Curtis Symphony Orchestra “Yuja Wang Plays Rautavaara” (Photo Roundup)

Relive the excitement of Curtis Symphony Orchestra’s April 26 performance at Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center, with acclaimed pianist and Curtis alumna Yuja Wang (’08) and award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin

The 2024–25 Curtis Symphony Orchestra series concluded on Saturday, April 26, 2025, at 3 p.m., in Philadelphia’s Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center. One of the world’s most celebrated pianists, superstar Yuja Wang (’08), known for her “exceptional power, depth, and dazzle” (Los Angeles Times), joins the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and five-time Grammy Award-winning conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Curtis’ head of conducting, for a tour de force performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 1.

This exciting program opened with Lili Boulanger’s joyful D’un Matin de printemps (“Of a Spring Morning”) under the baton of Mariana Corichi Gómez, first-year Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow. The second half of the program featured Maurice Ravel’s sumptuous orchestral song cycle Shéhérazade with mezzo-soprano Judy Zhuo, Curtis’ Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow, and Claude Debussy’s atmospheric symphonic sketches, La mer, in a cinematic and emotionally charged afternoon of Nordic fire and French elegance.

Check out the photo highlights below, courtesy of Margo Reed Studio.

  • Curtis alumna Yuja Wang returns to the stage of Marian Anderson Hall for her first of four thrilling encores.
  • Mariana Corichi Gómez conducting the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Boulanger’s joyful D’un Matin de printemps.
  • Mezzo-soprano Judy Zhuo, Curtis’ Horace W. Goldsmith Fellow.
  • Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin at Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center.
  • Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Curtis’ head of conducting, and members of Curtis Symphony Orchestra at Marian Anderson Hall.
  • Voice student, mezzo-soprano Judy Zhuo, performing Ravel’s orchestral song cycle Shéhérazade, with Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
  • Celebrated pianist, superstar Yuja Wang (’08) giving a tour de force performance of Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.
  • Double bassist Gavin Hardy performing in Claude Debussy's La mer.
  • Mariana Corichi Gómez, first-year Rita E. Hauser Conducting Fellow, leading the Curtis Symphony Orchestra in Lili Boulanger’s D’un Matin de printemps.
  • Concertmaster Alexandra Cooreman, Milka Violin Artist Fellow, walks on stage at the top of the concert.
  • Violist Yunji Jang and violinist Jieon Park backstage at Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center.
  • Yuja Wang (’08) performing Rautavaara’s breathtaking Piano Concerto No. 1 with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra.
  • Percussion students Rubén Acuña González and Xiang Ni.
  • Violinists Huei-Chiao Christina Yang and I-Hao Cheng backstage at Marian Anderson Hall, Kimmel Center.

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