoven’s First Symphony pays homage to his forbearers, Haydn and Mozart, but is very distinctly Ludwig’s unique and powerful voice. Leading the orchestra is conductor Danail Rachev, whose interpretive artistry and riveting presence on the podium enthralls concertgoers.
Tickets are $53.50 ($45 plus mandatory fees) and half-price for young people ages 6-16. Tickets and information, including the full season’s lineup of both main stage and chamber series concerts, can be found at westchesterphil.org.
